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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
City Fire Box
Contract Row
Goes ToCourt
CsmewelI Company, I'm.
successful Bi d d err, Sc
cures Restraining Order
FIGHT LOOMS
Action Keeps Municipality
From Proceeding With
Horni Contract

wilnington's battle of the fire
slarm boxes yesterday went to the
courts for settlement.
Granted by Judge John J. Bur-
new at the instigation of the Game
we'll company-unsuccessful bid
ders for the city's contract for Ill
alarm boxes an injunction was
served on the city at $50 o'clock
last night a few hours after Game
we'll attorneys filed with the Su-
nerior court here a lengthy COM
nlaint alleging that the city had
done it "irreparable damage" by
rejecting its bid to supply Will
mington with boxes of its manu-
facture. Both the order and COM
plant we're dated March 80.
Mayor Ronald Lane and City
Manager A. C. Nichols accepted
service on behalf of the city as
Deputy Sheriff M. B. Register i'm
rounded sample boxes of both the
Gamewell and Horni companies in
the office of J. R. Benson, city
clerk and purchasing agent.
The Injunction restraints the city
from proceeding with its contract
with the Horni company, successful
bidders, until at least April Il
when the presiding judge OF the
New Hanover county superior court
will be asked pass upon the Game
well company complaint.
Meanwhile, both sample boxes
the samples submitted by the op-
posing bidders-will remain I'M
pounded by the sheriff.
Awarded March Is
The City, on March 10, awarded
the contract for Ill alarm boxes
to the Horni company through its
local agent, the Wilmington Electrl.
cal Supply company, on a bid OF
S1O,822.50. The GameweH COM
pany. the only other bidder, sub
mitted a figure Of $13,597.5O. Last
Wednesday, by the same four-to-
three margin it awarded the con
tract originally, the council al
firmed its action on the boxes and
instructed tn e city purchasing
agent and city manager to con-
clude contract agreements.
In its complaint, filed by At
torneys Royce S. McClelland and
D. Vaughan Allen, the GameWell
company alleged that the Hornl
box failed to meet the city's specl-
fication on IA specific points. II
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
SERVICES REVEAL
MIGHTY ROCKETS
Tiny Tim Gives Fighter
Plane Hitting Impact Of
Heavy Cruiser

WASHINGTON, March 30.-U.9
The armed services tonight lifted
the curtain of wartime secrecy
from their newest rocket weapons,
including ''Tiny Tina," king-sized
10-foot rocket that gives a fighter
plane the hitting impact of heavy
cruiser.
They revealed these other rocket
weapons, all born in the urgency
of war and some SO new they had
not seen action when Japan sur
rendered:
1. A landing craft with the punch
of five destroyers, able to fire 300
to 500 five-inch rockets a minute
with deadly accuracy and entirely
with automatic control and reload
ing.
2. A window" rocket fired from
ships to confuse enemy radar.
8. An air-borne anti-submarine
rocket fired backward from a
speeding plane in such a way as
to make bombs drop straight
down on enemy U-boats.
There are also:
A super-bazooka, newest version
of the foot soldiers famed tank
buster. 1t carries double the ex-
plosive payload of its predecessor
and has an effective range of 700
yards instead of 200 to 300. It was
not developed in time to use dur
ing the war.
A 60-pound single-shot rocket
launcher for jungle fighting, and
an unused 7.2-inch chemical peck
ct that carried a payload of 70
pounds Of gas or other chemical
agent. The, latter was held in re-
serve if the enemy had used gas.
The harpoon rocket that carried
wire cable across a river and an
chored it there to provide the base
for an emergency ferry or bridge.
The new rocket weapons were
disclosed in report by the joint
board on scientific information pol,
icy for the War and Navy depart
ments and the Office of Scientific
Research and Development.
The United States was caught
short on rocket weapons in World
War II. When, he japanese struck
Pearl Harbor, neither of the armed
services had a single rocket in
service use, although rockets had
been used in warfare by the
Chinese as early as the year 1882
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
GERMAN FANATICS, AMERICAN
AND BRITISH TROOPS BATTLE
AS ALLIES SMASH NAX RING
WeelerSuggests &c rman POW's
Be Kept In U.s.. To Raise Food

food study committee made the
suggestion in a report on a food
research bill introduced this
week by Rep. Clifford r. Hope,
(R-Kan.,) as the government
intensified its campaign to help
hungry peoples overseas.
The committee said the bill
would, for the first time, estab-
lish a national policy Of deliber-
ately focusing scientific skill
and research on better ways OF
using American food products.
1t said the nation for three
quarters of century has been
applying scientific methods to
problems of food production
while neglecting the problems
of making best use of the food
produced.
eve know more about scienti-
fic feeding of beef cattle than
we do about feeding human be-
ings," the committee said.
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ing, but predicteds that the
Agriculture department may
have a statement soen.
Their sources reported, how
ever, that Mexico had about
agreed to permit $4,000 Mex
lean Nationals to work as farm
laborers in the United States,
principally in the Western
states. ~s
About 1000 Mexicans already
are in the United States to
work on farms-mOstly in
California-so the reported
agreement would permit $4,000
others to enter the United
States temporarily.
Meanwhile, Republican con-
gressmen said the nation
should turn its scientific tai
ents toward finding more and
better ways of using all the
food American farms can pro-
duce.
The Republican congressional
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Bvrnes And Truman Will Confer
On Next US. Move In Iran Row
FLIES TO CAPITAL
Lranian Representative TO
UNO Meeting Receives
Backing OF Premier
By CHARLES M. MCCAIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, March 3o-W.D-
Secretary of State James F.
|Byrnes flew to Washington today to
consult with President Truman on
the next United Nations move in
the Iranian crisis, including the
possibility that Russia may rebuff
the Security Councils request for
statement on its position by II
a. M, Wednesday.
Byrnes left La Guardia airport
at 1918 p. M, accompanied by
his wife and Mahmoud Hassan
Pasha, chief delegate of Egypt,
planning to return here Tuesday
for conferences with fellow dele
gates before the Wednesday meet
ing.
Russian Chief Delegate Andre.
A. Gromyko was completely silent
His aides refused to say how OF
where he spent the weekend, or te
discuss the possibility that Russia
would refuse to comply with the
councils request for new state
ment.'
Soviet circles here left no doubt
that they regarded the Security
Councils inquiry to Moscow as an
unfriendly move with Byrnes ane
Sir Alexander Cadogan, CHIEF
British delegate, as the chief OF
tenders.
Hussein Ala, Iranian representa-
tive here, whose status has beer
questioned both by the Russians
and some of his own government
Continued on Page IL; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
THOUSAND SEIZED
IN VAST DRACNET
All Ringleaders OF Long,
Range Plot To Revive
Hitlerism Captured

FRANKFURT, G e r many,
Sunday, March 81 - up -.
Gun battles between Nazi
fanatics and American and
British troops broke out at
Scattered points in western
Germany early today as an
estimated 1000 Allied SOL
diers cracked down on a Nazl
attempt to regain power and
reestablish Nazism in Ger
many.
Early reports of a vast drag
net thrown over Germany and Aus.
tria said that firing occurred at
number of points as combat
troops, counter-espionage agents
and constabulary forces swooped
down on almost 1000 suspects.
Army officials said that in q
number of instances the suspects
attempted to resist forcibly as
agents broke open doors and shut
tiers in the swift series of raids
which the U. S. Army said broke
the back of a powerful under
ground movement to re-nazify Ger-
many.
None Escape
The suspects seized were sus.
pected of being ringleaders of the
plot, including 200 elite Nazis of
the inner circle. Counter-intelli-
gence officers said not one of the
inner circle, mostly former Hitler
jugend YOUTH leaders, escaped
the vast dragnet.
The reports indicated, however
that in most places the widesg reaaa
raids were devoid of violence de-
spite the fact. that the Germans
were believed to have received adj
vance knowledge of the raids which
eliminated ten months of investi-
cation.
An American intelligence chief
said agents were endangered at
the last moment by premature re-
lease of news of the impending
raids and by the sudden lifting
of the 1920 pm. curfew for Ger
mans in the American zone by
the military government.
News Leak
Advance news on the raids had
not been scheduled for transmits
sion outside Germany originally
until four hours before the raids
occurred, the intelligence chief
said, because of fear Of a leak
since Germans are employed in
both the American and British
communications systems.
He said the news was trans
mitted from the British zone, how
ever, some nine hours before the
raids occurred.
A combined British-American
statement unfolded the dramatic
story of .''operation nursery" a
10-months. intensive manhunt in the
two zones, climaxed by the arrnor-
supported raids in western Ger
many and Austria. There was evil
dence the plot also spread into
the Russian zone.
The well-financed attempt to re-
vive Nazism began even as the
thunder of guns died away on Ger
many's battlefields. But wrangling
between two factions of the move-
ment tipped counter-espionage
agents to its existence, after it's
cunning leaders had completely
taken in even some American mill.
tary government officials.
More Jailed
Arrests of the inner circle be.
gan as long as three months ago,
In the Saturday night-Sunday
morning raids 300 more were Jail
ed.
1.-The movements IGNORANCE
plan, designed to revive the Nazi
theology in Germany, was the most
dangerous threat to our security
encountered since the war;" Brig.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31

WASHINGTON, March 80 -
Sen. Burton X. Wheeler, d.
MONTY suggested tonight that
German war prisoners be kept
in the United States to help
raise food for Europe.
Wheeler said returning the
prisoners to Germany would
only complicate the already
acute food problem there. But
if the 10000 to $4,000 prisoners
still in the United States were
used efficiently as farm labor
ers they could make a real con-
tribution to solving the worlds
food problem, Wheeler said aft
er meeting of farm state
legislators.
He called dozen senators
and representatives to special
session to hear Col. Wilson
Buie of the Agriculture Depart
ment report on farm labor
prospects. Wheeler declined to
give details Of the closed meet
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
7hieues Strike At Hotel;
81, 600 In Jewelry Stolen

Thieves struck at the Hotel Will
mington again yesterday for the
sixth time in as many weeks rails
ing the reported total lost by guests
during that period to approximate
ly $4,000.
Yesterdays losses n u d e d
jewelry valued at $1,000 and
money totaling over $4o0.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. K. Carr, 40O9
Richie highway, Baltimore, re-
ported the loss of jewelry valued
at 1900 and a billfold containing
$3.50 in cash.
The couple in reporting the loss
said they had retired about mid
night and did not discover the loss
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Macy Seeking Adequate
Docking, Annoy In City

planned. would be trained at
Charleston with personnel from
South Carolina.
In addition to the personnel, the
captain said, it is proposed to have
either a 1SO-foot patrol craft or an
auxiliary mine layer stationed III
the local port to be used IN the
training program.
Information received locally
from informed Washington, D. "a
sources indicated earlier that :
modern destroyer might be USED
here for the training program.
The reserve training program Is
Continued on Page Three: Col. IL
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WASHINGTON, March 3o-P)-
Rosemary Johnson, 49, year old
,,,,rsevnaid charged with abductlng
four wear old Terry Taylor, has
e;,od crit in district court seeking
Gro mo damages from Chief Frank
: Pi .itt1eiohn, of the Charlotte, N. c.,
police.
Miss Johnson, also known as Lor-
~ FRANCES Brock, filed the suit
Under the latter name.
The The young woman was found at
Annapolis, Md, last month with
+tl little girl, daughter of DR.. and
MIS- Mr. Andrew 1sslPr of Charlotte,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
WILL START WORK

NEW ORLEANS, March 3O-(P
J. Higgins, president of
Higgins, Inc, announced today that
the huge Micheaud plant here,
which he has leased from the gov.
eminent for five years. would be
equipped at once to start work or
backlog of $40,000,0OO in con
tgsatS.
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FIGURE In Kidnap Case
Sues Queen City Chief

after she had obtained employment
with naval officers family.
Early this month Littlejohn was
unsuccessful in an effort to return
Miss Johnson to North Carolina
after bringing her here from Anna
polls.
In the suit filed through her at
torney, James j. Laughlin, she
charged that Littlej through
handling of her case, had wanted
to divert public attention to pre-
vent an investigation of certain
police activities in Charlotte.
Continued on Page Two Col. A.
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until they arose yesterday morn.
ing.
Included in the jewelry, de.
scriptions of which were with
held at the request of local police
authorities, were 8 valuable gold
watch and chain; cuff links, tie
pins, tuxedo sets and outer articles.
The billfold contained eight $50
bills; two 20-bills and several bills
of smaller denomination.
In addition to the Carr robbery.
two guests reported billfolds were
taken during the night from their
rooms.
Continued on Page Five; Col. ID
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
WITHDRAW DEMAND

VIENNA. March 80 - P - A
source close to the Austrian gov
eminent said tonight Russian army
leaders had withdrawn their de-
mand for $4,000 acres of Austrian
farmland, but had made a fresh
claim for about 10000 acres.
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North Carolina - Fair and little change
Ia temperature Sunday and Sunday
Wight, Monday fair and warmer.
Additional Weather Data on Page Two.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16

POLITICALLY INSPIRED
BUT GOOD DOPE

Very interesting article was
written by one of the political
candidates in the coming election.
Since all political releases are paid
matter in newspapers, this can
not be released under the name
of the candidate, but the ideas
are good. Here are some: Key
Vests future fame will depend
to a great extent on its ability
to attract tourists the year round.
Attracting these tourists to the
Keys depends not only on an adj
vertising campaign but also upon
solving the problems of providing
interesting entertainment, health
full recreation, excellent food and
comfortable living conditions aft
er they arrive. Key West has
fishing unexcelled by any other
place in the country. But not
all people go fishing or boating.
You can't dump a tourist out on
Duval Street and say: Here it
is, take it or leave it." The art
icle goes on to say that what Key
West should plan for principally
is its oceanfront park and bath
ing beach.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16
COlOred Clowns Team PLAYS
Key West COlored Ball Nine

Nationally known clowns, col
cred baseball team. will meet a
fasi stepping Key West Colored
Al star Team on Friday anc
saturday nights at Key West
stadium
h will be- Key Vests first
baseball game under the lights.
Some IL the lOcal cGlored play
- me quite vel known and
play snappy baseball. Taxi Nc
ins8ch viii receive he offering
NJ Rcd Dean. Mcintoch is perhaps
tile citys best colcic cd catcher.
aed Dsan mas tndfi all over 'hc
Cuuntfy playing BASEBALL and rs
aue uf TIE best C1!OtCd pitche' S
in the st On On b,Tch In case
Dean lalters wal be- Clarence
Alco
Guarding the first sack ard
stepping ths WIld throws will be
Brown Arthur MclntoCh. brother
"a Taxi. will take the throws -
secuna bass. Mogehy will be in
the hot corner az third for the
lno drives hot off the slugger
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16

bats. Skeets Gallagher, a very
fast and flashy shortstop will in
his old familiar position.
For the Key West All Stars
Home Run" Gonzalez will COW
er the wide open areas of center
field. Allen Smith will hold down
left field. Bill Butler will be in
the right garden. In reserve will
be A. Sands, Al and w. Curry.
Coaches are Magee and John
Sands. Red Dean is manager.
For the visiting stars Boyer,
who played with the Homestead
Greys in the Colored Profession
al League, Rags Tyson at first,
Pete the Tramp at second, Bass
at third, and Clarke of the Royal
Giants at short. Ralph Cole, Eli
Williams and Fred Wilson will be
out in the gardens for the long
ones. Stiff pitching is expected
from the two left handlers and
the two right handlers, all of
them over six feet tall and with
ten years of professional ball be-
hind them. No starting pitcher
has been named as yet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16
INDEPENDENT. YET
CONCERTED ACTION

Thus along the lines of liai-
son committee the advertising of
Key West, which can we'll start
either this summer or during next
winter, will be paid for by all
businessmen of Key West, which
will be better. At the same time
the type of advertising and the
location of the advertising can be
determined. These liaison COM
mitteeS from the various organi-
cations of the city appear to my
way of thinking to be the best eff
fort to get concerted, complete
action, for the present. App1r-
emily, the desire is to keep
number of business organizations
working for the city. These liai-
son committees can feed ideas in
to the central Chamber of Com
merce. Of course, all these ideas
are tentative and may conflict
with by laws of the various or
CARNATIONS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16
FITNESS OF THINGS

l have a strange philosophy in
life. Something inside me makes
me fight for things l want. How
ever, l do not believe that any
thing comes to a person until he
is fitted by the normal order of
things for it. l believe, too, that
the big decisions which receive
the appreciation of the majority
OF the persons in the community
are those which are unselfish.
When you strike the iron for civic
matters in a question which is
quite unselfiSh, something rings
true inside you. There is no
thought inside one that perhaps
this Is wrong. But if there is a
one-sided plan in ones mind. then
ones talk does not make sense.
To say things you do not mean
is always disconcerting to one
self. The obvious mask to cover
matters which are not right are
forced smiles or great illumination
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16
Danny Lastres To Start Again
AT Short For Tampa Smokers

Tho Tampa Smokers under
Finrr Gruneil, has officially an
neuneed their openinR lineup for
"Wednesday az Plant Field against
West Palm Beach. u will be like
lhla, and Il will be- broadcasted
20 ~ the fans In this area. Benny
Fernandez will bee al first. He
pisyed Wtih Portsmouth last year
aua in the Cuban Winter League.
George Bueci will be at second.
lse 10 = rookie Ray Rodriguez al
ne bet corner and he Is a pro-
iart ~ thk Tampa sand lots. At
shnFt Danny Lastres. a Key West
is8 who has q great future in
t'aseiall. good arm, legs and
sasad eyesight What else does a
gssod player need. Jack Weatley
aiil Start la the outfield. lie is a
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SPECULATION
Confined from Page One>

(Continded from Page One)
ing renovated and converted to
the proposed ferry operation has
been published in Havana news
papers.
The ships are to be converted
LSD'S which were Navy ships
during the past war. They load
cars through the stern. According
to present information one of
the ships which has been COM
pleted has not facilities for over
night operation as would be the
case if the ships operated out of
Miami.
Quite definite information is
available that Miami sources
are very much interested in hav-
ing the ferry operate out of
Miami.
The practicability of operating
an overnight ferry out of Miami
to Havana when a much shorter
trip is available here with the
speed of a good highway down
the Keys also available to the
motoring public is mentioned by
those who do not think the COM
pany will change its plans to
operate out of Key West.
General thought is that a re-
newal of the option is being con-
summated at present through
officials outside of Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16
Two Regla Baseball Players
Will Pitch for Conchs' Club

"a Baez. right handed pitcher
e the Regla Baseball team
9hich finished second IN the
Cuban Amateur League and
Arsenic Diaz, pitcher of the
Cuban Athletic Club have been
signed up TO play for the Key
West CoEehs
Baez Is a highlander and was
the mainstay Of the Reglas. he
Is five feet nine inches tall,
weighs 1875 pounds and is nick
named Pile" Diaz Is five feet
eight inches tall weighs lao
pounds and is called by his
friends "Meruso".
These new players are expect
Cd a. considerably strengthen
the KEY West Conch baseball
nine. representatives of the city.
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Jacksonville boy and has played
class B ball. Guy Bagli, Dom.
Maggie are the other two to
start in the gardens. Pete Shire
or Johnny Ippelitto will be the
catcher, and Nanny Lopez, C.
johnson, Chas. Covington and
Max Pressman are the four lead
ing pitchers so far. Two brothers,
Robert and Lamar Murphy, have
been added to the club and both
have good records. The six man
ayers in the circuit are Granell
of Tampa, Paul Waner of Miami,
Max Rosenfelt of Miami Beach,
Harry Hughes of West Palm
Beach and Oscar Rodriguez of
Habana. Herb Thomas is tenn
porarily in charge at West Palm
Beach.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-16
ALUMINIUM AND STAINLESS
STEEL MOULDINGS

We are now carrying a full line
of aluminium and stainless steel
mouldings for use as sink
rims; cabinet trimmings and
edging; trimming and mould
ings for show cases, bars, and
counters; stripping for linole I'm
on floors, drain boards, table
tops and cupboards; edging for
carpets, rugs and doorways;
stair noSingS; wall trims AMI
threshold plates. Come in and
look at our samples. Peppers
Plumbing Supplies, 512 Elem
ing. apr9-tf
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EVERYTHING KNOWN

A true adage is that everything
you say bad about another fellow
eventually comes to his ears in
Key West. Politically, you cannot
deceive if the votes of the people
are free and untrammeled. A man
can make speech and say many
things and then quickly the do
ings of his own life are rehashed
and what he. has actually done.
The picture, thus compared with
the speech, is sometimes ironical.
On the newspaper we hear many
rumors and every rumor has some
little spark of truth. We must
run down these rumors and dis
Sipate many of the more import
ant appearing ones. But every
rumor we run down we learn
some important fact at the other
end. By checking these rumofs
we hear all there is to know about
Key West. A man is what he is.
not what he says he is.