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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-02
Fifteen Thousand Glass
Workers To Resume
Work Today
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

60
Federal seizure of Texas Com
pany oil plant at Port Arthur. Tex.
involved in a labor disturbance
was ordered yesterday by Presi-
dent Truman, but in many parts of
the country the labor picture br- ght-
ened considerably.
Fifteen thousand glass workers
will end their strike today the Fed
GRAFTON OF Glass, Ceramics and Sill
lea Sand Workers tCIO) an
nounced. Plants of the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company and I.jbbey-
Owens Ford Company had been
closed for 10 days in the contract
dispute.
Union headquarters at Columbus
O., said it mad not been notified
of any refusal to resume produc-
ton, but spokesman for local IA
in Ford City said Saturday the
5000 workers there had voted
against returning to their jobs.
Approximately $4,000 employees
Of the Packard Motor Car Com
pany, Detroit. were due to return
to their jobs today after an ALL
CLIO iurisdictional dispute and 1000
workers at the Motor Products
Corporation, Detroit, also were to
resume work.
In Chicago, threatened Walk
out set for today by 900 operating
employees of the Chicago, Aurora
and Elgin and the Chicago, North
Shore and Milwaukee Railroads
was postponed. Officers of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and the Brotherhood of Loconlo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen said
the postponement was ordered Ito
give Federal authorities in Wash.
ington further opportunity to act"
upon the Brotherhoods' demands
for wage increases.
John A. Zanger, vice-president
OF the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, said no definite iirae
limit had been set for the post
ponement of the walkout. 1--WE are
just going to wait and see what
action the National Mediation
Board takes,' he asserted.
New York City residents were
practically without newspapers
yesterday as a result of a walkout
of members of the Newspaper and
Mail DELIVERIES Union dndepen-
dent
A walkout OF 1900 Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company workers
in Akron, Ohio. continued over the
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
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new WORKERS GO
WITHOUT PAPERS
Delivery Workers Strik e
Ties Up Newspaper
Distribution

NEW YORK, July l -(R-News
hungry New Workers snatched for
newspapers - any papers y
could get and any part of them
today as a delivery workers strike
paralyzed distribution of Sunday
editions.
Mayor F. H. La Guardia read
the funnies over the radio and vol
unteered to do it daily until the
strike ended. Addressing the
kids" in his weekly broadcast
(WNYC), he said, If you can't
get the papers III read the tunnies
to you.
La Guardia did not comment on
the issues Of the strike, called by
the Newspaper and Mail Deliver.
ers Union.
The walkout started officially at
midnight but nearly all members
of the independent un,on reported
they were sick late yes arday ard
few Sunday papers-nornaal circu
lation 7,700,000- left the plants of
five, affected newspapers.
These five and six other metro
politan dailies will be unable to
distribute Monday editions unless
the strike ends. All except the New
York Post have announced they
will publish. but will not attempt
to distribute papers.
The Publishers Associa tion of
New York. asserting that news.
paper distribution was "essent:a al
in countless ways to the successful
prosecution of the war;" asked i'm.
mediate Intervention by the War
Labor Board to end the strike.
In telegram to DR.. George W.
Taylor, WLB chairman, they urged
that the union be directed to show
cause before the board tomorrow
why the strike should not be called
off.
Union officials have been I'm.
available for comment since Fri
day, when the WLB asked them
to abandon strike plans. The Union
Continued on Page Three; Col, 81
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EXPLOSIONS, FIRE
LEVEL OIL PLANT
Half-Dozen Miami Resi-.
dents Hospitalized
Early Yesterday

MIAMI, Fla, July 1.-(P)-Fires
and explosions today leveled three
huge oil and gasoline plants, threat
ened several others, and sent at
least half a dozen persons to the
hospital with injuries.
Fire officials said the blaze,
which started around noon at the
Franklin Oil company's retaining
plan. had caused 1874 separate
blasts before 4 o'clock as storage
tanks and drums exploded.
As all available Miami fire fight
ing equipment, aided by units from
neighboring cities and volunteers
from military installations sought
to check spreading blaze, residents
of the area rushed to evacuate their
homes.
Fire authorities listed as totally
destroyed the plants of the Frank
lin Oil company, with its fifteen
10000 gallon tanks, the Sun Gas
company, and the America Oil
company.
While radio stations blared warn.
ings to Miamians to stay away
from the danger zone, firemer
worked to protect four large 45.oo(
gallon capacity proane storage
tanks of the Southeastern Natura!
Gas company directly across roac
from the already leveled plants.
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Australians, Commanded
By Macarthur, Capture
Beachhead On BalikpQpQn
Troops M eet But Slight
Resistance In Drive
For Oil Town

MANILA, Monday. July 2.-WD-
Veteran Australian troops, with
Gen. Douglas Macarthur in person.
al command, sto-med ashore al
Balikpapen in Eastern Borneo or
Saturday land within IS minutes
won a mile-long beachhead east oil
the big oil port, it was announced
today. Casualties were very
light
Macarthur, going ashore with
his troops, sent them ranging in
land from one-fourth to half mile
! along the entire beachhead.
During the first phase of the
landing, the Australians met only
small arms fire, but sitter opposi-
ton and accurate mortar fire de-
veloped on the western flank as
they moved inland.
The landing, third and most i'm.
portant to be made on Borneo, was
carried out by the veteran Austria
Ian Seventh Division which met
and turned back the Japanese at
the high point Of their southwark
surge three years ago on the Koko.
da trail in New Guinea.
The invasion forces were support
ed by powerful aerial assaults AND
by the guns of Vice Adm. Thomas
c. Kincaid's U. S. Seventh Fleet
aided by Royal Australian anc
Netherlands ships, which according
tc Tokyo reports have been bonn
harding Balikpapan for two weeks
Macarthur announced the Balik
papan invasion in a stirring com
munique which declared that the
new landing completes the job o,
securing domination of all Borneo
splitting the Japanese field of con.
quest in the East Indies. +
Balikpapan and eastern Borneo
fell to the Japanese early in 1942
after huge enemy invasion arma-
da OF more than 100 ships swept
through the Makassar Strait and
put to flight four American de-
stroyers which attempted to halt
the invading fleet in a two day
running battle between January
% and "a.
II think today we, settled the
score of the Makassar Straits af.
fair three and a half years ago.
Macarthur was reorted to have
told his aides as he watched his
troops pouring inland.
The conquest of Balikpapan and
its nearby Oil fields, will win for
the Allies the largest source OF
aviation gasoline yet captured from
the Japanese in the Southwest Pa.
cific.
Balikappan is called the "Ploes.i
OF the Pacific" and it's refineraies
have a capacity of Is, 900, 900 bar
rels OF oil a year. Before the war
the Dutch produced $4,000 ba-.
rels annually and it is estimated
that the refineries gave the enemy
100000 barrels of high octaine
gasoline annually for Japanese air.
craft.
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Mew Canaan
Condemn

NEW CANAAN, July 1.-W.P-
The clergy of. New Canaan in Sum-
day sermons today condemned the
Texas Bombshell'' shooting case
for the violence and gossip of il
licit romance which it brought to
this strait-laced little New England
town. -f .
This used to be a peaceful
town." the Rev. Merrill F. Clarke
of the First Congregational church
said after his sermon.
''But since the war, and even
before, we've been getting lot of
New Workers, commuters and the
like. They aren't New Canaanites
and this Mrs. Stevens and Mr..
and Mrs. Milton-well, they weren t
New Canaan people for long, be-
cause We aren't like that here"
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*SSha11gri-La" Trio Miss
Death Again By Inches

MANILA, July L.. : W.H The
glider rescue of. a pretty WAC cor
poraL and two Army airmen from
New Guinea mountaintop pla.
teau Thursday almost ended in a
second tragedy when the. glider S
fabric was torn by trees during the
daring take off, the pilot of the
rescue plane revealed today.
Maj. William Samuels, Oakland,
Calf, said that for al few seconds
the glider passengers were as close
to death as they were May 10 when
their Army transport crashed in
to a mountainside.
Twenty other passengers of the
transport were killed in TIE crash.
The three survivors were maroon
ed in the hidden "Shangri La"
Valley for Al days among friendly
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-02
MEAT, FAT CRISIS
STILL UNS0LVED
Herbert Hoover So Elk.
presses Himself On
OPA Extension

CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 1.-tR
Former President Herpert Hoov
err declared today thai Congress.
sional enactment of compromise
legislation extending wartime price
controls another year has left
the crisis in meats and fats about
where it was"
1--WE still need to get rid Of
these conflicts of authority over
food" said the one-time chief ex.
ecutive in statement issued
while his Los Angeles-bound train
stopped briefly in Cheyenne.
Hoover proposed that the new
Secretary of Agriculture, Clintor
P. Anderson, secure another Viii.
liam LETTERS to take complete con.
troll of meats and fats and straight
en- it. out as Mr.. Jeffers did the
rubber .muddle.'' LETTERS, presi
dent of the Union Pacific Railroad
was National Rubber Administra
tor in the early stages of the war
Hoover added, I'VE still neec
x x to free the brakes on pro
duction, to-reduce the enormous
black market initiation in prices
which are now as much as zoe
per cent above the presumed OPA
prices (and) to. establish sys,
tenn of just distribution which will
.(affor0 regular supply of meats
and fats" 49,. ,-'-", - .--t' <
The congressional peace pact or
OPA, providing, among other
things, that Anderson shall have
Continued on Page Three: Col. 81
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Ministers
"!B0mbsheU"

Virtually the, entire population
of 1000 turned out for services at
is. Marks, the First Congregations
al Church, the First Methodist
Church and St. Aloysius Catholic
Church. Notably absent was the
Texas, Bombshell herself, sultry
Mrs. Imogene Stevens, who was
still held at the Bridgeport, Conn,
county Jail after pleading not gull
ty to a charge of manslaughter.
Also gone from New Canaan
were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mil
ton in whose home the 24-year-old
Mrs. Stevens, wife of a paratroop
major now overseas, shot and
killed an 18-year-old sailor, Albert
Kovacs. They left shortly before a
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
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CHARTER WILL Be
PRESENTED TODAY
President To Address Sem
ate At l P. M, On
Document

WASHINGTON. July l. Up -
President Truman returned today
from a vacation during which he
addressed the final session of the
United Nations Conference at Sam
Francisco.
Tomorrow he will carry person
ally to the senate the fruit of that
conference.-the United Nations
Peace Charter - and legislation
calling for United States partici-
patton in a World Court.
The document, flown here ahead
of him. was delivered to the Presi-
dent this afternoon by the secre-
tary of the Conference.
Compliance with his request for
ratification of the Charter is fore
gone conclusion. More than the
necessary two-thirds of the Ssnate
membership already has commit
ted itself for approval.
Shortly after Mr. Truman stepped
down from his big luxury trans
port plane, definite plans were an
at the White House for his
appearance before the Senate at I
p. m. Eastern War Time, tomor-
row. At the same time it was dis
closed that he had signed the bill
extending sterilization. and price
controls for another year. An &C.
companying statement said that
the controls will be carried into
the postwar period as safeguard
against initiation.
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
gentnau, next in the line of Presi-
dental succession until the Senate
confirms the forthcoming appoint
ment of James F. Byrnes as Sec
rotary of State, was at National
airport to greet Mr.. Truman when
he arrived at 1:55 p. m. Morgen-
thau said his presence was merely
courtesy gesture.
The President showed nc evil
dence of fatigue from the long
trip, broken up by a two-day va
cation visit with Gov. Non c.
Wallgren of Washington State and
a four-day stay at his home in
independence, Mo.
Mrs. Truman, his daughter Mar
garet, and his brother, J.. Vivien
Truman, were at the Kansas City
airport this morning to see him
off on his return trip, which took
four hours and 10 minutes.
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Greatest Armada Ever Sent
Aloft B alters Four
Plant Targets

GUAM, Monday, July 2.-U.H
The greatest armada of B-29
Superfortresses ever sent aloft
between $50 and 500 planes
battered four Japanese indus
trial cities with more than
1000 tons of fire bombs early
today in a record assault that
raised to more than 1000 tons,
the weight Of destruction heap
ed on Japan in less than a
week.
Roaring over Japan at about
a. M, the great fleet split int
four task forces of approximate.
$50 planes each and poured ton
of fiery destruction on the Kur'
Naval Base and Shimonseki ant
Ube, all on Honshu Island, and thu
Western Kyushu industrial cente.
of Kumamoto.
The exact tonnage dropped b,
the giant aerial battleships wa
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Wilmington Swelters
But Others Did Toe

Although Wilmingtonians were
scorched with temperature of 81
yesterday, it was comparatively
cool in the city as other sections
reported temperatures ranging
from 101 degrees at Richmond,
with low reading of IS, and Phoe-
nix, Ariz., where the mercury
scared from a low IS degrees to
Ill.
The lowest reading at, Whining
ton for the "a hours ending at 8
p, m. yesterday was recorded at
"a degrees.
The temperature at Washington,
D. c., was reported at SO degrees.
with low reading of 70, while at
New Orleans the weather bureau
reported high reading OF SO.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-02
GOVERNOR DEWEY
PRAISES CHARTER
New York Executive
Urges Quick Action
By u. S. Senate

MACKINAC ISLAND. MICH
July 1.-(P)-Gov. Thomas E. Dew
ey of New York today termed the
United Nat;on Charter ''tremen
Gous step forward in eliminating
vars and urged immediate Sen
ate ratification without reserva
tons.
The 1914 Republican PRESIDENTS,
nominee told a news conference
while awaiting, the formal open
ing Of the annual Governors Con
ference tomorrow: - .~
Il don't believe any reservations
are necessary. l think. they would
simply delay adoption"
He said he hoped and believed
the Charter adopted by So nations
at San Francisco would receive
prompt ratif cation. .s.o.-
"A great many people would
like 81 to examine it and some will
want reservations, he added. y
think we ought to ratify it now
so our desire TO have fu]l-fledged
participation in world peace is
made known to the world"
Gov Dewey explored many fields
during the news conference. He
avoided a direct answer to ques
lions whether he would run for re-
election for governor next year.
said some of the points adopted by
governors of IS northeastern states
to improve food distribution might
lCnnfinued nm Page Three. Col. AZ
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Senate Gets
Byrnes Name
Early Today
CONFIRMATION SURE
New Secretary OF State Ex-
pected To Make
Many Changes

WASHINGTON, July 1.-WD
The nomination of James F.
Byrnes to be Secretary Of
State goes to the Senate To-
morrow. and few days later
he will be called upon by
President Truman for perhaps
the most vital assignment Of
his career.
Byrnes, the South Carolina law
yer who reached the top in all
three branches of government, leav.
es for the Berlin Big Three confer
ence soon to serve as Mr.. Truman'S
right-hand man in his crucial talks
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Premier Josef Stain.
Approval of the nomination will;
be a mere formality. Byrnes won
many friends during his long SEN
ate service and virtually no oppo-
sition is expected. Confirmation
probably will come before the
presidential party leaves for Ber-
lin.
Mr.. Truman, meeting Churchill
and Stain for the first time, is
expected to lean heavily on his
newest cabinet nominee. AS War
Mobilization Director, Byrnes was
an assistant president" to the
late Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
he is thoroughly familiar with the
administrators international DEAL
ings. At Yalta last February, he
took copious shorthand notes of the
full proceedings. He will take
them with him to Berlin.
The President said before he
went West that he would announce
the date of his departure for Eu-
rope. He said several weeks ago
that the meeting would take place
before July II. Informed sources
believe it probable that he will be
on his way by next weekend.
Bcrnes will replace Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., who resigned as
Secretary Of State to become U. S.
representative to the World Sc
curity Organization. When his NOM
nation is confirmed, he will be
next in line for the Presidency.
The house has passed bill to
make the speaker of the House next
iii line after the vice president.
but Senate leaders are expected 10
| pigeon-hole it.
Byrnes is expected to mako
some far-reac ching changes in
state department organization but
it is not likely that he will an
nounce them until he returns from
Berlin.
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natives VINO fed and housed them.
Samuels said the fhmsy craft,
sailing at the end of 1000 foot
cable, shed sections of fabric dur
ing the $50 mile journey to Hollan'
dia.
I'VE took off at 7:30 Thursday
morning in bad weather." Sam
uels said. When we reached the
valley we could see the glider be-
ing prepared for the snatch.
We circled our CAT about 20
minutes and then made our pass
at 1877 miles per hour, and at an
altitude of 20 feet"
In the flimsy glider, waiting on
an airstrip cleared by Filipino
paratroopers, who had been drop
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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China Force
Gusts Enemv
0ffWeiichow
ISLAND NOW CLEARED
Other Columns Threaten
Kweilin, Former U.
S. Air Base

CHUNGKING, July 1.-U.D-
Chinese forces have cleared the
Japanese from Tiny Weichow
island in the Gulf of Tonkir 80
miles north of Hainan Island.
Chinese communique an
nounced today, and on the Ash
atic mainland battled to main
tain their calient across the
Kwangsi frontier into enemy
occupied French IndO-China.
Other Chinese columns were re-
norted threatening Kweilin, a for
mer 14th U. S. air base city W
miles northeast of liberated Llu'
chow
The Chinese war communlque
said that WeichoW Island was
cleared by mopping-up operations
carried out with the assistance OF
militia.
Weichow Island is about % miles
south of Pakhoi on the Chinese
Mainland, and SO miles west Of
The LuichoW Peninsula. It's occu
patton by the Chinese recalled pre-
vious reports that the Japanese
were withdrawing from nearby
Hainan Island to strengthen thell
mainland garrisons.
The Chinese high command an
nounced that its troops arouno
Chungchingfu, inside the Indo-Chi'
ma border, were battling a counter
attack by reinforced japanese
troops coming from the direction
of Gao Bang, highway city Is miles
south of the KWangsi frontier.
While saying that the Chinese
were battling" the enemy forces,
the communique did not disclose
the progress of the fighting.
Chinese troops in Eastern
Kwangsi last were reported within
Is miles of KWeilin. Presumably
the Japanese will try to hold Kwei-
lin long enough to cover the re.
treat OF their forces from the Liu.
chow area. China announced cap.
ture OF Liuchow, also a former air
base center, yesterday.
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Superforts Rain 1000
Tons Fire Bombs On JAMS
CPS HAVE BIG FEET
DADS HADTHE CHEST

WASHINGTON, July LIP
The Army turned up the in
formation today that the SOL
d er Of Word WARP IS taller...
Simmer and has bigger feet
and larger head than his dad
in uniform in 1917-'I8.
The calculation was based
on average clothing sizes for
the soldiers of the two wars.
Even though bested in other
ways, Dad had a bigger chest
and a larger neck.
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Labor Picture Brighter
In ManyParts OfMation
CT JOES WILL GET
.. BREAKFAST IN BED

LONDON, July .-U.P)-U.
S. Army patients at the Sher-
borne Station Hospital will be
served breakfast in bed by Off
GERS and nurses as part of a
general Fourth of July holiday
for American soldiers in Eng
land, it was announced today.
A Sunday Scheduled wilyl be
in effect for all bases in the
United Kingdom. Dances have
been scheduled at all main
American Red Cross clubs.
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English Lord Justice
Dies At Nursing Home

REDHILL, SURREY, England,
July William Finlay, the
second Viscount of Nairn, died at
nursing home last night. The 69-
year-old jurist had been lord JUS
tice of appeal since 1888. He was
Judge of the high court of justice,
Kings bench division, from 1924-38.
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WEATHER
eastern Standard Time)
(Ry IL s Weather Bureaul

eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:3o p M, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 a. m. 1880 a. m. II; 80 p. m.
69: 1880 p. M. 81.
Maximum 81; Minimum IA; Mean 81;
Normal 70.
Humidity
l 80 a. m. 88. 7:30 a. m. 85, 1870 p. m.
81; $50 p. IN. rs.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1870 p. NJ
900 inches
Total since the first of the month
200 inches
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodedtic Survey
High Low
Wilmington - 2:00am elsa.
2:25am 9:43p.m
Masonboro Inlet - Am 6:10a. m
12.18p.m 6:24p. m
Sunrise 500; Sunset 1871; MoonFise
- Mnonsat IL :o6.
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FORECAST

North Carolina-Part1y cloudy and con-
tinued hot Monday except not so warm
north portlon Monday afternoon. Wide
ly scattered thundershowers Monday
afternoon.
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Continued on Page Three; Col, 4
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-23
Ballenger
Tells 4. No
brutality

Four police lieutenants were
personally told by Commissioners
Ballenger today ito stick 10 po-
lice rules in questioning prison.
ers and refrain from any threat
OF rough treatment, W.
The four were called before the
commissioner after five youths ac-
cused of murder asserted they
had been beaten by the officers,
Another youth. John Kornatowski,
later confessed the murder.
Summoned before Ballenger
were 1t. Harry Williams. 1t. Leo
Doyle and detectives Robert j.
Finn and Bernard Quinn.
"YOu men," Ballenger said,
"mUst stick 10 police rules In
questioning prisoners. There
must he no brutality. We are
well equipped with scientific
means Of solving crimes"
Arraigned today before Re-
corder's Judge Donald Van Ziie,
Kornstowski stood mute and a
not guilty plea was entered for
him. He was held without bond
and examination was set for
May %.