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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
WELL

Wilmington, the 3o2nd largest
city in the United States, has a
pent-up spending money" poten-
tial equal. to almost any city in the
nation, according to a survey jus
completed by Sales Management
magazine of New York City.
The Port City had a gross in
come of $73, 601, 900 in 1945, the sur
vey shows. After payment of taxes,
the city was left with an effective
buying power of 1869 per capita. a
sum of $275 over the total North
Carolina per capita figure OF 1854
and SIP over the total South At
lantic States per capita figure of
1857.
Less Than Half
But only about At per cent OF
this amount was actually spent on
last years retail market because
of merchandise shortages. The re.
mainder, still held largely as saw
ings, will likely be turned loose
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
CLEMENCY-.
Board Reduces
Sentences On Soldiers

duty before expiration of their
sentences, and thus given the OPP
portunity to earn honorable dis
charges.
Roberts said that judgment on
the Army's system of justice,
which has been criticized in Con-
res should be based on SEN
fences as finally fixed, rather than
upon punishment imposed by
courts martial, and added:
Capstone of System
"Clemency is and always has
been the capstone of the whole
system of military justice"
The report was made public by
Royal, who had acknowledged
earlier that many court martial
sentences were too severe, IF you
See SENTENCES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
OFFICERS TO GET
REHAN STORY
Global Adventures OF Ship
To Be Aired AT Coast
Guard Hearing

NEW YORK, July 7. -(P)- The
Coast Guard will open an official
hearing Monday into the global ad-
ventures of the Ada Rehan-the
Liberty ship which sailed from
San Francisco August Is, 1945, fol
a two = week voyage that finally
stretched into II months.
Three women stowaways, a ba-
boon which drank beer and vodka,
an unruly crew, a captain who left
the vessel in a nervous state -
these were ingredients of the saga
which preceded the Ada Rehan in.
to port here last Friday.
Ship Diverted
The ship originally was scheduled
to go to New Orleans, but Capt.
Frank H. Hass of Mobile, Ala, its
second master on the voyage, ex-
planned that the vessel was diverted
to Iquique, Chile, by the War Ship
See OFFICERS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
CHEERING News. !
Butchers Should Haze .
More Meat Any Day Now,
Institute Spokesman Says
Supplies To Increase;
Prices Also

CHICAGO, July 7-P-You1
butcher is going to have more
meat to sell this week, packing
industry spokesman declared aft
er studying the first week of mar
keting without OPA.
Probably it will be mostly fresh
pork, because that al reach the
consumers table in the relative
ly short time of four or five days
after the pig is slaughtered.
Beef Due Soon
Beef, with a period of aging re-
quired, will take a little longer,
they say. Roasts and steaks may
be available in greater quantities
in another week. ~
Hams and bacons, because Of
the processing involved, will fol.
low in increasing numbers in two
to three weeks.
There are several reasons, pack
ers say, why increased livestock
receipts resulting from expiration
of OPA price controls is not i'm
mediately reflected in butchers
showcases. For one thing, the
time required for processing.
Pipelines Empty
Packers say the industry's "meat
pipeline" was almost completely
empty until OPA controls went off.
AS a result, heavier marketing Of
meat animals must first fill these
pipelines.
They liken it to a water main,
which first must be filled before
the water reaches the consumer.
Further, when supplies do moi
equal the demand, available meat
is voluntarily rationed by the pack
ers to their customers. Thus all
share alike. Until all can have
all they want. lone will.
See BUTCHERS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
AlongThe Cape Fear

who live on the Castle Hayne road
came into our office with some
thing to show us. 1t was a newly
laid egg.
But there was something I'm
natural about. it. 1t had no shell.
There was only a thin membrane
holding it together.
But most unnatural of all, it had
a miniature biddy head, complete
with beak and eyes, p%rotruding
from one end.
The Monstrosity excited our
curiosity. We promptly told about
it in the 'And So To Bed" column
of the next morning, July 4.
ARNOLD'S EYE - 1t wasn't I'M
til last night that we realized we
had taken part in treason agains1
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
London Jews
By Thousands
Protest Rule
Children Join In Huge Pa.
rade Through Streets
Of City
ADOPT RESOLUTION
Marchers Demand Entry Of
100000 Refugees Into
Palestine

LONDON, July 7~.-W.D-Taous-
,nds of Jews, including children
rescued from concentration camps
md a holder of the Victoria Cross,
marched through London Sunday
in protest against British policy in
Palestine and demanded immediate
admission of 100, 900 Jews to the
Holy Land.
At the head of a long, singing,
chanting, banner-carrying column
of servicemen and civilians strobe
two members of the Jewish Agency
executive, or high council, of
Palestine.
First Since 1888
If was the first large Jewish
demonstration in the British CAPT
tai since the 1888 procession of
protest against Nazi persecution
of Jews in Germany.
Sundays parade ended il a DEM
onstration in Trafalgar Square,
where a crowd estimated from 5000
10 10, 900 adopted by reclamation d
resolution demanding a halt in the
British anti-terrorist campaign in
Palestine, release of informed jew
ish Agency executive members and
opening the. gates of the Holy Land
10 100, 900 Jewish refugees from
Europe.
Go To Attlee
From Trafalgar Square, dele
gates took copies of the resolution
% Prime Minister Clement Att
lee's office at 10 Downing street
and handed them to a uniform mes
,enger.
The reo1ution deplored what it
,aid was a British attempt to blame
{ishuv-the Jewish community
If Palestine-for "acts of terror
oerpetrated by small groups un-
der stress of Illustration and des-
pair created by the continuation
See LONDON on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
INJURED
IN PLANE CRASH
Millionaire Sportsma n
Builder Badly Burned
During Test

CULVER CITY, Calf, July T.
up Millionaire sportsman-plane
builder Howard Hughes was criti-
cally hurt Sunday as his KILL
Photographic plane crashed on its
maiden test flight.
The airplane developed trou-
BILE after it had been in the air
about As minutes. Witnesses said
the motor seemed to be missing
and that the plane was flying at
very low altitude when it crashed
into the roof of a house, bounded
into another rooftop, and smashed
down a garage, setting one house
and garage afire.
Hughes stumbled daZely out of
the wreckage.
In Oxygen Tent
He was rushed to the Beverly
Hills emergency hospital where
See HUGHES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
TREASON :

BIOLOGICAL TREASON - Our
fears of a month or so ago have
come to pass. In fact, we are
nursing a new fear that, having
come, they will not pass.
1t was a month or so ago, in case
you have forgotten, that we took
an ominous view of the potato
plants which were producing to-
matoes. Such biological treason,
we feared, might spread from the
flora to the fauna.
Well, it has. And it started on, OF
all days, the eve of independence
Day, the one day treason should
be farthest from the mind of all
living things in the U. S. A., in
GLIDING chickens.
MOST UNNATURAL - On the
evening Of July 3 three youngsters
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
HELD CHECKBOOK-.
Representative May
TestimonyRe Released
The Weather

FORECAST
South Carolina and North Carolina
Partly cloudy and rather hot Monday
and Tuesday, widely scattered afternoon
and early evening thundershoWers.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a rs; 7:3oa II; 1:30p SO: 7:30p 30.
Maximum 90; Minimum 70; Mean 80;
Normal 70.
Humidity
1:30a 50; 7:3Oa SO; 1:30p So; 7:30p 81.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm.
600 inch.
Total since the first of the month
8.28 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Lew
Wilmington recommendations soda IA
Sap 12:13p
Masonboro Inlet --------- 2:56a 9:l2a
3:42p 9:55p
Sunrise 5:O8a; Sunset 7:26p; Moonrise
2:38p; Moonset :07a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
10000 WITNESS
SAINTH00D RITES
Blessed Mother Francis
Xavier Cabrini Elevat-
At Rome t

VATICAN CITY, July 7-(P)-Tha
bells of Rome's churches rang
Sunday proclaiming the sainthood
of the Blessed Mother Frances
Xavier Cabrini, and Pope Plus XII
saw in her life an admonition to
the world against "stormy rival
ry.'
The nations and peoples will
learn from her - who ardently
loved her fatherland and scattered
the treasures of her charity and
labors even to other countries -
that they are called to constitute a
single family. a family that must
not be divided in stormy rivalry
the Pope declared.
See SAINTHOOD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
DEATH TOLL NEAR
400 MARK SUNDAY
Autos Take 155 Lives Dur
ing Long July Fourth
Holiday

CHICAGO, July 7-W.H-The ma.
tons violent death toll was climb
ing steadily toward the 400-mark
Sunday night as the long Fourth Of
July weekend came to a close.
Traffic accidents were far ahead
as the cause of deaths. Generally
fair weather, which brought addi.
tional thousands Of motorists
swarming onto the highways, was
expected to cause a sharp increase
in the Sunday total.
Auto Toll High
At least 1924 persons had died in
accidents directly attributable to
holiday celebrations since Wednes-
day midnight. A total of 155 dieo
in auto accidents, IS drowned,
eight died in fireworks mishaps
and rs died from miscellaneous
accidents.
See DEATH TOLL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
TRUMAN RETURNS
TO WHITE HOUSE
President Greatly Refresh.
ed After Four-Day
Holiday

WASHINGTON, July 7-R -
President Truman returned to the
White House Sunday, refreshed and
relaxed after a long week end IN
the Catoctin mountains.
The Chief Executive and Mrs.
Truman drove from ''Shangri-La,"
the Presidential retreat near Thur
mont, Md, Immediately after
lunch in their lodge there, reach
ing the White House at 1920 p. M,
(EST.)
Has Final Swim
The President, home to consider
many domestic and international
problems, wound up his four-day
holiday with a long walk through
See TRUMAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
And So To Bed

A Wrightsville Beach resi-
dent swears up, down, and side
ways that this actually hap
pened.
The other day he went into a
Wilmington cafeteria for lunch.
When he got around the count
er to the beverage dispenser
the girl asked him whether he
wanted milk, tea, or coffee.
Coffee" he said.
"How do you want it?" the
girl asked.
"Black," he answered. Just
black coffee"
with cream and sugar." she
asked.
"Change that to iced tea
without ice," he exploded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
|S0VIETS TO EYICT
$4,000 AUSTRIANS
Deportation From Russian
Zone Effective This
Morning

VIENNA, Austria, July 7-WH-
Russian authorities have ordered
the eviction of $4,000 Austrians
from the Soviet.occupation zone by
6 a. M, Monday, Austrian official
sources said Sunday.
1t was understood that Red
Army trucks were waiting in front
of homes to load the furniture OF
those to be evicted and drive them
to the zones of the other Allies IN
Austria.
OF German Origin
Reports said that the Russians
were evicting the Austrlans on the
ground that they we're of German
origin and it was believed here
that their order was in line with
the seizure of German property
in the Russian zone.
The three Western Allies have
protested against this form of evlc-
ton. Austrians contend that the
new order is a violation of agree
ments Russia subscribed to in
London and Moscow.
Hits ManpOWer
Chancellor Leopold Figl said IN
a press statement Sunday night
that the Russian eviction order
probably would result in removal
of the last man power reserves for
the forthcoming harvest and would
mean 10 hours work a day Tor
farmers left in the Russian zone
He suggested that the order was
part of pressure being exerted tc
force the Austrian government tc
sign agreements" in connection
with Russia's penetration into Aus
TRAN industry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08

ing a~45, a jump Of $2,411, O0o
above the $25, 3O1 900 handed over
the retail counter during 1914.
Above Population
The 1945 amount represents Pa
per cent of the entire States re-
tail spending, although Whining
ton has only 200 per cent of the
entire States population.
With a large amount of the city's
1945 income still to be spent, moi
to mention this years income, vii.
mington has promise of becoming
one of the strongest trading cen.
tiers in the nation when new mer-
chandise finally reaches the retail
market in pre-war quantities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08
WE'LL HEELED-.
Wilmington People
Haze BuyinXEJw

whe q q q ses, automobiles,
re- y % and all the other
y g &c items appea
S
wartime restrictions,
$ Wilmington spent $27,-
FL -4l x-A~l<a4 la1u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08

Wilmington n vicinity: Partly clou
and rather hot today and Tuesday,: wiz
ly scattered afternoon and evening thu,
derstorms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-08

See MILK on Page Two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19

(Continued from Page 1) accuse him of evasion, and charge him with being a double agent one who worked for the Germans and the French resistance"
 T will not let you profane the memory of a heroic resistance martryr with your ridiculous story '' the attorney shouted.
 Order RestOrted
 Justice Marcel LeSer broke in to try to restore order as Petiot and Vernon railed at each other The secret weapon was forgotten in the turmoil, and Petiot returned to the story of his "fly-toX" men.
 He told in detail how his men would track and identify an in former and then bundle him into a truck and take him to con- venient quiet spot"
 The fly-toxerS, he said in a voice again calm and well modulated, would shoot the stool pigeon and dump his body down a manhole leading to the Paris sewers
 The courtroom listened spellbound to the story. Petiot said he often accompanied his squads on their expeditions, but on such trips he as the master mind never killed any one himself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19
Bus

Continued from Page D proximately 150 shipyards and ma chine shops which had been closed since October 29 were opened. Only three shipyards and several machine shops remained closed.
 At Detroit, the Ford Motor Com pany announced it would continue producing current models until after January l, 1947, to prevent production losses usually involved ln model changeover.
 Spokesmen for General Motors also have indicated that production of 1946 models would continue for several months beyond the usual time for a shift to new models
 4,00O Laid Off
 At the same time, StudebaKer Corporation, South Bend, Ind, sud- denly laid off 4,0O0 workers with no explanation other than it was a temporary" move.
 Despite ratification of new na- tional contract, CI.O. electrical workers reestablished picket lines at General Electric plants at Kokomo and Fort Wayne, Indiana. The workers charged the GEE manage ment with failing to live up to the spirit and intent of the national strike settlement"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19
Soviet
tcontinued from Page D

war that which causes me to be- lieve that he would not countenance action of this kind on the part Of his country"
 Documents taken from the vaults of the Soviet embassy" in Ottawa by Igor Gouzenko, a cypher clerk in the office of the Russian military attache, Col. N. zaboson, formed the basis of the evidence against the spy ring, he said.
 He did not reveal specific ln- formation the documents contained, but said they related to plans and records for munitions, troop move ments and other serious matters" " The information. some of which IS in the handwriting of those already in custody, will be made public at the forthcoming trials, he said.
 The gallery was packed as King spoke. Even the diplomatic gall leries were filled, but the seats usually reserved for Russian emiS- saries were vacant. A lone repre- sentative of Tass, Soviet news agen- cy, was present in the press gallery when King made his charges.
 Fred Rose, a Communist member of Parliament who is free on $l0,OOO bail pending his trial as suspect in the espionage case, sat silently through the 30-minute address. He said later he would have something to say during the parliamentary de- bate on Kings report.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19
Iran
0oontInued frOm Paee Il

tCOntinued from Page 1) to Moscow was being considered now, but it could not be expected to confirm such an appeal before it was sent or even before the de- cision to do SO finally was made.
 Last Minute Move
 Such a top-level appeal would not be without precedent. On sev- eral occasions in the past MT. Tru- man and his predecessor, the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, have gone over the head of the Soviet foreign office when RuSsian-American re- lations begged down. It would be a logical laSt-minute move now be- fore the United Nations Security Council meets next week.
 A direct communication to Sta lin cound take many forms:
 l. It could be a direct appeal to Stalin, in the interests of UN.O., to remove Red Army troops from Iran according to treaty obliga- tions before the Security Council meeetS Monday in New York.
 3. It could be a request to Stalin to send one of his top men-For- eign Commisar V. M. Molotov or {, vice commissar Andrei I. Vishins- b ky-to the council meeting. Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko appears scheduled to represent Russia now.
 3. It could be a proposal for an other Big Three meeting-either of heads of states or their foreign miniSters-to tackle controversies which have plunged Big Three re- 1ations to their lowest levels since before Russia entered the war.
 Timely Idea
 Such an appeal would be timely Nearly two weeks have passed with only silence from Moscow on Am :erican protests about Soviet poli- 'cies in Iran and Manchuria. It was two weeks ago Saturday that all Russian troops were supposed to leave Iran.
 In addition to the persistent re- port that present difficulties with Russia over Iran and Manchuria may move up to the Truman-Sta- lin level, there also were signs oi their developments in the next few days.
 The Iranian Embassy announced last night that it was about to is sue a statement on its position, but called it off short while later Ambassador Hussein Ala has beer expecting instructions from his government to file the Iranian case before the Security Council.
 American officials are awaiting similar word from Iran. They then will decide whether and how the United States may raise the issue before the council if Iran dosen't.
 Officials of the State Depart inent'S Middle East, Eastern Eur ope and Far Eastern Divisions met until well after closing hours last night with Secretary of State James F. ByrneS' closest adviSere. No de- tails of the meeting were available
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19
Brother Kills Sister, Self
By LEWIS J. PATTERSON United Press Staff CorreSpon dent

Minneapolis, Mlnn.. March 19- (UP)-Police wrote ease closed" against the brutal staying of a young mother today after her brother, veteran of World War II, fired bullet into his tortured brain as he stood with three detectives in front of the court house, and died without telling them why he killed her.
 The nude and beaten body of Mrs. Dorothy Hickman, 23, wife of 8 wounded serviceman, was found early Sunday lying face down in the mud of the river fiat section in which she lived Her clothes had been ripped from her body and mud and sticks had been showed into her mouth, apparently as gag.
 Her brother, Gordon La Londe, 27, who lived nearby in the drab river flats of the Mississippi River, was arrested 10 hours after dis covery of the body. AS the oplice car drew up in front of police head quarters at the courthouse, La Londe and the three detectives &C., comparing him stepped out
 La Londe leaped aside, and with his back to the court house wall drew a .38 caliber pistol from his pocket and shouted
 T knew you d get me"
 As the detectives reached for their guns, he said:
 That won't be necessary. I'm not going to hurt you and I'm not go- ing to run. I'm....."
 Then he placed the muzzle against his right temple and fired.
 Police said that enroute to police headquarters La Londe had started to cry.
 why did this have to happen to me" he said Whats going to hap pen now isn't going to help my mother"
 Then he added:
 More than 80 per cent of my company was killed in the war. I wish now I'd been killed. too"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19

penSe.
 Considerable doubt was expressed by the special lawyer at the recent hearing on the motion that the second count would ever be tried because of the complaxity of the issues and the limited assets of Leary. Those statements strengthen the possibility that the city may now drop the second count in or der to secure an early hearing on at least part of it's claims against Leary.
 The first count is based on al- legged misappropriations made by Leary in the final year of his term as city comptroller. The second count is based on claimed wrongful acts of Leary during the entire term of his office, from January, 1880 to January, 1888.
 Absence Cited
 A hearing on the motion was held February 8, several weeks be- fore Leary was apprehended in Chicago. Counsel for the plaintiff at that time had pointed to the absence of the former official and had expressed the belief his pres ence in the courtroom would never be possible.
 Counsel also had claimed that Leary alone has all the information necessary for trial of the second count, and that his presence in court (at that time) was not con- sidered a possibility.
 A notice of the recent attach ments placed by the Internal Rev enue office on the assets of Leary and his wife, Sadie, was filed in the court today, and placed in the file of the $6OO,OO0 suit of the city.
 The attachments were made to the extent of $S85, ,046.95 against Leary, and $53,81623 against the couple jointly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19

Continued from Page D
 wallace's proposal recalls the Roosevelt purge which jared the Democratic party in 1888. The late President Roosevelt and his ad- visers had list of upward of a dozen members of the House and Senate who has opposed the ad- 1fliniStration. Local conditions re- duced to four the number of per- sons Mir. Roosevelt actually under took to defeat in Democratic prim- aries.
 Rep. John J. O'Connor, D., N. Y, a Tammany man and chairman of the house rules committee, was the only casualty. Tn three other prim- ary contests, Sen. Walter F. George, D.. Ga, the late Sen. Ellison D. Smith, D., s. C., and Sen. Willard E. Tydings, D, Md, easily defeated the New Deal candidates entered against them. The record indicates that Smith would have been de- feated had not MT. Roosevelt in- tervened against him.
 No Aid to Hannegan
 WallaCeS proposal Will not d4u Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan in his current campaign to get the party legislative machine back on the track. Except in the field of foreign relations, the major legis- lative proposals of the Truman ad- n1inistration have been stymied or substantially altered by Congress. This usually has been accomplish ed by an informal coalition of Re- publicans and Democrats.
 Some persons are inclined to blame Mir. Truman as much as any other individual for the difficulties encountered by his legislative pro- poSals. Presidential messages more often than not have been broad side recommendations of up to 20 measures upon which the admins tration sought action. It has been suggested that the White House might get faster action if requests were limited to number on which the leaders could focus attention.