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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
C'onnally, Vandenberg Rush
To Defense OF Jimmy
Byrnes' Stand
By r. H.

PARIS, Sept. IA. - U.D - Sens.
Tom Connally, D., Tex, and Ar.
thur H. Vandenberg, Re-. Mich,
prevailed upon President Truman
to repudiate his earlier endorse
ment" of Commerce Secretary
Henry A. Wallace's speech al a
statement of American foreign pol
icy, it was understood tonight.
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes himself remained in the
background, avoiding participation
in transatlantic telephone discus
sion with Mr.. Truman, but it was
learned that Connally and Vanden-
berg held lengthy conversations
with the President during which
they spoke bluntly and frankly.
1t was after these conversations
that Mr.. Truman announced there
was no change in American for
eign policy and that there would
be none without discussion and
conference among the President,
Secretary of State and congress
sional leaders.
Sources in a position to know
said that the telephone wires be-
tween Paris and Washington were
burning up" all afternoon while
the two senators took up the fight
for Byrnes in the first class inter
national crisis created by what ap-
peared to be a rift in American
foreign policy.
The crisis now is regarded here
as a tragedy of errors" From the
first there enver has been any
question in the minds of Byrnes,
Conllaiiy or Vandenberg concern
ing Mr.. Truman's wholehearted
support of Byrnes' policies.
Leaders of the American dele
cation were concerned mostly with
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7ruma an DisauowsP oicyC Change;
Paris Delegates Support Byrnes
Condition Of Young
VESSEL Improved

The condition of James A..
Vessel, seven-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Wes-
sci, 222 North Fourth street,
who was struck by an automo-
bile Friday night, was slight
ly improved, attaches at
James Walker Memorial hos
pital said last night.
Young Vessel suffered a col
lapsed left lung, broken ribs
and a broken collar bone when
struck by an automobile Fri
day night near his home. Ac-
cording to police the car was
driven by Marshall C. Foster,
rs, of 1923 Nun street, who said
the boy ran into the side of
the vehicle. Police ruled the
accident unavoidable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
wLIBERALIZES LAWS
Remarriage OF Divorced
Persons Left Up To Do
cesar Bishop

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 14-PH
The Protestant Episcopal church
today took steps to liberalize its
laws on remarriage of divorced
persons but turned down for at
least three years a proposal to
merge with the Presbyterian
church in the United States.
The House of Bishops, meeting
at the 55th triennial general con-
vention of the church, unanimous
ly approved a resolution which
would permit remarriage of any
divorced church member at the
discretion of the diocesan Bishop
or stical court.
The action, which must be en-
do-sed by the House of Deputies
which is made up of lay and cleri-
cal delegates, came after the
Bishops had rejected a report of
its commission on matrimony sub
hitting a liberalized canon.
This new recommendation diff
fers from the original proposal
in that it eliminates a national
advisory council on marriage and
leaves full discretion within each
diocese.
Although endorsing the libe-ali-
cation, the Bishops pointed out
that marriage remains a physi-
cal, spiritual and mystical union,
created by mutual consent of heart,
mind and will, and is in intention
l~ifelong.''
Presently, church law permits
remarriage of divorced persons
only when they r the innocent
party in cases of adultery.
The house Of deputies voted
down 386-196 a resolution to sub
init the merger issue to individual
congregations, many delegates de-
clared that while they favored the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15

Ship Strike
Nearing End
Spokesman For S~hipowners
Declares Progress Made
In Talks
HARBORS PICKETED
AFL Seamen Prepare To
Man Ships; Clio Unions
Continue Strike
BY The Associated Press

A conference of CLIO National
Maritime union leaders and ship
owners in New York city adjourned
last night without reaching a wage
work agreement, but a spokesman
for the owners said "some progress
has been made" and maritime
circles indicated the nations vast
shipping strike was nearing an
end.
The spokesman was Frank ].
Taylor, head of the American Mer-
chant Marine institute, who led the
owners negotiating committee.
The conference was scheduled to
resume at 10 a. M. (EST) today.
AFL seamen, who began the
industry-crippling walkout Sept.
5, had abandoned their picket signs
and we're preparing to man their
vessels, but Go sailors continued
the prolonged strike.
The CLIO men, demanding the
same wages granted to AFL mari
time workers, plcketed harborS on
the nations three coasts. The lines
were crossed in at least two in
stances by ALL men.
About 80 AFL longshoremen
walked through a CLIO line at a
New York pier to unload passen-
ger hand luggage from the liner
Washington. NMU headquarters,
however, said the strike was 100
per cent effective, declaring they
had received reports of complete
tie-ups Sin all ports"
In Norfolk, Va. AFL Internation-
al Longshoremen's a S S o C i a tior
members returned to their jobs,
crossing CLIO barriers. Officials of
the AFL sailor unions had said
their men would respect the CLIO
lines.
William Rentz, port agent for the
AFL Seafarers International union
in Baltimore, said AFL members
Continued on Page 8; Column s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
APPOINTED
TO HOUSING POST
Named Chairman OF Leg.
islative Body In Public
Housing Conference

H. r. Emory, executive director
of the. Housing Authority of the
City of Wilmington, has been ap'
pointed chairman of the Legisla'
tive Action Committee of the Ma
tional Public Housing Conference,
according to an announcement re-
ceived here last night from Lee F.
Johnson of Washington, executive
vice president of the NPHC.
Principal aim of the newly Great
ed committee will be to work for
enactment of legislation at the next
session of Congress to relieve the
current unprecedented h S i n g
shortage, Johnson said. At an or
ganization meeting in Washington
recently, the committee asked for
a special session of Congress to act
on housing, and it's request has
been communicated to President
Truman.
Specifically, the committee is
seeking enactment of the Wagner
Ellender Taft general housing
bill" which has been passed by the
senate but which failed to reach
a vote in the lower house last ses-
sion.
Members of the committee, John
son said, Ire some forty in num-
Der, including among others Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who is hous-
ing chairman for the American
Veterans Committee; the Ri. Rev.
Monsignor John F. O'Grady, head
of the National Catholic Charities;
lNo.4.uoI o~ pamo (. CoIuron 0A
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
British Act
To Dispense
Squatters
1,,.,t Five Communist
leaders OF Movement In
New Breakdown
REINFORCE POLICE
1ondon Families Moved
In Partially Completed
Dwelling Units
Bv ED

LONDON. Sept. IL R Five
,,onninent members Of the Com
s1nist party were arrested tonight
IN breakdown on luxury squat
.srs, as the government acted to
s,1+ the spreading Communist ii
rected campaign.
Tho arrests followed quickly a
-nvernment statement deploring
Evidence and lawlessness" and in
,,ructing municipal officials in
England and wales to guard against
trther seizures Il apartments and
otber properties by homeless fami-
lies. Police patrols were reinforced
and alerted.
All five Communist leaders were
charged with "conspiring together
with other persons to incite per-
sons TO trespass on perperty, and
I'D and abet and direct such tres
usss against the peace" All were
sranted bail and released for hear
ins in magistrates court Monday.
Those arrested were: Edward F.
Bramley, secretary of the London
district Communist party. Gabriel
(B!D Carritt, son of an Oxford
university philosopher and COM
munist member of the Westminis-
ter City committee.
Morris Israel Rosen, a member
Of the Stepney Borough council.
Mrs. Joyce Allergant, a Com
muniSt leaer.
Ernest Stanley Henderson, secre-
tary Of the committee acting for
muatters in the swank Duchess of
Bedford House, occupied last SUM-
DAY in the opening swoop on a num-
Der Of apartments in the fashion
able West London residential dis
hict.
One squatter also was arrested
at Fountain Court, one Of the in
yaded apartments, and was charg-
ed with o~bstructing police.
The buildings invaded for the
most part were vacant and in
process Of ~redecoration after their
wartime use by the government.
Calling for faction against
squatters.' Minister of Health
Aneurin Bevan in a letter to local
authorities ordered them to keep
all premises locked.
The government are confident"
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president, reported that, des-
pite "twelve months of living
cost rises, we have been able
to hold increases in our agency
budgets down to a general
general four per cent"
Total budget for the chests
1947 work will be $112,075,
Stweart declared, less $7,053
which represents a surplus
left over from 1915 and applied
to next years campaign goal.
"The $7,053 surplus was made
possible by administrative saw
ings, by nearly 100 per cent col
Elections on our 1916 campaign
pledges. and by unexpended
agency budget items" Stewart
said.
"The Chest executive COM
mittee, in setting this goal,
agreed as a general policy to
allocate future SURPRISES from
each years operations to the
succeeding years campaign,
he reported.
The $106,2O4 goal was APP
proved by the Chest executive
committee after it heard a re-
port by E. L. White, chairman
of its budget committee, recon-
mend the following ALLEGATIONS
to the Red Feather services:
Boy Scouts, $500; Brigade
Boys club, 1892; Cameron
Memorial camp, $2,145; Family
Continued on Page 2; Column
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
President Says Wallace
Speech Not Statement OF
Foreign Policy
By ERNEST BARCELLA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-U.D-
President Truman today disavow-
ed Secretary of Commerce Henry
A. Wallace's controversial Ease
Up-On-Russia speech as a state
ment of U. S. foreign policy. But
he approved Wallace's right to say
what he did.
In an extraordinary statement
occasioned by the international
uproar caused by Wallace's speech
and Mr.. Humans apparent en-
dorsement of 1.-THE President as
sured the nation and the world
that there has been no change in
established U. S. foreign policy.
He summoned reporters to his
office to explain there had been
a natural misunderstanding" of
his answer to a Thursday press
conference question regarding Wal
lace's speech at a political rally
in New Yo-k's Madison Square
Garden that night.
st did not intend to indicate
that I approved the speech as
constituting a statement OF the
foreign policy of this country"
Mr.. Truman explained.
On Thursday, M. Truman said
he had read in advance and APP
proved the entire speech in which
Wallace warned against a "get
tough" policy toward Russia.
ut was nay intention to express
the thought that I approved the
right of the Secretary OF Com
merce to deliver the speech" Mr..
Truman said.
He said he had answered the
fCorfinued nm Pare Q: Column u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
HURRICANE AVOIDS
|CAR0LINA'S COST
Storm Sends Schools OF
: Fish S~horeward; Some
Vessels Recalled

Strong winds from ar Atlantic
neutrality-suspicious. of which
were felt 300 miles east of Caps
Hatteras-failed to sweep into
southeastern North Carolina yes
terday as storm warnings were
broadcast along the eastern coast
Residents of beaches in the Viii
mington and Southport area were
highly perturbed Friday when frs
word of the hurricane - theil
thoughts were probably going back
to the storm Of 1944-Was announc.
ed.
+ They awoke, yesterday however,
to a day of sunshine.
Old-timers fishing from the
beaches declared the hurricane
had at least one good effect as
schools of mullet, drum and pom
PIANO played in the suds through
out Saturday affording fishermen
some of the best catches OF the
season.
The water, off Wrightsvilla
Beach-to quote an example-was
filled with seaweed and debris CIV
ing first-hand evidence that a
strong storm must have RACED
farther out at sea.
According to an Associated Press
report the Navy recalled small
ships and tugs to port in New Eng
land and battered down its air
craft as the hurricane swept north
ward along the eastern seaboard
and Nantucket Island as those
areas began to feel the first high
winds of the expected gale.
In southeastern Massachusetts,
most of the New Bedford fishing
fleet took shelter in port.
The commandant of the First
Naval District announced in Bos'
ton:
"Ships at sea have been advised
Of the, existence of the storm ano
small ships and tugs of the Navy
in coastal waters have put into
convenient ports.
aircraft at the Naval air sta.
ton, Quonset Point, R. l., and the
Naval air station at Charlestowa,
r. l., that could not be placed If
the protective covering Of hangers
have been flown to other fields
where hangers are available or tt
fields well outside the path OF the
storm"
The announcement said tina
Rear Admiral Wilder D.. Baker
commandant of the Boston Nava
base. "has issued orders cancellins
all liberty at midnight Saturday
night in order that he may have
sufficient force to handle any
emergency that may arise"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
LAPE WILL HOLD
CONVENTION HERE
Wilmington Host To 1947
Meet; Hinkle Named
Vice President

C%olncidental with the election Of
Il. M. Hinkle. of Wilmington, as
wee president of the Information.
a Association of Public Employees,
eastern district, was the selection
Of the Wilmington area as the
IVY convention site of the group
winch is comprised Of 200 mem.
bers,
hlnkle's election came during q
meeting Of the association at At
'anac Beach yesterday.
Inc election of the local mar
ne is the manager Of the Viii
alhston United States Employment
sesvlce-was unanimous.
Hlnkle told fellow members o.
ae association that either Wrights'
yle or Carolina Beach would be
CHOSEN as next years convention
s'e when the selection was lef'
up 70 him following his election.
Attending the meeting from vii
alngton were Liston King, Pres
nn Mosely, Hinkle, Roland Perry
Cnarles Bradshaw and T. z. Sim
mons, all employees of the USES.
carlyle Taylor, of Winston-Salem
l. The president of the association
me office to which Hinkle wa
siscted is the only vacancy f1Het
During the meeting
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
Return OfPrice Control
Sees Big Abattoir Close

in the establishment aggregates
$50, 900 to $75, 900 at this time, said
he could not tell whether he would
be able to adjust his business in
order to meet the OPA require
ments.
He said that he had been getting
between so and 60 head of cattle
for slaughter purposes every week,
but that when the OPA returned
that the farmers simply withdrew
their livestock. He added that ii
is possible for him to buy cattle
now, but that he could not afford
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Blaming the return of the OPA
price controls on meats for the
scarcity of cattle for slaughterin5,
O.. c. Moore, operator of a large
abbatoir on the Castle Hayne road
about eight miles from Wilmington,
announced that he had been forced
to close his abattoir at noon yes
terday because livestock growers
had withdrawn their cattle from
the markets and also because he
could not make a profit by selling
his meat products at the new OPA
ceilings.
Moore, who completed his mod
|ern abattoir last summer, and
who reported that his investment
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
Acute Meat Shortage
Extends Over Nation
OPA Chief Foresees M Re.
lief For Next Six Or
Eight Weeks
BY The Associated Press

A severe meat shortage extend
ed from coast to coast yesterday
and even optimistic predictions
placed substantial relief still sew.
eral weeks away.
OPA Chief Paul Porter, promis-
ing that meat meat price ceilings
would be retained, predicted sup.
plies would be fairly good after
we get over the hump of the mex
six or eight weeks"
Ralph Helstein, president of the
big CLIO United Packinghouse
Workers of America union, pre-
dicted that meat output would re-
main low for Several weeks
ahead. and added that "the re-
moval of price control at this time
cannot change the situation.
Both Porter and Helstein blam-
ed the meat shortage on the ab-
normally heavy rush of livestock
to market when price controls were
off in July and August.
When receipts begin to pick up,
Porter added in his weekly radio
discussion of food and price mat
tiers, the much-publicized meat
famine will be disclosed for the
irresponsible rumor that it is"
Helstein blamed the current
shortage on what he termed a "buy-
ing strike by packers before the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
SENATORS DECLARE
rail RATE UNJUST
Report That South And
West Are Being Dis
eliminated Against

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-UI-
Congress and the Interstate Com
nero Commission have failed to
provide fair treatment for business
men and farmers-particularly in
the South and West-who must
send their goods to market by rail,
a. senate small business subcom-
mittee reported tonight.
The committee found that pres
emit freight rates have "throttled or
handicapped" the country's smaller
enterprises through unfair dis
elimination.
Committee chairman Tom Ste
wart, D., Tenn, said the report
Continued on Page 2; Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
Joint Board Charts War
Role For u s. Industry

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA R
The Army-Navy Munitions board
apparently has fallen heir to the
job of drawing a new ''M-Day"
plan for the industrial mobilization
of America for any future war.
The joint military agency has
been working quietly on a stand
by arms plant program of undis-
closed size, a task to which Presi-
dent Truman also has assigned
Donald M. Nelson, former War
Production Board chairman, to
advise and assist.
Nelson, it was learned tonight,
is to prepare a report outlining
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
Discovery of Cold Vein
Starts California Rush

les. Assayers found them worth
less.
T,aen Cronin played a fhunch.
took a sample of black-streak-
ed yellowish clay from a plateau at
3.Oo0-foot elevation about ia
miles north of Crescent City.
An assayer ran the tests-and
told Cronin he apparently had
found a rich vein. The samples,
the assayer said. ran as high as
s75 a ton. Commercial gold operat.
ors are regarded profitable on ore
assaying as little as $12 a ton.
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CRESCENT CITY, Calf, Sept
TP-The days of '49 have come
sAVe here in a new stampede IN
'psred by discovery of gold.
0ltlzens of this little community
u the extreme northwest corner
me state, are filing claims as
~S' as the local printing shop can
@fn out blanks. Outsiders are be-
SHINING to pour in.
a persistant, grizzled prospector.
WI, i Cronin, IS, made a new gold
luke this week. For IL years ne
i'd been trudging into the rugged.
r.iloer-clad mountains north OF
"escent City. He brought out samp-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15

a cold-storage war industry and
recommending any legislation nee
essary to authorize and finance
it during peacetime, in readiness
for any national emergency.
This program is less comprehen-
sive than the broad. Workable
plan for the immediate mobiliza-
ton of war industries" demanded
two weeks ago in a report to the
Senate committee on national de-
tense, but apparently may grow
to that stature.
The office Of War mobilization
and Reconversion, whose name
CONTINUED on Page 8; Column g.
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|0DWYER RECEIVES
UNIONS DEMANDS
Less Severe Terms Issued
To Employers To Solve
Gripping Strike

NEW YORK, Sept. IA G -
New union demands less. severe
than those which started the Met
ropolitan New York trucking
strike were reported tonight to
have been placed before employer
delegates meeting with union rep
resentatives and Mayor O'Dwyer's
advisory committee.
Joseph M. Adelizzi, chairman OF
the employers negotiating COM
mittee, announced the new de-
Continued on Page 9; Column 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
Council Veto
Defended By Molotov
Woodbury. To Head
ChestFundDriue

The Wilmington Community
Chest yesterday named Louie
b.. Woodbury., Jr., chairman of
the Oct. 1925 drive in which
it will seek to raise $106, 204 for
support of its IL Red Feather
services and the United Service
Organization during 1947.
In announcing the campaign
goal, Ranald Stewart, Chest
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
WEATHER

North Carolina-Considerable clo,,dI-
ness and little change in temperstnre
sunday morning. occasional light drizz1es
west and central portions early SUNDAY
morning. Partly cloudy Sunday afternoon.
warmer north and west portions,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Mrs. George Bowen
Center OF Attention
On 83rd BirthduY

Mrs. George w. Bowen, affec-
tionatsly called Aunt Dolly by
countless friends and relatives,
celebrated her 83rd birthday Fri
day. Tho occasion was made
memorable for the honoree by
gifts, flowers, phone calls, greet
ing cards and visits from friends.
In the late afternoon the Col
mcr Clan" all nieces and neph-
ews Of Mrs. Bowen, gathered on
the beach for a birthday party in
the nature of q picnic supper
which was highlighted by two
birthday cakes.
Among those gathering for the
gala occasion were Mr.. and Mrs.
w. M. Colmer. Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
vim Colmer and son and daughter,
Mrs. X. l.. Walton and son, all OF
PascagoulH; Mr.. Leon Co1mer OF
Ponchatoula, La: Mrs. p. N. How
ell of Howerson; Mrs. Anna My
r Weeks and Miss Elizabeth
Ann Weeks Of Gulfport; Mrs.
Otis Singlctary and baby of New
Orleans; Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Fitz-
ner, Miss Robbie Leigh Fitzner,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Colmcr and
daughter of Moss Point.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
r. n. WELLS AND M
RETURN

On Wednesday afternoon Super
intendcnt of Pascagoula Schools
Thomas r. Wells and Mrs. Wells
returned from Greeley. Colo,
where the former has been taking
a five weeks course at the Colo
RADIO State College OF Education.
During that period Mrs. Wells was
In the employ of the Little Thea
ter of the Rockies. On their way
home they stopped at Eagan,
Tenn. to pick up their son, Tom,
Jr., who has been visiting in the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Hurst
while they were in Colorado.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Rev. Robert Lee
Guest Speaker AT
Boptist Brotherhood

The Rev. Robert Lee, formerly
of Pascagoula and now a student
at the New Orleans Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, was the guest
speaker at the First Baptist
church's Mems Brotherhood meet
ing Tuesday night. He made an
inspiring address which was
greatly enjoyed by the mem
bers.
A sound melton picture,
"School of Providence, depicting
the history of the seminary was
also shown at the meeting and
special music was rendered by the
mems chorus and the mems quar-
tet.