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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
Postwar Shipbuilding

The North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. prob
ably will continue turning out vessels at Will
mington in postwar years if the Maritime Com
Irlission, headed by far-sighted Vice-Admiral
Emory S. Derry Land, can put over its plans
for postwar merchant marine fleet second
to none.
Here is how the Commission feels about the
postwar as expressed this week by a Com
mission spokeman:
"A view of the postwar aspects OF the U. S.
Merchant Marine is laden with so many as
poets waiting Qualification that only the broad
est statements can be made with assurance
Certain facts are inevitable. Possession of
the largest merchant marine any nation has
ever had will place the United States in
strong position in peacetime commerce. For
period after the war, the United States prob
ably will be called on to furnish the greater
part of the materials, the services and the ship
ping that will place war stricken areas on
their economic feet.
THE Commission is bound by law to create
and maintain a merchant fleet. that can per-
form the peacetime functions of carrying all
its domestic water-borne commerce and SUBJ
stantial portion Of it's foreign trade.
There should be shipbui1dlng in America,
the Commission believes, sufficient to keep our
talent abreast of the times and our resources
together. Furthermore, it believes that a dy-
manic shipbuildng industry in America will
be substantial form of discoura cement to the
Hitlers and the Tojos of the future
Expanding Foreign Trade
And here is how the Commission feels about
postwar commerce, essential to the economic
well-being of the Port of Wilmington and to the
Nations hundreds of other ports:
"a function of the Commission is the foster
ing of foreign trade. In performance of that
function, it only can supply the tools. 1t cannot
furnish the cargoes that will make the U. S.
Merchant Marine forceful part Of the bust
ness structure.
by every means at its command it is en-
couraging American flag shipping companies
to assert themselves in support of an expand
ing foreign trade. The companies IN turn are
urged to point out the way to American bust
ness men, so that when peace arrives they
shall have an understanding of how they can
help them raise not only the volume OF exports
but the volume of imports. 1t is not beyond
the intelligence or the capabilities Of American
business men to lead the world down the eco
nomic highway whose destination is peace
founded on mutual respect between worthy
nations.
With Jerry Land at the Commission's
helm the odds against shipping slump such
as followed the last war are bright.
Against 1t
Unlike other Southern Congressman, the
North Carolina deleg aton in the House voted
solidlv but unsuccssfully against the legisla-
tive COUP engineered by Rep. John Rankin
ID. Miss. J. which established the former Com
,oi+ta to:.1nvestie gate Un-American Activities
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
Against 1t

Unlike other Southern congressman, the
North Carolina delegation in the House voted
soldly but unsuccssfully against the legisla-
tive coup, engineered by Rep. John Rankin
D.-Miss.} }, which established the former Com
mite to .Investigate Un-American Activities
as permanent House institution Only Ia
Heels not voting were Reps. ]. Bayard Clark
and Graham Garden who were unavoidably
absent
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07

After a flax burst had wrecked
the ball turret of a Fortress and
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-15
Livestock
And Hay
Pay Off

LINKED closely together in contribut-
ing materially 10 the millions of dol.
lars OF Valley income ore livestock
and ulfGlfo production.
Here the soil productivity insures
an oll-Yeor-round crop of alfalfa and
the cured product which provides
feed ui the choice of the producer.
As whole. the onnuol olfolfu
crop represents contribution oil
neorIY six millions of dollars. Cut
tings ere more frequent thon in any
other growing oreo in the country
and the climate insures perfection
in curing.
Doiry cuttle is well over the ST.
600. GOO mark in income while sheep
count post the hulf million. not in.
cluding wool which odds onother
sizeoble figure.
Among the vorious plons under
consideration for the postwur period
is huge expansion in the dairy
industry. This will be cdrred out.
it is hoped. in the addition of hun
dreds of small herds which will in
clude added olfulfo and other feed
acreage and the construction oi
ranch homes throughout the VdlleY.
The cottle feeding industry in the
VolleY has not had the setback
that hos some of other oreos where
feed problems have cut into the bust
o ness end there is evident q substun.
tiul program Of further expansion
which will make the VulleY on out
siunding unit Of this nationwide in.
dusty.
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Blockade
Continued From First Page

tons, were sunk and 1874 other vessels
totaling $4,000 tons were damaged
Admiral Price said Fleet Air Wing
is able to maintain patrol over
Korea and Tsushima Strait for
more than is hours daily.
The japanese cannot get started
on a run across from the continent
to Japan without being detected
and are forced TO use small Bottom
sugar dog freighters almost ex-
clusively.
The aerial blockade of the Yellow
Sea and Korea Straits has virtually
stopped what used to be a fast and
safe three-day ship run between
Shanghai and the homeland, Ad-
miral Price said.
Presumably the japanese are try
ing now to make the transshipment
over a three-week route-by rail
into Northern Korea and then
across the Sea of Japan. Planes of
the air wing have broken the rail
line.
Shipping is getting scarcer to find
and Japanese antiaircraft fire more
accurate.
Eighteen planes have been lost in
three months. of operation by the
air wing. All but six known sur
vivors were picked up by rescue
planes which made SO landings on
the open sea to rescue 12l American
and British airmen.
One ariner landed in Kagoshims
Bay l.hder shore battery fire from
two sides and came out with IA men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Mrs. EIma WiIIett Dies
AT Home in ARLINGTON

Mrs. Elma Rosetta Willett, So
died yesterday at her residence, 2l36
Lee highway, Arlington, after a
months illness. Born in Connecti-
cut, she lived in Washington for 80
years.
She was a member of the Com
munity Methodist Church of Airing
ton.
Mrs. Willett is survived by her
husband, Samuel j. T. Willett, re-
tired Navy Yard electrician, and
three sons, Henry Stevens Willett
Robert william Willett and 1t
Arthur Moulden Willett, who is on
furlough here after service in China
with the Army Air Forces. Two sis
tiers, Mrs. Carrie A. Watts of Wash
ington and Mrs. Nellie Frances
Walsh, Coral Gables, Fla, also sur
vive.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Saturday at the Community
Methodist Church, followed by
burial in Columbia Gardens Gene
tery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, July 12.-While nearly
1000 soldiers roared with glee yes
terday because they were back in
their native land, small, dropping
figure in khaki walked from the
dock in tearS-an immigration in
Spector beside him-because they
said he was an Italian boy who had
been struggled aboard the transport.
Natalie (Kisic) Piavallo, 8, blue
eyed and blond, an orphan, still
wore the trim little uniform with
its 9th Division insignia that. his
comrades of Company L, 12lst In
fantry, had provided after they re-
leased him from a camp at Schwer-
in, Germany.
They said he had been imprisoned
there after killing a Nazi officer who
had abused him. And because of his
small size, they added, it had been
easy to bring him aboard the Navy
transport Gen. Bliss in a bar
racks bag.
Separated from his erstwhile
companions, starting for redeploy-
ment furloughs home, Natalie sat
through the long hours in immigra-
ton Offices while officials pondered
what to do with him.
In his ears were the cheering
farewell words of his friends who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Comdr Bu|keIeyWins
Two More Awards

Comdr. John D. Buckley, SO, of
Long Island City. N. Y, Congress
sional Medal of Honor winner, to-
day was awarded the Legion of
Merit and a Gold Star in lieu of
a second Silver Star Medal.
The Navy said Comdr. Buckley,
who became famous in the early
days of the war and who transport
ed Gen. Macarthur from Corregidor,
received the Legion of Merit for
outstanding services in command of
motor torpedo boat squadrons
which participated in operations
in the Bay of Seine, France, during
the invasion of Normandy.
The Gold Star in lieu of second
Silver Star Medal went to him for
conspicuous gallantry in action as
commander of the Endicott during
the amphibious invasion of South
ern France last August.
Comdr. Buckley now is on duty
at the Bethlehem Steel Corp, Staten
Island, N. Y, in connection with the
fitting out of the destroyer Stribling.
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'3Drowned, 7 Missing
In Parafroopers' Test
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMP GORDON JOHNSTON
Fla, July l2-Tropical-like Dog Is
land, favorite testing ground for
Army paratroopers from Fort Ben
ming, Ga, had its first tragedy yes
terday, with three young paratroop-
ers drowned and seven missing in
the Gulf of Mexico after a simulated
combat jump.
More than 1000 paratroopers pre-
viously had made the leap over the
sandy, 5-mile-long gulf island, 4
miles off Carrabelle, Fla. as a part
of their preparatory training.
The paratroopers, students in adj
vanced specialist training, were
part of a group of lie who flew from
Benning yesterday to jump. All of
the men were equipped with the
quick release type parachute used
by paratroopers in combat, and wore
Mae West" life belts.
Eight CAT troop carrier planes
were flying at 300 feet and the men
jumped as they circled the island.
said several men landed
in the water neighboring the island,
Crash boats rescued several who
had missed the field. A naval blimp
from Pensacola, Army planes from
nearby fields and additional craft
from Camp Gordon Johnston's feet
Joined in the search for the missing
soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Russia Gives Approval
To New Victory Autos

BY the Assoeiat Press.
The Soviet government has given
the go-ahead signal for mass pro-
duction of Victory passenger car
and other new model automobiles
and trucks in Russian automobile
plants, Tass said today in a broad
cast reported by the FEC.
The Victory" passenger model,
the news agency's dispatch said, is
a comfortable FIVE seater, stream
lined limousine" with a top speed
of rs miles an hour and a gasoline
consumption it reported would not
exceed one gallon to 20 miles.
Work on this vehicle and on two
new model trucks designated as the
GAZ-51 and the GAZ-63. was begun
at the Molotov Automobile Works in
Gorky Luskutov on Premier Stains
instructions long before victory, and
every effort was made to have future
peacetime models meet all demands
of modern automobile building SCI
ence," Tass said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Z Famed Marine Air Units
In u. 5. After Tokyo Action

oN lIe hSSOCldled ITtSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-TWO
famed Marine Corsair fighter squad
rons, the Wolfpack and the Eight
balls, landed here yesterday after
four and one-half months of COM
bat duty in and around Tokyo, dur
ing which they downed 313 japanese
planes and destroyed 10000 tons of
shipping.
Forty-three of the 81 Leatherneck
pilots have downed enemy planes
to their credit. AS a part of Vice
Admiral Marc A. MitScher'S carrier
task force, they became the first
Marine aviators to support their
fellow Marines in landing operations
at Two Jima and Okinawa.
Maj. Thomas E. Mobley, Opa
Locka, Fla, commands the Eight
balls, and Maj. Herman Hansen, jr..
Kansas City, Mo, who celebrated his
25th birthday by shooting down
three planes, commands the Wolf
pack.
One enlisted man said tales of
heroism were "a dime a dozen"
among the two squadrons. On Maj.
Hansen's birthday, he and II mem
bers of his squadron intercepted II
enemy planes at Amami, $50 miles
north of Okinawa, and got 20 of
them.
Last March 10, over Kure naval
base, Maj. Mobley and IA other
members of his squadron were
jumped by 40 Japanese planes. They
got nine for a loss of two of their
own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Fire Now Republic,
De Valera Declares
Without Explaining
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
DUBLIN, July 12-Premier Ea-
mon de Valera yesterday declared
Fire is a republic, but refused "
elaborate on his cryptic assertion.
Opposition Leader James Dillon,
a persistent critic of De Valera's
policies, asked the Prime Minister
at session Of the Dali whether the
country was a republic, adding, NO
body seems TO know"
ITS a republic" De Valera re-
piled.
This is republic" Dillon COM
mented, that's the greatest news
I've heard for a long time. Now
we know where we are and the
League of Nations at San Francisco
knows. Can anybody tell me when
did this happen?"
You'll hear about it later" De
Valera answered, closing the argu-
ment.
Was Regarded as Dominion.
The British government takes the
position that Fire is dominion. Fire
itself by an act of the Dali has au-
thorized the King of England to act
for it in the international field 80
long as Fire is associated with
Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand
and South Africa and so long as the
King is recognized by those nations
as a symbol of their cooperation
and continues to act on behalf of
each of those nations for the
purposes of appointment of diplo-
matte and consular representatives
and the conclusion of international
agreements.
Fires constitution of 1887 does not
include the term republic" al
though 1t provides all the machinery
for one. Neither does the constitu-
ton mention the King in connection
with internal affairs of state.
The Constitution declares Fires
national territory consists of the
whole island of Ireland, its islands
and territorial seas. The British
position is that Fire does not include
Northern Ireland, but only the
southern counties formerly known
as the Irish Free State.
Sensation In Dublin.
The De Valera statement created
a sensation in Dublin. The news
papers gave it prominent display,
but appeared to be unable to assess
its meaning.
The Irish Independent" under
a headline Mystery of the Repub-
lic.' commented IF De Valera
were noted for a sense of humor the
people naturally would take his
statement for joke " The thing
could be very amusing if it did not
make the Irish people look SO ridicu-
louS."
1t was generally expected that De
Valera would provide further ex-
PLANTATION at the Parliament meet
ing today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Seven Yonks Killed
Disposinq of Nuzi Arms

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 12.-Seven American
soldiers and 81 other persons who
were civilians or German prisoners
of war were killed collecting or de-
stroying enemy ammunition and in
stallations between May / and July
10, the United States 18th Army
announced today.
Two Americans and nine other
persons were injured All the cas-
ualties occurred in the 18th Army
occupation area. Already 57,l5l
tons of enemy ammunition have
been collected or destroyed. ex-
elusive of minefields and BOBBY
traps, which trained teams of Ger
mans are clearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Charter
Continued From First Page.)

ton has been in solving the relief
situation.
Centering his attack on the in
ternational bank, as distinguished
from the currency sterilization
fund, Senator Taft said it would
involve this Government in the
guarantee of private loans. This
Government, he said, has not guar
anteed private investments in the
United States, except in the case of
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton.
Senator Taft said that, while the
United States is only responsible up
to SPITE, 100000 of the $4,000, 000,-
900 total capital in the interna-
tional bank, all of the potential
loans could be sold in this country.
THE impression certainly will pre-
vail" he continued, that the United
States Government is largely back
of all those investments. Should
there be a general default by the
governments, such as occurred in
1882, our Government might be
morally obligated to make good the
whole amount"
Admitting that the United States
would have the right to veto any
loan to be fioated in this country in
dollars, he said the veto is not re-
served in Congress, so that we are,
in effect, being asked to authorize
an executive department to approve
the sale of guaranteed foreign secur-
tiles in the United States up to
s., 100, 0o0, 900"
Delay in Vote Studied.
Senate leaders are considering the
possibility of delaying consideration
of the Charter for few days next
week in the hope Of passing the
Breton Woods agreement first.
Floor managers weighed the adj
visibility of giving the right of way
to the closely related plan, provided
that issue can be disposed of in a
| few days.
The Breton Woods proposal has
passed the House, but that body is
delaying its summer recess to see II
the Senate makes any changes in
the bill.
| If the Breton Woods plan could
be disposed of first, House members
could go home next week for about
two months, since ratification of the
Charter is exclusively Senate func-
| ton
In the final group of witnesses
at the Charter hearings tomor-
row will be John Foster Dulles,
who was foreign affairs adviser to
Gov. Thomas r. Dewey in his cam
paign as Republican candidate for
President last year. Mr.. Dulles was
one of the advisers to the American
delegation at San Francisco.
/ Majority Leader Barley last night
raised the possibility that there may
be no votes cast against final ratifi-
cation, and the Democratic whip,
Senator Hill, of Alabama said he
has found no one ready TO vote
against it. The leaders are prepared
for preliminary fight to attach
some reservations, but they are con-
fident of defeating such attempts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
u. s. Court Convicts
|Du Pont and 7 Other
Firms in Cartel Case
BY the Associated Press.

by the AssoClhteu fTeSs.
NEW YORK. July 12-Federal
Judge Simon H. Rifkind has upheld
Government charges that E. I. du
Pont de Nemours a. Co.. Inc; Ma
tional Lead Co. and Titan Co, Inc,
formed "a combination and con-
spiracy in restraint of trade"
Ruling in an antitrust suit charg-
ing the firms with world monopoly
and restraint of trade in the tita-
MUM industry, Judge Rifkind yes
terday wrote:
Whether the form of association
they created be called cartel, an
international cartel, patent pool
or technical and commercial OPP
eration,' is of little consequence.
Paint Pigment Involved.
at is a combination and con-
spiracy in restraint of trade, and
the restraint is unreasonable.
Titanium supplies the most val
liable of all white pigments used in
paints, rubber, glass and other
products. The Titan Co. is wholly
owned subsidiary of National Lead.
Judge Rifkind did not specify
what action should be taken to dis
solve the combination" but said:
Plaintiff is entitled to decree
which will restore titanium to the
system of free competition: the
means of preventing such develop
ment must be destroyed. and the
power to prevent it must be shorn
from those who, by combination,
have acquired 1t"
Victory for Government.
william c. Dixon, special assist
ant to the Attorney General, said
the courts opinion was complete
and decisive victory for the Gov
eminent"
He said the Government would
ask the court to order the firms to
give "royalty-free licenses under all
their titanium patents to any who
may wish to manufacture or dis
tribute titanium compounds"
The Government said l. @. Far
benindustrie, German chemical con-
Germ, was a member of the COM
bination, but did not name 1t as a
defendant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
$3.50, in Unpaid
Taxes Pours In Due
To House Inquiry

From Yesterdays Last Edition.
BY the Associated Press.
Congressional and grand jury
Investigations into Pennsyl-
yania's Middle District Court at
Scranton have been a bonanza
for the United States Treasury.
Chairman Kefauver, Demo-
crat, of Tennessee of a House
Judiciary Subcommittee inyes-
tigating the judges of the court
said the inquiry has brought
$4,000 of previously unpaid
income taxes flooding in from
all sorts of people.
'Everybody's paying up in
Scranton" he reported. "One
fellow suddenly remembered he
owed 100000"
Testimony of off-the-record
splits of court-connected fees
have high lighted the subcom-
mittee's hearings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12

said there ought not to be prob
lem-that more than one of their
number stood ready to give him
legal adoption.
immigration officials quoted the
boy as saying that he went from
Italy to Yugoslavia with Italian
soldiers, then to Czechoslovakia.
From there the Germans sent him
to prison camp.
Doesn't Remember Mother.
He doesn't remember his mother
at all, and his father left the Ital-
ian Army to join Russian forces and
was killed fighting the Germans, the
Federal men added.
immigration men said the Lao
had no conception of time. First
he told them he had been to school
years, then 7, and finally it SIM
mered down to 2 years schooling
they said.
John w. Kinnevan, chairman OF
the Board of Special Inquiry, re-
marked:
He wasn't a bit afraid, and by
the way he answered the questions
I'd say he was bright for his age
. 4OficialS said the boy would be
taken care of in a private home
pending decision on the case by the
Washington Board of Immigration
Appeals
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
New Group Of Men
From District Area
Discharged al Meade

The following Washington area
men reported honorably discharged
from the Army at Fort George g.
Meade, Md:
Corpl william C. Brandford, 1906
Ninth street NV; Pvt. John j.
Trumpower, Mount Rainier, Md;
Sergt. Adam e. Lauer, Hyattsville.
Md; Pvt. Elton w. Johnson, 1918
C street NE; Pvt. Paul j. Kaecher,
Arlington, Va; Corpl. Robert S.
Henery, 50 Adams street NV:
T/Sergt. Hyman Pont, 1924 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV; S/Sergt. Louis j.
Legutko, IA Helm street S.W.; Pfc.
Carlyle H. Breeder, Alexandria, Va;
Sergt. Morris M. Kellman, Alexan-
dria, Va: Pfc. Richard M. Siegel,
1918 P street NV; TiSergt. Joseph
w. Krajicek, 943 Fifteenth street
Sc; Pvt. Frederick E. Murphy,
2805 Naylor road Sc; 1st/Sergt.
Garland r. Brown, 815 Twenty
sixth street NV; Corpl. Jesse F.
Fleming, 1912 K street NE; Pfc.
Russell H. Jordan, Riverdale, Md;
Pfc. Dalmas P. Mallon, Winchester,
Va; S/Sergt John j. Virgins, 10
Quincy place, and Pfc. Walter K.
Wiseman, Hyattsville, Md.
S/Sergt. William T. Duvall, route
l, Gaithersburg, Md; Pfc. Walter K.
Armbrister, 666 North Glebe road.
Arlington; M/Sergt. Howard A.
Thompson. 1916 Wilson boulevard.
Arlington; Pvt. James I. Tatum, 500
Cullinane court S.W.; Corpl.
Thomas E. Ferguson, route l, Alex
andria; Pvt. Norman Harris, 2471
Sherman avenue NV; Pvt Gordon
T. Weeks, box 1916, Alexandria; TIA
James T. Mauck. 479 H street SW.:
Pfc Garcie K. White, 1921 Eleventh
place Sc; MfSergt. Joseph J.
Tanney, 1906 Davis place NV.
Corpl. James L. Dorr, 1125 K
street NE; S/Sergt. Tully r. Cor
nick, jr., 1902 Monroe street NV;
T/Sergt. George E. Reese, 1880 Wis
consin avenue NV: Corpl. Angus
tine M. Di Giovanni, 4501 South
Capitol street; T/3 Robert T. Cuff,
Ashton, Md; Sergt. John A. Levick.
ITO Todd place, NE; T/Sergt. Carl
E. Vogel, 1882 Burns place Sc;
Sergt Donald S. Ball. 3945 Garri-
son street NV; Pvt. Arthur j. Oak
ley, 5316 Edmunds place NV; Pfc.
Leroy A. Morley, Route 3, Vienna,
Va, and Pvt. George o. Purcell,
1923 Twenty eighth street Sc.
In addition It's George F. Parker.
SIS Sixth street NE, is reported
honorably discharged from the
Army at Fort Dix, N. j.