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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16

FOOD CENTER-One of the in
dustries John Farrell, chamber Of
commerce secretary, is going after
for Wilmington when he gets ac-
climated is the food-packing bust
ness.
This could take the form of pack
ing frosted foods here, or it might
be a large canning and pack ng
plant.
Farrell is greatly interested in
the fact that in southeastern North
Carolina, of which Wilmington is
the log; zeal trading center, there
are any numbes. of truck crops.
Factly, something in the way OF
vegetables is growing hereabouts
Just about each month in the year,
particularly at Castle Hayne.
The secretary thinks there is
enough variety Of vegetables and
the like to keep a packing and
canning plant here busy the year
around.
STRAWBERRY JAM = Too,
there are the large strawberry
growing areas in Columbus, Samp-
son, and Duplin counties. during
the war, of course. most OF the
berries went on fresh to the large
markets in the North and were
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
Another Hotel Tragedy
GHTDIEINDALLAS
SKYSCRAPER BLAST

DALLAS. Tex, June 21.-U.H-
Americas third major hotel TRACE
~ in a month killed eight persons
md injured at least IS Friday
when exploding ammonia turned
tno basement of the 700-room Bak-
~. hotel in downtown Dallas into a
death trap.
There was no fire.
Hold Down Toll
Firemen wearing gas masks held
down the death toll by plunging
into the deadly, choking ammonia
fumes TO haul out blinded employees
+ranped in the rubble..
The Dallas hotel blast was
blamed on a faulty new air con-
dnioning unit. 1t ranked third in
tbe tragic series, with the death
Toll being exceeded by the 81 burn
cd to death in the La Sale hotel
fire in Chicago and the toll of 10
in the Garfield hotel fire at Dubu-
que, Ia.
No Damage Estimate
Officials of the Baker, n of
.hp swankiest hotels in the South
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
EXAMINER DENIES
COAST Line PLAN
Recommendation Would
Give FEC Control To
Paper Company

WASHINGTON, June 21-WR-A
recommendation that control OF
the Florida East Coast railroad
be turned over to the st. Joe Paper
company, owned by the Alfred 1.
du Pont estate, was made Friday
by an Interstate Commerce COM
mission examiner, who cited "suc-
cessful' investments by du Pont
interests in the past.
It was suggested also by Elk
aminer Ralph H. Jewell that a
reorganization plan, proposed by
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad
under which the two carriers
would be merged, not be approved.
The FEC now is undergoing bank
ruptcy proceedings and the ACL
wanted to buy so per cent of the
common stock.
Owned by Paper Company
Fifty-five per cent of the Flor.
ida East Coasts first and refund
ing mortgage bonds are owned by
the st. Joe Paper company.
See ACL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22

west, said it was totally i'm
possible" to estimate damage.
F1remen still were combing the
Wreckage hours after the explos-
ION, hunting additional bodies.
The deaths, most of the injuries
and all of the damage were con-
fined to the basement area. How
ever, some were injured when a
plate glass window was shattered
in the ground floor coffee shop.
Guests Unhurt
The hotel management said no
guests were killed or even serious
ly injured. A few suffered slightly
from the ammonia fumes.
All guests were evacuated as the
deadly fumes seeped upward
through the History structure.
Definitely identified victims were
W. E. Cotton, chief purchasing
agent for the hotel; Trinidad
Lopez, Spanish-American worker,
and the Rev. j. P. Parker, Negro
pastor who was in the basement
See HOTEL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
AlongThe Cape Fear

early Wilmingtonia and Cape
F%eariana.
TIRED THESPIAN - The
black mark of condemnation could
not be avoided.
The plaster crumbles from
those STORED walls. Those high
flung balconies tremble on thin,
tapered pillars which have stood
SO staunchly since 1859.
ITALIAN Hall is an old, tired
Thespian who must be put away
to retirement lest, sooner or later
(and perhaps sooner)), he co..
lapse on the stage and be carried
like a dead Hamlet into the wings.
INEVITABLE REMEDY - The
men who placed the black mark
knew what they were doing.
They are men who know init
mately the archite ctural science of
stress and strain. They are men
who believe reverently in the law
of gravity. They put their fingers
on Thalian Halls pulse and dag
nosed a condition reminiscent of
the wonderful one-horse shay.
The diagnosis was unerring the
remedy inevitable.
Thalian Hall, theater of a
thousand remembrance: Hail,
farewell, exit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
SECRETARY PLAYS
HOST TO SOVIETS
Ministers Hope For New
Accord In Friendly
Atmosphere

PARIS, June Enthusiastically
Of State James F. Byrnes was
host to Russian Foreign Minister
~Fiacheslav Molotov Friday night
at a dinner conference which may
prove a turning point in big
Four discussions of Axis satel-
lite peace treaties.
The Big Four met Informally
tc: z IA hours at the office of
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Beym in the luxembourg palace.
IAey tackled the problem of Tri-
este and the future Italian-Yugo-
s-av frontier, the most delicate
and potentially dangerous on their
program, and found themselves
as deadlocked as ever.
Atmosphere Cordial
However, they confined their
discussion to generalities and the
atmosphere was cordial.
At the end, Byrnes State De-
partement Counsellor Benjamin V.
Cohen, State Department Russian
Expert Charles Bohlen, Molotov,
Bee SECRETARY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
OF E. PREPARING
SUNSHINE STAMP
TO ADVERTISE CITY

A rubber stamp, proclaiming
Wilmington "Number One Sun
shine City of the Atlantic
Coast" is being prepared by
the Wilmington Chamber OF
Commerce to stamp all its out
going mail, John H. Farrell,
secretary, announced yester-
day.
The rubber stamp advertise
ment is the upshot Of a story
printed in The Star last Satur-
day in which Paul Hess. chief
of the local U. S. Weather Blu
reau, revealed that Whining
ton, enjoying a 60 to 10 per
cent four-season average of its
total possible sunshine, is top
basking ground east Of the
Mississippi river.
1.-THE stamp should be invalr+
able in attracting more tour
lists to Wilmington" Farrell
said. II hope the city and
county governments and all
local civic and commercial or
CARNATIONS will adopt a similar
stamp for use on all their out
going mail. 1t will really put
Wilmington on the APP"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
COLLEGE CENTERS
PLANNED IN CITY
Tentative Set-Ups For Vets
Schools Announced
In Raleigh

Wilmington is listed among North
Carolina cities figuring in tentative
plans for the opening of 80 college
centers to meet the problem Of
providing college educations to
thousan% of veterans, the Asso-
ciated Press reported yesterday
from Raleigh.
A special committee of college
heads and representatives of the
State Department of Public In
struction gave colleges of the State
the go ahead signal for the
establishment of the centers so
that facilities will be available this
fall for veterans who are eligible
for college educations under the
CT Bill of Rights.
Night Centers
A total of IA colleges informed
the committee that they would OPP
crate centers on their carnpuses
during afternoons and nights, and
the colleges indicated that they
would cooperate in the opening OF
20 other centers in cities all over
the State-if they r needed.
At registrations to be held July
% and %, both veterans and non
veterans who would like to attend
the college centers will be asked
to register with city or county
school superintendent. Results
of the registration will be reported
to the committee when it meets IN
Raleigh again on July %,
Freshman Subjects
The committee decided that the
centers would be devoted exclu-
sively to college freshman sub
iects-English, Mathematics, So
ciaI Science, Natural Science, and
Foreign Languages.
Colleges which indicated that
they would operate on-campus cen
tiers during afternoons and nights
we're: Catawba college, Salisbury,
Gardner-Webb college, Shelby; At
lantic Christian college, Wilson;
Guilford college; Presbyterian
See COLLEGE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
BITTER TAR HEEL
CAMPAIGN CLOSES
Fifth And Sixth Races To
Be Decided AT Polls
Today

RALEIGH. June 21.-R-Bitter
campaigns for Democratic Con-
~gressional nominations in North
Cardinals Fifth and Sixth districts
ended Friday, and the issues will
be settled by voters Saturday in
a run-off primary.
In the Fifth district, the voters
will choose between Rep. John H.
Folger of Mt. Airy and Thurmond
Chatham, Winston-Salem indus
trialist, and in the Sixth district
the choice will lie between Rep.
Carl T. Durham of Chapel Hill and
E. Earle Rives of Greensboro.
Scant Margin =.
In the first primary held on May
25. Chatham led Folger by a mar
gin of SO votes out of more than
40. 900.
Durham bad a plurality of a.
100 votes over Rives in the first
primary, but the third man in that
race. D. E. Scarborough of
Greensboro, polled approximately
5000 votes. Scarborough has
thrown his support to Rives and
urged his supporters to do like
wise.
The campaign in the Fifth dis
trict has been an extremely bit
ter affair with charges and coun-
ter-charges flying thick and fast
throughout the campaign.
See CAMPAIGN on Page Two
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office has already been Sc
cured, but no building space
for it has been found al yet.
Logical Place
The Customshouse is the logical
place for VA. However, with
VA requiring at least 5000
square feet of floor space. the
Customshouse is not available.
II just don't have any room
to put Them" Harold Porter,
building superintendent, said
yesterday.
Farrell said the fourth-floor-
movement has "strong back
ers' not only among local gov
eminent officials but among
city officials and civic organ
izations as we'll.
But we need the backing of
all local organizations. civic
and commercial, to lend sup
port to the movement and get
the proposal accomplished"
he added.
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greeted with overwhelmingly I'M
animous enthusiasm by officials of
the city, county, and commercial
groups.
900 Percent Support"
To a man, the following local
authorities pledged 100 per cent
support to the 35-foot channel pro-
posal: Acting City Manager j. r.
Benson; Chief County Commission
er Addison Hewlett; j.. T. HERS,
executive general agent of the Will
mington Port commission; R. B.
Page, chairman of the State Ports
authority; Maj. Henry E. Boyd,
traffic manager of the Wilmington
Port Traffic association; John H.
Farrell, secretary of the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce and city
industrial agent; and Jesse Sellers,
president of the Wilmington Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
According to HERS, one Of the
main boosters in the 35-foot channel
movement, Eat least IL oil COM
panies" and Officials Ct Fayette-
ville'' will also 60 all out in support
of the proposal.
Not "WishfuI Thinking
AL Thu heavy support of the
movement will not consist of wish
c.. ruHANrNr Dnu r,u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
WPC Seeking
Regular Line
For Cargoes
Representative Clark Wires
Belief Shortages
To End
NEXT WEEK
HERS Begins Move To Sc
cure Routes From Cuba,
Porto Rico

The Wilmington Port COM
mission will endeavor to Sc
cure a regularly scheduled
sugar ship route through
Wilmington from Cuba and
Porto Rico early next week,
it was disclosed yesterday by
j. T. HERS, executive general
agent of the port group.
With a special ship scheduled to
arrive here early next week with a
full cargo of badly-needed sugar
from Porto Rico, HERS said he
would go into action Immediately
upon the ships arrival to obtain
regular sugar shipments here with
Wilmington as a disbursing point
for surrounding areas and, perhaps
for the entire state.
Clark Telegram
The disclosure of next week.
special shipment was made yester-
day by Congressman j. Bayard
Clark in kilograms to the Whining
ton Port commission, the Chamber
of Commerce, and several local
sugar-consuming companies.
The message reads: 'Have sue
ceeded in having cargo Of sugar
from Porto Rico destined for New
York diverted to Baltimore where
it should arrive Monday or Tues
day and orders have been issued
See SUGAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
So To Bed

When the USO had its big
farewell party last Sunday a
young Marine slipped through
the door and walked furtively,
with his face turned away from
the crowd, to one of the hos
tesses.
His face still averted, he
carried on a whispered con-
versation with the lady. She
took him aside, opened a desk
drawer, and handed him some
thing from it.
He disappeared at once into
the mems lounge.
Fifteen minutes lates he
e m g d from the mems
lounge, lbs face bright and
smiling, and entered heartily
into the spirit Of the party.
Another Marine, having OBJ
served the whole affair, ap-
preached the hostess and ask
ed: "What did you give that
boy out of that drawer?"
"A tube Of shaving cream
and a razor" she answered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
HOBBS MEASURE
PASSES SENATE
Bill Would Make Labor
Unions Subject To Anti
Racketeering

WASHINGTON, June 21.-(P-
The Hobbs bill making unions SUBJ
ject to the Anti-R acketeering Act
sailed through the Senate Friday
and onto President Humans desk
despite bitter opposition from labor
leaders.
On motion of Senator Hatch Cd
NM, close friend of t., Presi-
dents, the senate passed the meas
ure suddenly on a voice vote with
not a nay heard. The house
had passed it by a similar vote
Dec. u.
The bill has been offered an
nually by Representative Hobbs
D.-Ala.), since 1912 but it never
before cleared Congress. However,
its main provision was embodied
in the Case Labor Disputes bill
which Mr.. Truman vetoed as a
whole.
"In Full Accord"
In his veto message June IL the
President wrote that he is lin full
accord with the detectives" of the
anti-rackteering section. He OBJ
Jected, however, that as it was
embodied in the Case Bill it omit
ted from the original act the pro-
vision that it was not 10 be con-
strued as to impair, diminish
or in any manner affect the rights
of bona fide labor organizations in
lawfully carrying out the legiti-
mate objects thereof"
This specific language which the
President quoted does not appear
in the Hobbs bill as passed. But
the measure does stipulate that
nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to repeal, modify or af-
feet" the Wagner Labor Relations
Act, the Railway Labor Act or the
Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction
Act.
Outlaws EXtOrtion
The bill is an amendment of the
1884 act which outlaws robbery or
extortion interfering with inter
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
FREIGHT RATES
BOOSTED BY ice
Commission Grants Temp.
orary Increase OF Six
Per Cent

WASHINGTON, June 21.-P)-
The Interstate Commerce COM
mission Friday authorized emer
gency freight rate increases esti-
mated to yield rail and water car
riers about $500, 600, 00U more in
gross revenue on an annual basis.
AS a temporary measure the
commission granted a general six
percent increase with exceptions
for certain basic commodities.
Eastern railroads received an ad.
diticnal five percent hike to equa-
lie their earnings with other
carriers.
The rates can become effe tive
July l on three days notice. They
are much the same as the emer-
gency freight rate increases au-
thorized on March 2, 1912 and sus-
pended by the commission on July
/, 1914. There are certain modi-
fications, however.
Full Hearing l1anned
The increases will remain in eff
feet until the commission can hold
a full hearing and make a decision
on the carriers request for a
general Is percent boost with ex-
ceptions for certain basic commo-
dities.
The commission turned down
the railroads request to make per-
manent now the 10 percent pas
senger fare increase authorized in
See FREIGHT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
KIDNAPPING PLOT
CHARGED TO JEWS
Searches Continue For
British Officers In
Palestine

JERUSALEM, June 21.-P)-A
plot to kidnap the British COM
mander in chief in Palestine was
charged against a Jewish under
ground group by British military
authorities Friday as they con
Quoted a methodical search for il
legal arms in the tension-gripped
Holy Land.
No fresh outbursts of violence
were reported Thursday night or
Friday, but the vigilance of troops
and police remained undiminished.
Planned Abduction
British army headquarters said
it had uncovered evidence that
Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish under
ground organization, had planned
to kidnap Lieut.. Gen. Sir Evelyn
Barker, the British top command
err in the Holy Land, in addition
to the six officers previously
seized.
The search in the Jewisch Buch-
arim quarter Of northwest Jeru-
salem for clues to the whereabouts
of the abductors of Maj. H. P.
Chadwick was abandoned. He
escaped his kidnapers Thursday,
but the fate of five officers seized
in the coastal city of Tel Aviv
remained undisclosed.
Officer Arrested
Meanwhile an official announce
ment confirmed the arrest Of a
British officer in the fatal shoot
ing of Amram Rosenberg, a 35-
See PLOT on Page 1--WE
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22

ton for many years, was sum-
moned for iceberg and convoy
patrol in North Atlantic waters a
few years before Pearl Harbor.
Since then, the ship has con-
tinued in the North Atlantic serv-
ice, with frequent reports that il
would eventually return to this
city to pick up its long-interrupted
port duties.
No Set Time
Admiral Farley's statement con,
firms these reports, although he
could not say the exact time the
Modoc will return.
The admiral said the delay is
caused by an overall lack of funds
and personnel in the Coast Guard.
Now that the war is over the Coast
Guard is being reorganized anc
bills of appropriation are being
planned for congressional apprais-
al.
Trough Going"
Meanwhile, Admiral Farley said,
the Coast Guard is having rough
going'' in this postwar adjust.
ment.
The lack of funds and personnel,
he said, precludes Wrightsville
Beach's chances of getting a
Coast Guard station this year ano
maybe not for several years"
The admiral will deliver the
principal address at the 156th an
niversary of the founding of the
Coast Guard at Manteo or August
4. Speaking from the stage of the
Roanoke Island Historical associa-
tons Lost Colony amphitheater,
the admiral will have an audience
of several hundred Coast Guards
men who man the stations along
the states ocean shoreline.
Former WAmingtonian
A former resident of Whining
ton, Admiral Farley said he re-
GREETED that he will be unable to
visit Wilmington either before or
after his Manteo address.
See MODOC on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22

A two-month-old baby boy
afflicted with a dilated ESQ
phagus, was flown by a giant
National Airlines plane from
Bluethenthal airport to the
ChevaIier Jackson Bronchos-
copic clinic in Philadelphia
Pa, yesterday in an EFFORT 10
save his life.
Beaufort Baby
Son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. M.
Daniels, Beaufort, the infant
was brought to DR.. j. B. Sid
bury's baby hospital on
Wrightsville sound about a
week ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22

According to one local auth
GRITTY, the Federal Public
Buildings administration now
has about $85, 900, 900 on hand
to finance just such expansion
projects.
Should Act Now
sit is up to the city as a
whole to act now in securing
funds from that source to make
the fourth floor proposal pos
sible," he said.
To lend weight to the move
ment. Farrell said he will start
at once to make a survey of all
governmental agencies now in
the city Cncluding those now
stationed in the Customshouse)
and those slated to be set up in
the city later.
Among the prospects are
branch offices of the Civilian
Production administration and
the Veterans administration.
The Veterans administration
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
KASHMIR AGREES
TO FREE PANDIT
Step Taken AS Precaution
Against Strikes And
Riots

NEW DELHI, India, June 21-
U.P)-Kashmir state authorities
have agreed to free Pandit Java
harlal Nehru and have put an air
plane at his disposal, advices said
Friday night as authorities in
India's three greatest cities took
urgent precautions against strikes
and demonstrations in Nehru's be-
half.
General strikes broke out in
Calcutta and Bombay, the. coun-
try's two leading cities, in protest
against Nehru's arrest and in Mad
ras, the No. 3 city, police watched
anxiously for new outbreaks after
a strike and riots Thursday.
Defies State Ban
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, presi-
dent of the Nationalist Congress
party established telephone con-
tact with Nehru, who is to be his
successor. He found that Nehru
was interned at Chinari, 30 miles
See PANDIT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
LITTLE PIGS STAY HOME
Smaller Pork Supply
Forecast For Winter

WASHINGTON, June 21.-B
An official forecast of a be-
low-average fall pig crop Fri
day foreshadowed a smaller sup
ply of pork for American con-
sumers during the later winter,
spring and summer of 1947 than
food officials have been pre-
dieting.
2,40O, 900 Short
Tie Agriculture department
reported that farmers hog
breeding intentions as of June
l indicated a fall pig crop of
20, 100, 900 head, or 2,400, 900
short of a goal sent by Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Anderson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina: Partly
cloudy, not so hot, with scattered thun-
dershowers Saturday.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a 10; 7:3oa 81; 1:3Op; IS; 7:30p 81.
Maximum 80; Minimum IS; Mean 81;
Normal 78.
Humidity
1:30a 80; 7:30a 81; 1:30p Sc; 1902 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p.m.'
0.34 inch.
Total since the first of the month
3.54 inches.
Tides for Today
From the It'd Tables published oy
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey:
High Low
Wilmington 3:12a 10:31a
Masonboro Inlet ------ 12:46a 1:i1a
lisp 7:40p
Sunrise soda; Sunset 7:27p; Moonr1se
IL :25a; Moonset IL lisp. -.
River Stage at Fayetteville. N. C'' at
8 am, Friday fet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Two
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Anderson has said meat sup
plies per person during the
next II months may be 10
pounds less than the past r.
month average of about AS
pounds. If the pig crop fore
cast is borne out, the per capita
supply might well drop to an
annual rate of less than 100
pounds a year from now.
Crop Down Sharply
The fall crop starts moving
to market in the following
spring and provides the pork
supply until about September.
See PORK on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MERCY PLANE TRIP
Baby F2own To Hospital
From. Bluethenthal Field

Suffering with the throat af-
Fiction, the child could not take
food normally. A special tube
apparatus was constructed to
feed him but DR.. Sudbury was
unable to effect a complete
cure.
Quick Trip Essential
CHANGING that the famous
Temple University hospital
clinic might be able to help the
infant, DR.. Sudbury suggested
the plane trip in order TO get
him there as quickly as pos
See BABY on Page Two