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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
SERVICE IN new
ANNEX PLANNED

Garbage facilities for the newly
annexed areas of the city of Will
mington will be ready Jan. l, th{
day the actual work of acquiring
the new areas is begun.
]. Fred Rippy. administrative
assistant for the city said yestel
day afternoon that last minute d
tailed plans are being whippG,
into shape for the collection Of
garbage in the newly acquired
sections.
Routes are being arranged and
although the present planned
routes are not exactly what the
management had hoped, they will
insure satisfactory collection. The
days for collection will necessarily
be divided among the various Sec
tons of the new areas as it has
been necessary in the city proper
for the past several months.
The lack of trucks was given as
the reason for garbage collection
practices of this type. The hope
has been expressed that new
trucks will be available soon to
take care of this situation.
In new bulletin which will ap.
pear soon, residents are being in.
structed as to the exact dates gar
bage collection will be made. The
bulletin also asks that residents CO.
operate in the matter by arrang.
ing their garbage containers for
delivery on days when the collec.
ton will be made.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28

$7,289,574 for November, 1913, in
dicating a greater operating ex-
pense with lowered revenues as
compared with the, two previous
years for the same period.
Operating expenses also, were
higher for the first II months: of
this year as compared with 1914
and 1945. They were $97, 075, 800. for
the. period in 1915, $84,611 6o6 in
1914 and $73, 1853, 286 in 1913.
Net operating revenues for Nov
ember, 1915, were 81, 55e,017 as
compared with $5,016,345 for the
month in 1914 and S., 108, 563 in 1913.
Net operating revenues for the first
II months of this year were $780,
1854, 1882, $58 044,244 in 1914, and
sos, 1873, 351 in 1913.
Amount set aside for taxes in
November, 1915, was 5000, 900 as
compared with So, 100000 for the
month in 1914 and 81, 1000, 900 in 1943.
This amount for the first II months
in 1915 was 500, $50, 900, $40, 1000 900
in 1914, and $48, $50, 900 in 1913.
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
COMMUNIST RIOTERS
STORM POLICE BOOTH
IN ATHENS, GREECE

ATHENS, Dec. 27 -(P)- Com
munist rioters stormed a police
station in suburb of Piraeus to-
day, as Minister of the Interior
Constantine RENTS warned that the
release Of between 5000 and 10000
left-wing political prisoners might
result in wave of vengeance kill
ings throughout Greece.
The Communists sought the re-
lease of two members of the IKE,
Communist organization, who had
been arrested for allegedly disarm-
ing a police officer. The Commu-
nists fought their way to the cell
where the men We're held, but
were dispersed after arrival of
reinforcements from Piraeus, Port
of Athens.
RENTS said that three members
of the IKE, released recently from
political Imprisonment, were killed
and one wounded in the Corinth
district of Athens by relatives of
victims slain in last winters dis
turbances.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
BOMB KILLS 7
INHOLYCITY

JERUSALEM, Dec. 27-(P-Un-
.Ycial estimates tonight placed
y W. dead at seven and the wounded
w 70 10 following today's explo-
IONS which damaged a three-block
s s in the heart of Jerusalem and
ss.rtiallv destroyed the central po-
R ire building. The explosions were
helipved TO have been caused by
s S thrown from automobiles.
Assistant Superintendent of Po-
rcs Denis Flanagan was among
.soso wounded in the sporadic
.hootine which accompanied the
Tssts He was hit by machine gun
bl1lets while inspecting a teller
mine found near a movie house
soveral blocks from the scene of
tbe main blast.
The heaviest blast was in the
oolice building, housing the GRIM
mai investigation department,
which borders on Jaffa road, the
main thoroughfare in the modern
part of the city.
Police, hospital and military
removed bodies on stretchers, and
,nuads of men still were digging
through high piles of debris around
tbe headquarters.
II was reported here that one
Jewish constable was killed in a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
British Throw Military
Gordon Around Batavia
BY VERN HAUGLAND
Ar Staff CORRESPONDENT

BATAVIA, Dec. q -(P)-. The
British threw a military Gordon
around Batavia today as 1t. Gen.
Sir Philip Christison, Allied COM
mander in the Netherlands East
Indies, notified Indonesian leaders
he was taking more active meas
ures to restore order in Java and
appealed for their cooperation.
Gondon dispatches said Prime
Minister Attlee had begun talks
this afternoon with Dutch officials
including Premier Wilhelm Schem-
erhorn and DR.. H. ]. Van Nook,
acting Governor General in the
Netherlands Indies, in an effort
to settle the Indonesian crisis.
(The British government was
said to be pressing the Dutch to
recognize the self-proclaimed Indo-
nesian republic.)
Christison said he had asked the
aid of the Indonesian Peace Preser-
walton Corps (TKR) in maintain
ing order, and this afternoon GER
tain units were already being
equipped by the British to be used
as auxiliary military police.
The Gordon was thrown around
the Java capital in order to check
identity of people leaving and en-
tering the city and thus prevent
an inflow of terrorists and bandits,
the British said. The move was rep
resented as preliminary to estab-
ishment of peaceful conditions in
the city, scene of many disorders.
Christison, after comforting with
Premier Sutan Sjahrir and 1nfor-
nation Minister Amir Sjarifuddin
of the unrecognized Indonesian re-
public, issued statement reiterat-
ing that the British were in Java
sin pursuance of an Anglo-Ameri-
can decision allocating the respon-
Continued on Page Two; Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28

similar demonstration, which oc-
cured at about the same time in
the al-Jewish city of Tel Aviv,
where nine Jews were killed and rs
wounded month ago in the last
serious outbreak in the Holy Land.
The reports from Tel Aviv said
the criminal investigation depart
ment headquarters there also was
attacked, and spirited bursts of
gunfire, sounding like tommy guns,
We're heard throughout the city.
In Jerusalem one entire side,
several floors high, was blown
completely out of the police head
quarters. Chunks of concrete lit
tered the streets and flying glass
was scattered over the entire
neighborhood. Windows of shops in
three-block area were shattered.
Two of the highest ranking Pales-
tine police officers narrowly es-
capped death from the explosions.
The officers were Inspector Gen
eral Rymer Jones, chief of the
Palestine police force, and his dep
uty. It was believed here that
saboteurs hurled bombs at the
buildings as they raced past in
automobiles, firing guns in the di-'
rection, of the headquarters
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
FATE OF YALMORE
REMAINS MYSTERY

The fate of the Valnore, two
masted schooner cast adrift by her
towboat, Dunworkin, near Frying
Pan shoals about dawn Christmas
morning, appeared early today to
be another OF the countless mys-
teries of the sea.
Coast Guard and Army planes at
dusk last night had completed the
third straight day of searching for
the 65-foot yacht that had set out
from Morehead City Monday morn
ing in tow for southern waters.
No trace of the yacht, its wreck
age, or its four-rnan crew had
been sighted.
Two Coast Guard planes from
the Charleston base, two Army
planes ffent the charleston Army
airfield, and two Coast Guard
planes from the Elizabeth City base
had scanned the watery wastes from
Charleston almost as far north as
Norfolk, Va, ranging as far out as
200 miles to sea-still without a
trace of the luckless vessel. Capt.
S. C.. Linholm, of the Elizabeth
City Coast Guard station, told the
Star last night that his planes had
yesterday twice covered the area
between Cape Lookout and Cape
Hatteras and that the other planes
had covered the ocean areas south
to Charleston. -
Coast Guard headquarters in
Charleston last night said the search
would go on through today-and
long as there was any hope Of find
ing the craft or it's crew. But vete-
ran watermen were doubtful that
any trace of the vessel would ever
be found.
Aboard the schooner when she
was the crew composed Of four
were the crew composed Of four
Morehead City men: J. V. Wat
tiers, 46, Dick Williams, IT,, Paris
Willis, 80, and his son, J. T. Willis,
II.
The Valmore was cut adrift when
the Dunworkin's engines became
disabled in heavy seas Christmas
morning. The Dunworkin attempted
to rescue the Valmore crew but
the two craft were blown away
from each other by the 50-mile-an
hour gale and the heavy seas. The
Dunworkin was blown northeast
ward from the point where the
craft parted and late Christmas
afternoon was beached at Wrights-
vile Beach where she broke to
pieces.
Aboard the Dunworkin was the
father, Paul Williams, of Dick
Williams, who was aboard the Val
more. Others in the Dunworkin's
crew were Capt. J. E. Rowland
and his brother, w. A. Rowland,
all of Morehead City. None of these
men was injured when the Dun
workin was beached although all
of them suffered from exposure
after their day-long battle with
the heavy Christmas day seas
which, Capt. Rowland reported,
mounted cas- high as a house."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
PLANS
TO RETURN TODAY

KANSAS, City, Dec. q. .-B-
President Truman ordered his big
C-54 readied tonight for his return
to Washington as his Christmas
holiday came to an end with
another round of visiting and hand
shaking.
The Sacred Cow" in which he
flew to Kansas CITY Christmas Day,
was scheduled to take off at $3.50
a. m. EST tomorrow for the capital
where he will begin work on "a ma
tion-wide speech to the people.
The Presidents activities today
were highlighted by an informal
lunch where he was guest of news
paper, radio and Photographic rep
resentat:ves who accompanied him
on his trip to Missouri. .
The Chief Executive was in a
joyial mood. Earlier in the day he
had dropped by the offices of his
hometown newspaper the Indepen-
dence Examiner, where he talked
with Col. William Southern it's own
er since 1898, and members Of the
staff.
From there he went to his offices
in the Federal building to shake
hands with upwards of 200 callers,
including Eddie jacobson, his form
er haberdashery store partner.
Others who stopped to see the
(Cnntinued nm Pare Tuo. Col u
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
GRAND JURY HITS
LAX POLICE WORK

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 81. Up
The Dade county grand jury to-
day charged that law enforcement
officers in the greater Miami area
were failing to prosecute gam
blers because, they believed the
public wants gambling. The jury
urged the Indictment of any state
officials in derelict in their luty.
, In a sweeping recommendation
aimed at what it called Flourish
ing games Of chance, the grand
jury urged removal of city and
county officials who fail to take
action against gambling, and sin
g1ed out the Bolita lottery as xvi
cious'' form of gambling.
Emphasizing that "the public Of
fetal primarily responsible for en-
forcement OF. the gambling laws is
the Sheriff of Dade county" the
grand jury said:
''This grand jury is not impress
ed by the suggestion that the
Sheriff cannot stop major gambling
operations because of a lack OF
manpower or other technical diff
.culties."
The grand jury also recommend.
ell: ...t
That the telephone company, to
suppress horse race booking, lin
crease its efforts to deny service
to known violators Of the gambling
laws"
That Western Union, upon pres
entation of proper evidence, be or
dered to discontinue a leased wire
service which it has reason to be-
lieve is being utilized by book
makers"
That where a conviction for gam
bling is obtained, the entire build
ing in which gambling was con-
Quoted be padlocked.
That the act licensing coin-op-
Grated amusement machines be re-
vealed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
CopKno1us AnHonestNdr1
But Can fRen1emberFaces

Here's $12 for the fare, and an
other S. for your trouble"
Strayer accepted the $12 but re.
fused any interest. He said the
man did not give his name.
The man came through here in
May last year, en- route from
Brunswick where he was a ship.
yard worker to his home in Michi.
gan. His health had failed. From
Michigan he went to Arizona. He
told Strayer he was on his wav
back to Michigan to spend tho
holidays with his family and came
by this way to repay the officer.
1T sort Of revives your faith in
human nature Strayer said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28

ROME, Ga, Dec. q. = Up -
Officer George Strayer can tell an
honest man when he sees one but
he can't remember what they look
like very long.
With the holiday spirit in the air,
a man approached Strayer and ask
ed:
do you remember me?"
''You look familiar" said the
policeman, "but I don't remember
ever having arrested you.
<"You didn't" said the stranger.
you bought my dinner when
was hungry and gave me bus fare
back to Michigan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
COMMUNISTS LAY
PLANS ON TABLE
Leaders Place In Writing,
Proposals For Peace
In China
Bv SPENCER MOOSA
APP Staff Correspondent

CHUNGKING, Dec. 27-B -
Chinese Communists, meeting gov
eminent leaders to arrange for
full-dress peace discussing, sub
mitted in writing today their plan
for a truce to end China's civil
turmoil.
"All we can do is hope" de
clared Chou En-lai, head OF the
Communist delegation, on emery
ing from the preliminary confer
ence at which the rival factions
met formally for the first time
since Nov. II.
Then he set off for dinner
honoring Gen. George c. Marshall
at the home of Walter Robertson,
U. S. Charge D'Affaires, also at
tended by representatives of the
government and China's Demo
cratic League.
Zchou insisted the plan-text OF
which vas withheld-called for an
unconditional truce, but the gov
eminent had asserted that as made
orally last week it contained some
BOBBY traps. .
Chou outlined it as calling for
cease fire" order by each side,
settling all problems peacefully
and dispatching non-partisan OBJ
servers to the fronts to make a re-
port. 9
The government charged the oral
plan would require its troops to
withdraw from the railroads and
would freeze in present positions
their forces now moving into Man.
churia.
The government was represented
as seeing the latter condition as a
stiff barrier to acceptance of the
communist plan.
In fact, there was a report cur
rent that the government would
ask the Russians to postpone their
Jan. 3 withdrawal from Man.
cnuria because National forces
still had too far to go before being
ready to take over the administra-
uon of the vast and rich territory
Associated Press correspondent
spencer Davis in a dispatch from
relplng said advance units of Ma
uonal occupation forces were sew
en- miles northeast of Tahushan,
Which is more than go miles south
west of Mukden, Manchuria' S
largest city.
A score of high government Of
nclals left Peiping by plane for
Cnahgchun, the Manchurian capt.
a. to assist advance groups in
laklng over the civil administra-
uon, Davis said.
Inc presence in Chungking OF
Marshall, Americas special envoy
continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
GIN Agrees
I 0 Attend
Conference
HOPE FOR ACCORD
Labor Conciliators To Meet
Jan. 2 In Last Minute
Effort to Avert Strike
BY The Associated Press

The possibility of two big strikes
increased the nations industrial
problems last night, while General
Motors corporation, party to an
other dispute, announced its repr =
sentative would .attend President
Truman's fact-finding hearing to.
day to present a formal statement
regarding the company's position
with respect to further proceed
ings."
The new strikes-notices of which
have been served by two unions
would affect the electrical and tele-
phone industries.
Officials of the CLIO United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Work
ers in New York termed a walk
out of 200, 600 workers in plants of
General Motors, Westinghouse and
General Electric inevitable" and
said it might be called late next
week.
The government hoped a meeting
set for Jan. between Federal Ia
Dor conciliators, General Electric
and Westinghouse might avert the
strike. The executive board of the
ERMW meets Jan. S to arrange
the walkout, authorized by the
union membership in support of de-
mands for a So a day wage rate
increase. Negotiations between the
union and General Motors are con-
tinuing.
Meanwhile, independent union
spokesman said a nationwide work
stoppage by telephone employees
might result from a strike set for
next Thursday by Western Electric
company workers in the New York
New Jersey area. =.
Henry Mayer, counsel for the
Independent Western Electric En-
ployes Association, affiliated with
the Independent National Fedora
ton of Telephone Workers, said
the Western Electric strikers would
establish picket lines around tele-
phone companies in New York and
New Jersey Jan. 3.
The Western Electric workers
are seeking a 80 per cent wage
increase. Mayer said that if the
strike continued and additional
pressure" was believed necessary
to support the wage demand,
picket lines. would spread to all
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
Socony Plans &, 00Q, 0QQ
Gallon Oil Plant Here
Addition Will Boost
Local Facilities To
92,OOO,OOO

The combined capacity of Will
mington's oil terminals will be in
creased to more than 10000, 900
gallons with the completion here
Of the Socony-Vacuum company's
5000, 000-gallon plant in late 1916,
it was disclosed from check OF
existing terminal facilities here.
Construction work on the Socony
terminal has just been started
here ON the east bank of the Cape
Fear river south of Wilmington.
News of the construction of the
plant was confirmed yesterday in
Philadelphia and Baltimore by Of
ficials Of Socony's southeastern di-
vision. The Chicago Bridge and
Iron Works are contractors in
charge and it is expected that the
terminal will be operating late in
1916. .. =.
Location of the terminal will be
on 30-acre site adjoining the At
lantic Refining company's term.
nal on the south. Socony officials
said some of the property had been
acquired from Atlantic.
The plant will be known as the
Wilmington terminal and will serve
most of North Carolina and some
parts OF South Carolina, George
Walker, southeastern division man.
ager of Socony said yesterday. A
similar terminal is now under con-
struction in Charleston, S. c., and
fCnu&;,,uad nm Doro Tuo. roJ AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
Meat Ball Returns Home
ButNote MysteryRenaains

from Germany in his Mussette bag,
offered a $50 reward for the dog S
return and a Tampa newspaper
carried the story.
The dog was found on the other
side of the city when reader call
ed the newspaper saying he had
seen dog which answered Meat
Balls description.
The people who had the dog said
they found him tied to their porch.
Meat Ball was mascot for the
274th Infantry in Zorn, Germany.
and was known as Bugs" by men
in Duerling's outfit. Patsy and her
playmates promptly changed that
to Meat Ball when the dog arrived.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday 4.
Temperatures
1880 am As; 1880 am. 80; 1880 pm. 81;
1880 pm. 40.
Maximum So; Minimum SO; Mean 4s;
Normal 48.
Humidity
1870 am "a; Z 80 am. 80; 1870 pm. 49,;
1880 pm. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
- inches. 5
Total since the first of the month
. inches.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by u.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
HIGH Low
Wilmington - SOB am. am.
5:23 PM 1915 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 3:15 am. 1924 am.
1922 pm. 9:42 pm.
Sunrise TIT am; Sunset Sill PM;
Moonrise 1853 am; Moonset 1882 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c., at
8 Am. Thursday - feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28


tions should handle controls over
atomic energy to "ensure its use
only for peaceful purposes"
In a communique outlining re-
suits of their 11-day conference in
Moscow, the three Foreign Minis
tiers announced agree-..ent also on
problems arising from Japan,
Korea, China and Romania and
Bulgaria.
Thus, in a contrast to a non-pro-
ductive conference in London last
September, Secretary of State
Byrnes, Foreign Secretary Bevin
of Britain and Foreign Comnissar
Molotov of Russia reached accord
on troublesome questions world
wide in scope and importance.
They proposed in effect that the
United Nations Security Council
take on the job of atomic control,
of eliminating .fearsome atomic
weapons and "all other major
weapons adaptable to mass de-
Struction' from the arSenals OF
all nations.
They said the question Of es-
tablishing q control commission
would be Laid before the United
Nations General Assembly at its
first meeting in London next
month.
Russia agreed 10 go along with
control formula that was just
about what Britain and the United
States, along with Canada, sdg-
gested in November.
But Russia got louder voice in
running conquered japan. She had
been hammering for months for
an Allied Control Council.
The three Foreign Ministers
agreed on one. Russia will sit in
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
WORKERS
RED0UBLE EFFORT
Hope However, Fa des
Hourly That Pineville
Miners May Be Alive
Bv CLAY WADE BAILEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
PINEVILLE, KY, Dec. H.-U.D
Hope was gone but desperately
weary men choking on smoke and
gas fumes fought on against fire
and rock slides in the dank depths
of coal mine tonight.
Not one believed any longer that
he was battling to reach and save
human lives; each one believed
his goal was collection of corps
es, those of the 81 or more min
ers who were caught in the two
mile long tunnel of the Straight
Creek Coal mine by an explosion
at $3.50 am. Wednesday-the day
after Christmas. T.
The 100 would-be rescuers were
so near to dropping from physical
exhaustion that mine inspector
James Bryson sent out an appeal
through all the Kentucky soft coal
region for trained mine rescue
workers. But the men themselves,
who had no more than four hours
rest in the last 80 hours, would
not even listen to suggestions of
giving up. 49,.
Leonard Mills, %, expressed the
emotion of all the workers. "Ill
keep right on working until we get
those men dug out of there" he
said. Mills father, Frank, was one
of the men.
There was no chance whatever,
mining experts said, that the en-
tonbed men could be reached be-
fore noon tomorrow and the pos
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28

TAMPA, Fla, Dec. q. - WD =
tNe-year-old Patsy Duerling got
her pet Dachshund, meat ball,
oack today but the mystery sur
l0undlng an anonymous ''Kidnap'
no'e' instead of being solved, grew
even deeper.
Inc dog disappeared yesterday
ana IN the afternoon mail Patsy
.ecelVed penny postcard on which
Us scrawled in q childish hand:
:, Just to let U know by the time
u get this, me and the little dog
VIII be hundret miles from Tam
ps' He will have good home.
Thanks"
= Fatsy's father, war veteran John
'"efi'ne- who brought the dog
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
Foreignz>zMinisters Draft Blueprint
For ><Jn1ic Poluer Control; Unionists
Threaten Electrical, Phone Walk-outs
STORK ON STRIKE
AT SEA HORSE TANK:
= SITUATION IN HAND

CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec.
27-{P)-No stork is lowering
over the Sea Horse tank at the
Charleston Museum, G. Robert
Lunz, Jr., curator of Crustacea
and Sea Horse fanc'er, decided
today. Mr.. Lunz reluctantly de-
cided that no youngsters could
be expected before next spring.
Sea Horses have been known
to have 700 offspring at one
birth, and expectations Of a
blessed event in their tank had
caused worry about the hous-
ing shortage, however, a re-
check of the situation has been
made, with the result that no
additions to the family are
contemplated before the vernal
season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-28
BOARD TOM
JAP POLICIES
Gen. Macarthur To Remain In Charge Of
Far East Direction Under 11-Nation Unit;
U. S.-Russia To Withdraw Troops
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
APP Staff Writer

WASHINGTON blue
print machinery power
Of the u S..
concurred the plan proposal by and Britain