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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

Mr.. Molotov does not disagree
with Mr.. Byrnes that in principle
Germany should be administered
as. an economic unit under q cen
trail German government which
can work out "a balanced
economy to provide the necessary
means to pay for approved i'm
ports" A central, government
which is located in Berlin and is
sovereign over the whole of Ger
many is exactly what the Russian
policy calls for. It is the kind Of
government which suits the cen
tralized Communist party, and the
German militarists and bureau
Gratis who will be no more squea-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
|BLADEN WRECKS
CLAIM TWO LIVES
State Weekend Death Toll
Mounting; Plane
Crashes
Especial to The Starr

ELIZABETHTOWN, Sept. IS. -
Two fatal accidents late Saturday
night and early Sunday morning
brought Bladen county's accident
death toll to four for the week.
Ransom Pope, 60, was killed in
stantly late Saturday night when
a car driven by Edward Seasons,
80, struck Pope in the back as he
walked along the highway one mile
from Elizabethtown. Pope was
thrown approximately 48 feet by
the impact.
Seasons is being held under ST.
900 bond pending a grand jury in
vestigation of the accident.
Early Sunday morning Mrs. l..
v. Jackson, SIS, of Greensboro, "a
fatally injured when the automob-
lie in which she was riding collid-
ed with a car within the city limits
of ElizabethtoWn. w. N. Martin,
See BLADEN on Page Two.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

that, despite recent living cost
rises, this years agency budgets
averaged only four per cent in
GREASE over 1916.
Rise Necessary
"That rise was deemed vitality
necessary to permit Red Feather
agencies to maintain their present
level of SERVICE" a spokesman for
the chest said yesterday. "Our
studies indicate that rent costs
alone are already up 1871 per cent,
food up 27.59 per cent and increas-
ed salaries to retain present per-
sonnet are up 1915 per cent"
In releasing the individual bud
gets of the Red Feather agencies
and the USO, Whites committee
appended explanations of each
See CHEST On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
SIS PanA1noco
Saves 18From
SeaDisaster
MART II, 7,417-Ton Ship
Breaks In Two During
Storm On Friday
PLANES SPOT RATS
Two Halves OF Vessel Still
Afloat Yesterday, Coast
Guard Reports

NEW YORK, Sept. Is -W.D
The Gulf tanker Gulf Hawk
reported Sunday might that 1t
had taken aboard six survivors
from a floating life raft and
phia, the Coast Guard report
was proceeding to 2hiladel-
ed here.
The Gulf Hawk messaged
the Coast Guard here that 1t
has the life raft alongside, and
at $3.50 reported to a ply
plane from Elizabeth City
that the survivors were
aboard.
CITY, Sept
Is. -(U.P.)- The MART IL,
7,417-ton tanker out of Aren-
day, Norway, broke in half
at noon Friday 145 miles east
southeast of here during a
tropical hurricane and IL or
10 persons of a crew of 40
were lost, the U. S. Coast
Guard reported Sunday night.
Eighteen survivors had
been picked up by the S. S. Pan
Amoco, an American Oil tanker,
and one of nine searching planes
reported that it had spotted a life
raft 80 miles due east of Manteo,
N. c., and that three or four per-
sons were aboard it. 1t was not re-
ported whether they appeared to
be alive or dead. The Pan Amoco
was headed in the direction of the
life raft.
The survivors aboard the Pan
See AMOCO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
South Carolina = Considerable cloudi-
ness, occasional light rain over south
and west portions, little change in tenn
perature Monday, scattered showers ex-
North Carolina - Little change in tenn
ptrature Monday, scattered showers ex-
treme west portion.
(By u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
temperatures
1880 a. m. So; 1880 a. m. go; 30 p. m.
rs; 1880 p. m. 10. Maximum n; Min
imum So; Mean IS. Normal 70.
Humidity
1880 a. m. "a; 1880 a. m. 81; 1:30 p. m.
SO; 1880 p. m. 70.
Pr~ecipitatiin
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. n.
o inches.
Total since the first of the month,
inches.
ides For Today
High Low
WllmlnAton ------- l :05 am. 8:06 am.
1:40 pm. sos pm.
Inlet --11:26 am. SOP am.
11:48 pm. 5:45 pm.
Sunrise 5:56; Sunset 6:18; Moonriss
1858 p. NJ; Moonset 11:28 a. m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c.. al
8 a. m. (missing) feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

Terms;
" --
Set By Union
N.M.U. Couples Demands.
With Those OF Two West
Coast Organizations
FARLEY Is DENIED
Watches Withdrawn From
All Vessels AT Piers In
Major Eastern Cities
BY The Associated Press

By The Associated Press
Efforts to end the strike of
the CLIO National Maritime
union failed yesterday when
east coast ship operators
termed negotiations futile
so long as the NMU coupled
it's demands with those Of two
west coast unions and refused
to continue discussions until
security watches withdrawn
by the NM were restored.
The NMU has announced that it
will not return to work until the
west coast Marine. Cooks and
Stewards union (C1O) and the in
dependent Marine Firemen's
union obtain wage increases equal
ling those made possible for the
ALL Seamen's unions under Stab
ilization Director John r. Steel
mans ruling last week.
West soast ship owners have
refused to negotiate. with these
two unions.
The east operators also broke off
negotiations, besause their spokes-
men, Frank j. Taylor said, the
NMU withdrew security watches
from ships against which they ire
striking, leaving them unguarded
from fire and other potential
perils."
To Stay Out
NMU President Joseph M. Cur
ran said, 1--WE are going to stay
on strike until every seamen gets
the same wage deal as was given
to AFL men. We call on the gov
eminent to come in and show its
impartiality by insisting that
every get the same wages"
NEW YORK, Sept. Is - (P -
Operator-union negotiations in
New York City's two week strike
of $4,000 truckers today brought
the dispute no closer to settle
ment and an operator skopesman
said there seems to be little hope
for a negotiated settlement"
Mayor WilliamO Dwyer said
that his six-man advisory commit
tee was unable to bring about sue
cessful conclusion of its alks with
acknowledgement representa-
tives.
Joseph M. Adellizi, operator
spokesman, said employers stood
by their proposal to refer the
wage dispute to arbitration, and
added in a statement:
I'VE will take the man back to
work, paying them retroactively
in conformity with arbitration, or
they may stay on the streets if
thew choose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

~. long-extended efforts Of
<asineton and New Hanover
p..v to have a Caribbean
& American air route flown
d Bluethenthal airport will
IN a climax today or to-
..sov when Lieut.. Col. Henry
: oovd. traffic manager of the
I,.,in gton Port Traffic a%ssocia-
W takes the stand in the re-
.,,ins of the controversial
..sasan case before the Civil
.'.o.autics borad in Washington
Wv, acknowledgement. airlines
c'lOnial and Eastern-are re-
wv, TO be the chief contenders
+s fight to get the nod of ap-
l.,rs1 from the CAB for the pro-
!...d route designed to weld
sington, Atlantic City, Nor
a. Elizabeth City, New Bern.
rrr1,,ington. Myrtle Beach, George
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
Today and TOMORROW
By WALTER .LIPPMANN

mish than were Hitler and Rib
bentrop in making a deal with Mr..
Molotov.
/ That is why Mr.. Molotov is so
vehemently opposed to the feder-
alization of Germany. 1t would
make it so much more difficult to
control Germany from Berlin.
He must be very much pleased
to find that Mr.. Byrnes has now
IN fact, though not in name, aban-
doned the federal solution which
mad such a promising start in the
American zone. For it was against
the federal solution that Mr.. Molo-
See LIPPMANN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
PLAN
YOUTH GUIDANCE
Local Civic Club To Aid
Juvenile Court With
Counsel Service

Organization of a Youth Guild
ance council, which will cooperate
with the local juvenile court If
offering the advice and counsel Of
successful young business men te
individual problem" boys, was
announced by the Wilmington Civil
tan club yesterday through its
president. Lloyd Jackson.
The new council, which current
ly consists Of six Civilian club
members, has already gone to
work on the first of a series OF
cases which will be directed to its
attention by Mrs. Sarah A. Layton,
juvenile court clerk here, jackson
said.
Members Of the group will deal
with each case on the basis Of
influence and guidance, and Will
in no sense sit as a jury on the
boys who are sent to them, the
Civilian leader declared.
In a majority of cases a men,
Der Oh ulG Suiooii.S NS"'iIH wa
be assisted to act as 4 big brother
to a boy whose difficulties it has
taken under consideration.
DR.. Gilbert c. Anderson, chair
man of the Civitan projects COM
mittee, conceived the plan and
will serve as chairman Of the coun-
Gil, Jackson said.
Membership in the group will be
rotated among local Civilians with
two councilmen to be replaced
every two months. Present per-
sonnet of the council consists OF
John X. Ward, W. A. Raney,
Louie E. Woodbury., Jr., Ben G.
Merritt; Tom Lawther, and DR..
ANIarcoo
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
Possibility OF Third War
Remote, Spot-C Check Shows

The recent trend of international
events has been toward a global
balance-of-power, superseding the
10th century thesis of a European
balance-of-power, but powerful
economic and social forces are at
work to keep international rival
ries upon a diplomatic rather than
combat plane.
These conclusions Of the United
Press correspondent were derived
from informal conversations with
10 experts in the government and
diplomatic corps whose daily work
requires their routine attention to
relations with Soviet Russia.
| See POSSIBILITY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
THIRTY-sEvEN INJURED

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. IS. -U.H
Thirty-seven persons were injur-
ed, four seriously, when a six-car
troop train collided with a freight
train at Lupfer, Mont, a Crest
Northern railroad official announc-
ed today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
UNITY PARTY LEADS

BERLIN, Monday, Sept. 16. Up
= Early returns Sunday gave the
Soviet-backed, communist-dominat
ed Socialist Unity Party (SED- a
two-to-one plurality over its two
major opponents in Saturdays
concluding elections in the Rus.
sian occupation zone of Germany,
held in the predominantly agricult-
ural province Of Brandenburg and
the state of Mecklenburg.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

Thousands of Americans are
asking: "Is a Third World war
in nrospect?" Harry w. Frantz'
veteran United Press CORE
snondent and foreign expert,
gives the answer in the follow
inc dispatch based on a care
fu1 survey of reliable govern
ment and diplomatic quarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
nv HARRY w. FRANTz.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15-N.D-
The possibility of a Ihiro muiad
War Is remote, but a long period
~ complicated and frequently
nerve-wracking diplomacy Is III
prospect, according to a consensus
Of diplomatic opinion here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09

 SYSTEM I5
 BEST EVER
President Tells Teen -agers Republic Is Good
 for 1000 Years

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Presi- dent Truman told a. group of youthful students of government today that he believes the American Republic is good for a thousand years"
 When people ask what the gov ernment of the United States is, it is you" he told the boys, drawn here from all parts of the country by the American Legion.
 "The government is the people. We only represent what we believe to be the opinion of the majority of the people. When I act as Presi- dent of the United States, when we act as Senators. when we act as Congressmen, we are merely ex- pressing what we believe to be the views of the majority.
 When the majority is overturn- ed, the other fellow gets chance to express his views. And that is what constitutes a Republic"
 Saying he has studied the Ameri- can government since he was a teen-ager himself, MT. Truman ad- ded: T don't think a finer system was ever created in the history of the world"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
EMPLOYMENT
 STRIKES TOP

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. = Int Census Bureau said today that em- ployment passed the celebrated 60,. 000,000 jobs figure during July counting in the armed forces
 July attainment Of d record higt of 58,130,G00 in civilian employment almost 100000 above a year age was reported. The armed forces had another 2,64O,o0o on theil payrolls.
 (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace said in an interview Aug 3 that the postwar goal outlined in his book sixty million jobs" is now achieved numerically; he .saiJ 1t was due to inflationary pressures however, and had none of the sta hility he advocated for an enduring prosperity.
 At the same time, unemployment went down to the lowest figure Tor l946 at a total Of 2,Z70,000, bul this too, was a big increase over July a year ago, just before the Japanese surrender, when 830,00( were hunting jobs.
 More than 100000 veterans were among the unemployed who were seeking jobs last month, and an other 100000 former servicemer were at school or not yet working nor looking for work" {"
 Increasing difficulty for job seek CTS had been looking in vain as lcng as four months. A year ago only one in twelve was in that po- sition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
Prices Are
 SoaringU Up

WASHINGTON, Aug. g. = The Bureau of Labor Statistics said today that the 138 percent rise in retail food prices from June Is to July Is was the greatest monthly change it ever recorded.
 The largest prior increase was nine percent from March to April, 1917 This July's food prices av- eraged 77 percent above August, 1889, and almost Is percent above August, l945.
 At the time of the July survey, it is noted, subsidies had been re- moved and no OPA controls were in effect. It said food prices have declined slightly since OPA controls were re-established.
 In mid-July retail meat prices had increased 30 percent, dairy products 21 percent and other foods 37 percent.
 Labor is now deciding on press ing for new wage increases to catch up with the rising prices Various large unions are going to take votes on making future de mands and for how much.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
PALESTINE IS TO BE
 BL0CkADED

LONDON, l.ug. 9.-The British government apparently was busy today arranging land, air and sea forces for imposition of blockade on unauthorized Jewish immigra- tion into Palestine.
 A foreign office spokesman said Britain had requested the Russian and Rumanian governments to do everything possible to stop the en- barkation of immigrants from Con- stanza and other Rumanian ports. Similar representations have been made to France, Italy, Czechoslova- kia and Poland urging them to stop the movement of Palestine-b bound Jews at the source. The spokesman said one ship was now in Rumanian waters waiting for a load of immi- grants.
 The cruiser Ajax arrived at Haifa Harbor, Palestine, where the fate of 1,500 immigrants aboard ships was still undecided. They have not been allowed to land although they arrived several days ago.
 Dispatches from the island fort ress of Malta in the Mediterran- can said all units of the British Mediterranean fleet was preparing to rendezvous in Grecian waters for a summer cruise" a maneuver that would put them in position to intercept Palestine-bound ships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
SURVEY PARTY OF NV AIRLINES TO
 COME SATURDAY

SEATTLE, Aug. 9.-A Northwest Airlines survey party will leave to- morrow morning for Anchorage, to complete arrangements for hangar space, accommodations and radio in stallations on the newly authorized North Pacific air route.
 Service will begin within thirty days, VIVA said, and the air line plans daily service to Anchorage. DC-4s will be used on the run.
 Included in the party heading north tomorrow are w. Fiske Mar shall, vice president, operations; John F. Woodhead, operations man ager; T. w. Cumminns, flight di- rector; w. A. Schultz. assistant sup erintendent of ground radio main tenance; K. D. Mckenzie, agency manager; c. Wesley Archbold, di- rector of food service; Dudley Cox, chief pilot, western region; A. T. Peterson, superintendent of stations; Ralph Nelson, pilot; Chet M Brown, assistant superintendent. Air Line Service, and William c. Speidel, Jr., publicity representative.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
RECORD BREAKING
 CROPS INDICATED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Condi- tions on August l are said by the Agriculture Department to indi- cate record breaking crops of B. 496, ,820,000 bushels of corn and l. 160, 1866, ,000 bushels of wheat.
 This corn estimate compares with 3,487 ,976,000 bushels indicated on July IS. with 3,018.410,000 produced last year and with a ten-year 1935-44 average of 2,608, ,499, ,000 bushels. The previous record crop was 3,2O3,310,O00 bushels produced in 1944.
 The forecast on wheat compared with 1,132,075,0 ,000 bushels indicated on July IS, with 1,223,143 900 bush els in 1945, and with a ten-year average of 843,692 ,00o. The 1945 crop was the largest on record up to that time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
WAS VANCOUVER GIRL

VANCOUVER, B. O., Aug. B. Miss Edna Rose Ritchings, 21-year- old white girl who married Father Divine, 41, Negro religious leader, lived in Vancouver until last year. the Canadian Press says.
 Miss Ritchings, member of Father Divines flock for three years, was student at MaGee High School here. The Canadian Press described her as the daugh- ter of Mir and Mrs. c. A. Ritchings, of Vancouver
 Ritchings is a florist. Miss Rit- chings went to Montreal last year and was married in April, when she became 21 years of age.
 w. H. Fenton, operator of a Commercial School where Miss Rit- chings was pupil, described her as a pleasant girl.
 "She was one of the finest per sonalities I've had the pleasure oi meeting" said MT. Fenton. He said she was a student at his school two years ago.
 Her parents received first word of her marriage in radio news broadcast. They were unavailable for comment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
PROBE OF PAPER
 EMPIRE" PROFITS
 ROW IN FADE-0UT
Mead Inquiry Ends When II Appears Rep. May
 Nof to Testify

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-The cur tain fell today on the Senate War Investigating Committees weird wartime drama involving a paper empire, mysterious munitions mak- CTS, dancing generals and a law maker too i'll to speak his piece
 It was an anti-climactic ending to a six week story of high pro- fits and influence which riled son. sation atop sensation as the com- mittee pried into the wartime Op- erations of munitions combine and the kelp it received from Rep May (D-Ky0.
 For May, chairman of the House Military committee, was hundreds of mics away-under physicians care in his Prestonburg (Ky) home-on this day when he was to have ex- plained, under oath, why he help ed the combine obtain big war contracts.
 A formal report from Drs. John  c. and George P. Archer, the Ken lucky legislators physicians. said that May is suffering from heart trouble and general physical ex- haustion and that the must have an indefinit period of rest, quiet and careful attention"
 Addressed "To Whom It May Concern" the report erased tke committees last lingering hope ot hearing May before the end of Sep tember, if then.
 Officials close to the committee expressed doubt that a new sub poena would be issued for Mays appearance, or that his testimony would be taken unless he agrees to appear voluntarily.
 May, II. has said he did aid the combine, but only to further. the war effort He denied profiting in any way himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
Engineers Hearing
 Al Anchorage Is Off

SEATTLE, Aug. 9.-With all public meetings at Anchorage ban ned by the diphtheria epidemic, the Army Engineer public hear ings to discuss navigation and hy- dro-electric development there was postponed indefinitely, the Engin- eers' Seattle office reported.
 The Anchorage meeting was scheduled for yesterday
 Col L. H. Hewitt, District En- gineer, Seattle District U. s. Army Engineers, concludes a series of eight public hearings to obtain views of Alaskan residents on river and harbor improvements with a hearing today at Nome.
 Residents of Seldovia requested a small boat harbor, protected by a Ereakwater, and residents of Hom- CT requested a small boat harbor at public hearings in those Alaska cities Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
PLANES RUSH AID, STRICKEN QUAKE AREAS
Second Tremors Are Worse than Last Sunday-
 Deaths Increase

PoRT 1AsIU;nIsINCE, Haiti, Aug. 9.-Planes rushed help today to stricken areas of Haiti. the Domin- ican Republic and Puerto Rico, shaken anew yesterday by earth tremors described as worse in some regions than those which cost at least 30 lives last Sunday.
 The fresh shocks - believed to come from a shift in the bed of the Atlantic Ocean at it's deepest point, 28,680 feet, about 50 miles northeast of the Dominican Repub- lic-sent another tidal wave smash ing across leveled towns of the Dominican Republic and spread panic among residents of many sec tions. No casualty figures were available
 Towns along Mona Passage-the rough stretch of the sea separating the Dominican Republic and Puer- to Rico-appeared to be hardest hit by the tidal wave. Matanzas,  on the Dominican northeast coast, felt the full force of the wave, but many residents of that town all ready had fled to the interior. Earlier reports said 424 houses were destroyed in Matanzas Sunday.
 Many buildings which withstood the previous shock-the Vuyando Observatory in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said there had been 158 since Sunday-crumbled during a 40- second tremor yesterday morning and reports from the Dominican Republic said panic-stricken people jumped from balconies to the street. Frightened residents refused to spend the night in their homes and stretched out in the open.
 In Haiti, which jointly occupies Hispaniola Island with the Dom- inican Republic, the tremors knock ed pedestrians off their feet, while in the Puerto Rican towns of Aguadilla and Mayaguez panic de- veloped. In Ponce, on the Puerto Rican south coast, school children rushed from classrooms.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
S0VIETS LOSE ANOTHER ROUND IN FIGHT
800 ARE STRANDED ON GAMBLING SHIP
 IN LEGAL BATTLE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.-One lone water taxi, carrying passen- gers each way, was operating today between Long Beach and Tony Cor neros gambling ship where some 800 patrons are stranded in legal battle between Cornero and author itieS.
 Long Beach City Prosecutor Al Ramsey said he was letting the taxi make the run to avoid any charge that he is completely shutting the ship off from land
 The Coast Guard Cutter Yank- ton was dispatched to the Bunker Hill to remove a person reported by radio to be suffering from acute appendicitis.
 A throng of persons was lined up on the Bunker Hills landing plat form, somewhat bewildered by de- velopments and hoping for chance to get home. Others continued to gamble. There was plenty of food and the bar was fairly busy. There was a lack of chairs on board and some dozed off standing up.
 Cries of They can't do this to us' Where is Admiral Cor nero" I'll never come aboard another gambling ship = Break out the lifeboats and let's swim for it. were heard by reporters from the crowd on the landing platform
 Cornero, arrested earlier and re- leased on bond told officials:
 You've impounded the boats (water taxis). You get the patrons off"