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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
new CAR CEILING
PRICES DUE SOON

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1-lRHRe-
tail price ceilings for all makes OF
new automobiles will be announc.
ed in four or five days, OPA Ad-
ministrator Chester Bowles said
today.
He refused to comment, at a
news conference what the ceilings
will be. But he said nothing to con.
tradict his earlier statements that
they will be the same as, or close
to, those on 1912 cars.
Bowles also declined to discuss
auto dealers statements yester.
day that they expect OPA to al
low manufacturers price increases
and then call on dealers to absorb
them.
The OPA chief confirmed, how
ever, that dealer representatives
had been told that the agency feel!
thew are in a position to absorb
at least part of any increase!
granted.
The purpose of absorption woule
be to hold prices the public pay
to levels of three years ago.
Bowles said OPA would Civ
each manufa cturer an opportunit.
to announce his own ceilings. I
manufacturers don't make an an
nouncement within day or so o
receiving. ceilings, OPA will dis
close them, Bowles added.
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Continued on Page Ten, Col. ~
HIGGINS CLOSES
3PLANT UNITS

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 1.-WD-
Andrew J. Higgins, who rose to
industrial fame during the war as
producer of the Higgins landing
craft, permanently closed three
units of his reconverted plant to-
night because of labor troubles.
Higgins said the shutdown was
brought on by provisions of the
Wagner act which he felt he could
not meet, but earlier he had blam
ed his problems on a jurisdictiona1
dispute between the ALL metal
trades union and a CLIO union.
President John P. Frey Of the
ALL union said in Washington that
he would not ask Higgins to re-open
the plants which were the main
cogs in a $25, 900, 900 reconversior
program that was already into pro
duction on pleasure boats, com
mercial craft and a&r,,tented build
ing block. O.
But the opposing union had other
ideas. Robert w. Starnes, acting
regional director of the CLIO union
called on Higgins to realize "tha'
he has responsibility to the com
Imunity which has been very kline
to him.
Starnes said that Higgins SHOULD
not merely walk off and leave
those plants because of little
trouble which certainly can be
settled shortly"
The plants closed by Higgins are
worth in excess of $4,000, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
ARMY, NAVY BULLETIN
SAYS NIMITZ WILL BE
NEXT NAVAL CHIEF

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1-(P)-The
Army and Navy Bulletin, in its is
sue appearing tomorrow, predicts
the appointment of Fleet Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz as Chief Of
Naval Operations, succeeding
Tleet Admiral Ernest J. King.
The Navy declined any com.
ment on the report. Any such ap'
pointment, the Navy said, is a
Presidential prerogative.
The bulletin, an unofficial pub.
dcation devoted to the interest OF
Army and Navy personnel, both
active and reserve, based its fore
east on thigh Congressional
Sources The paper said there
was a concerted demand for MIN.
It's appointment because "the
people want him."
The paper added, however, that
apport for Nimitz ran counter to
the reported desire of Secretary
Forrestal for the choice of Admiral
f S. Edwards, now Deputy Chief
Of Naval Operations, and against
that of Admiral King who was re.
ported supporting Admiral Ray
mond A. Spruance, now COM.
mander of the Fifth Fleet.
The paper said the principal
argument raised against Ninitz
was the fact that he would be
eligible for retirement in another
two weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Russia Will
Start Troop
Move Today
CHIANG'S MEN BEATEN
Red Armies Now Control
Most OF Shantung Pro-
vince Territory
BY SPENCER MOOSA
APP Staff Correspondent

CHUNGKING, Nov. 1-(P)-Rus.
slams will begin their large-scale
withdrawal from Manchuria to
morrow and will be out by Dec. /
a semi-official dispatch FIR o m
Tientsin said today. Squarely
across the path Chinese govern
ment troops would take to relieve
them, however, are massed forces
of fighting Chinese Communists.
Nevertheless, government sol
diers will move north this month
in strength, and will take over
from the Russians by Dec. 3, a
Chinese dispatch from Changchun
insisted.
Scattered fighting-with wooden
cannon and homemade knives.
among other weapons-continued
today through II northern prov.
inces.
Government sources here &C.
knowledged that
l. Communists now control most
Of Shantung province, virtually
isolating the U. S. Marine-held
port of Tsingtao from which Cen
trail China hoped to get. coal.
2. Both Central government and
Shansi Provincial forces which en-.
countered Chinese Communist
troops in the north have taken a
beating"
A government source also con-
firmed withdrawal of the Com
munists' new Fourth Army from
points south of the Yangtze river,
but said it is being moved north
to attack and dislocate the Peip-
ing-Aankow and Tientsin-P ukow
(Tientsin-Nanking) railroads, thus
blocking movement of government
forces in strength into North China
and Manchuria. The Communists
want to control Manchuria them.
selves, he said.
The comparatively few govern
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
FOUR SUPERFORTS
END LONG FLIGHT
Brig. Gen. Frank Arm
strong Leads Nonstop
Trip From Japan

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - R -
Four B-29's, carrying 43 tired,
happy men home from the war,
completed tonight the first non
stop flight from Japan to Wash
ington in q hours. % minutes.
Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong.
Jr., deputy commander of the 10th
Air Force, led the flight home,
landing at Washington National
Airport at 1888 p. M, Eastern
Standard Time. The distance was
figured at 6,544 miles.
It was the Arrny's second at.
tempt to make the trip nonstop
The first attempt on September
1919 fell short of the goal because
of constant adverse winds and the
three-plane flight led by 1t. Gen
Barney M. Giles sat down at Chi
cago to refuel before coming on tt
Washington.
Both flights followed roughly the
same route, the Great Circle
course across the Pacific by way
of Agattu and Kodiake, in the
Aleutians, Sitka, Alaska, Fort St
John, Winnipeg, Detroit and thence
eastward across the United States.
General Armstrong SIN i Ii n 6
through CRIME and two days
growth of beard, said the weather
was TERRIBLE on this flight also
and that they did not know unit
they reached Kodiak, Alaska
whether they would make it. AS il
turned out, his plane landed with
300 gallons of fuel, enough for abou
three hours.
General Armstrong said the
planes took off from the field neal
Sapporo, capital Of Hokkaido
northernmost of the major Japan
csc islands, during rain.
They had helping tail wind ur
20 about As miles an hour part o.
the way, however, and made thei1
best average ground speed OF 29(
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
union THREATENS
TO WIDEN STRIKE
Walkout OF Greyhound
Drivers May Spread
Coast To Coast
BY The ASSOCIATED PRESS


Possible expansion of the Grey
hound bus strike to cripple serv-
ice throughout the country was
forecast yesterday by an AL
union official.
Already the one-day strike has
halted service on six lines operat-
ing between the Mississippi river
and the Atlantic seaboard. Four
thousand Greyhound employees left
their jobs after a breakdown OF
negotiation on wage demands.
If settlement is not reached
soon, the strike may spread
throughout the country" said
George E. Stiff, president of Local
1902, Amalgamated Association Of
Street, Electric Railway and Mo-
tor Coach Employees.
Other major labor developments
included:
l, Conciliators tried to end the
AFL-CIO machinists' strike in the
San Francisco bay area as the
number off the job because of the
dispute climbed to $4,000.
2. John L. Lewis, president Of
the United Mine Workers, visited
the White House for the first time
IN four years, in preparation fol-
4 Mondays acknowledgement con
ference.
Il 3. The number of workers or
strike or indirectly inactive drop.
Sped 10 243,O00, about 5000 fewer
8than on Wednesday.
4 The drivers want 5.75 cents q
n nile and maintenance men a 81
per cent raise. The drivers now
receive ) cents a mile in the cas-!
Wohtnued on Page Ten; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Extremists
Spurn Order
By Soekarno
MACELANC RETAKEN
With Situation Bordering
On War, Tanks Arrive
At Soerabaja
By RALPH MORTON
AP Staff Correspondent

BATAVIA, Java, Nov. I. -tP-
British planes struck at Indonesian
extremists stepping up their at
tacks tonight against British for
ces in central and western Jaws
despite orders from their own
president" Soekarno to lay down
arms.
With fighter-plane aid, the thin.
spread Indian troops recaptured
most of Magelang, $50 miles south.
west of Batavia. At least three
Thunderbolts went into action,
shooting up three staff cars and
as many trucks, after the 1ndone'
slams opened fire with mortars.
A British spokesman described
the situation as "close to war;"
A squadron Of tanks arrived at
still-tense Soerabaja, naval base
where Brig. A. w. F. Mallaby was
slain Tuesday night.
Soerkarno, head of the "1ndone.
sian Republic" met with Dutch
leaders .ldSt luSlAt, d110 INV sSA"J
into the interior in yet unsuc.
cessful mission to make his fol.
lowers halt the fighting.
Soerkarno tonight was believed
to be at Jogjakarta, headquarters
of youthful extremists who were
said to be sending reinforcements
to Indonesians near Magelang, 80
miles to the north.
Soekarno conferred last night
with acting 1t. Gov. Hubertus Van
Nook. The Dutch Information
Service here said Van Nook urged
cooperation as serving the best in
terests of all concerned, and that
Soekarno presented arguments for
recognition of a De Facto govern.
ment headed by himself.
(The Dutch Information Service
at The Hague announced that If
Van Nook had conferred with
Soekarno, he had acted against the
express wish and instructions OF
Continued on Page Ten; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
TAX CUT MEASURE
PASSES CONGRESS
President Expected To Sign
Bill Slashing Five Bill
lions Off Levy

WASHINGTON, Nov. /. -R,-
Right on deadline set two
months ago, Congress completed
Legislative action today on a S.
800, 100000 tax reduction bill and
sent it to the White House.
The Internal Revenue Bureau
has to print new tax returns md
withholding tables, and asked that
details of the legislation be worked
out by November 1.
According to revenue experts who
tried to figure out the effect of the
bill, it would cause these reduc-
tons in 1916:
Individual income taxpayers,
1854, O00, 1000.
Corporations, $3,136, 900, 900.
Repeal of use tax on cars and
boats, $40, 100000.
Just before the Senate approved
the conference report which sent
the bill to the White. House, Fin.
ance Committee Chairman George
D-Ga) expressed the opinion that
the actual reduction in Federal
revenue will not be as great as
S., 920, 900, 900, due to stimulation OF
business activity.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) ese1.c1 j
that the actual loss during the cur
rent fiscal year which ends next
June 30 will not exceed $1,000.
600, 900.
There has been some criticism
of making any tax reduction at a
time when the country is spending
more than its income Taft OBJ
served. ''The purpose of THE bill is
not to hand out pie to ia .. Us
but to encourage business &C j.
ty."
The Ohioan said he believes ne
further business tax reductions
will be possible for at least three
! years, but that there should be an.
other cut in individual income tax
es next year and a reduction ir
excise taxes.
Capitol Hill understood the bill
just approved is satisfactory tc
the president and will be &gned
although Secretary of the Treas
ury Vinson RECOMMENDED cuts not
to exceed $4,000, 100000.
The most important corporate
tax change eliminates the wartime
excess profits levy, effective Jan.
l. AL corporations also get reduc'
tons ranging from 2 to 4 per cent
in their combined normal and sur.
tax.
The Individual income tax reduc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
CC AUXILIARY
WILL RE0RCANlZE

A reorganization meeting Of the
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Cape
Fear Division No. 4, which will be
attended by Commodore M. j.
RYAN. Sixth Naval District. will be
held here in the Federal court
room of the Customshouse Mon
day November S, at z p. M, it
was announced last night by Com
mander T. E. Murrell.
Commander Murrell said Off
Gers would be elected to fill the
posts of Division Commanding
officer, Division Executive Off
Ger, Division Train Officer, two
Flotilla Commanding Officers. two
Flotilla Executive Officers and
two Flotilla Training Officers.
These officers will be entirely
responsible for the success of tho
future work and organization OF
the Auxiliary, Commander Muir
rell emphas sized.
Immediately following the elec.
lion, discharges from the U. 5.
Coast Guard Reserve Temporary
and citations will be presented by
Commodore Ryan.
Organized in 1910, the Auxiliary
played an important part In pa
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
BUS OVERLOAD
LIMIT NOW 50 PC
All Passenger Type We
hicles Must Garry
Heater Systems

RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 1.-@ -
An order outlawing the use OF trac-
tor-type buses except when used
in local emergency operations be-
came effective in North Carolina to
day, the State Utilities Commission
announced.
The order also limits the pas
senger load of regular type buses to
not more than so per cent over
the seating capacity of the bus,
John T. Armstrong, supervising in
spector for the Commission, said.
At the same time, Armstrong said
that a number of passenger buses
from three different lines were
withdrawn from operation in Sails
bury today because of failure to
comply with a Utilities Commission
order requiring the installation OF
heaters in all buses by November
|.
The buses involved belonged to
the Parkway Company, operating
out of North Wilkesboro; the Caro-
lima Coach Company of Raleigh,
and The Queen City railways Of
Charlotte.
Armstrong said the buses would
be kept out of circulation until
heaters were installed and approx
ed by Commission inspectors.
He said the overlooking regula'
ton affecting all buses would be
'srigidly enforced in the future
Overlooking regulations had beer
relaxed during the war when more
people Travelled by bus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
British Planes Strike At Lndonesian Rebels;
Palestine /lil1nays Cut In Over Fifty Places;
Chinese zeds Wage War With Wooden Cum
FAVORS
SINGLE FIGHT UNIT
WITH SAME UNIFORM

WASHINGTON, Nov. LIP
"A suggestion by General Dou-
glas Macarthur that the Army,
Navy and Air forces be con-
solidated into a single fighting
agency with one uniform was
made public today.
Macarthur views were OBJ
tanned by a special Army-Navy
committee which contacted
Army, Navy and Marine lead
ers in connection with proposals
for postwar defense forces, and
were made public by the Sem
ate Military committee.
"The experience of this war
have completely and absolutely
convinced me that there should
be a complete amalgamation of
the various fighting forces"
Macarthur said. II believe they
should wear the same uniform.
I believe there should be one
family instead of three"
The Senate committee, exam
lining a proposed merger of U.
S armed forces, received Mac
Arthur's views from the White
House.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Wallace Says 10Per Cent
Raise Possible For 1916
By sANDOR S. KLEIN
United Press Staff Corresponds

WASHINGTON, Nov. / = Sec
rotary of Commerce Henry A.
Wallace tonight released a hereto
fore confidential report holding
that a general increase of 10 per
cent in basic wages throughout in
dustry in 1916 was possible with
out raising prices.
He decided to release the report,
prepared by the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, during
"a press conference with 16 report
ers who had just returned from a
32-day, $500 mile tour to learn
the progress of industrial reconver-
sion throughout the nation.
"Such an average the report
said, "would mean rise of Is per
cent or a little more in the manu-
featuring industries. Some indus.
tires could afford more, some not
so much. The automobile industry
is in the former class - Is per cent
CAN NC 81 dICCO WAeAAOA' Nv ~ ~
results in the first postwar year OF
restricted operations, and a further
increase of 10 per cent cen be
given for 1947 when production will
have reached peak rates.
"a much higher wage income
will have to be secured if demand
is to be sufficient to produce full
employment by 1948."
Wallace said that if this coun'
try is to have full employment,
full production and full prosperity
for farmers, workers and all, II
would be desirable to increase pro-
duction of consumer goods by So,
900, 900, 900 to $4,000, 100000, IL
1916.
"And, as a part of that he con-
tinued, Sin order to make a mar
ket for those goods, it is vital tina
Continued on Page Ten; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Five Killed
In 0utburst
Near Haifa
JEWS ARE BLAMED
Explosion Wrecks Section
OF Consolidated Re-
fineries Plant
BY ELIAv SIMON

United Press Staff Correspondent
JERUSALEM, Nov. IAN out
burst of sabotage and shootlngs, az
tributed by the British to Jewish
elements, killed at least five men
and cut Palestine's railways at 81
places from Dan to Beersheba last
night or early today. The British
Army quickly clamped restrictions
on intercity traffic in the Holy
Land, testing ground of Jewish and
Arab aspirations.
A section of the Consolidated Re-
fineries installations at Haifa was
left in ruins by an explosion, tele-
phoned reports from Haifa said.
Three police launches were damag.
ed at Haifa and Jaffa, and trains
were damaged. A heavy explosion
shook the Jerusalem rail station
shortly after midnight.
Outbreaks came as the Middle
East, whose Arab peoples were
watching the Palestine situation
closely, awaited an expected state.
ment from British, Premier Clement
Attlee on Palestine. Britain holds
mandate, over the Holy Land and
has been pouring in troops for the
past several weeks.
An official British announcement
attributed rail line explosions to
systematic attack by Jewish ter.
rorists attempting to disrupt rail.
way communications. A curfeW
was imposed under defense regula.
tons upon all intercity traffic
from 10 p. m. to 6 a. m.
Reports said the railways were
cut from Dan (Tes-El-KahdD in
the north to Beersheba in the
south, the traditional north-to-south
limits of the Holy Land. Heaviest
transport attack was reported
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
EX-SERGEANT BUCKS
AT PAYING AFL FEE;
REENLISTS IN ARMY

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. L.
P)-Myron F. Oliver wasn't
"just kidding" when he said he
would rather go back to the
Army than pay union dues to
hold his job.
Oliver, who was discharged
Oct. IL after five and a half
years service with the Army,
16 months of it in the Pacific,
reenlisted yesterday as a Mas
ter Sergeant.
He said he had been offered a
promotion at the sheet metal
shop where he worked but was
informed he would have to pay
$50 initiation fee to an AFL I'M
ion first. ~ objected to earning
the job and then paying for It,"
Oliver said.
81 talked it over with my wife
and decided I would rather go
back to the Army"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
BOARD REVERSES.
UPHOLDS FINDING
Home Supply Company
Gains Permission For
Warehouse Here

Sitting in review of two recent
reflections by the City Planning
board, the City Adjustment board
late yesterday afternoon upheld the
planning body in one decision and
reversed it in a second.
Reversed was the Planning
boards denial of a building per-
NIT to R. E. Crisp of the Home
Supply company for permission to
construct one-story wooden
frame warehouse at 2001 Castle
street.
Upheld was the Planning board S
refusal to grant a building permit
to J. A. Smith for construction Of
one-story brick auto sales room
Continued on Page Ten; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
7eacher-Bus Drivers Nav
Punish BAD" Children

RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 1-(R-
Attorney General Harry McMul-
Ian ruled today that a school
teacher may inflict corporal pun
ishment on a school child for mis-.
behavior while riding on a school
bus.
The same provision applies tc
combination school teacher-schoo]
bus drivers, of which there are
several in North Carolina, McMul.
Ian said.
Mcmillan said the opinion was
requested by T. T. Murphy, super
intendent of schools in Pender
county. Murphy wrote that ono
Of his teachers, a combination
teacher-bus driver, recently dis
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02

ciplined an eight-year-old boy for
alleged misbehavior on a school
bus the teacher was driving to 4
Burgaw school. The child mis-
behaved, Murphy said, and the
teacher stopped the bus beside the
road and "spanked'' the child.
"The law provides school mas.
tiers and teachers discretionary
power in the infliction of punish
ment on their pupils, and will not
hold them responsible criminally
unless the punishment causes per.
manent injury" Mcmillan said.
This discretionary authority Of
a teacher over the pupils extends
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Father OF -Four Figures
CUNTS Eat Plenty Food

monthly diaper quota is about
1000.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Cirminello
agree that it has been a hectic
year. But happy one. The chill
ren-Eileen, Maureen, Kathleen
and Michael-are thriving and
Eileen and Kathleen can stand
alone. After wrestling awhile with
the housing problem, the family
is comfortably situated in sub
urban Broomal. And $500 raise
for papa helps make ends meet.
The quads are hard to tell apart,
but their father says he has a fool
proof way: they all kiss different
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Henry J. Kaiser Says
America Will Not Fail

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1-(R)-
Henry J. Kaiser, industralist, is
sued this Victory Loan state
ment today: .4.5.
''The Victory Bond issue is a
vital part of our return to the
pursuits of peace. The re-orienta-
ton of the American economy
from wartime to a peacetime
basis will call for funds which
only the American investor can
supply.
Millions of our men are still
under arms. Armies of occupa-
ton must be transported and
supplied.
Grateful America will not fail
in this responsibility
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
NEW YORK DOCTOR
BRINGS OWN COSTLY
DISHES FOR DINNER

NEW YORK, Nov. 1. - up - A
banquet IS where you put it, not
where you find it.
30 believes New York physician
Nno olheS nightly in Times Square
aGtomat off gold and silver dishes.
~. you IL see the doctor walking in
WIN little case. He unpacks the
soS'ly dishes, has them filled with
oreanllng food and then sets up his
I I 'aole IN regal style: He even
0flngs dainty napkins.
n nl.ef polishing off the feast with
a. eiiil iasse, the customer washes
VIC costly dishes in a restaurant
bia him, packs them neatly back in
--S poX and walks out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1-R-
Papa Joseph Cirminello, father OF
quadruplets and bear for figures,
came up with some amazing totals
today as his offspring observed
their first birthday anniversary.
Cirminello, a Securities and Ex-
change Commission analyst, totted
up his accounts and found that the
quads consumed each month: 120
cans of milk, 24O cans of vegeta.
bles, soup and fruit, Is dozen, Or
anges, 10 dozen eggs, five bottles
Of vitamins, eight large boxes OF
cereal, two boxes of toasted bread,
plus desserts, beef liver, chicken
and lamb.
By actual count, he added, the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-02
Japan Fears Hirohito
May Haze To Pay Piper

-. TOKYO, Nov. 1-R-A startled
m rpaA earned today that America
bia require Emperor Hi~ohito
. cd to pay part of the defeat
hin halon's untotalled reparations
ma, Welfare Ministry announce
fo u5i' brought still sharper realiza-
cl On VI the cost of the war: it dis
S,vseo mat American air raids had
NM S'[ Z or burned nearly $780,
wv W. buildings in Japan.
tun m"e'her HlSohito's personal for
sidou q Slo6, 100000 could be con-
Te Teleo more than drop in the
m oapsa1Fatlons bucket was a minol
no a.'er IN Tokyo. Far more i'm
'ahF to Japanese was the sud-