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! ' FORECAST: t lUttM flf I H1 llftltHrt ^OcS PrI^ Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ III I I I I I I I and the and warmer today and % ^ \ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ A UNITED PRESS ___ ^iate and National Newt lTsO.—NO. 244___ WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947~ ESTABLISHED 1867 Veto Threat Clouds Tax Cut, Labor Bills S — - ' — — ■■■ ' — president Maintains Strict Silence On Presi dent’s Attitude Regarding Two Major Congressional Measures WASHINGTON, May 30 - UP) — ,he possibility of Presidential toes for one or both of Congress ' aior measures—labor anion reg ti0n and income tax reductions ^surrounded them with uncertain ty today. . , . 'Maintaining strict silence about "resent attitude, President Truman prepared a place on his y schedule for the two bills Su-ch will reach him next week tter the formality of final House * d Senate approval This means he will have until •bout mid-June to approve or veto th, bills, both of which went far afield from his recommendations. A veto of both would not be sui prising in the light of his own pro posals to Congress but this is re garded as by no means certain. The chances of passing the labor bill over a veto appeared better than those of the tax bill, if only because of the size of the majori ties which they mustered. In ad dition, Senator George (D-Ga), a I leader of his party on fiscal mat • ters, said he will refuse to support the tax cut if it is vetoed. He voted for it “reluctantly.” Predicts Defeat Senator Hatch* (D-NM) predicted See VETO On Page Two SHIPYARD STAYS ON STANDBY BASIS M a r it i m e Commission Drops 66 From Payroll L. E. Voss In Charge t T McCarthy, assistant direc ts of the Surplus Properties divi n of the United States Man ,i„e Commission said yesterday afternoon that the Wilmington shipyard wil remain on a standby McCarthy also disclosed that the lo-al pavrool will be slashed by $>5 000 a'month as he reduced the personnel. Cutting of the person nel to a permanent standby basis came as he issued a sweeping order changing sales procedures 0f the division. The change will cf'ect yards from Jacksonville, Fla. to South Portland, Maine. the same time McCarthy, m i personal visit to the Wilmington yards said activity at the yard will be confined to stripping oi inips by the reserve fleet division „ the vessels are prepared for atorage in the Brunswick river layup basin. The standby crew will keep the yard in repair so that it may be reopened in event of an emergen cy. Stripped Item Sales Making a tour of yards along the South Atlantic c-oast, and the New England coast, McCarthy de clared that all sales of stripped ship items would be handled from , central office in the future and not in the respective yards. Yards affected are Brunswick, which handled sales for Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville, Bos ton, South Portland, Maine and Providence, Rhode Island. Late yesterday he cut standby personnel at the local yards from 161 to 95 employes, 45 of whom are being retained on a loan basis to War Assets. Yards affected by the order are Brunswick, which handled sales for Snvannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville, Boston, South Port land. Maine and Providence, Rhode Island. The Maritime official said all tales of items stripped from ships iking the South Atlantic will be handled at Baltimore and New York. Items from the New Eng gee SHIPYARD on Page Two mrs.tman;srrs UP;» DING OWN General Graham Reports President’s Mother Copes With Complications GRANDVIEW, Mo., May 30—OH ^Mrs. Martha E. Truman “just held her own” today while “coping with little complications” that have trisen in her serious illness of the past two weeks, her physician said tonight. Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, per sonal physician to President Tru man said the complications were taken care of all right, and added that the 94-vear-old mother of the President sat up for a few minutes in her bedside chair this after noon. ' Her condition is still favorable,” Graham emphasized. “Although •he just held her own today after tontinuing in a progressive upward trend the past jew days.” General Graham remained here to keep close watch on Mrs. Tru man, while the President returned to Washington yesterday afte' •Pending 12 days at his mother’.1; bedside. The Weather FORECAST: North Carolina — Partly cloudy and ghtly warmer Saturday and Sunday South Carolina—Partly cloudy and . ^ Saturday; warmer Sunday, scatter showers in coastal area. (Eastern Standard Time) 'By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours “dm* 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES m. 73; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m. ’ ‘ 30 p m. 58; Maximum 86; Mini ™m 71; Mean 78: Normal 72. , HUMIDITY » a. m. 93; 7:30 a. m. 87; 1:30 p. m. P- ™ 78. 181 for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. , PRECIPITATION lnches. | If1 since the first of the month K inches. . tides for today I l*1* Tide Tables published by U. ■ u»«t and Geodetic Survey I. HIGH LOW “Mngton - 7:13 a.m. 1:58 a.m. K„.n, 7:49 p.m. 2:10 p.m. "hboro Inlet . 5:04 a.m. 11:16 a.m. ■ . 5:42 p.m. - p.m. 4-31 ri*e 5 02; Sunset 7:17; Moonrise P. Moor set 3:lla. i. * „s,.a*e at Fayetteville, N. C. It • ■ Arid ay missing feet. M<,,t WEATHER On Page In CAR IN ACCIDENT WHILE TAKING WOMAN TO HOSPITAL A convertible coupe, enroute to the hospital with an injured wom an, crashed on the Maffitt Village Winter Park highway last night about 8:30 o’clock, without fur ther injury to the woman or three other occupants of the car, state highway patrolmen reported last night. Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy, 1202 1-2 South Fourth street was injured at Scott’s Hill, while she was as sisting her companions with a boat. She was struck in the left temple by the boat while it was beaing loaded on a trailer. Melvin M. Williams, 112 South Jackson street, told investigating officers that he, W. M. Leonard and Mrs. Mary Leonard, of 312 Marstellar street, were taking Mrs. Kennedy to the hospital to be treated when an automobile back ed out into the highway. Williams said he swerved to avoid hitting the automobile operat ed by Gilbert M. Holland, and lost control of his car. The ve hicle turned over two times,, he related to officers. The passengers escaped injury, but Mrs. Kennedy was admitted fro James Walker hospital for treat ment. She suffered a contusion of the right temple and lacerations on the head. ITALIAN CABINET ALMOST COMPLETE Premier-Designate De Gas peri Announces New Gov ernment Formation ROME. May 30 —(fP)—Premier designate Alcide pe Gasperi an nounced tonight he had chosen a new Italian cabinet composed of members of his Christian Demo cratic party and independents, leaving Communists and Socialists out of the government for the first time in three years. After six days of negotiation with political leaders during which he met bitter hostility from Leftist parties angered at the pro spect of being ignored in the cab inet selections, De Gasperi told newsmen as he left the office of Provisional President Enrico De Nicola: “I have concluded my labor with positive results.” De Gasperi, whose cabinet se lections De Nicola approved to night, said the official announce ment of the new list would not be made immediately. The delay, he said, was because one of the men he had chosen was out of Italy and his final as surance that he would serve in the cabinet had not been received. This man was understood to be Cesare Merzagora, 48-year-old Mi lan industrialist, who is slated for the industry-commerce or the for eign trade portfolio and who is now in Brazil on business. The premier - designate said he hoped to “conclude definitely” his task on Sunday. In a brief statement to news men, De Gasperi made no refer ence to Communist - Socialist charges that their exclusion from the cabinet indicated that he was attempting to establish an Italian ditatorship. A reliable Christian Democratic source said the new ministry was composed of 10 or 11 members of that party and f°ur or **ve other men who would serve as inde pendents, although some of them were affiliated nominally with other political parties. AIRLINER CRASH CAUSED BY WIND “Freak,rGust Hit Big UAL DC-4 As It Took Off From La Gurdia Field NEW YORK, May 30 — (A*) — United Airlines tonight blamed a "freakgust of wind” for the crash of its DC-4 airliner on a takeoff at La Guardia field last night, kill ing 39 and injuring nine, and said the pilot had tried to halt /as plane as it roared down the run way. A statement by the airline said the plane apparently encountered the freak gust just as it thundered along the ground an- instant be fore zooming into stormy skies. A preliminary Civil Aeronautics board report also said the pilot attempted to stop the craft. J. A. Herlihy, vice president ol operations for the airline, who is sued the statement, said that to his knowledge such a gust had never before caused a fatal ac cident to a DC-4 type of plane or any large transport eraft. Second Major Air Disaster In Two Days TgJbes Toll Of 53 Lives In Maryland; j^irwis Seeks 35 Cent Hourly Pay Hike Shorter Work Week‘Hinted’ Reports Of Union Demands Leak Out From Closely Guarded Meeting WASHINGTON, May 30 — UP) — Reports leaked out of tightly-closed negotiations today that John L. Lewis wants the equivalent of a 35-cent hourly wage boost for l.is 400,000 soft coal miners. Twenty cents of the hourly in crease would result from a pro posed shortening of the work week and the rest would be made up of other benefits, it was unofficial ly reported. The federal authority to operate the soft coal mines, taken over by President Truman a year ago to end the 1946 spring strike, ex pires at midnight, June 30. After that the mines must be returned to the private owners, and the miners don’t work without a contract. Hence the concentration , of ef forts to get a working agreement ir. the next 30 days. Lewis is con ducting two sets of negotiations— one with the representatives of 75 per cent of the industry in the North, Midwest and far West, and the other with the remaining 25 per cent in the South. The latter group insisted on bargaining sep arately. Their conferences recess ed until Tuesday morning. Lewis Directs , Lewis is directing the North-West negotiations personally and he in sisted on meeting on the holiday. Before this conference with the North-West operators, the United Mine Workers’ chief talked for an hour and one-half with the 25 presidents of UMW bituminous producing districts, and for an other hour with his 200-man policy committee which has been stand ing by for a couple of weeks. Information that Lewis’ wage de mands, if granted, would add 35 cents to the $1.18 1-2 hourly pay of the miners came from persons in close contact with the principals— though not parties to the dispute. Neither the union nor the opera tors will discuss their talks this year, adhering to a rigid silence. GOP GROUP MAPS READINESS PLAN Proposed Program Aimed At Securing Quick Mobi lization In Emergency WASHINGTON, May 30. — UP) —' Seven Senate Republicans an nounced today they are preparing a “National readiness plan” de signed to assure speedy military, civilian and industrial mobilization in the event ol a national emer gency. They described it as an eight point program to coordinate every phase ol defense and also press scientific research to cope w i t h modern “techniques and +amics of mass destruction.” The group includes Senators Erewster iMe), Bridges (NH), Wherry (Neb), Ferguson (Mich), Hawkes (NJ), Dworshak (Idaho) and Wiley (Wis). "Modern aggressive warfare de mands equally strong and alert defense measures,” the group said in a statement. “National readiness will De our only means of survival in any: future war, whether imminent or distant.” The statement said the plan is now being "studied and matured” and reported "significant strides in recent weeks.” It said the group hopes to present the plan to Congress “at the earliest possi ble moment.” Announcement of the Republican plan came as President Truman studied a report on the admini stration’s program of national se curity prepared by the Advisory Commission on Universal Train ing, headed by Dr. Karl T. Com pton. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr. Truman was reading the report with "much interest.” It will be made public on Monday. _ FIREMEN AND POLICE dig through the charred ruins of a 17 nited Airlines plane after it crashed at LaGuardia Field, New York, Thursday, on a night takeoff. Bodies of victims lie in the foregro ifcid. Official sources said 39 persons were killed and 9 injured. The big four-engined plane carried 44 passengers and a crew of 4.—(AP YV irephoto). Americans Everywhere, Honor War Dead; Holiday Death Toll Passes 100 Mark Airplane Crashes Take Majority Of Lives Accounted For By The Associated Press More than 100 .and possibly 128 persons met violent deaths Thurs day and Friday as the nation mov ed into a three-day Memorial day holiday marred by plane crshes, a train wreck and highway acci dents. Automobile collisions — Usually the most deadly menace to holiday observances—were shoved tempor arily into the background by com mercial passenger plane crashes in New York and Maryland that took a combined toll possibly as high as 91. The crash of a United Air Lines plane at New York airport took 39 lives late Thursday. An Eastern Air Lines DC-4 car rying 48 passengers and a crew of four fell in flames in a wood near Port Deposit, Md., Friday and rescuers said 30 bodies had been recovered and that there were no survivors. Only 22 traffic deaths had been reported throughout the country during the first 24 hours of the holiday. For most persons, the holiday started at the close of work day Thursday. 275 Deaths Predicted The National Safety Council fore cast that 275 persons would be killed in traffic accidents during See HOLIDAY On Page Two - — Maybe It’s Beginner’s Luck CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., May 30—(fP)—Maybe it’s just be ginner’s luck but Matthew Hasson in his first year as a gardener already has a ripe tomato. He called in his neighbors today to see it. The tomato, measuring two inches in diameter and perfectly formed, is the first one to be reported this year in this rich agricultural region of Eastern Pennsylvania. Hasson said he grew his tomato plants indoors and set them ont May 4. Ripening normally starts in early July. Conservation Essential, Col. Gillette Declares -—-— GENERAL’S SON 1947 HONOR MAN AT WEST POINT, RECORD HOWS WEST POINT, N. Y., May 30— (iP)—Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, U. S. military academy superintendent, announced today that 22-year-old Robert N. Mon tague, Jr., of Fort Bliss, Tex., sor of Brig. Gen. Montague, is the honor man of the class of 1947. Montague will be the first of 310 cadets who will receive diplo mas from General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower at com mencement exercises Tuesday. Montague will be commissioned in the field artillery and stationed at Fort Bliss where his father is commanding general. The elder Montague graduated Ifiom West Point in 1919._ Eight N e w Hanover Girls ■' Among WC Graduates Special To The Star GREENSBORO, May 30 — Among the 413 seniors who will be graduated from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina Monday morning, June 2, will be eight students from New Hanover County, seven of them from Wilmington. Speakers for the graduating ex ercises in Aycock Auditorium will be Lt. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine; Dr. Frank Porter Graham, president of the Greater University of North Carolina; Dr. W. C. Jackson, Wo man’s College chancellor; and Miss Ruth Webb, of College Park, Ga„ representing the senior class. Lieut. Gov. Ballentine will pre sent the diplomas to the gradu ates, on whom Dr. Graham will confer degrees.__ See Pictures Pace Two Graduates from New Hanover County and their records are as follows: Four of the graduates will re ceive bachelor of arts degrees. See EIGHT On Page Two South Atlantic Division En gineer Speaks At Jack sonville Exercises special to the Star JACKSONVILLE, May 30—“The nation must pay much closer at tention to its rapidly disappearing natural resources than ever be fore,’’ Col. George W. Gillette, South Atlantic division engineer of the Corps of Engineers, declared in a Memorial day address here today in which he outlined tbe necessities of keeping this country prepared for future emergences. Two World wars, he contnued, have “made havy nroads upon our national resources.” This nation, he added, nor only supplied its own armies but those of our allies in all parts of the world. Our timber, oil, metals, pulp and farm products were all called upon to be used in the win ning of' the -war and the feeding of the armies and the people of the world. When we talk about manpower, we certainly must also consider our natural resources.” The best means of making the nation's resources effectively secure is through national plan ning in conservation, he asserted. “Our forest lands will have to be placed in condition for develop ment by Mother Nature to replace our timbel. This program readily dovetails into the program of soil conservation and soil erosion, so necessary to both reforestation and agriculture. The development of our natural resources is most important in all these programs. See CONSERVATION on Page 2 Pushbutton Warfare Scares Mexicans; Paralyzed Veteran Aids Paraplegics NEW YORK, May 30—(AP)— A paralyzed war veteran who lost the use of both arms and both legs in an army accident four years ago today is waging a quiet battle for fellow-sufferers — editing a monthly paper devoted to their in terests. John M. Price, 36, of Strouds burg, Pa., the “quadraplegic vet eran, founded “The Paraplegia News’’ a year ago and wrote every article contained in some of the early issues. Sitting in a wheelchair in the Bronx Veterans hospital, Price taps out his copy on a special electric typewriter. He barely is able to move his arms, but only a flickering touch of a finger on the keys of his machine is sufficient. I See PARALYZED on Page Two Along The Cape Fear HEALTH CONDITIONS — Wil mington and New Hanover county health authorities combine to make this community one of the health iest in the south and an equal to any along the southern Atlantic coast line. A consolidated city-comity health setup with the support of virtually all civic groups and large num ber of individuals accounts for that fact. Three principal hospitals, sev eral clinics, more than 50 physi cians and more than 30 dentists band together to keep the area In good health. _ - ' _ ; DEPARTMENT SETUP — The consolidated board of health is un der the direction of the chairman of the county board of commis sioners, the mayor of Wilmington, the superintendent of public in struction, two physicians and one dentist. Regular examinations of school children, inspection of dairies, meat and fish markets, slaughter houses ,groceries and meat mar kets, cafes, hotels, bakeries, candy and ice cream factories and beer and wine parlors are made. Drinking water is sampled at stated interval* to see that It mai» l tains a proper standard. EL PASO, Tex., May 30—■(#>— An exeriment with pushbutton war fare sent a modified German V-2 rocket soaring over El Paso and Juarez at a speed of 12 miles a minute last night and scared the daylights out of residents of both cities. When the four and one-half ton, cigar-shaped missile, which was 49 feet long and six feet in di ameter, crashed into a hillside three and one-half miles from the heart of Juarez it started a near panic in the Mexican city and jarred windows out of the central fire station in El Paso, across the Rio Grande. Women knelt in the streets of Juarez to pray. Window panes were shattered. Plaster was dis 8m PUSHBUTTON On P*#e Two White House Aides Place Wreath At War Hero’s Tomb In Arlington Commemoration of the war dead was made yesterday at lrl o’clock at the National cemetery, 20th and Market streets, as soldiers, sailors, and marines, who had died in the service of their country, were honored by Wilmington’s first joint veterans service Memorial Day program. The brief, but impressive cere mony, which was jointly sponsor ed by the American Legion, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and the Vet erans Auxiliaries, drew a moder ate crowd. Downtown Wilming ton was draped with flags flying at half mast and city, county, and federal offices were closed. The Rev. J. L. Davis, American Legion chaplain, gave the invoca tion at the services conducted at the flagpole. Wreaths were placed at the base of the flagpole by members of the See AMERICANS On Page Two AIR TANK BLAST INJURES TWO MEN Seven Others Unhurt In Accident Aboard y. S. Tugboat 705 Yesterday Two men were injured when an air tank on the U. S. Tug 705, blew up as the vessel was heading south in the Inland waterway yesterday afternoon about 15 miles south of New River Inlet, attaches at the Oak Island Coast guard station re ported last night. The tug was towing three army boats south in the inland water way when the explosion occured John W. Cavenaugh and Edward J. Hartung were injured in the' blast, which occured about 12:15 o’clock. Chief Motor Machinest Mate Walter Lewis, of the Oak Island station said they received word of the blast at 12:35 p.. m. and went to aid the stricken tug. Lewis, Walter C. Willis and Howard Har ris, seamen second class, rushed See AIR On Page Two BRITISH SEIZE SHIP CARRYING 450 JEWS OFF PALESTINE CITY JERUSALEM, May 30. — (JP) — A ship named “Yehuda Halevy,” carrying 450 uncertified Jewish immigrants to Palestine was boarded by a British Naval party in Palestine coastal waters and was proceeding to Haifa, it was reported unofficially tonight. A source said the refugees, who lacked British permission to land ir. Palestine, would be placed aboard British ships in Haifa and taken to Cyprus. Dispatches from Port Said re ported British Naval units in the Eastern Mediterranean were re ported searching for a Jewish refugee ship in Egyptian waters near the entrance of the Suez Canal and that the Egyptian Coast Guard and Naval patrols also had been asked to be on the lookout for the vessel. The dispatches said the ship was believed to be carry ing 900 Jewish immigrants to Pal estine. _ EAL Non-Stop Ship Crashes Infant In Arms Among Vic tims Of Greatest Of U. S. Aviation Accidents PORT DEPOSIT, Md., May 30— TP)— Fifty-three persons, one of them an infant in arms, were kill ed tonight in the crash of an East ern Airlines DC-4, in the worst of American commercial aviation di* asters. Easteirn Airlines identified as its own the big ship which tore through the trees in a hilly section three miles east of this northern Maryland community. It said 49 passengers, one of them a baby, and four crew members were aboard. State police said not a person survived the catastrophe, in which bits of plane wreckage and dis membered bodies were strewn for dozens of yards around the point where the ship struck. The disaster came within 24 hours of the previous worst crash in the history of American avia tion—the wreck of a United Air lines Mainliner last night in New York with 39 lives lost. Flying low over the hills south of the Pennsylvania border, the four-engined ship was seen by witnesses to wing over and plunge into the trees. Blast Shakes Buildings An explosion, which shook buiid See EAL on Page Two HIKE IN RENTALS APPEARS L ,Y Cogress Now Expected To Re-Write Control Bill; Truman Has Problem i v *>—.. ■■ WASHINGTON, May 30 —(/P)~ Congress today appeared certain to rewrite rent controls and give President Truman the problem ot accepting them or risking no ton trol at all when the present law expires June 30. A bill with a permissive 15 per cent rent hike clause which most Democrats opposed comes up lor expected final passage Monday in the Senate. A House measure has the same feature. But there are other differences which will re quire further deliberation in con ference committee. Supporters of the bill say they are in good strategic position. They contend that if the final ver sions is vetoed and dies, another measure could not be passed in time to prevent controls from lapsing. They do not believe the President will take this chance. “It’s a bad bill or none,’’ Sena tor O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) comment ed to a reporter. Thp same dilemma fared the President last June when he veto ed a price control extension mea sure and the country was without any controls for a period before another bill was enacted. Close Vote It is a question whether the Re publicans could pass a rent bill over a veto. They lacked two votes of a two-thirds majority on the major Senate test. This came when they put over 48-26 yester day the amendment allowing 15 percent rent increases over mose ot Sept. 1, 1946, where landlords and tenants mutually agree. Mr. Truman asked for a year’s extension of controls beyond Juno 30 without any strings. The Senate bill provides for an eight months extension. In addition to the permissive rent raise clause, which Demo crats termed a “windfall” lor landlords and Republicans de scribed as a “wise approach’ to eventual termination of all ceil ings, it provides for: 1. Local advisory boards with authority to recommend decon trols and expedite handling of iandlor “hardship” cases. 2. States taking over the control problem whenever their legisla tures enact measures in lieu of federal control. 3. Decontroling each month about 30 of the remaining 500 or more areas still under maximum I rent ceilings. And So To Bed Two Morning Star reporters gathered their fishing tackle and took off for Vhe beach early yesterday morning. It was about 3:30 a. m. when the would-be anglers arrived at their destination. Hooks were baited and lines cast to sea, but at press time this morning, no one, not even the anglers themselves have been able to determine the number of fish landed. Says one—“We must have caught about 35 or 40.” Says the other—"I think we had about 15 or 20.” The reason for the discrip ancies in the stories: The fish ermen forgot to get their story straight before entering the of fice. - u >
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