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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
HULL QUITS BED
TO SIGN CHARTER
Former Secretary OF State
Goes To Capital For
Ceremony

WASHINGTON, June % Up -
Ailing Cordell Hull left his hos
pital room today to affix his sig
nature to the United Nations
Charter, of which he has often been
called the father.
The 73-year-old former Secretary
of State returned to the State De-
partment, over which he so long
presided, sat down in his former
conference seat on the second floor
and signed with firm hand.
The document had been flown
here from San Francisco to receive
his signature as senior adviser to
the American Delegation at the
conference.
| Hull, whom illness has confined
to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda,
Md, since he resigned as Secre-
tary of State last October, appear
ed in fairly good health, although
he walked slowly.
He signed first the original copy
OF the Charter, printed in Chinese.
French, English, Russian and Span
ish, using his own pen to write
his name Immediately below the
signature of former Secretary of
State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.,
who acted as chairman of the Con-
ference.
Hull then signed a certified COPY
with photographs of the other sig
natures, which will be sent to tire
Senate for ratification. The origi-
nal will be retained in the Depart
ment of State.
Hull also signed the original and
certified copy of the Interim
Agreement.
Alger Hiss, State Department Of
fetal who acted as secretary to
the Conference, arrived here only
this morning by plane with the doc
uments.
He said they were taken to the
San Francisco airport last mig hit
under armed guard, and flown
here in a 75-pound fireproof safe
SO that it anything happened to
the plane the Charter would be
preserved.
The safe was equipped with a
parachute and bore a label which
directed any finder not to attempt
to open it but to return it to the
Department of State at once. Hiss
said the idea was that if the plane
developed any trouble the safe
could be thrown out and be picked
up no matter what happened to
the plane.
Upon arrival in Washington the
safe was brought to the Department
by two secret service men who
also witnessed Mr.. Hulrs signing
ceremony.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
Night in The Rain
Saves Day For Dog

NEW YORK, June 29.-(P-
1t was a long night for eight
year-old Israel Borrero and
his brother, Frank, IL, Shud-
ding under shrubbery in CEN
tral Park for protection from
the rain.
But close beside them was
their dog, Lucky.
Police said the brothers ran
away from home after their
mother said they must find a
home for Lucky, or he would
go to the ASPCA this morning.
Frank and Israel decided if
Lucky Was to be an outcast,
they would too.
This morning, after police
broadcast a missing persons
alarm, the children and Lucky
were recognized and brought
nome, wet and bedraggled.
Lucky can stay.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
HOUSE APPROVES
SUCCESSION BILL
Noisy Voice Vote Follows
Cheers For Speaker
Rayburn

WASHINGTON, June 49, -R-
With cheers FOR Speaker Sam Ray
burn, the House today shouted its
approval of a bill to place him
next in line for the Presidenc, i.
The bill-urgently requested by
President Truman in message
two weeks ago-passed the House
on a noisy voice vote and headed
for the senate where trouble
awaits it.
Before the House passed the
measure it deleted a provision for
holding a special presidential elect
ion in case the country is left with
out president or vice president.
That section also was asked by
Mr.. Truman but the House decid-
ed it would violate Constitutional
requirement that a president be
elected for four years.
The Presidential Succession Bill
removing the Secretary OF State
from the immediate line of sue
cession-went through the House
with a speed seldom equalled for
major legislation. ...
With an eye to his approaching
absence from the country for a
Big Three meeting in Germany,
Mr.. Truman sent his recommen-
dations to Congress June 10. The
bill emerged from the House Jul
dietary committee Wednesday by
a vote of 10 to 9 after As minute
session.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
Moslen1 League Leader
Refused To Compromise

Moslems as members.
Wavell's conference adjourned
today for two weeks after delegates
had approved proposed machinery
for setting up an India Executive
Council. Approval by Moslem dele
gates, however, is subject to rat
ification by the Moslem working
committee at a meeting next week
and a Moslem salesman said this
ratification might be withheld.
Lord Wavell had proposed that
he select Executive Council mem
bers from among panels of eight
to u nominees to be submitted by
the League and Congress Party and
panels of three submitted by mi
nority groups. Under the plan, his
choices would be subject to final
ratification by the League and Con-
gress.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
Balikpapan
Oil Plants
Bombed Out
2Sl TONS DROPPED
Naturalization Raids On
Enemy Refineries
Continue

MANILA, Saturday, June 30
-(P)-The once-great Japanese
oil cracking plants and refin-
cry center at Balikpapan on
BOrneo's Southeast coast were
being consumed by flames to-
day from 281 additional tons
of bombs dropped by airmen
of the American Far Eastern
Air Force.
In announcing this latest and
heaviest of series of neutraliza-
ton raids, a spokesman at Gen.
Douglas Macarthur headquarters
said that more than 100 Liberia
tor and Mitchell bombers flew
over the target Thursday at low
and medium attitudes and encount-
cred only slight to moderate ground
fire.
The ports barracks, warehouses
and installations of an adjacent
airfield already were blazing from
more than 1900 tons of bombs
unloaded in the past two weeks
by Gen. George C. Kenney's Fifth
and 18th Air Forces, which make
up the Far Eastern Air Force
along with portions of the Roya
Austra allan Air Force.
Other bombers of those forces
hit Kindai and Makassar air
dromes, in the Southern Celebe:
across the Makassar straits from
Balikpapan. Light Allied nava
units shot up the Borneo Eastern
coastal area at night.
Macarthur communique gave
no further word concerning Amer
lean warships which he disclosed
yesterday were on the prowl II
Makassar Straits, but attention TO
cussed on Japenese reports tina
Balikpapan had been under nava
bombardment for ten days past
There still was no American con
firmation of the Japanese reports
which also have claimed that AL
lied landing attempts at Balikpa
pan were repulsed and that AL
lied minesweepers were busy clear
ing the way for new invasion
move.
Macarthur communicate today
announced that ashore on British
North Borneo, Australian Ninth di'
vision troops completed capture
of Beaufort, on the narrow-gauge
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
SOUTHERNERS BACK
BILBO FILIBUSTER

WASHINGTON, June 29- W.D -
Southern colleagues today went te
bat for raw-throated Sen. Thee
dore G. Bilbo, D., Miss, in fill
clustering against the Fair EN-
ployment Practices Committee
but the weary Senate was spared
another nocturnal talkathon.
The chamber, in session until
after midnight Thursday, adjourn
ed today at 5:13 pm, E.W.T.
after Sen. Olin D. Johnston, D., S
c., was authorized to take the floor
when it reconvenes at noon to-
morrow.
Bilbo, who talked Wednesday
and Thursday with the objective
of presiding over "FEPCs fu-
neral" didn't talk today. But he
kept the filibuster alive by reject.
ing a compromise on the amount
Of funds to be given the agency
And southern colleagues backed
him UP.
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morning after receiving an order
from 1t. Gen. George M. Freisch
camp commander, to prepare for
their return to Europe.
When smoke was seen emerging
from windows, a tear-gas attac,,..
was ordered. The prisoners then
charged out of the barracks and
seven were wounded when guards
were ordered to fire.
1t. Clifton Freeland was cut on
the hand and It. Tra Frieder suffer-
ed a head wound while leading
guards in an effort to stem the
rush.
The fire in the barracks, which
had been started among piled-up
clothes and personal belongings
was brought under control quickly
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30

s1MLA, India, June 29.-R)-Mo-
manned Ali Jinnah, president of
the Moslem League, said fatty to-
night that the League alone lis
entitled to nominate Moslems for
membership in the proposed new
Interim Government of India.
Jinnah's statement suggested
that the League would not COM
promise in the principal dispute
threatening the success of Viceroy
Lord Wavell's conference to set up
an almost completely Indian gov
eminent.
The Moslem Leagues major po-
litical rival, the Congress Party,
has insisted that it too might NOM
mate Moslems for government
posts. The League has said that it
will not accept or take part in any
government which has montague
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
Three Russians End Life
As War Prisoners Riot

FORT DIX, N. j. June 29-RH
Three Russian citizens among 154
prisoners of war captured while
fighting with the German Army
hanged themselves today while the
group rioted in protest against an
order which would return them to
Europe, Major George B. Paul,
camp public relations officer, said
tonight.
Seven of the group, wounded by
rifle fire when they rushed from
their barricaded barracks under a
tear-gas assault, are being treated
in the camp hospital.
Major Paul said the remainder of
the group were started on their re-
turn voyage this afternoon.
The Russian prisoners barricad-
ed themselves in their barracks this
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
R.J.Johnson
Dissents On
Power Rates
FILES HIS OPINION
Commissioner Disapproves
Cheaper Power For
FILA Units Here

RALEIGH, June 29.-R-'1tili-
ses Commissioner Robert Grady
Johnson today filed a dissenting
.,;nion to an order by the Com
mission granting a lower rate to
the Federal Public Housing Au-
tbority on all current bought from
the Tide Water Power Company.
The Commissions order, which
goes into effect July ], makes it
mandatory that the power COM
many adopt a power rate sche dule
giving an average rate to two
cents per kilowatt hour. The Com
mission said the schedule, work
ed out by it's rate expert, Edgar
Womble, would mean a savings of
approximately $16,822.32 year to
the FILA.
Under the previous regulations,
occupants of the projects con-
trolled by FILA at Wilmington pay
flat rental that includes light,
water, and heat.
In dissenting, Johnson said,
"this authority has been buying
from the Tide Water Power Com
pany the electric energy consum-
ed by families residing in these
(Wilmington) apartments at 1920
per 100 kilowatt hours for resi-
DENTAL service. All other custo-
mers of the power company living
in and around the City of Will
mington are paying SAIL per 100
kilowatt hours. Residents of the
other IS counties served by the
Tide Water Company are paying
s453 for the same number of
hours.
The Federal Housing Authori-
ty paid to the Tide Water Company
S151, $3.50 for electric energy
used by the residents of these
apartments during the past IL
months. If the families occupying
these apartments had paid the
same rate for electric energy used
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
CORONER BLAMES
DEATH ON WOMAN
Texas Bombshell' To Get
Hearing At Bridge
port Today

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June 80.
-lR-Coroner Theodore E. Steiber
held today that Imogene Stevens
shot a young submarine sailor in
an aura of sex recrimination
beer and window smashing repris-
ais" created by a dispute over a
neighbours husband in which the
sailor had no part.
The dispute said the Coroner in
a six-page finding blaming the
death of the sailor, Albert Kovacs,
10, on the criminal act' of Mrs.
Stevens occurred just before the
shooting last Saturday night be-
tween her and Mrs. Charles A.
Milton, at whose New Canaan
home the Staying occurred.
Meanwhile, late today, Prosecu-
Tor Edmond L. Morrison of New
Canaan said that Mrs. Stevens
would be arraigned in municipal
court in that town Saturday at 2
pm. EWT) before Judge Arba B.
Marvin.
The Coroner said that from state
ments made to police by the Mil
tons and Mrs. Stevens, 24-year-old
wife of an Army major and mother
Of six year old daughter by a
previous marriage, ''it would ap.
pear that an illicit love affair had
existed between her and Milton,
aircraft company executive.
As result, the finding said, feel
ing between the two women be-
came 80 intense" on the night OF
the Staying that an alteration &C.
CURED between them during which
one flourished an icepick and the
other hurled a beer glass through
window.
1T must be in this aura of sex
recrimination, beer and window
smashing reprisals that we judge
He acts and the emotional state
Mrs. Imogene Stevens just be-
Tore the shooting said the coro'
ner.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
BULLETIN:

NEW YORK, June 29.-(R-
Members of the newspaper and
mail deliverers union (unaffil-
lated, distributors of II metro
politan dailies with a combin-
ed weekday circulation of
more than 100000, voted l.
64S to Al tonight to strike. The
union claims 1000 -embers.
Affected would be the New
York Times, Herald-Tribune,
Journal-American, Daily News,
Daily Mirror, Post, Sun, World
Telegram, Wall Street Journal,
Brooklyn Citizen and Long
Island Star-Journal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30

Appeals For
Charter OK.
MAKES STRONG SPEECH
Republican Senator Cheer,
ed By Colleagues In
Chamber Oval

WASHINGTON, June 2s.-tP
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg,
r., Mich, who once espoused
isolationism, fervently appeal
ed to his Senate colleagues to-
day for early ratification of
the United Nations Security
Charter because it may be the
worlds last chance to CO.
operate for peace.
"We must have collective Sc.
curity to stop the next war, if pos
sible, before it starts; and to
crush it swiftly if it starts in spite
Of our organized precautions" he
told a rapt Senate chamber.
The Charter which he helped
draft at San Francisco is not per.
feet, he conceded, but it would be
a start toward the collective Sc.
curity which is necessary to pre-.
vent World War III.
81 doubt if there could be another
or a better start" he said grave.
ly.
Therefore, he said, he woulc
support ratification of this Char
ter with all the resources at my
commando
~ shall do this in the deep con
viction that the alterations i;
physical and moral chaos in many
weary places Of the earth
shall do it because this plan, re
gardless of infirmities, holds grea
promise that the United Nation.
may collaborate for peace as eft
fectively as they have made com
mon cause for war. I shall do i
because peace must not be cheat
led out of its only collective
chance"
Vandenberg. the Republican
party's No. l foreign policy spokes
man in Congress. said the Charter
can be "a new emancipation pro
clamation for the world"
1T is laden with promise ant
with hope 1t deserves a faithful
trial"
Continued on Page Three; Col. 6
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
CHARLOTTE TOPS
STATE HEAT WAVE
Mercury Scars To l03 AT
Queen City Airport
During Day
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

With little relief promised by the
weather man before the turn of the
week, North Carolina sizzled yes
terday as the mercury scared to
the highest mark of the season at
numerous points in the state, and
IN some cases established new re-
cords.
The Charlotte area, which record
ed 100 degrees Thursday for the
highest temperature in the state,
still was the hottest spot on the
Tarheel map yesterday when the
temperature zocmed to 102 degrees
in the city, while the U. S. Weather
Bureau at the Charlotte Airport re-
ported top reading of 103.
A short-lived shower late in the
afternoon brought some relief ,
Charlotteans, but the best the
Weather Man could promise was
some moderation early during the
coming week.
The next hottest spot yesterday
was Greensboro with 101. Durham
had a top of 80 with low reading
for the day of II.
Raleigh had a top reading of 81
degrees and a low for the day OF
IS, while at Asheville the tenpera
ture hit "a.
In some sections of the state late
gardens were reported suffering to
a great extent as result Of the ex-
cessive heat and the lack of mois
ture. In many sections no help
rains have fallen for a period OF
two weeks.
The current heat wave has pre-
vailed for approximately two weeks
with daily readings during that
period in the mid-nineties in many
cities and towns. One heat pros
tration had been reported, that be
ing at Kinston Thursday when a
newly made Noble of Sudan Temple
collapsed d u i n G the shriners'
summer ceremonial.
South Carolina was also feeling
the effects of the heat wave, as
Columbia yesterday reported a tor
of 100 degrees.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
Davis Issues Drastic
Order To Stop Strikes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRES

Inc government invoked "wock
or fight action against 1920
Akron, o., strikers last night as
the, nations total of strike idle
stood near $4,000.
In Detroit thousands of workers
were returning to their jobs under
an agreement settling an AFL-CIO
jurisdictional dispute.
No new disturbances of i'm.
portance developed yesterday but
a strike of $4,000 Western Electric
Company employees in the East was
threatened after workers voted
overwhelmingly in a National Lab
Relations Board election in favor
of a walkout.
The strike picture by cities OF
areas:
AKRON
WILL m H. Davis, Economic
tabilization Director, stepped into
the two-week strike Of is, 700 CIC
United Rubber Workers at the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Con-pa ny
Akron, O., and directed cancellat.
ion of occupational deferments for
draft registrants participating ir
the Walkout.
Immediate steps, to carry out
the Davis request were promised
by Maj. Gen. Lewis v. Hershey,
Selective Service Director.
Davis declared effective prose.
Gu ion OF the war will be unduly
impeded or delayed" by the inter
ruption of production and draft re-
gistrants participating ARE ad-
versely affecting the war effort. p"
Union leaders previously refused
to end the stoppage which began
June II despite urgent appeals from
Army, Navy and War Labor Board.
The five plants produce rubber
tires for combat planes.
Issues involved in he con-
troversy included wages, hours and
overtime pay. On June "a, Union
leaders said they could not recon-.
mend that the workers return to
their jobs under present condi.
tons" They insisted the company
provoked the strike by failing to
adhere strictly to WLB directives
for adjustment OF grievances.
DETROIT
Workers by the thousands went
back to their posts in the big auto
mobile plants after. settlement of
a protracted union jurisdictional
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
$4,000 ARE LANDED
BY FASTEST LINER

NEW YORK, June 29.-W.D-The
Queen Elizabeth, worlds largest
and fastest liner, steamed into New
York harbor and locked at Hud-
son river pier at 2:13 p. m. to I'M
load $1,000 passengers, most of
them American fighting men home
from Europe. .
Men and women swarmed over
the docks of the 84,000-ton British
ship as she glided past the Statue
of Liberty and locked at pier 30
where hundreds of mothers and
wives stood waiting.
Many of the 1858 service men
aboard were members of the Eighth
Air Force, but 1902 Navy men and
442 Army nurses also were among
the military personnel.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
TRUMAN URGES SWIFT
ACTION ON CHARTER

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 90
W.P-President Truman gave the
finishing touches today to a co.,
word Congressional message In
which he will urge speedy Senate
ratification of the United Nations
Charter for world peace
Mr.. Truman, who last night re
ferred to the charter as a world
constitution and said he hoped the
United States would be the first
nation to ratify it, has not yet de-
cided whether he personally will
read his appeal Monday for swift
Senate action, his press secretary,
Charles Ross, said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-30
Mew Stepping-Stone Lies
800 Miles Off Forn1oSa
No Japanese Encountered
By Patrols, Nimitz
Declares

GUAM, Saturday, June 80
(P)-American patrols have oc-
cupied all of little Kume Is
land without resistance, Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz announced
misunderstanding the American
invasion springboard another
so miles Westward and adding
possible airstrip sites and
small-craft port facilities.
Tokyo Radio, in reporting the
landings last Tuesday, asserted
heavy fighting" was in progress,
but today's Fleet communique said
mo enemy troops were encount-
cred" There had been no confi-.
nation of the American landings
until today,
Kume, within 300 miles of For
mosa and $40 from Kyushu, is about
seven miles long and three miles
wide at its broadest point. Sad
AAS olloPSN VIC NCl1tC1 10 Law Will
a 1,070-foot peak in the North and
q 961-foot height in the South.
About three-fourths of the area is
forested. Deep channels pierce the
protective coral reef at several
points and small finger piers and
wharves can accommodate small
steamers.
Peacetime pursuits of the 1914
civilian inhabitants included rails
ing sugar cane, sweet potatoes,
rice and other crops, weaving pom
gee and mats and operating sugar
mills. s..
Kume is only 81 miles west Of
the. Kerama islands, the first Of
the Okinawa group invaded by
the Americans.