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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
.AFL Demands "a
'Hige;E:S,|fant S,|fant
& Probe
Threatens To Call Protest
Work Stoppage In New
Orleans Area
BUS STRIKE WlDENS
Total Of 100000 Idle
Throughout U. S. AS
Result of Walkouts
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An AFL official said yesterday
that a 24-hour "protest" work
stoppage by all AFL unions in the
New Orleans area might be called
if union requests for a congress
sional investigation of the closing
of three Higgins Industries plants
there were not granted.
William L. Donnels, publicity
chairman of the New Orleans Metal
and Building Trades council (AFL),
said that possibly $4,000 to 100000
AFL members would be affected
if the 24-hour demonstration is
called.
Elsewhere across the country,
269, 100 workers were idle as a re-
suit of strikes, the majority over
wage disputes. A strike of 1000
AFL employees of six Greyhound
bus lines in 19 states threatened to
mushroom into a nationwide walk
out.
Demand Investigation
In New Orleans, the offer of
boat builder Andrew J. Higgins,
Sr., to sell his three boat and
trailer plants to the unions with
which he was in dispute brought
allegations of "smoke screen tao
tics and a demand for a congress
sional investigation.
Higgins closed the plants Thurs
day 'for keeps" he said, after a
work stoppage involving about
1000 AFL members had crippled
production since last Moday. The
strikers said they wanted contract
negotiations continued.
DonneIs said the industrialist' S
action was ''just smoke screen
to cover something we don't know
about now," and added that if no
investigation is made 1--WE will
raise such a protest that the senate
and congress will have to do some
thing"
HE knows we couldn't handle
the plants, that we don't have the
money and wouldn't know what to
do with Them" Donnels declared.
Higgins said Friday he had $40,-
100000 worth of orders on hand
and could have provided more jobs
than in wartime.
"Impossible Position"
Higgins explained he decided ''to
close the plants permanently be-
cause he had been placed in an
impossible position by the local
AFL union leadership and by "con-
flicting policies of the War Labor
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
SEVEN ARE HURT
IN BUS ACCIDENT
Injuries Not Serious; Ac.
cident At Sixth And
Princess Streets

Seven persons were injured yes
eroay afternoon when a Safeway
transit company bus and Sea-
snore transportation company bus
colilded at the intersection of Sixth
ana Princess streets at 3 p. m.
Drivers of the buses were ar
rested and charged with reckless
operation. They were released up
On their own recognition and or.
sefed to attend a hearing Monday
Mssnlng in Recorders court.
injured in the collision were:
oarah Scott, colored, of Route 8,
wilmington, the only passenger
apoard the Seashore bus, received
idceratlons of the face, head, and
nao her chest injured.
ruth W, Bullard, of 26 Spofford
street, suffered shock.
MRS. L. 7. Jernigan, of 209 North
juries.
Ida Pearl Boswell, 1909 Lingo
ave, suffered shock.
MRS, Carrie Boswell, 1909 Lingo
ave, "nrained right shoulder.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
Police Suppress New Outburst
OF CQiro's Anti-Zionist Riots
JUSTICE PROMISED
Crowds Stone Business
Establishments In The
Downtown Area
BY FRED KRIEG

CAIRO, Nov. 3.-(P)-Club-swin-
ing police quickly suppressed a
new outburst of anti-zionist riot
ing today when rampaging mobs
for the second day stoned business
establishments and smashed shop
windows in downtown Cairo.
The riots, which killed nine per-
sons and injured 500 in Carlo and
Alexandria, were strongly den
ounced by Premier Nokrashi Pasha
as inspired by "evil hands" He
promised Justice will take its
full course with the criminals.
Most of Carlo had returned to
near-normal this afternoon.
Stone Theater
The renewed demonstrations
lasted less than an hour, but
crowds surged through Soliman
Pasha street, one Of Carlos most
ia ionable shopping centers,
smashing numerous windows and
stoning the Metro-Cinema, operated
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
From Soliman Pasha street, the
rioting spread to other main
streets in the business district.
Shopkeepers Immediately started
closing their establishments, lower
III metal drop doors or wooden
sehutters over the windows.
In Cairo's Nalika Farida square,
the center of yesterdays heaviest
rioting, all Jewish shops remained
closed. In Alexandria shopping CEN
ter not one pane of glass remain
ed intact. Communications were at
a complete standstill. Cafes and
Cinemas remained closed. Many
shops in the Bazaar section OF
Cairo were badly shattered, but
workmen already had begun re-
pairs.
Students Demonstrate
College students continued de-
monstrations w n i n college
grounds, shouting down with
Zionism," but no disturbances were
reported. Students at F'uad Univer-
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
City Prepares Welcome
For Visiting Shriners

wants club, the Lions the Exchange
and the Civitan clubs expressed the
hope that some of the visitors would
attend their luncheon meetings.
The ceremonial program also
revealed President Truman's reply
to the Arab Shrine clubs invitation
that he attend their session. Mat
thew J. Connolly, Secretary to the
President, wrote on behalf OF Presi-
dent Truman: .
1.-THE cordial invitation which you
extend to the President, on behalf
of the Arab Shrine club of Will
mington, in your letter of October
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
StageIsS Set
For Extension
Vote Tuesday
Charges and Counter.
Charges Mark Press and
Radio Campaigns
1883 REGISTERED
z Voting Precincts Will
Be Open From $50 am.
To $3.50 p. nj.

ore of the 1ivliest electioneering
,omnaigns in recent years will
.oma 10 it's climax here Tuesday
a,bon voters of an eligible list
totaIing 1888 persons in the city
ond suburbs 60 to the polls to de-
oide the issue of extension Of the
citys limits.
Featured by charges and counter
charges distributed via press,
RADIO public meetings and hand
hills the campaign has stirred con-
siderable interest, not only locally
but throughout the state as well.
Evidence of local and suburban
interest was the record registration
of 1888 voters who qualified for
tbe right to cast ballots-a registra-
ton described by county election
officials as the heaviest for
snecial vote ever recorded here.
Proponents of extension, led by
tbe Citizens Committee for Exten-
sion of City Limits, have centered
their campaign on two principal
themes: l. that annexation of SUBJ
urban areas east and south Of the
city are vital to the continued
growth and prosperity Of Whining
ton, and 2, that property owners in
areas to be annexed will material
ly benefit from municipal services
in the form of street improvements,
police and fire protection, and free
trash and garbage collection.
Opposition Program
Opponents. led by a committee
headed by Attorney W. K. Rhodes,
Jr., have focused their opposition
on: |, alleged extravanagance of
the city's government will be an
increased tax burden; 2. alleged in-
ability of the city to provide ser
vices and Improvements under
present tax schedules; 3, loss of
free bus service to suburban High
school children.
Keen-eyed political observers,
usually comphrending of Whining
ton and New Hanover election cur
rents, admit their inability to fore
see ballot results. They point out
that in this campaign an apparent
majority of prospective voters had
made up their minds well in ad-
vance of electionering, leaving
relatively small minority open to
campaign arguments. Whether that
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
hd0nesia11s Massi11g
In Interior OfJaua
Japs Planned Canal
Raid From Big Subs

YOKOSUKA, Japan, Sunday,
Nov. 4.-P)-Japan's two NAM
moth submarines, each equip
ped with three planes, were
: tended as carriers for the
bombing of the Panama Canal,
the newspaper Mainichi said
today.
The only trouble with these
Jules Verne" war weapons
was that they were impracti-
cable, American and japanese
officers agreed. -~
The attempt on the Panama
Canal never was made.
Both of the submarines, the
worlds largest and now tenn
porarily part of the U. S. Ma
Wy, are of $500 tons, 400 feet
long, with a claimed cruising
range Of $4,000 miles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
COUNCIL CLARIFIES
EXTENSION STAND
Officials Reiterate Unani-
nous Endorsement OF
Annexation Program

On the eve of the special Nov.
election to determine the issue o1
city limits extension to include two
lal sc suburban areas, the Whining
ton City council yesterday unanl
mously reiterated its stand Of en-
docsement of the project.
Recognizing that interest in the
proposal is active, the Mayor anc
council members authorized pub
lication of the statement in the be-
lief that the declaration woulc
serve to clarity certain paramount
issues the electionee~ing campaign
has developed.
Signed by Mayor W. Ronald
Lane and Councilmen R. S. LIE
Gwin, G.. S. Currin, W. E. Yopr
and James E. L. Wade, the state
ment was as follows:
mot in recent years have the
people of Wilmington and its adj
accent suburbs been confronted
with an issue of such paramount
Importance as that of extension OF
the city limits, on whirh the voters
will pass judgment next Tuesday
November 6.
1.-THE proposal to extend the
limits was initiated under the
auspices of the mayor and council
of Wilmington, together with the
City Planning board, as far back
as December, 1943. Since that
time, on numerous occasions, both
as individuals and as an official
body, the council members have
expressed Their warm endorse
ment of the extension plan as it
developed through its various
stages. The mayor and members
of the council appeared. at the
hearing before the house commit.
tee in Raleigh to endorse the ex.
tension bill when it was presented
to the General assembly.
AFTER the ratification Of the
act, and in full accordance with
the terms of the act, the council
adopted and officially published g
statement that the city was pre-
pared to furnish services and fac
ilities to the annexed suburbs equa
to those furnished in the present
city. This statement has beer
signed by the city manager and BY
every one of the five members Of
the present city council. At the
same time. the council, in further
accordance with the terms of the
act, requested the New Eanove.
county Board of Elections to cal
a special election on the subject
of extending the limits.
"Thereupon the Council, in the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
Stormy Sessions Slated
At Labor Business Meet

crete accomplishment which would
provide key to industrial con-
troversies and open the way to
peaceful reconversion.
The conference will convene
with background Of nationwide
industrial uneasiness.
Conflicting viewpoints on the
best methods Of settling differ
ences will be aired at the outset
Of the conference. No one expects
the sessions will produce only
sweetness and light with 80 many
vital issues at stake.
While conference delegates met
to discuss matters Of policy,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
Air Cargo Firm Ready
To Serue Local Market

Air cargo service for the ship
ment CT local produce to out-of-
state markets was promised yes
terday as soon as civilian opera
tions are authorized at, the Blue
thenthal air field, according to a
telegram received from the Air
Cargo Transport corporation, New
York.
Harriss Newman, active in the
organization of a local syndicate
to stimulate air trae4ic to and from
Wilmington, conferred with the
New York firm en- the possibilities
of securing air cargo transport
planes, and was assured yesterday
that "as many Of their planes as
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04

ol1lclal Welcomes to more than
0'VVo shrlners who will attend the
o0oan Temple Fall ceremonial here
- thursday and Friday were extend
" Yesterday by the City council,
t tae american Legion and Whining
oI,'s ,Gl CIVIC clubs in messages in
u.aoeo IN the official souvenir pro-
San ,a awaiting the visitors.
Il me American Legion Home and
~ l.e wilmington Lodge No. 532 OF
-. nfoer of the Elks extended in
s+ts s+tauons to the visiting shriners to
d,,s: veiio open house at their quarters
Sg S@lhg their two-day ceremonial
e The Rotary club, the XII
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
WALK0UTS DELAY
TROOPS RETURN
Strikes Hold Up Vital Re-
pair Work On IL Vessels
At San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.-P)-
The return of troops from overseas
is being delayed because OF the
strike of AFL and CIO machinists
unions in the San Francisco Bay
area, the war shipping administra-
ton said today.
1t. Comdr. W. c. Pett, Jr.,
Pacific coast director of the VISA,
said the strike had held up vital
repair work on II troops ships with
carrying capacity of 22,290 men.
Demanding 80 per cent pay in
crease, approximately 10000 ma
chinists walked off their jobs Oct.
20. AS a result, some $4,000 ad-
ditional workers are idle.
Meanwhile officials of norma
chinist unions, declining public
statements, were said to be private
ly considering formal protest to
fC4r@ksr1rDL ro1
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3-R
United States diplomatic Of
ficials were reported alarmed
over the spreading civil strife
in China.
They are fearful that Ameri-
can hopes for a strong China
as an early stabilizing force in
Asia may be upset.
They are also concerned that
American Marines and Army
forces there may become in
volved in the fighting between
Communist and Government
troops-withOut any intention
on the part of the White House
or State Department that this
should happen.
These authorities, who can
not be identified further than
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04

necessary would be placed at the
disposaP' of the local organizatic
according to the telegram, serv-
ice to Wilmington will start with
the opening of the airport to civil
ian transportation and "be main
tanned at the required peak.
Flowers from Castle Haynes,
strawberries from the Wallace
market and shrimp from South
port and other coastal sections
'e suggested by Newman as
cargo which Wilmington could well
ship by air.
Air Service, Inc, a Wilmington
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
BY DON WHITEHEAD

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3-P-All
the signs in this jam-packed city
today pointed toward some stormy
sessions when leaders of labor and
business sit down together next
week for discussions which will
chart the course of the nations
future Labor Management rela-
tions.
Representatives of both Labor
and Business have professcd pub
licly their optimism over the re-
suits expected from the Labor
Management conference opening
Monday. There also have been
many private and gloomy express
sions of misgivings over any con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
VITAL RAIL CITY '
REPORTED TAKEN
Twin Victories Strengthen
Position of Reds In
Inner Mongolia
By SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING, Nov. 8. -
(AP)-A north China provin
cial capital and a railway city
fell today to attacking Chin
ese communists, unofficial re-
ports said, as Reds in Chung
king received with skepti-
cism a new four-point nation
alist proposal to end the
spreading civil warfare.
Unconfirmed reports said
Kweisui, capital of the partly
industrialized inner Mongolian pro-
vince of Suiyuan, fell to the over
whelming force of communists
who opened the attack only yes
terday.
These same reports said the vi
tai railway city of Tatung to the
southwest also was overrun by
the communists.
If true, the twin victories would
greatly strengthen the communist
position in inner Mongolia and
would hamper attempts by slender
nationalist forces there to Join. up
with fresh nationalist troops now
pouring in by air to the Peiping-
Tientsin zone.
Government May Strike
Despite these reported success.
es, communist sources here ex-
pressed fears that the government
was about to strike with a heavy
offensive to crush the Reds and
declared 100000 nationalist troops
had been massed in northern and
east-central China.
The Chinese ministry Of infor-
nation said the government new
er had contemplated an offensive
against the communists and that
government troops were purely on
the defensive"
The ministry also labeled as
completely unfounded' commu-
mist accusations that the govern.
ment was using Japanese troops
and poison gas against Reds in
Shansi province.
A communist spokesman declar-
ed without confirmation elsewhere
that fighting had spread to Man.
churia, now being evacuated by
Russian occupation forces. He said
it centered at the south Manchurian
! port of Hulutao, where Chinese
nationalist troops were landed ear.
lier this week from U. S. trans
ports.
Counter-Proposal
The spokesman countered the
Chungking peace proposal with
this statement:
tWhen all Kuomintang (nation-
alisD troops throughout the coun.
try are asked to stop fighting, the
communists will do likewise"
K. c. WI, Chungking minister OF
information, announced the new
peace plan earlier in the day and
said a reply was being awaited
from the communist stronghold y
Yenan.
He listed these four points:
l. Both sides should order their
troops to "stay put and halt all
attacks.
2. The communist should with.
draw 10 kilometers (6.2 miles)
from the railroads. The govern
ment then would agree not to send
troops to points abandoned or ex-
posed to communist raids and
would use railway police to guard
the lines.
3. The government would consult
communists before moving any
troops along the railroads. This
conformed with communist re-
quest but skipped the questions
of moving government troops by
sea and air.
4. The peoples political council
should appoint supervisory com
mission to investigate conditions
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
PLANE CRASHES
OFF OAHU ISLE
Rescue Vessels Converge
On Survivors Sighted
Aboard Three Rats

HONOLULU, Nov. 3 - U.H-A
Consolidated Airways transport
plane carrying q persons, includ-
ing possibly two women, made a
crash landing on the ocean $50
miles northeast of Oahu island to-
day and two hours later survivors
were sighted aboard three RATS.
Rescue vessels, including at least
10 surface craft, converged on the
RATS and Air Transport Command
officials expressed hope that all the
personnel may be safe.
A rescue plane sighted the RATS
riding the swells while the big
ditched plane-an LB30, converted
Liberator-Was still afloat two
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-10
A PerniciOus Bill

According to the National Physicians Com
mttee for the Extension of Medical Service,
the Wagner-Murray-D ingen bill, which pro-
vides for expansion of the social security sys-
tenn, goes far beyond the provisions of the
Beverage plan in England.
The report of the. committee says the bill
would fashion actual machinery for political
control over vast areas of economic activity
and be another long step in the direction
of reducing the states to the position of mere
administrative agencies of the federal gov.
eminent
The committee further sees the bill as "a
CONSTANT part of the general effort of GER
tain group in government circles to bring
about radical redistribution of wealth and
income. - In other words, we may imply,
the physicians committee foresees that in the
adoption Of the bill the American people would
be reduced to the subservient position of peo-
pies under highly socialized if not actual to-
talitar;an governments.
The committee charges that contrary to the
benefits claimed by the measures adherants,
it's operation would set up positive political
control.
For. example, ION page SO, the bill assures
freedom from political influence" says the
Committee analysis. But this is an obvious
Impossibility in an act which creates the &C.
tual machinery for political control over wide
areas of economic activity.
ION page 3d. it is provided that every pa
tient shall have the privilege Of choosing his
own physician or practitioner-again an i'm
possibility in view OF the great variety of de-
tailed regulations and restrictions imposed
Upon institutional and medical practice under
the bill.
ION page 81, it is provided that methods
of administration shall be such as to pro-
mote personal relationships between physician
and patient The actual operation of the sys.
tenn would inevitably promote the opposite re-
suit"
With the new vision of national affairs that
has come with President Humans tenancy of
the White House, and his known disposition to
stimulate free enterprise with the removal Of
government from business as rapidly as it
can be brought about, it is difficult to believe
that the Wagner-Murray-Di ngell bill will be
approved. If it should be, the people should
rise as one man and demand its repeal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-10
Serving Two Masters

The Interstate Commerce Commission. in
class rate case, has brought a head-on COLI
sion between it and the Justice Departments
Interpretation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The Commissions decision on rates involves
a multitude of rate changes. The railroads
are directed to get together and in collabora-
ton with shippers and state railway commits
sions. work this problem out, subject to re-
view and approval of the Commission.
But in the Federal court in Lincoln, Ne
braska, it is precisely this conference"
method of proposing rates that is under at
tack by the Department of Justice. And
similar action has been instituted in the Unit
ed States Supreme Court by the Governor of
Georgia.
IF the railroads comply with the Commits
sions order,'' says the Western Association
of Railway Executives, they are violating
the Sherman Antitrust Act if the Depart
ment of Justice is correct, and their officers
can be fined and sent to prison along with
everybody who collaborates with them. On the
other hand, if they refuse to comply with
the decision, they can be held accountable
for violating the interstate commerce Act.
In seeking to remedy this ridiculous situa.
ton under which the railroads are supposed
TO. serve two masters and go to Jail if they
disobey ore or the other, Representative Bull.
Wrinkle has introduced bill which would ex.
tend the regulatory powers of the Interstate
Commerce Commission to include such COOP
erative undertakings among carriers as are
necessary to comply with the Interstate Com
merce Act, and to legalize them beyond
shadow of doubt. That is common sense as
well as good law, and the quicker Congress
remedies this brrlesque on rate making that
is now being carried on by the Department
of Justice the quicker will the railroads of
the United States be in position to intelli-
gently meet many of their postwar problems.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-10
A Word For A-Carders

This is written in behalf of card holders
who are compelled by age or subnormal
health to use their cars for transportation to
and from their offices or other places OF en-
ployment.
New tires. are available only to B and
card holders on the theory that they are es-
sent al workers and must be cared for first.
But there are many persons among the thou
sands restricted to cards who are every
bi. as essential in the conduct of the nation S
business and wal effort as the and c
carders.
Their tires are running on their last
threads. They are full of boots" that the
cars they are on sound and feel like a rail-
road coach with flat wheels.
When they have new flat the operator
usually must pay more for the repair be.
cause it almost invariably includes another
boot And there is always the fear that the
new flat will be the last, that the walls Of the
tire affected are too far gone for further re-
pairs.
In the car is already without spare
that means the worker, under the present ar
rangement will be without transportation and
must walk which, in the vast majority OF
cases is physically impossible, or ride buses
which are greatly overcrowded.
The OPA seems to have the idea that A
carders are mere pleasure riders. The great
majority Of them are not. They are workers.
They deserve more consideration than they
have had since tires were first rationed