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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02

considerable important business
was transacted.
Following inspection of the M.
E. Coyle championship trophy to
be awarded to the winner OF the
Wilmington race to be co-sponsored
BY the Star-News and Raney
Chevrolet company, and the rae
ing helmets which contestants will
use during the race and retain aft
e.ward. the committee got down
to business on a number OF mat
tiers.
Clinic Assured
Definite arrangements were COM
pleted for a pre-race clinic to be
held at the Y. M. C. A., gymna-
SUM on a date to be announced
Wednesday. Mechanics from the
Raney Chevrolet staff will be on
hand to explain brakes mecf1an-
ism, steering cables, wheel align
ment and other subjects for the
benefit of Wilmington boys who are
building, or expect to build, racers
for the Derby here. Prior to Der
BY day, all boys will be given an
opportunity to test their cars for
the race under supervision of Com
mitteeman Adam Smith.
The pre-race clinic will be open
to all boys who have already sign
ed entry blanks and those who ex-
pect to do SO before now and
race day. There will be no ad-
mission charge of any kind and
the instruction outlined for the
clinic should prove of value 70
every Derby contestant.
Sponsors Sought
In order that more boys will
have an opportunity to compete
for the fine prizes here and a trip
to the finals at Akron, Ohio, for
the winner, the Advisory commit
tee took steps to secure additional
sponsors for boys among business
nrns of the city and service clubs
and other organizations. Sheriff {.
David Jones and Adam Smith were
named as a committee of two to
contact names on a tentative list,
while representatives of service
clubs on the committee promised
70 take up the matter OF sponsor
snip at their next club meetings.
Committee action also authorized
immediate negotiations to secure
"a further supply of custom-bull
wheel and axle sets to be sold II
Derby contestants at cost AID al
See DERBY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
COUNCIL REEVES
ISSUE ON POWER
City Officials To Press
Petition For Lower
Rates

The city council will immediate
ly revive its efforts to get lower
power rates from the Tide Water
Power company, city officials in
dictated yesterday.
Revival of the power-rate con-
troversy issues from the fact that
the power rate company has now
finished its fiscal year.
Review Planned
Last spring, after the city coua-
Gil protested to the State Utilities
commission that the company's
rate reduction were 'insuficient
and unreasonable" the commits.
sion promised to review the COM
See POWER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
MINNOWs, GOATS LIVE
Atom Bomb Destroys
Half OF Target Ships

scientific evaluation of the
bombs destructive force APP
Piled to Naval surface craft
riding dead duck at close
anchorage, three ships went
down, a fourth was hit SO hard
it was expected to sink and 81
others were scorched, set afire
or twisted in hull or super
structure.
But as fire-fighting and
damage control and estimate
crews probed last night and
this morning almost to the ex-
act target center and fought
See ATOM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
HOUSE SENDS STOP-GA CONTROL BILL.
77HOLDOPAPOWERS, BACKTOSENATE
: TTOA
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Merchants Here Seek
To Avert Initiation

(Which all merchants agreed
is the only means of stabilizing
retail trade and supplying local
consumers with needed COM
modities), the president said
that already it has been made
known the nation has the larg-
est supply of cattle ever re-
cored, ready for the cnosum-
ers as soon as they can be
processed.
The Wilmington Retail Mer-
chants Association, taking quick
action to torres AL any loeol
attempt at sudden rise in
prices, went on record at a
special meeting, to the effect
that there must not be any
rise in prices, except those
which would ultimately grow
out of manufacturers demands,
and those which will have to
See MERCHANTS on Page Thre,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
BY PHIL WRIGHT

Business as usual was the
watchwocd among Wilmington
merchants last night as the
city prepared to take the sec
ond day of OPAless operations
in its stride.
And the main bright spot in
the entire city came from j.
c. Parker, president of the Will
mington Retail Grocers Asso-
citation, who said that although
there may be some slight in
creases in prices, for a short
time only, the city is assured
of more beef very soon," and
the supply of butter, a COM
modify which has recently be-
come practically extinct here.
will be "as much as WE actual
ly need"
Production Incentive
Hailing the dropping of OPA
legislation powers as an "in-
centive for more production
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02

by administration warnings OF
sleeper increases to come, the
house passed the temporary bill
and rushed it along to the senate
after three hours of debate.
O'Daniels Blocks
But it was stopped cold in the
upper chamber by Sen. w. Lee
CPappy) O'Daniel, 3D., Tex who
announced he would block debate
on the legislation until Friday and
then would filibuster against it
until the end of time"
O'Daniel said he was opposed
even to a return Of rent controls,
which some administration whips
See OPA on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
BY ROLAND DOPSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
Ca, July L.
(UP)-Rent hikes of from 10
to 200 per cent and a S125
jump in automobile prices
were reported in the South
Monday as civic groups and
local governments turned to
moral pressure and stop-gap sta
See PRICES On Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
Nv JOSEPH L. MYLER

BY JOSEPH L.. l.
United Press Staff Correspondent
Aboard U. S. S. Mt. McKin-
ley in Bikini Lagoon, Tuesday,
July 2.-The atom bomb test
explosion sank or damaged half
of the 73-ship target fleet in
Bikin lagoon but failed to
kill some of the goats left
aboard the battleship Pennsyl-
vania and fish still were SWIM
ming placidly today IN radio
active waters.
Precise EvaluatiOn
In history's fourth explosion
of natures fashionable ele-
ments, this time a precise,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
CLINIC ASSURED
CLINIC ASSURED
Derby Contestants
To Mechanics

Plans for the Wilmington Soap Box Derby on July 81
over the Rankin street derby Downs" course were further
advanced yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Advisory
committee at The Star-News office. While illness and prior
engagements kept a few of the members from attending,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 1.-(UP)-The house Monday
night approved a stop-gap bill resurrecting OPA and con-
tinuing all it's old powers until July 20, but strong opposition
in the senate threatened to block a return of price and rent
controls for a week or more.
Spurred by word of sharp price rises in the few hours
since the old control laws died at midnight Sunday, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02
FORECAST


Wilmington and Vicinity: Partly cloudy
showers and thunderstorms
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-02

See BUDGET On Page Three
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See w on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
LEGION
FROM PAGE ONE

1--WE have a potential member
ship Of more than 400, 900 in North
Carolina, and it is u job to sell
the Legion and what 1t means for
the veteran Younts said in an
nouncing plans to increase Legion
membership in North Carolina
from 1000 to more thar 100, 900.
C. w. Nixon offered a motion
which the committee approved-to
"reemphasize" a resolution adopt
ed at the Legion convention in
Winston-Salem to do everything
possible" to stop ''black market"
practices N the building industry
when it is at the expense of the
veteran trying to build a home.
Ask Leniency
The committee placed before the
administration committee a mo-
ton to petition the Legion's ma
tional convention, which meets at
San Francisco next month, to ask
the Veterans administration for a
more lenient' Interpretation of a
$500 ceiling for married veterans
and $175 for unmarried veterans
recently placed on the on-the-job
training program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
BRIDGES
FROM PAGE N
Bolt Sears Homes

Hail the size of marbles and a
freak bolt of lightning that scar
ed two Harbor Island houses while
vaulting another were the high
lights of the storm that hit Wrights-
vile beach at 4:30 a. m. yesterday
In Wilmington proper, city po-
lice reported that they had closed
four bridges that remained under
water throughout Sunday as a re-
suit of rain inundation.
The early morning rains, which
reached their height in violence at
dawn and continued at a slow
drizzle throughout the day, had
forced the blocking off Of bridges
on Princess Street road above 18th
Street, at Mercer Avenue, at 22nd
and Chestnut Stress, and on Lake
Drive at the 400 block Princess
Street.
Water stood in deep pools before
Winter Park houses facing Wrights-
vile Avenue yesterday.
R. L. Benson, sWrightsville Beach
town clerk, reported that the Is
minute hails..orm which hit the
beach at dawn was the first in his
memory.
Big As Marbles
IT picked up a hailstone as big
as a marble on my front porch this
morning." he declared.
The Harbor Island homes Of Guy
Davis and c. w. Mills were smash
ed by a lightning bolt which
struck the chimney on the north
side of the Davis house, ran down
through the bedroom occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis, leaped over
he cottage of R. L. Kermon, coun-
ty assemblyman elect, struck the
chimney of the Mills home and ran
down into its living-room fireplace.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis YER slightly
injured by falling glass, witnesses
reported. Their chimney-top was
wrecked, and the north second
story roof of their house ripped off.
An incipient fire which started in
the bedroom clothes closet was
checked by the heavy rain.
Bolt Burns Roof
A less direct lightning hit burn
ed off a four-foot strip in the roof
of a cottage at 405 S. Lumina Ave
nue., Wrightsville, occupied by Her
man We'll. of Goldsboro. Mrs. Wei
reported seeing the ball of electric
fire that accompanied the strike,
Winds of a 30-mile velocity &C.
companied the Wrightsville pyro-
technical display.
Hess reported that formations
over Carolina Beach yesterday af-
ternoon indicated a slight local
disturbance moving Northeast.
Early morning winds hit 25-miles-
an-hour at Carolina with high seas
raging all day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
ACCIDENT
--@- ~n1r aNE
FROM PAGE ONE

the Army. Six Of the injured were
treated. aboard their vessel n
later removed in an Army ambul-
ance to the Marine hospital at
Staten Island. Two others were
removed from the Midland Victory
and taken to the same hospital.
Three Put Ashore
Three men, apparently suffering
from shock and exposure. were
put ashore from the Midland
Victory at Hoboken, N. ].
There was no immediate ex-
PLANTATION of the cause of The col
lision. ~
Jerry Sutherland, 20-year-old
able seaman of Brooklyn, one OF
hree men rescued by a lifeboat
rev from the Midland victory
aid he had just come off watcil
nd was making coffee when l
card a rumbling noise and was
lrown off balance"
Sutherland said he ran from the
galley to the deck, released a life
raft and jumped over the deck
rail onto the raft. He said he
was "adxift maybe 80 minutes or
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
DREDGE
@SsYn 49,
zNes-ss.
FROM PAGE ONE

might be lost in completing the
project as a result Of the explosion.
Warner said the Pennsylvania 10
in poor shape, although Mercer in
Dictated that original estimates Of
$4,000 in damages may have been
pitched too high.
The Elliott company engineer
conferred by long distance tele.
phone last night with his home Of
flee in Ganette, Pa, but his dis
cussions brought no definite word
as to the speed with which the
Pennsylvania a be repaired.
AS an executive of the company
in charge of the dredging opera
ton, Warner said that he would
await final word on the Pennsyl-
vania's condition before announcing
whether another dredge would be
brought in to replace her.
May Cause Delay
In any case, the Pennsylvania
breakdown seems certain to cause
some delay in completion of the
basin, deadline for which is De-
cember l.
Close to 1000, 600 yards of ma
terial still must be dredged from
the Brunswick's bottom. The Penn
s%ylvania, as the largest dredge east
Of the Mississippi river, has aver
aged a million yards a month since
May.
She was capable of pumping O.
600 yards an hour over an 18-hour
day.
Two members of the Pennsyl-
vania's crew we're within ten feet
of her turbine at the time it gave
way but sustained no injuries.
Kenneth Startling. assistant engi-
neer, and Willie Pelletier, eiler. the
two engine-man on watch at the
time of the blast, escaped uninjur-
ed in an explosion intense enough
to break the %seven-inch roto shaft
extending through the turbine and
twist 1t beyond recognition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
BODY
FROM PAGE ONE

til July "a, 1915, when it was sen
to the bottom by carrier planes
at the Kure Naval base.
Al the time, the War department
announced in a communicate that
General Douglas Macarthur con-
firmed the sinking of an enemy
battleship north of Luzon. Kelly
and his bomber crew, who had
made an attack against heavy
odds in their BIZ bomber, were
credited with the feat. A more
cautions subsequent announcement
said they scored three direct hits.
Returning from the attack
against the enemy armada land
ing troops for the invasion of the
Philippines, Kelly's plane r she'd
into Mount Arayat, five miles east
of his base at Clark field, on Lu-
zon. Six members of the crew
'bailed out. The remains now iden-
titled as Kelly's were found near
the body of Tech Sgt. William J.
Delehanty, Brooklyn, N. Y, which
was identified by his metal identl-
fication tags.
Bore No Tags
Kelly's body bore no Identified
ton tags, Tentative identification
was made by a Filipino who testi-
fled he heard an army sergeant
say that's Captain Kelly" but
conclusive proof awaited the end
OF the war, the War department
said.
Maj. Gen. Thomas B. Larkin,
Army Quartermaster general,
said there can be no question"
as to the final Identification, which
was made with the aid of informa-
ton supplied by Kelly's widow,
row Mrs. j.. Watson Pedlow,
Media, Penn, and by his father,
Colin P. Kelly, ST., of Madison,
Fla.
A native of MONTICELLO, Fla,
Kelly was a 1887 graduate of the
Military Academy and two years
later became a military pilot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
MCREYNOLDS
FROM PAGE N

aging McReynolds, then rs, was
compelled for reasons of health to
give up in his desire to remain on
the bench long enough to prevent
Mr.. Roosevelt from naming his
successor. As it turned out, he out
lived Mr.. Roosevelt.
The crusty J.rist was the most
uayielding of the conservative"
bloc OF the court of the '30's oppos-
ing Mr.. Roosevelt's legislative pro-
gram. He voted against every New
Deal case that came before the
court. He cast the courts lone dis
sent against the IVA.
Lived Quietly
After retirement, McReynolds
continued to live quietly in his
eight room apartment in a hotel on
Washington's 18th st. Embassy
Row." He vas a bachelor and never
active in the capitals social life.
In his latter years, McReynolds
was forced to give up golf and his
beloved duck hunting. He substi-
tuted frequent walks.
One of his last public appear
ances was as honorary pallbeare-
at the state funeral for Chief JUS
tice Harlan F. Stone last April.
After retirement, McReynolds
continued to visit the Supreme
Court private barber shop-but he
seldom made any other stops
around the building except fo- an
occasional courtly twittling of the
court employees in the office of the
clerk and marshal.
Just before his last illness, Nc
Reynolds vacationed at fashionable
Hot Springs, Va.
McReynolds was born at Elkton,
KY, Feb. 3, 1862, the 0 of a
prosperous secessionist doctor. He
took undergraduate work at Wand
erbilt university and his law degree
at the University of Virginia, gradu-
ating at the head of both classes.
"Gold Democrat"
In 1896, he ran for Congress as a
Gold Democrat and was defeated
by an opponent who called him a
silk stocking candidate"
He developed a successful law
practice at Nashville, Tenn. and in
1908 came to the Justice depart
ment where he proved n OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt's most vigorous
trust-busters. His government
career was interrupted for several
wears while he practiced law in
New-York, but in 1918 he returned
to Washington as Woodrow Wilson's
attorney general.
A year later, Wilson elevated
McReynolds to the Supreme Court
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
FISHERMEN
FROM PAGE ONE

were George W. Mckinley, Frank
Szczeiski, Jr., and C. N. Rich
mond of Toledo; A. S. France OF
Fremont, o., and C. M. Caldwell
and H. S.. Fresch of Swanton, O.
They were drifting and troll fish
ing when they were "attacked."
Desmond said the planes dived
and dropped miniature charges
three times.
Miss Target
"On the first run three of the
bombs were dropped but none
came close" he said. "It ap-
peared as if only two bombs were
dropped on the second run.
"The third time they came down
one of the bombs struck at the
water line near the gas tank. Sever
al OF the men jumped overheard"
A Navy crash boat standing by
rescued six Of the men after the
first run but Reisig stayed aboard
to fight fire.-The cruiser burned
to the water line, Reisig estimating
damage at $4,000
Comm. Brossy said the dive
bombers usually start their runs at
about 8,000-10.0 600 feet and drop
their charges at about 1000 feet.
The practice bombs, he said, weigh
about two pounds and contain
enough powder to send out a puff
of smoke when they hit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
SENATOR
FROM PAGE ONE

ments on the financial ~condjtio,
the railroads." 'Ol Of
Taylor replied in a blistor;..,,
ter to Budget Director jams, les'
Webb rejecting his argument. l.
a delay and d~eclaring h lo'
shocked by the extreme soI in5ISeLi
with which you are handIin, .ps
railroad corporations" Vie
He said the bureaus Ieti.,
him did not deny charges g., 70
overpayments had been msde u's'
The question CT whether i ,.,r
be profitable to seek recoverr VIII
declared, should not be ~consida,.a'
The collection of funds nra
fully taken from the gover rroas,
should be regarded as a %solpnr.
duty" 0liln
Your second reason" he state.
IS IN erect that the governmen,
should not sue because tbs
railroads need the money. Ds
This amazing philosophy von,,
if extended, result in a cor T "
breakdown of all law enforcemos''
Does a similar logic prevent ,n;,
against less highly placed 'a.'
dlvlduals? Or would the littIo t al
low who took government pronar..
to satisfy his family's needs f..,
the full weight of the federal g ,o.
ernment's power? 9"
I'm sum I am shocked BY +.
extreme solicitude with which r m'
are handling the Railroad Cornos. WV
tons This maternal ~tendprn.s.
strains the power of your otfio,
and if you find that overchars.,
have been made your plain sri
only duty is to turn them over ~
the Justice department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
VIOLENCE
FROM PAGE ONE

the new moon Wednesday or Thurs
day.
The powerful Boselm league, rep
resenting India's Moslem minority
has refused to join the new govern
ment because it was not given
EQUAL representation with the Him
Edu National Congress party. Mos
lem leaders have threatened lol-
ence il the predominantly Hindu
government attempts to rule India;
Moslems have asserte they Will
Fcontinue to boycott the new govern
ment despite Viceroy Loro
|WavePs promise that it would pc
reconstructed tomorrow" it the
Moslems changed their attitude and
Joined.
Sir shafaat was the only nominal
Nv Moslem member Of the new
government as it is constituted
now, but he recently resigned from
the Moslem league and that body
does not recognize him as it rep
r%esentative. The new government
approved Saturday, will take office
Sept. 2.
Gan Exchange Telegraph agency
dispatch said n person was kill
ed and 80 injured in isolated as
saults in New Delhi Saturday night.
The agency said a 1920 Pm to
4:30 Am. curfew had been i'm
posed and the section of the Grimm
al code prohibit g assemblies had
been invoked.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
ATOMIC ENERGY
MAY SAVE LIFE
Doctor Experiments With
Bv-Product In Effort To
Save Young Girl

BOSTON, Aug. Is 49, BY
product of the same atomic energy
that blasted Hiroshima and Nag
asaki was administered for the
second day Sunday to a doomed
three-year-old girl in an attempt
to same her life.
DR.. Saul Hertz, Boston special
list and research fellow at Harvard
and Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology, said that radio-ac-
tiviated PHOSPHORUS was being IN
jected into the abdomen of little
Janice Moschella in a life-or-
death experiment to save her
from a malignant infection of the
liver.
DR.. Hertz said he undertook to
treat the child with atomic-energy
after physicians gave up all hope
of saving the daughter of MI. and
Mrs. Michael Moschella of East
Boston.
In the first publicized case OF
atomic medicine, DR.. Hertz. said
the PHOSPHORUS would be injected
over a three day period into the
%peritoneal cavity which drains in
to the infected liver.
He explained that the theory be-
hind the experiment is that the
PHOSPHORUS - %processed on the
cyclotron at the University of IL
linois - will give off radiation and
eliminate the tumor cells by inter
fering with their electrolytic sys-
tenn.
DR.. Hertz said further that the
test was Suitable" in this case
since all other known methods to
save the girls life had failed,
but added:
F"It would be dangerous and I'M
wise to consider this a sure-fire
cure, just as dangerous as pre-
dieting that you would draw four
aces in a poker game. We don't
want to give the identity of a mira
Gle to a drug which is still I'M
proven.
DR.. Hertz said that ITO consider
1t anything else will seriously
cripple the great amount of re-
search yet to be done on. radio
activated PHOSPHORUS"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Tiny Passenger

WASHINGTON, Aug. rs (R -
Nine-week-old Susan Jane Lehman
arrived from Paris by Army trans
port plane Sunday and her soldier
father said she stood the long
overseas flight very WE'LL"
TIA William Lehman of Chicago
was granted permission to bring his
tiny m%otherless daughter by plane
since regulations do not permit
infant children of American SOL
diers to travel by ship. She is one
of the youngest persons ever to
fly the Atlantic, ATC officers said.
Lehman and the child will con-
tinue the trip to Chicago either by
train or plane when the Army au-
thorizes departure.
Lehman spent 20 months in Eng
land, where he married Miriam
Tomilson. She died when Susan
Jane was born.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MORE ABOUT
WORD
FROM PAGE n

dence secured and the efforts of
the Yugoslav government to right
the wrong done"
Yugoslavia's compliance with the
major provisions of last weeks ulti-
matum involved the release of
seven Americans and two foreign
passengers of a U. S. transport shot
down owe the northern tip of
Yugoslavia Aug. 8. A tenth passen.
ger, a Turkish Army captain, is
expected to be released as soon as
ne RECEIVERS from wounds suffered
in the attack.
In addition, Yugoslav officials
helped guide U. S. representatives
to the scene of the crash Of the
second plane, shot down Aug. 10
with the apparent death of all five
Americans aboard. U. S. Ambassa-
dor to Belgrade Richard c. Patter-
son, Jr., tentatively arranged burial
services in the American military
cemetery outside Belgrade with
full military honors on the part of
the Tito government.
No Recourse
For the present, at least, it ap-
certain that there would be no
recourse to the United Nations Sc
curity council by the United States.
If Marshal Tito carries out his
promise that his fighters will at
tack no more foreign planes, and
if he makes adequate amends in the
of compensation, iademnities
and perhaps a formal apology. the
U S. is believed likely to consider
the matter closed.
This does not mean, however,
that there is no chance of Yugo-