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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
Two Counties
To Seek New
Trade Plans
All Beaches In Area To
Form Mutual Benefit
Agency
WHITE IS SPEAKER
Organization Brings
Groups Together For
Meeting

The beaches of New Han
over and Brunswick will CO.
operate to show the resort
loving people Of Eastern
United States that this is the
point to come for a vacation
whether in winter or summer.
This was decided last night in a
meeting of representatives of the
five beaches which call Wilmington
a focal point-and the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce was asked
to take the lead in unifying the et-
forts of these beaches to bring this
cooperation about.
All-Year Resort
Called by the Wilmington Cham
Der, representatives of Eolde1,
Long Beach, and Caswell in Bruins
wick, and Wrightsville, Carolina,
Wilmington, Kures, and Fort Fish
er met and formally set up a meas
ure to develop an organization to
coordinate the efforts of all the
beaches in developing an all-year
resort for this section Of North
Carolina.
Set off by a speech by e. L.
White, president Of the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce, the
See BEACHES nm Pare F;v.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
LOCAL BAPTISTS
TO SCAN OFFERS
Group To Attend Special
Session OF Convention
In Greensboro

New Hanover County Baptist
church officials and laymen Will
go to Greensboro next Tuesday to
attend the special session OF the
Baptist State convention, and de-
eide whether the association will
accept the $12, 000, 900 Smith Rey-
nolds proposed endowment and
move Wake Forest college to Win
ston-Salem.
A chartered bus accommodating
about SO passengers has been en-
ployed to take delegates to the
convention which will be held in
the First Baptist church, Green's
boro, the Rev. G. H. King, minis
ter of the Winter Park Baptist
church, and president OF the New
Hanover county Wake Forest alum
nj, said yesterday.
Convention Leaders
Among those attending the con-
vention from Wilmington will be
the Rev. Mr.. King, DR.. Sankey Lee
Blanton, who has accepted the post
of dean of Wake Forests School of
Religion and pastor Of the cam
pus chapel, and about Is other To-
cal Baptist ministers.
The cne-day convention is ex-
pected to be attended by about
10000 Baptist church members
from the states 1857 churches,
which have a combined member
ship of SGT, 900, according to the
Rev. Mr.. King.
johnson J. Hayes, judge Of the
middle district Federal court, for
mer Gov. j. Melville Broughton
and the Rev. R. A. Herring, min
lister of the First Baptist church
in Greensboro, are expected to pre-
side at the convention discussions,
and assist with conducting the vot-
ing which will determine whether
Wake Forest remains where it is
presently located, or move to Win
ston-Salem.
Attractive Advantages
The Rev. Mr.. King pointed out
that negotiations for moving the
college have been underway for
Esome time by the Reynolds family
and other Winston-Salem people,
who have offered "attractive" ad-
vantages to the college in the event
that it is moved.
He explained also that moving
the college will require about four
years time, during which period,
the college plant would have to
be built in the Twin City while the
college is in progress at Wake Fol-
est.
He said that the Wake Forest
plant would be retained by the
Baptist denomination, and used for
denominational interests, either as
a future home for Meredith col
lege. or as a branch center for the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, or some other advantageous
purpose.
The special bus bearing a part
of the Wilmington and New Han
over delegation, will leave Winter
! See BAPTISTS on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
BOOST In SALARY
PASSED BY HOUSE
Measure Also Would Make
Congress Eligible For
Pensions

WASHINGTON, July Is. -R-
The house Thursday night passed,
229 to 81, a bill to boost salaries
of congressman, make them elig-
ible for pensions, and overhaul
the machinery by which they work.
The MISUNDERSTANDING measure
among other things, slashes the
number of house committees from
48 to 10 and of senate committees
from 80 to IS.
Seek Compromise
The senate passed similar legis.
latlon June IL. The two versions
will be sent to a senate-house con-
ference committee for adjustmen,
of differences.
The senate measure would in.
crease the yearly pay of member.
from $1,000 to SIS, 900, but the
house voted to limit the raise tt
$12.500 annually.
Under the house version, howev
err, a $500 yearly, tax-free expense
fund for members would be retain
ed. Under the senate's bill thi.
allowance would be abolished.
Refuse Proposal
The senate measure also provid
ed for an So, 00O-a-year admins
trative assistant for each legisla
tor, but the house refused to &C
cept this proposal.
The house rejected by a voice
vote an amendment by Representa-
tive Judd, Republican of Minneso
ia, to provide a Sc, 800-a-year assist
ant. It also turned down by a III
See SALARY on Page Five
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lngS which lapSed June ~ went
back into force, except on items
specifically exempted.
Two hours later the President
sent a message to Congress to
place on the record a statement
that the measure falls far short
of being one with which his ad-
ministration could gu a e e
stable prices"
Offers Promise
But he said that while the pres
ent measure by no means guaran-
tees that initiation can be avoided"
it offers enough promise that he
was willing to accept it and try.
Then, he declared that because
of its defects" and "the months
Of delay" by Congress in passing it.,
lit is all the more apparent that
more extensive use of the power to
allocate scarce materials may be
required and that sterner fiscal
and monetary measures than would
otherwise be called for may prove
to be necessary"
He called upon consumers and
businessmen to cooperate with the
governments efforts in 1.-The battle
against inf%lation," and delivered
this closing remark:
Battle Initiation
If it appears that all the efforts
OF the government and the people
will not be enough under the pres.
ent legislation, / shall have no al.
See TRUMAN On Page Five
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committee as the bearer of the
first of two letters address
by May, chairman of the Hous,
Military committe, to Essen
hover, then Supreme Allied
commander in Europe.
Secured Transfer
The other was Maj. Gen. Viii
liam N. Porter. former chief
OF that service. The committee
said he secured young Cars
sons transfer to the chemical
warfare service. Perter's name
has figured prominently in the
testimony thus tar as the cc:n-
mlttee delved into sae COM
bHae's business affairs and into
gay parties.
So, too. have those Of the
Carson brothers - Henry End
Murray promoters of the
combine. 1t was Murray Cars
See PROBERS ON Pare Five
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it can be made to work, o n two
conditions. The first is that every
possible anti-inflationary measure
other than price control be taken.
The second is that the regrettable
tendency of the administration to
split apart at the seams be halted,
and that all the top men be some
how bludgeoned and savaged into
working together as one team to
fight initiation.
Crises Of Pain
To meet the first condition, plans
are now on foot (although they
have not been finally approved to
slice federal expenditures really
drastically even by as much as
five billion dollars. Such an enor-
See ALSOP on Page Two
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STORES DESERTED
Buyers Strike Slows
D0wn Detroit Business

DETROIT, July 25-RHOne of
Detroit's outlying shopping centers
looked somewhat like a deserted
village Thursday as a rowing picket
line enforced a buyers strike.
Mostly women and children, the
pickets carried such placards as
BE Wise, Dor I Be Like One Who
Buys" "Don't Buy Today" and
"Get In the Mood, Don't Buy
Food"
Stores Idle
Meat markets, groceries and
other stores along Dexter boule-
ward found little patronage and
many Of the clerks stood out on the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
Oral Arguments
Wilmington Morning Star
WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON, July Is. - Oral
arguments in the southeastern
states air routes case, to determine
which of about a dozen airlines
will be granted new air routes to
Wilmington and other southern
cities, will begin before the Civil
Aeronautics board on August 26,
the CAB announced Thursday.
Although CAB examiners have
already recommended that State
Airlines, of Charlotte, be given
routes linking Wilmington with
both in-state and out-of-state cities,
the competing airlines, including
South East Airlines, have filed ex-
ceptions to the examiners report.
After hearing the oral arguments,
the CAB is expected to render a
decision in the case in late fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
APPEAL TO EISENHOWER
War Probers Switch
To May In Questions

WASHINGTON. July 25-(R
The Senate War Investigat-
ing committee pieced together
thursday a story of how Rep
re~sentative May D.-Ky.) ap-
roa1ed to General Eisenhower
m behalf of a munitions max
sr's son facing court martial
for disobedience prepared to
ask May poiatblank Friday:
Why"
switching suddenly from its
inquiry into Mays part in the
wartime business affairs of a
munitions combine, the commit
tee called two generals to a
nrivate session to find out more
sbout the case of Capt. Joseph
H. Carson, who was granted
clemency after being found
guilty.
One was Maj. Gen. Alden H.
Watt, chief of Chemical War
fare service, identified by the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
And So To Bed

As Airport Manager Jesse
C. Parker, Jr., and one Of his
staff were driving through the
airport the other night, the
lights Of their car suddenly
flashed q prowler.
Since providers aren't allow
ed at the airport they proceed
ed cautiously to apprehend
him.
While Parker kept the lights
trained scuarely into the prowl-
er's iight-blinded eyes, the
staff member crept around be-
hind him 1.-THE prowler).
The tactic worked perfectly.
In a few minutes the prowler
"a full-grown opossum-was
captured and lodged securely
In the back seat of the car.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
BlKINI'S FLOOR
NAVAL JUNKYARD
Terrific Power OF Atom
Bomb Sends II Ship.
To Bottom
BY JOSEPH L. MYLER
'nited Press Staff Correspondent

lHlltu llAoS os
OFF BIKINI ATOLL, Friday,
.July 26-WR-The floor of Bikini
lagoon was a junkyard of naval
might today, testifying to the terri
tc power Of the underwater atomic
bomb whose explosions sent II
vessels to the bottom and heavily
damaged at least four otners.
The oil-covered, radioactive
waters of the lagoon still nrevented
a closeup survey of damage to
what was an 87-ship target array,
but the tonnage scoreboard for
the first two controlled tests of
lie bombs power against naval
strength heavily favored this SUBJ
marine burst. The score thus far
was two to one.
Go To Bottom
Thursdays blast at 1885 4. m.
6:35 p. m. Wednesday EDT) sank
a b3ttleship and an aircraft car
rer totaling 5000 tons, three land
ing vessels and a concrete yard
oiler. Five submarines officially
went 10 the bottom" during the
upheaval. But whether they were
split and sunk by the force of the
blast or merely ierked loose from
their airtank moorings was not i'm
mediately known.
The impression was forced on
observers that this was a real test
Of the bombs ability to deal a
knockout blow to a fleet.
What had happened to the ami
nal crews showered with radio
active gas and spray and 1000, 900
I'm. tons of water geysered over
the ships they "manned' was not
yet known.
Official Score
This was the official score thus
far:
Sunk: ~Battleship Arkansas, air.
craft carrier Saratoga, cement
yard oiler $50, two landing crafts
tanks, landing ship (mechanized)
90.
Possibly sunk: Five submarines,
The Pilotfish, Apogon, Skipjack,
Sea Raven and Dentuda.
Damaged: Battleship Nagato,
nattleship New York, destroyer
hughes attack transport Fallon.
Task force commander Vice
Adm. W. H. P. Blaady announced
ne was not yet certain that the
submarines sank due to "any
structural damage from the bomb
Durst'" He specialized the air hoses
'eaalng from surface buoys were
eut When a huge wave moving at
SV feet a second raced out from
me burst. That may have flooded
1e undersea crafts ballast tanks
Poison Waters
twenty of the observer ships
sn,cn during the explosion waited
"sht to IS miles from the lagoon
Zee BIKIN1 on Page Five
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The Weather
FORECAST

South Carolina-Partly cloudy and con-
tinued hot Friday; widely scattered thun-
dershoWers in afternoon.
North Carolina-Friday. considerable
c%loudiness and not so warm, with scat
tered thundershowers.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperatures
1:soa rs; 7:3oa IT; 1:3op 80. 7:30p 81.
Maximum 81, Minimum 70; Mean 10,
Normal 70.
Humidity
1:30a "a; 7:3oa 80; 1:3op So; 7:3op SO.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm.
0.00 inches. .
Total since the first of the month,
1922 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
' High Low
Wilmington -- 7:45a PAPA
8:24p 2:46p
Masonboro Inlet ----- 5:20a 11:4la
6:0sp
Sunrise SIG; Sunset 7:1s; Moonrise
SOFA; Moonset 6:03p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville,
at 8 am, Thursday-15.1 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Five
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streets watching the reactions o.
potential shoppers.
The picket line grew in size as
the day wore en-. Numerous small
boys and girls took over the picket
ing when their elders stopped for
lunch.
Shoppers Stopped
One elderly woman stopped
housewives as they approached
stores asking. Haven't you seen
it in the newspapers that we aren't
supposed to buy anything today?"
And ont little girl, asked by a
%oasser-by whether she was "getting
See BUYERS on Page Five
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BY STEWART ALsOP

WASHINGTON, D. C., July %
If present plans work out always
a big if) the Nation will shortly
be confronted with the unfamiliar
prospect of a federal government
hell bent On economy. The Tru-
man Administration intends to
make the best of a bad job with
the compromise price control mea-
sure. It has certainly aroused no
wild enthusiasm in administration
breasts, but Truman's advisers be-
lieve (perhaps the wish is some
wha: father to the thought that
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
TRUMAN SIGNS NEW 0PA LAW INTO EFFECT
}%%<<zlZE WARNING OF POSSIBLE TAX RAISE;
BREACHES PLAN CO0PERAT TIVE EFFORTS HERE
President Agrees To Bill
That Falls Far Short"
Truman Hints That New Taxes May Be In
Order; Prices, Except Those Exempted,
Revert To June 80 se

WASHINGTON, July 25~.-AP)-President Truman
signed the new price control act with reluctance Thurs
day-and with a notice to Congress that if it proved made
perhaps raise taxes.
The bill was signed into law at 4:05 P. M. eastern
Standard Time). At that moment the rent and price cell
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
TRIALS TODAY
TRIALS TODAY
Derby Driuers May
Make Try-O Runs
Official Soap Box Course Will Be Closed To
Traffic For Two Hours This Morning;
Inspections Due Monday
Nv JACK C. N

If you should happen to see an odd Chevrolet, Buick or
two-or maybe a billy goat pulling motorless racing auto
mobiles along the streets this morning-dont be alarmed,
or too much surprised Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmington. -.
For dollars to d%oughnuts, it will be one or more boys,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26
Today and Tomorrow

Editors Note: While MI.
Lippmann is on his vacation
his space will be filled by the
A1sop column.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28
Along The Cape Fear

nature inflicted upon the COM
munity.
STRIKES AGAIN - The next ma
jor fire here struck in 1843. On
that occasion the northern end OF
the Port City was ravished.
Among the chief victims of the
blaze was the Front Street Metho-
dist church. The major commercial
loss to Wilmington was the rail
road offices, warehouses and shops
which were Quilted by the catastro-
phe.
During the summer of 1888 the
naval store yards of Alfred Martin
were the scene of one of our great
est fires.
In July of that year an estimated
5000 barrels of rosin and 178 bar
rels of turpentine were consumed
in the fire. Fortunately for the res
idents of the Port City this blaze
was across the Cape Fear being
on the western banks of the river
and the city itself was spared from
harm.
SHIP AFIRE - On Sunday,
February 81, 1886, what may be
the greatest of all fires to have
struck here.
A river steamboat, the Bladen,
(Continutd on Page 2, Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28
And So To Bed

Americas stunning tennis
triumph in the finals of the
Davis Cup matches in Australia
was perhaps more thrilling to
Mrs. George L. Stearns, of 218
Park Avenue, than to any Will
mington resident.
Mrs. Stearns is the daughter
of Walter Pate, who is the nom
playing captain of the Ameri-
can Davis cuppers.
Since Oleander is pretty far
removed from Down Under,
Mrs. Stearns is forced to de-
pend on the sports writer's for
her tennis dope these days, and
few of those experts gave the
Americans much of a chance.
For four days, Mrs. stearns
had been mentally preparing q
properly delicate message Of
coincidence to her father.
She just about had its
phrases perfected when she
picked up the Star yesterday
to learn that Mr.. Pate'k
charges had clinched the cur
In three straight matches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28
Black Market
Gangs Flount
Police Order
Soldiers Open Fire On Riot.
ers Attempting To Storm
Bari City Hal.
MANY CASUALTIES
OF Rome Stores
Leave Thousands With
out Much Needed Items

ROME, Dec. 27. @-
Police and Soldiers opened fire
Friday in Bari on rioters at
tempting to storm the city hall
at the peak of a tumultuous
demonstration against food
shortages. Press dispatches
said at least one man was kill
ed and IA wounded, four seri-
ously.
In Rome flying squadrons
of police struck at the gigantic
black market on which thous-
sands depend for th.ir daily needs
and from which thousand more
derive a likelihood. The first day
of the drive, preceded by a minis
try of interior. 'tNo quarter order,
caused little impression, however.
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28

MAJOR FIRES-The Port City
in its illustrious past has been
struck by several major fires.
We have approached the topic
with an open mind, hence we will
refrain from designating any par
ticular one as the Great Fire of
Wilmington.
However, we will venture a guess
that most old : timers will tell you
that the Fire of 1886 was the No.
holocaust in the city's long history.
Back in the fall of 1919 Whining
ton suffered its first major fire.
In November of that year four OF
the principle blocks of the town
were completely destroyed.
The area struck by the 1919 blaze
were the blocks surrounded by
Princess, Second and Dock Streets,
and the old Cape Fear River.
The fire was not solely confined
to this restricted area as it also
extended into other sections of the
town. An estimated three hundred
buildings of all kinds were destroy
ed.
One of the city's beautiful edific-
es, the then new First Presbyterian
church, was leveled.
Our city's population at that
time was approximately $500 so
you can easily understand the ire
hardship that a fire Of this
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.-R)-
Dozens of persons were injured
Friday when five cars of the speed
ing Panama Limited, Chicago-to-
New Orleans streamliner, jumped
the track.
No n was critically hurt, but
a. list compiled by the railroad,
hospitals and New Orleans news
papers showed rs persons were at
least bruised or shaken up.
Thirty-two passengers and train
men were treated at hospitals.
The derailment took place on a
narrow strip of land 81 miles north
of New Orleans, the destination.
The train, which left Chicago
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28
Z%;stts Will
Bars To
Americans Get Notice In
spection Teams Will Be
Admitted January 6
TO CHECK PLANTS
Officials Believe Rus.
sian Troop Demobiliza-
ton Now Complete

BERLIN, Dec. 27.-(F-
The Russians gave notice Fri
day they would be prepared at
last to admit four-power in
spection teams into Soviet
occupied Germany on Jan. 6 to
check on progress of liquida-
lion of the German ornaments
potential, thus indicating that
their zonal troop demobiliza-
ton was nearing completion.
Allied inspection cam S
were scheduled to enter all
four zones on Nov. Is, but the
Russians asked postponement, say
ing that transport in their zone
would be strained by redeployment.
There have been subsequent reports
of large scale reductions in the
number of Soviet troops in Ger
many, but no official figures have
been released.
American newsmen, however, re-
NAMED barred from the Soviet
zone, and there was no indication
when they would be readmitted.
Soviet Marshal VASTLY Sokolovsky,
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28
AIRLlNER CRACKUP
TAKES II LIVES
Missing Western Airlines
Ship Found Partially
Burned

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. 81
P)-A Western Airlines plane miss
ing since Christmas Eve was found
smashed and partly burned against
a mountain peak Friday with all
nine passengers and three crew
members dead.
The wreckage was discovered on
6,375-foot Cuyapaipe peak in the
Laguna mountains, about so miles
East of here. It was 100 feet from
the top.
This is approximately the loca-
ton of the "blaze" or sky "glow"
which a number of persons report
ed seeing at about the time the
transport disappeared after giving
its last position over the mountains
at 1000 P. M. (EST).
The pilot of another passenger
plane reported that night that he
had actually seen the craft afire
but stormy weather had delayed
locating the spot.
Coroner's aides were dispatched
to the scene, in an area of rugged
peaks rearing up from the Imperial
Valley. Sheriff's deputies tele-
phoned it would be impossible to
bring the bodies out before Satur-
day.
Continual on Page 2, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-28
COLD WAVE HITS
CENTRAL STATES
Snow, Sleet Storms Cover
Michigan; Southeast En-
joys Warm Weather
By The Associated Press

A cold wave following sleet and
snow headed toward North Central
states Friday night as sub-zero
temperatures in New England
abated.
Abnormally warm weather was
reported in Central Plains states
but the mild temperatures began
falling.
Federal forecasters in Chicago
said below zero temperatures in
upper Minnesota and Wisconsin
were spreading Southwark on the
heels of snow storms in the North
ern portions of both states.
A sleet storm hit central Mich
igan, central Wisconsin and South
eastern Minnesota, while a rain
belt fringed the sleet to the South
as far as Chicago.
High Temperatures
High temperatures were reported
Friday in the Central Plains states
and in a belt swinging Southeast
ward and extending from the Cen
trail Ohio valley to the gulf.
The mild spell was brief in the
Missouri valley where a near rec
ord high of 1875 for Kansas City
dropped ten degrees by late after
noon.