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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
BROUCHTON URGES
FREE ENTERPRISE
Former Governor Speaks
To Dairymen's Conven-
ton AT Beach
See Picture On Page Three

! Melville Broughton, former
governor of North Carolina. open
ed the two-day summer convention
nj the North Carolina Dairy prod
ucts association yesterday morn
ing at the Ocean Terrace hotel,
Wrightsville Beach, with a speech
urging rs delegates to continue the
battle for unity, cooperation, and
free enterprise among dairy farm
ers, wholesalers, and retailers.
Last Bulwark
Declaring that the farmer is the
last bulwark of free enterprise left
in the nation, Broughton told the
association members that Il do not
believe in social medicine, social
farming. or social methods of food
distribution"
1T is up to you men as dealers
in dairy products to continue the
fight for sustained operations under
free enterprise" he said. Profits
are a must" he continued, but
at the SAINT time if profits are
placed ahead of other endeavors
the cause will fail"
Open Forum
Yesterdays session began with
a welcoming address delivered by
George L. H. White, association
president. After Broughton's speech
an open forum discussion on "Out-
look for Availability Of Dairy
Products for the Coming Year
was conducted by George S. Coble
and E. D. Mitchell.
Ballentine Here Today
Lieut.. Gov. L.. Y. Ballentine Of
North Carolina will highlight this
mornings concluding session with
an address on Basic Essentials
in Building a Dairy Industry"
Also scheduled for today's program
are W. Kerr Scott, speaking or
Better Relationships b W e e r
Dairy Industrial Groups" and w.
S. 0oenshain, with a talk on Look
ing Ahead with Ice Cream"
The two-day convention is q
business gathering with no schedul
I'd formal entertainment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16

CAPE FEAR CARNIVAL-Un-
accustomed as we are to public
speaking, particularly the kind
that side-show bankers reel off to
attract the customers inside via
the b~ox-office, we're afraid we
might not be able to do justice
to that picture on Page Five OF
today's paper. !.
Well do our best, however, and
we hope that III efforts turn
out somewhere near as good as
those of the Messrs. Howard and
Wells.
Yes, according to Mrs. Rertram
Quelch, the Forest Hills lady who
loaned us the photo, it depicts the
first Wilmington appearance OF the
famous Howard and Wells car
nival. The scene is the corner OF
Second and Market streets, the
year 1902, and the photographer
the late Mr.. Henry Cronenberg'
the same camerman who took the
picture of the 1892 babies.
- =.
OUT OF OUR KEN - Frankly,
folks, we're not equipped to ham
die the side-show barker''s ]oo,
despite our intentions or the nasal
voice to do the job. And in the
second place, we don't know any
more about the carnival than what
is shown in the picture
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
CLARK ASKS 0KAY
FOR CHANNEL JOB
To Reconyersion
Director Steelman For
Favorable Decision

Congressman j. Bayard Clark OF
Fayetteville, North Carolina, yes
terday appealed strongly in a tele-
gram to Reconversion Director
John R. Steelman for approval OF
the delayed Cape Fear river pro-
ject.
Making Survey
The project, originally schedul-
ed to start some time in late Sep
TENDER or early October, was halt
ed by Steelman last week in a gov
eminent effort to slice $500, 600, 900
from the Federal Public Works
program. Steelman is currently
making a survey of all the strick-
en- projects to determine which
shall go forward after the October
l freeze is lifted and which shall
be delayed indefinitely.
Investment Essential"
In his telegram to Steelman,
Congressman Clark said the para
lyzed Cape Fear project is an
investment essential to the re-
conversion and general prosperity
of this area that will begin to
make substantial returns from the
day of it's completion"
The remainder. of the. message
follows:
IT appreciate the fine wisdom
Of curtailing large expenditures
for public works at the time
of high prosperity, thereby
serving the splendid double purpose
Of further safeguarding against in
flatior and providing a backlog
for any possible rainy day until
we can be sure that the national
economy is free from the influ-
ence of extraordinary measures
that have had to be taken during
war and recorversion and rests
again on a sound basis, and it is
my purpose to support such a pro
gram in any way that l can.
Critical Facts
II also appreciate how natural
it is for every community affected
even temporarily to protest and
seek to differentiate. But I believe
it to be my duty now before con-
illusions are drawn to call to your
attention critical facts and circum-
stances which clearly distinguish
from public works generally the
authorization and appropriation
See CLARK On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
So To Bed

The tops in spectator-interest
was recorded at last nights
Wilmington versus Angler
Fuquay baseball game at Lee
gion stadium.
A young lady sitting directly
behind home plate watched
the entire game with avidity.
Not a play escaped her at
tention.
The game over, she left the
stadium and went to the auto
mobile of the girl chums who
came to pick her up for the
ride home.
"Who won?" asked one Of
the chums.
q" don't remember" the
young lady fan replied, "but 1t
was a lovely game"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
AlongThe Cape Fear

We see four attractions - the
ferris wheel, Elnora's Rag Time
Opera, Lunette, the Flying Lady,
and the Statue Turning to Life.
Ferris wheels make us i'll, and Rag
Time Opera is a musical extrava-
ganza unfamiliar to both our
eyes and ears. Lunette, the Fly
ing Lady, and the Statue Turning
to Life are creatures out OF u
ken.
We give up the barker's job right
now and become spectators like
the rest of you folks.
INSIDE SECRET - 1t could be,
though, that some of you folks old
er than we remember going to that
carnival. Well bet it was a lot OF
fun, and we wish you would let us
in on the secret of what went on
inside the Opera and the Lunette
and Statue side-shows.
But we'd rather you didn't
bother to describe the sensations
of riding the ferris wheel.
Something else we'd like to
know is how come the carnival
was allowed to set up its shows
right in the middle of a busy inter-
section like the corner of Second
and Market streets. One note OF
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina: Partly
cloudy Friday and slightly warmer in the
afternoon.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 pm, yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a 70; 7:30a u; 1:30p "a; 7:30p -.
Maximum -; Minimum 81; Mean -;
Normal 10.
Humidity
1:30a 80; 7:30a "a; Bop 40; 7:30p -.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
600 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Lew
Wilmington ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 7:01s
12:13p 7:2or
M~asonboro Inlet ------- 9:55a 3:54a
1o:17p 4:08p
Sunrise 5:34; Sunset 6:58; Moonrise
9:32p; Moonset 9:08a.
River stage at Fayetteville at 8 am.
Thursday-9.4 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
Going Up!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-R-
Price increases estimated by an
0PA official to cost the public
well over $3.50, 900, 900 a year"
were granted Thursday on such
articles as radios, stoves, washing
machines, vacuum cleaners, toas-
tiers and irons.
OPA said the increases were re-
quired by the new price control
law which specifies that profit mar
gins must not be cut below prewar
levels Items affected are those on
which dealers had been required
to absorb part of price increases
granted earlier to manufacturers
The price agency itself announc-
ed only that the raises ranged from
three to IL per cent. The $3.50, 000,-
600 estimate was given by an Of
fetal who would not be quoted by
name, in response to a reporters
query on total cost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
STATE AIRLINES
SEEKING OUTLET
Official OF Proposed Line
Confers With Authori-
ties Here

The possibility that State Air
lines, of Charlotte, may get the
backing of local air-minded authori-
ties in its attempt to secure a vast
network of interstate routes
through Wilmington doomed large
this morning after Neil B. Ber-
both, a State Airlines official, con
ferred yesterday afternoon with
the authorities.
60 Stockholders
State Airlines, already recon-
mended by Civil Aeronautics board
examiners as the company which
should get the routes, has 60 stock
holders, six of which have assets
of lover two million dollars" Ber-
both disclosed.
This solid financial foundation,
the thing which is reported to have
swayed the examiners in recon-
mending State, has had a very
favorable effect" on the local Of
ficials,- according to reports.
"Still On Paper"
Although the company is still
on paper" Berboth said a large
number of new and luxurious all
liners are on order ready to be
put into service if the CAB fol
lows the examiners recommends
ton and awards the routes to State
The two other major lines com
peting with State for the routes art
South East Airlines and Seaboart
Air Transport, of Charlotte ane
Lumberton respectively. Regard
less of which line is given the CAE
nod. Wilmington will almost GER
See AIRLINES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16

by the RUSSIAN deleSdtlOn,
Byrnes tainted Russian Foreign
Minister Viacheslav Molotov with
the fact that the United States,
Russia, W. found herself
to withhold aid from countries
fighting the Axis and reminded
him of the billions of dollars the
United States gave Russia in her
time TO greatest peril.
Russian Enslavement
He implicitly accused Russia of
trying to enslave the countries be-
hind her Iron Curtain" by Grip
pling their economy and exacting
enormous PREPARATIONS from them
while complaining at the same
time that the United States was
trying to enslave Italy by seeking
economic equality for all nations
there.
Byrnes said that the United States
was as eager to work for peace
as she was to fight in the war and
that she would continue her gen.
erous aid of afflicted countries. He
offered American friendship to all
peoples who would reciprocate.
Eager For Peace
america will be willing to let
the reflections cast on her policies
here pass unnoticed if her silence
would help us on the way to
peace" Byrnes said. America is
as eager to work and cooperate
with her Allies in peace as she was
willing to fight with them in the
war. And no one views with gre,t-
er regret than I the rebuffs to
See BYRNES On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
lilly" Moves On

TOKYO, Aug. is. -UH- A ty-
phoon described as the worst of
tie season and nicknamed Lilly
was moving northward from the
M%arianas toward the Japanese
mainland Thursday night with
winds of from 100 to ITO miles an
nour velocity at its core.
Allied Weathermen said the ty-
pAoon, travelling at about seven
miles an hour, was passing Two
!Lma and moving in a northwestern
y direction, They expected it to
MT the southern tip of Skikoku
sunday and cut across the lower
japanese islands and move out
INTO the Japan sea.
contact between the Japanese
weather station and its Two Jims
sIatlon has been broken since
Wednesday, it was reported, pre-
sumably cue to the 1yphoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16

Jews had clashed with British
soldiers as they were being un-
loaded from the transports En-
pire Haywood and Empire Rival.
Reinforcements yer rushed in,
and some Jews we're believed to
have been wounded.
Twenty were reported to have
been taken to military hospitals
set up in detention camps where
the Jews will be confined until the
immigration issue is settled.
Two Children Die
Two immigrant children died
aboard the transports before they
were unloaded and some adults
were carried down the gangplank
on stretchers.
Evidently, they were no more
reconciled to their deportation than
when they left here on Tuesday.
They were put aboard the ships
at Haifa struggling and defiantly
singing the Jewish national anthem.
They went down the gangplanks
on Cyprus denouncing British
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin as
a Hitler" and a "Mussolini."
The Empire Rival and Empire
Haywood were expected to be back
See JEWISH On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
STATES HOPES GLIMMER
Navy Decides To Use
Fl. CasweU For RQddr

said the Navy has refused to
declare it surplus.
Army May Use, Too
According to the congress-
mans communication from
Navy headquarters, the Army
may also use the site jointly
with the Navy, possibly in con-
junction with the secret ex.
periments at Camp Davis.
Fort Caswell, the scene Of
bloody battles during the War
between the States, is now on
a ~caretaker's status under the
supervision of one Naval lieut.
enant and II men. During
World War II it was used as an
anti-submarine base with a
staff of about 800 men.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
TOBACCO PRICES
SLUMP SLIGHTLY
Grades Reported On
Markets In North Caro-
lima Towns

North Carolina Border Belt to-
bacco markets reported a slight
decrease in the average price per
hundred pounds yesterday in COM
parison of the figures for Wednes-
day.
Wednesday the marts reports an
average of $58.32 per hundred
while Thursdays figures show an
average of $57.29. Some of the
markets reported poor grades OF
offerings were made.
FAIR BLUFF
c. B. Townsend, supervisor OF
sales at Fair Bluff reported that
1886, $40 pounds were sold for an
average of $58.10 per hundred.
$185, 528.74 was paid to growers.
TABOR CITY
The Tabor City market passed
the ST. 900, 900 mark in payments to
farmers yesterday as 349, 1923
pounds were sold for $198, 271.14 to
bring an average Of $56.78.
WHITEVILLE
Large quantities of low grade
tobacco we're offered on the White
vile market yesterday. Walter H.
Paramore, supervisor Of sales, re-
ported 1,036,316 pounds were auc-
toned off for $500, 3O1. 10 to bring
an average price of $58.01.
CHADBOURN
Hugh Nance, supervisor Of sales
at the Chadbourn market, report
ed 291, $50 pounds were sold fo1
an official average of $54.68. He
said the poorest grade Of offer
On paua Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
Today and Tomorrow

the Western rather than the Soviet
system. If strongly implemented,
this policy should provide sound
solutions of the Palestine and 9TH
er Middle Eastern problems.
But, because the British Treas
ury cupboard has been bare. the
policy has only been adopted in
principle. It cannot be put into
immediate effect without U. S.
aid. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is
actively working to capture the
Middle East and threatens to sue
coed - which would mean the end
of Britain as a world power. With
insufficient resources to meet this
danger, the British are respond
ing excitably, almost Historically,
See ALSOP on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
=. Mr.. Alsop is filling in while
Mr.. Lippmann is on vacation
Editor.
BY JOSEPH ALSOP

LONDON, Aug. 15.-The present
mess in the Middle East and
especially in Palestine has two
main underlying cause.-the made
'quacy of present British resources
and the pressure from the Soviet
Union on the British positions. AS
previously stated, the l~ong.range
British Middle Eastern policy is
to put "people ahead of pashas."
The purpose is to raise the level
of life of the Middle Eastern mass
es: to create a healthy economic,
social and political climate and
thereby attach this vital area to
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16

North Cardinals hopes to
,oor,ire famous Fort Caswell
tor development into a public
nork in the States Mountain
io.spashore Park system were
hIasted yesterday when Con-
or4ssman J. Baynard Clark
disclosed that the United States
Navv has decided to retain the
civil War site for use in radar
snd allied military expert
ments.
Not Declared Surplus
Governor R. Gregg Cherry
and the State Department of
Conservation and Development
anplied for title to the South
mort Landmark several months
800. but Congressman Clark
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
AMAZED TO BE LIVING
Man Tells How HFeeLs
To Be Laid Away Alive

well of Gordon's farm late
Wednesday Hendricks was at
the bottom Of a ladder. The
others we're near the top.
Knocked to Bottom
Hendr,ca S foot dislodged a
large rock, starting the cave
in at 4:45 Pm. He was knocked
to the bottom OF the drill-type
well, which was dry.
81 was conscious as the rocks
and dirt came falling down
over me-" he said. Luckily
a casing around the pipe and
the ladder held the dirt and
See BURIED on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16

VERONA, Wis, Aug. 15-U.H
Edwin Henricks, 80, amaz-
ed that he still was living, told
Thursday night how it feels to
be buried alive.
Hendricks. a hardware deal
err, trapped tor 10 hours at the
bottom Of a 22-foot well under
eight feet of rocks and dirt,
Was rescued uninjured.
Dead Duck
Il thought l was a dead duck
when that Girt and rock crash
ed down. he said.
Hendricks and his brother,
Warren, Is, were helping Wes-
ley Gordon install a pipe IN the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
Loving Mother

TOKYO, Aug. Is -(P)- The
Army newspaper Stars and Stripes
printed a letter Thursday from a
private who related what happen
ed when a buddy was sentenced to
five years at hard labor and wrote
his girl about it.
He got this reply:
Dear Albert:
81 could never wait five years
for you. Please try to understand
I have married your father. Coco
luck and best wishes"
The letter was signed "Youl
LoVino Mother"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
U.S.. Secretary Unsparing
In Playing Soviet Tactics
Tells Peace Conference America Wants Only
Security And Justice In Return
For Vast Sacrifices
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE
limited Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, Aug. Is. Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, accusing Russia of repeated abuse and misrepre-
s~entation of the United States, told the peace conference
Thursday that America seeks no territory or reparations for
the $500, 900, 900, 900 b) she put into the war but wants
only a fair and secure peace.
Lashing out against the persistent attacks on his coun-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16
TROUBLE IN PALESTINE
Police Halt Jewish
Display At Capital
British Transports Unload 1900 Fighting
Illegal Immigrants o. Isle Of
Cyprus; Threats Spread

WASHINGTON, Aug. -5.-WD-Washington police Thursday
dispersed several hundred jews, led by IL rabbis, who staged a
demonstration in front of the British embassy, chanting open
the Gates of Palestine"
The demonstration was sponsored by what its leaders said was
the Washington Jewish Community" Marchers carried signs
reading "Justice for Our People, Neither Nazi nor British Con-
centrahon Camps" and eight British Tyranny in Palestine"
Jerusalem, Palestine, Aug. 15.-CJP)-Two British
transports unloaded some 300 fighting, protesting Jewish
illegal immigrants on the Isle of Cyprus Thursday, and turn
ed back to Haifa, Palestine, for new loads of refugees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-16

See BYRNES On Page Two
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theses expounded in his pamph-
let, Homes for the Homeless he
succeeded in getting law passed
providing tax-exemption for home
owners in the amount of $500; but
this was later declared unconsti-
tutional by the supreme c.trou
tutional by the supreme court.
An interesting parallel to Pop
ulist government was the found
ing of cooperative colonies. One
of these was made up of Social
lists under the leadership Of Eu-
gene v. Dehs, who settled near
Tacoma. Land was apportioned
to members of the colony In
tracts of two acres each, but the
store, newspaper, and other pub
lie services were administered
collectively. Another colonization
project was that of the Christian
Cooperative movement, sponsored
by a branch of the Dunkard
church, which settled at Sunny
side, Washington in 1898. The
leader was Stephen J. Harrison,
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who explained that they acquir-
ed the toWnsite in order to con-
troll the moral standards of those
who settled there. Among other
things the cooperative put In its
own telephone system, established
q bank and organized federated
church.
Public ownerslip Of Utilities
The sentiment in favor Of pub
lie ownership of utilities bore
fruit at this time in a few mag
nicipally-owned power systems.
Oregon pioneered the movement
when tn town of McMinnville, In
1889, established a city-owned
system.
Tacoma, Washington, famous
today for the lowest electric rates
in America, voted at a holly con-
tested election on April IL, 1893,
to purchase the existing light and
water system. Seattle made its
initial venture in municipal own
ership of public utilities about the
same tine by purchasing the wa
ter system which served the city.
AAA AVVA Vic ~ASy SONAASA SACCl1OSU
this system by bringing city wa
ter from the Cedar river water
shed in the high Cascades. Soon
afterward a generating plant was
installed and the city began to
manufacture and distribute cleo
tricity to its citizens.
AlaSka Gold
In July, 1897, there came a
student end to the depression
which had plagued the northwest
since the denomination OF silver
in 1893. This was the arrival In
Seattle Of the steamship Portland
bringing ton of gold from plac-
er diggings on Klondike creek.
The news electrified the nation.
Seattle was the natural Quitting
center, and stores carrying min
ers' supplies sprang into existence
almost overnight. Population in
creased and prosperity reigned
again.
CONTINUED next week..
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Historical Backgrounds
By Margaret Thompson

was supported by Silver Republi-
cans, Silver Democrats and Popu-
lists in all northwestern states.
In Idaho William E. Borah, then
young Republican attorney Just
coming into the political limelight
joined Fred Dubois in supporting
Bryan rather than Mckinley, the
Republican nominee. Heading the
Fusion ticket in that state-or the
sPopocratic" ticket as it was then
called deriSively - was Frank
Tteuenberg of Caldwell, a pub
Usher and members of the print
ers' union. For United States
senator the legislature chose a
Populist by the name of Henry
Heitfield.
Oregon had elected Democrat
Sylvester Pennoyer, as governor
in 1886 and reelected him in
1890. In 1892 he went over to the
Populist party because of his op-
position to Cleveland's gold pol
icy; and in 1896 he was elected
mayor of the city Of Portland, in
spite of heavy vote for McKin-
ley throughout the state.
Montana voters both in 1896
and 1900 elections supported a
fusion of Populists and Democrats
electing as governor in 1896 Rob-
ert B. Smith and in 1900 Joseph
K. Toole. Current sentiment of
Montanans against the copper
monopolies was voiced by the
latter in laying the cornerstone Of
the capitol at Helena, when he
charged them as being in COM
bination to restrain trade, raise
prices and limit production for
the sole purpose of adding to the
wealth of the few and the power
ty of the many.
More Social Issues Obscursd
The control of natural wealth
by industrial monopolies, to which
Governor Toole referred, was the
crux of regional social and eco
onmic problems; but unfortunate
ly it was obscured by the hyster-
ical campaign for free silver. As
stated by w. E. Woodward:
"It is fortunate that the Demo-
cratic opulist party should have
risk its fate on an issue which
was obviously unsound. Here
were other questions of great Inn
portance, such as the rise Of
trusts and monopolies, the wei
fare of workers, the capture Of
coal, oil and timber lands by
predatory interests. But Bryan
and his advisors decided unwisely
to concentrate on free silver. !"
AS everyone knows, the nation
al election Of 1896, and again in
1900, was won by Mckinley on