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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORE ABOUT
ACL
FROM PAGE ONE

The recommendation came in
the face Of vigorous opposition by
Sen. Claude Pepper 3D.. Fla.,)
Rep. j. Hardin Peterson Cd, Fla.),
the Greater Miami Chamber of
Commerce and other Florida in
terests.
ut appears that the du Pont
interests have been successful in
their investments in the past and
the record does not indicate that
the growth of their enterprises has
been detrimental to the interests
of the people of Florida" Jewell
said.
In his recommendation, Jewell
asked that the commission rule a
merger of the two companies
would result in no appreciate
improvement in transportation ser
vice to the public as compared
with such service under indie
pendent operation.
adverse Effect"
Eventual savings from such a
merger would not be such as to
warrant con sideration of them as a
controlling factor and would be
realized only by having an i'm
mediately adverse effect upon the
city of St. Augustine and surround
ing territory" he said.
Asserting that the majority OF
residents, shippers and communi-
ties are in favor of independent
operation, Jewell said the effective
date of the reorganization plan,
previously set for Jan. l, 1916, be
left to the discretion of the reor-
g%anization management.
No more carriers besides the
ACL, had offered to take over the
bankrupt line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
HARNET'T COUNTY
NEGRO EXECUTED
George Walker Pays So
ciety For Crime Against
Teen-Age Girl

RALEIGH, June, al R -
George Walker, ~39-year-old Harnett
county Negro, died Friday in the
states gas chamber at central pris-
on for criminally assaulting a 13-
year-old white girl.
Death occurred IL minutes after
the gas started rising. In his cell
this morning by Chaplain William
H. r. Jackson, Walker still assert
ed that he had nothing to do with
the crime. In talks with officials of
the state paroles commission,
Walker has consistently denied his
guilt.
Walker was convicted in Harnett
county superior court last Novem-
Der of criminally assaulting a H.
.year-old white girl o. last July 2,
near her home between Ellington
and Buies creek.
Warden Hugh Wilson said Walk
er was visited in his cell this morn
ing by two brothers and three Sis
tiers, all from Harnett coun-
ty, they claimed the body.
Governor Cherry, after studying
the case, refused to intervene.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
SON LOSES
SON LOSES
Bill Hart Near Death
As Court Issues RuLing

HOLLYWOOD, June 21-U'D
William S. Hart, 75-year-old
pioneer cowboy actor, was near
death Friday, unaware that his
tax consultant had won a court
battle from his son for control
of his million dollar estate.
The two-gun hero's condition
turned "much worse" Thurs
day while a Judge ruled that
Consultant G. H. Frost and
William S. Hart, Jr., "a, should
be jointly responsible for Harris
personal well-being, but that
Frost should have sole control
of the estate.
Young Hart had asked that
he and q local bank be named
co-guardians Of the estate.
Frost sought control with Fran
els Gudger, 10, a longtime
friend of Harris.
Hart, Sr., ill for the last
three months, was failing, his
physician said.
"He is not nearly so well as
he had been since he entered
the hospital 10 days ago." he
said. "But he still has a lot
of resistance left in him."
When Hart was hospitalized,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
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HOBBS
FROM PAGE ONE

state commerce. A Supreme court
decision against truck drivers I'M
ion in New York City. They were
alleged to have used ''strong arm"
methods to compel farmers bring
ing their produce into the city
from New Jersey to hire union
drivers or else to pay the union a
fee.
It was a 6 to 1 decision. Former
Justice Byrnes, now secretary of
State, wrote the majority opinion,
the late Chief Justice Stone dis
sented, and Justices Roberts and
Jackson did not participate.
The Hobbs bill had lain in a
pigeonhole of the Senate Judiciary
committee ever since the House
passed it in December. After Mr..
Truman's veto of the Case bill,
however, the committee reported
it out on June II without further
hearings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORT ABOUT
HOTEL
FROM PAGE ONE

when the explosion occurred.
Parker, a plasterer, was believed
to have been working temporarily
at the hotel.
Two Unidentified
A Mr.. Hamm, a hotel engineer,
and two unidentified Spanish
American employees also were
killed, the police casualty report
said.
The blast was caused by Excess
sive pressure in an ammonia re-
ceiving tank, which vas a part of
the hotel air-conditioning system,
according to L. A. Warrne, chief
engineer of the Irwin-Kessler
building. Warrne was called to
the hotel to cut off the ammonia
supply.
The explosion rumbled through
the business district about Ills a.
m. Traffic Patrolman w. E.
Fields, stationed at the intersec-
ton where the hotel is located,
said he heard the blast and saw a
plate glass front of the hotel coffee
shop, blown out.
when I reached the coffee shop,
there were about Is persons in the
shop, most of them just picking
themselves up from the floor
where they had been thrown"
Fields said.
Persons in the lobby of the big
hotel also were thrown from their
feet by the blast.
Assistant Manager o. G. Durbon
said the hotel was barring all Of
the hundreds of guests until a safe
ty check could be made.
Police and engineers began the
check Immediately and special Of
f@icers ~patrolled all floors of the
big building to prevent looting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
USO SALE
City Makes. Proposal
In Building Purchase

other civic uses, and that Benson
should try to complete the deal
with the government as quickly as
possible.
The city has offered $500 for
the buildings. On the other hand,
the government is asking for $24,-
500. a flat Is per cent of the origin
al $168. 900 cost.
"Optimistic"
Wilhelm declined to say whether
he thought the government would
accept a figure under Is per cent
of the original cost, but after the
meeting Benson said he felt very
optimistic" about the outcome.
"Wilhelm was sympathetic to our
proposals, and I hope the deal will
be consumed shortly" Benson
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORE ABOUT
SUGAR
FROM PAGE ONE

directing a majority of that cargo
to be shipped to Wilmington and
Fayetteville.
Direct Shipment
Commodity Credit corporation
has also gotten import agents Of
Cuban refined sugar to direct ship
ment of full cargo into the port OF
Wilmington and has given neceS-
sary assurances of absorbing any
shortage elsewhere that might be
occasioned by such diversion.
"It looks definite to me that you
should be receiving sugar in suf-
ficient quantities by the middle of
next week"
Congressman Clark's quick &C.
ton in the severe local sugar short
age resulted from a telegram sent
to him On Wednesday by the Cham
Der of Commerce, the Wilmington
Port commission, and several local
soft drink bottlers and bakers, urg-
ing that ne do everything possible
to get sugar shipped here at once.
Meets With Enthusiasm
One company official said he
would be forced 10 close his doors
and throw 1900 employees out OF
work if the shortage was not al.
leviated.
Congressman Clark's telegram
was met with enthusiasm and nc
small amount of rejoicing yester'
day by the entire city.
Turning back to the matter Of
regular sugar shipments to Will
mington, HERS said there is a grea'
need for another sugar" port or
the southeast coast.
Wilmington, he pointed out, i:
about midway between Baltimore
Md, and Savannah, Ga, the two
southeast ports now receiving
sugar on regular schedules.
wilmington is in a strategic ane
logical position for the establish
ment of another sugar receiving
and disbursing point" he declared
land the port commission is goire
to do everything possible to get i
accomplished"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
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PLOT
FROM PAGE N

year-old Jew, on a Tel Aviv street
Wednesday night. The officer was
not identified.
The announcement gave no de-
tails as to the circumstances. One
unofficial newspaper report said
the officer had witnessed the kid
naping of the five British officers
the previous day and was in a
highly nervous state" at the time
of the shooting.
At Kallia, a settlement of potash
workers near the Dead Sea, Bri-
fish troops made an inch by inch
search for illegal arms. They
herded all the plant personnel into
huts and the troops checked their
credentials before permitting them
q return to work.
Simcha Swerdloff, manager OF
he plant which extracts potassium
bromide and other chemicals from
Dead Sea brine, protested that the
search was costing the company
$4,000 a day and a British officer
replied: illegal arms mean Bri.
fish lives"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORT ABOUT
SECRETARY
FROM PAGE ONE

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister
Andrei l. Vishinsky and V. N. Paw
lou, Russian interpreter, adjourn
ed to the Meurice hotel.
Byrnes issued an invitation to
the Russians two days ago to an
intimate dinner at the Meurice
and it was believed that the &C.
casion would prove important, one
way or the other, for. the success
of this critical conference.
Seek New Ideas
It was hoped that Byrnes and
Molotov, in the friendly atmos-
phere of a small dinner, might
make important progress and per-
haps find new ideas for another
informal meeting to be held at
4 p. m. Saturday.
These informal meetings them
selves sometimes prove helpful.
Byrnes at these meetings is ac-
companied only by Senators Tom
Connally Cd, Tex.,O and Arthur
H. Vandenberg, CR., Mich.,) and
Bohlen. At the big or plenary meet
ings about 100 persons are present.
Fridays meeting was adjourned
early so that French Foreign Min
lister Georges Bidault could con-
tinue his negotiations to form a
cabinet. Bidault is under a con-
siderable strain. attending the
foreign ministerial conferences for
hours each day and comforting with
French political leaders before
and after the meetings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
USO SALE

The city council, meeting in spe.
cial session yesterday, directed
Acting City Manager J. r. Benson
to pursue with all possible haste
negotiations with the federal gov
eminent for the city's purchase OF
the USO buildings at Second and
Orange and Ninth and Nixon
streets.
The directive was ordered imme-
diately after J. B. Wilhelm, prop
erty engineer of the Federal Works
agency, Atlanta, Ga, told the coun-
Gil that if the city failed to make
the purchase the government would
either rae the buildings or con-
vert them to government use.
Need Buildings
The council agreed unanimously
that the city is in great need OF
the buildings for r~ecreational and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
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CHANNEL
FROM PAGE ONE

All thinking and talking" the varl-
nus local officials stressed yester-
b day. ~ ~
Each organization backing the
nroposal is preparing a large mass
Of data which, when completed ana
submitted at the hearing, VIII
prove beyond any doubt" thai VIII
mington's need for a 35-toot chan.
mel is of paramount importance"
in the city's effort to become one
of the outstanding seaports on tne
South Atlantic coast, the officials
said.
1T will eliminate, once and for
all those costly delays OF ships
waiting for high tide in order to
enter or leave the port" n au-
thoritv said. ut will greatly en-
courage more and larger tankers
and cargo vessels to use this port.
In short, it will go a long way to-
ward putting Wilmington on the
map as a major Atlantic port and,
hence, greatly facilitate the entire
city's industrial growth"
Field Survey Begun
After releasing the announce
ment of the hearing, Colonel Gill
lette disclosed that the engineers
are already engaged in a field sur
vey to determine the engineers
part in making the 35-foot channel
a possibility.
eff u survey and the data sub
mitted at the hearing indicate that
a 35-foot channel is necessary, this
office will submit a recommended
ton for it to the division headquar-
ters in Atlanta, Ga" Colonel Gil
lette said.
eff the division office approves
it. the recommendation will then
be sent to Washington, D. c., head
quarters for final approval the
colonel continued. Then, if Wash
ington approves it, it is up to Con-
gress to make an appropriation for
the project"
CongreSSmen Favorable
Congressman j. Bayard Clark
and Senators Josiah Bailey and
Clyde R. Hoey have already gone
on record as greatly favoring" the
35-foot channel proposal.
The three officials were largely
responsible for getting the S1,000,-
900 appropriation for the 32-foot
channel project slated to get under
way here September l.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22

In a blanket transaction, Will
mington interests represented by
william G. Broadfoot have pur-
chased the entire capital stock of
the Professional Realty company
owner of the eight-story profess
sional building at 403 North Try
on street, in Charlotte, it was
learned yesterday.
Planned as a center where
physicians and members of allied
professions might have head
quarters with office and examina-
ton rooms, the building went under
construction in 1922. It was com.
in 1923 and the first occu-
pant moved in July l of that year.
Since then an eight-story wing
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORE ABOUT
COLLEGE
FROM PAGE ONE

college, Maxton; davidson college,;
Duke university; Edwards Military
Institute, Salemburg.
And johnson c. Smith univer-
sity, Charlotte; Bennett college,
Greensboro; Shaw university, Ra-
leigh; Agricultural and Technical
college. Greensboro; State Teach
ers college, and Barber-Scotia col
lege, Concord.
UNC ANNOUNCES PLANS
The greater University of North
Carolina announced tentative plans
to open college centers in coopera-
ton with other colleges at Will
mington, Winston-Salem, Charlotte,
Asheville, Greensboro, Raleigh.
Rocky Mount, G%oldsboro, and Gas
tonia.
Agricultural and Technical col
lege reported that it planned to
open at Asheville, Hickory, and
Greenville, and Fayetteville State
Teachers college reported it plan
ned a center at Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
KENTUCKY SAILOR
KILLED BY cop
Dock Policeman Says He
Reluctantly Shot Ad-
vancing Seaman

NEW ORLEANS, June 21.-Ug-
A 49-year old dock board patrol
man told police Friday that he re-
luctantly shot Merchant Seaman
Joel M. Latta to death after the
first three bullets failed to halt
his advance.
The patrolman, John Mills, was
booked for murder in connection
with the fatal shooting Thursday
night. police said.
The seaman, Mills told arresting
officers, entered a back room in
a saloon where Mills and a friend
were opening a bottle of liquor
Then Latta began cursing Mills.
Mills explained that Latta then
remarks were false, and Latta as
serted, Il knew you'd call me a
liar"
Shot in Leg
Mills explained that Latta then
started away, but turned suddenly
and advanced toward him. He
warned the seaman to stop. When
Latta kept advancing, Mills said
he shot him in the right leg.
When Latta continued to ad-
vance, Mills claimed, he fired
three more shots. On the final
round, the seaman dropped to the
floor.
Il didn't want to kill him." Mills
told police.
Residents at the house where
Latta stayed off and on for about
two years said they believed he
was from Kentucky and that his
mother lived somewhere in Flori.
da.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
CHARLOTTE SALT
Wilmington Men Buy
Queen City Building

has been added to the original
structure.
Facilities
With the ground floor occupied
by a drug store and several other
businesses, the facilities include
a medical library on the eighth
floor which is used by a large
percentage of the city's physicians.
and serves too as the meeting
place for the Mecklenburg County
Medical society. The remainder of
the building space is taken up by
offices, waiting rooms, examina-
ton rooms and laboratories of the
medical and allied professions.
The resident manager of the
Charlotte building will be R. W.
Cantwell, of Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORE ABOUT
PANDIT
FROM PAGE N

from the Kashmi- capital of Srini-
gar, for defying a state ban agains,
his entry.
It vas indicated now that Nehru
would soon be back in New Delhi
to take a leading part in negotia.
tons for a temporary Indian gov
eminent which is to function while
a constitution is being written.
Negotiations Difficult
Negotiations, which seemed
going smoothly a few days ago,
proved increasingly difficult. Field
Marshal Viscount Wavell, the vice
roy, was understood to have asked
both Azad and Mohammed Ali
Jinnah. Moslem league president,
to make known their definite de-
cisions. Azad was said to have
minated in reply that the Con-
gress party reserved the right to
nominate a Moslem member of the
party among it's men in the temp
orary government. He was also
said to have urged again the elm
nation of N. P. Engineer, one of
Wavelrs nominees. Engineer took
part in the prosecution of mem
bers of the Indian National
Army which fought for the Japa-
nese. Political quarters predicted
that the Congress party's accept
ance Or rejection of British temp
orary government proposals would
hlnge on Wavell's decision.
Before news came of Nehru's
release the Congress party execu-
tive met in emergency session to
consider the situation, and ten
sion was increasing in the big
cities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
C0NFEREES ALLOW
REVISED CEILING
Manufacturers Tc Get Ex-
ira Mark-Up To Cover
Added Costs

WASHINGTON, June 81. III
Congress members working the
OPA bill into final shape approved
a provision Friday revising price
ceilings to cover higher manufac-
turing costs and then took up the
question of removing certain con-
trolls entirely.
The Senate : House Conference
committee adopted with some mo
dlflcation the amendment by Sen
ator Taft R.-Ohio) which requires
that price ceilings for manufac-
turers must be high enough TO
cover their 1941 price plus the
average cost increases in their
industry since then.
Only Money Hike
The modification stipulates that
the resulting price increases pass
ed along to wholesalers. retailers
and consumers shall be only the
actual money increase. not the per-
centage increase. For examn1e if
a manufacturer gained a 10 per
cent increase on a 500 product so
that his price to the wholesaler be-
came $110, then the wholesaler
could raise his price to the retail
er by $1o-not by 10 per cent Of
s110, or $11.
However, in industries where the
already allows percentage
markdps and discounts, the ceiling
would be computed either under
these allowances or under the new
amendment, whichever would give
The higher price.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
LOW-FLYING PLANE
KILLS SWEETHEART
OF SHIPS PILOT

NEW LONDON, Mo-, June
21-(P)-Miss Betty Ann Lying,
20, was killed Friday by a
low-flying plane piloted by her
sweetheart Howard Hamp-
shire, 81, Hull, ILL.,, as she went
out to greet him at her farm
home south of here.
Robert E. Lying, the girls
father, said she was running
parallel to the planes course
when it. apparently hit an air
pocket and dipped toward the
ground.
The girl was caught in the
undercarriage Of the plane,
which crashed an instant later.
Hampshire, a World War II
veteran who had just complet-
ed his course for a private
pilots license, suffered head
and spinal injuries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
CONGRESSMAN
GOING TO BIKIN
Will Represent Committee,
Al Atom Bomb Test;
Leaving Today

WASHINGTON, June q. --(P-
To the envy of their colleagues.
at least ten congressman besides
the four officially invited by the
administration are going to Bikini
for the atomic bomb test.
Some already are anroute and
the rest will leave by plane Satur.
day. They are going in the capa.
city of representatives Of their
committees as follows:
Gordon Going
Senators Hickenlooper (R. -Iowa)
and Gordon sR.-Ore.) of the spe
cial Senate Atomic Energy com
mittee.
Reps. Rooney D.-NY), NorreI
D.-Ark), Engel R.-Mich) and
Gillespie (R.-Colo.) of the Houa
Appropriations committee.
Reps. Izacs D.-Calif.), Bradley
O.-Pa.), Bates (R.-Mass) and An
derson D.-CaIit of the House Nav
al committee.
Truman Appointees
Pre- sident Truman designatet
four congressman to witness thu
test as official members OF a com
mittee to evaluate the results. The
are Senators Hatch (D.-NM) ant
Saltonstal1 (R.-Mass.) and Reps
Andrews R.-NY) and Holitield
D.-Calif.) the latter a replace
ment for Chairman May D.,Ky.
OF the House Military committee,
At one time the invitation lis
was wide open and at least 50 O
so congressman were planning u
90.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22

ICC examiner, would be degratory
to this arrangement.
To Enter Opposition
Company officials pointed out
that from the date of the new de-
velopment on the matter, a 45-day
period in which exceptions to the
examiners recommendations may
/ entered, is allowed by the com
mission. He said that ACL will
most likely enter opposition to the
recommendation when it is I ought
again for public hearing which
will probably be held in Washing
ton, D. c.
The Coast Line c%ontended that
it's plan for uniting the FEC and
its line, will give better service
because of the l%atter's central po-
sition in the South Atlantic states,
and particularly because of ACL
facilities at Jacksonville, Fla,
southern terminus for ACL and
northern terminus for FEC.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
AUTO STRIKES CHILD

In an accident termed "unavoid-
able" by Investigating officers,
five-year-old Letha May KIM was
struck early last night by an auto
mobile before her Castle Hayne
home.
According to State Highway pa.
trolmen, the accident occurred
when the child ran from behind a
Queen City bus while it was dis
charging passengers and into the
path of a car driven by Earl C..
Raynor of Four Oaks.
The little girl was admitted to
James Walker Memorial hospital
where she was treated for minor
.ab-asions.
No arrest was made of the driv-
er.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
MORT O
PORK
FROM PAGE ONE

Compared with last falls
crop-from which the nation is
-. getting its present supply of
pork-the prospective crop is
down sharply. That crop totaled
IS, IA, 900 head. The 1854
average was 1928, 900 head.
In planning a smaller fall crop.
farmers were influenced by a short
age of corn and other feed and a
somewhat less favorite price rela-
tionship between feed and fattened
hogs than has prevailed heretofore.
Foreign Channels
The government recently in
creased ceiling prices on grain to
direct it from livestock bins to for
eign relief channels.
The department said the fall crop
forecast gave no consideration to
possible removal or relaxation of
price controls on meats and live
stock. An OPA extension bill as
passed by the senate would eli
inmate such controls after June 80.
A removal of price controls might
result in higher prices for hogs and
a larger fall pig crop than fore
cast, but in less grain for human
consumption both at home and for
export.
Winters Supply
The department reported this
years spring crop at 1924, 900
head. Anderson's goal was So, 000,-
900. Last years crop was 51,570, 900
and the 1854 average was 49, $780,
900. The spring crop will start NOV
ing to market about September AMI
will provide the nations pork sup
DIV through the fall and most of
the winter.
Although the spring crop is slight
ly larger than that of a year ago,
it may not provide as many pounds
of pork. Farmers have been mar
keting hogs at lighter weights be-
cause of the shortage OF iced.
The combined spring and fall
crops would give a 1916 production
of 80, $40, 900 head - compared with
86, 5e8. 900 last year, with the re-
cord of 121. 900, 900 in 1943, and with
a 1884. average of 50, $50. ooo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-22
Hitler Persecution
Held Up Atom PLAN

June q. 49,
Hitler's policies Of perSecu'll
hampered German expefimsD.
for use of atomic energy, 1oTnls
Nazi Munitions Minister APE.
Speer admitted to the lnterhS'l0D
al Military Tribunal Friday -,
Questioned specifically by Jul
tice Robert H. jackson about a n[,.
ic energy, Speer replied l os
fortunately, the two scientists WI
knew the most about it had g0I
from Germany"