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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
MILITARY TO GET
VOICE ON ATOMS
Measure For Control Of
Energy Heads Back
To Conference

WASHINGTON, July 18-P)-Ths
house voted Thursday to seat mill
tary representatives on a five-man
commission for domestic atomic
energy controls, overriding the ad-
ministration's wishes and the
senate's decision.
By a non-record vote of 127 to
SO, the house upheld an amendment
by it's military committee requiring
the President to select one of the
five commissioners from the arm
ed forces and permitting him to
name a second military man if he
sees fit.
House adoption OF the controver-
sial provision probably will throw
the matter into a senate-house'
conference committee for decision.
The bill by Senator Mcmahon d.
Conn., which the senate passed
provided that all five members OF
the commission should be civilians.
This was endorsed by President
Truman and approved by the heads
of the Army and Navy.
Preliminary Victory
The house earlier beat back at
tempts to kill the legislation out
right, giving the administration 4
preliminary victory.
Representative John E. Rankin
(D.-Miss.), who startled the house
Wednesday by claiming spies now
are inside the Oak Ridge, Tenn,
atomic reservation, spearheaded
the Sudden death" assault on the
bill.
Telling his colleagues the United
States should secure the peace Of
the world before 1--WE begin to give
away the weapons"Awhich he said
the bill might do-Rankin moved
to strike out the enacting clause.
See ATOMS On Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

"FOX" HOWARD - It shouldn't
surprise you to learn that we made
a grievous mistake in yesterdays
story about the Bijou theater.
We called Mr.. Howard, the origi-
nal owner of the flicker palace,
by the name of ''Bijou' Howard.
All day long folks telephoned to
inform Us that MI. Howard was
never known by that name. He
was called Fox" Howard.
One person actually called upon
us in person to tell III the correct
name. And since our caller was
none other than "Fox" Towards
son, an ex-Marine, we are only too
happy to make the correction.
Mr.. Towards son also gave us
something we think you all will be
interested in reading. 1t is a vel
lowed newspaper clipping-a story
about. Mr.. Howard published in the
Raleigh News and Observer some
20 years ago.
The author (you should remem-
Der him) was Ben Dixon MacNeill,
the well-known "Cellar and Gar
ret", newspaper columnist. Sup
pose we let Mr.. MacNeill take over
now and tell you all about Fox"
Howard himself:
X + X
Twenty years may not be
enough time for a thing to become
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
PRESIDENT PLANS
TO TAKE STUMP
Truman Opposes Re-Elec.
ton Oh Missouri
Congressman

WASHINGTON, July 10. -W.R-
President Truman, announcing
that he will take the political
stump if called on this summer,
said Thursday that he opposes the
reelection of Representative Roger
C. Slaughter, D.-Mo.) who has
fought most administration legisla'
ton that has come before the
House.
For the first time. Mr.. Truman
confirmed a controversy with
Slaughter, who represents an ad.
joining district, that has been talk
ed about in Washington for months.
Axtell Favored
The President told his news con
ference that he favors the candida
cy of Enos Axtell, whom he de-
scribed as an old friend.
slaughter issued a statement
from his Kansas City law office
asserting that the President woulc
not have made "such an unusual
statement" had he mot been EN-.
barrassed and chagrined by the
failure of the Montana voters to
heed his recommendations" Mr..
Truman had endorsed the re-elec-
ton campaign of Senator Burton
K. Wheeler O.-Mont.) a preWar
isolationist who was rejected in the
States Tuesday primary.
slaughter said the issue in his
own campaign will be whether the
voters of Missouri are to select
their Representatives, or whether
they shall be selected from New
York or Washington.")
Controversy
The Truman-Slaughter contro-
versy came up when the President
was asked what his plans were for
the Missouri primary, the only
state contest in which Mr.. Tru-
man has announced he will take
an active part.
He replied that he would 60
home to independence and cast his
vote. Asked if he was interested in
the candidacy of Slaughter, who is
running for his third term in Con-
gress from the Kansas City Dis
trict, Mr.. Truman said yes, he was
against him.
He felt that if Slaughter was
right, then he, the President, was
wrong. AS a member of the House
Rules Committee, the President ad-
ded, Slaughter had opposed every
piece of administration legislation
sent to the Hill.
Mr.. Truman laughed when he
said that although Axtell was an
old friend, actually a neighbor, he
could not recall his first name.
The President said he had not
made any specific plans for a cam
paign tour. But he added that if it
See STUMP on Page Five
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More Supplies
Assured Here
By Week End
Merchant Official Predicts
Leveling OFF In
Prices
LIVESTOCK PRICE OFF
Record Receipts Shown In
Leading Markets Oh
Nation

!. C. Parker, president of
Wilmington Retail Food Mer.
chants Association yesterday
predicted that the price of
food will assume rational
uroportions' soon.
Although there has been a
general increase in prices of all
food in Wilmington since the death
Of OPA three weeks ago, things
are beginning to level off, and the
merchants who charged exhorbi-
+snt prices, are finding that the
~practice will not work, Parker
said.
In making the prediction Parker
also promised Wilmingtonians a
larger supply of the hald-to-get
items. for consumption during the
Weekend. than has been since the
OPA died"
More Rice Soon
Lard and rice are two of the
scarcer items local merchants are
hiking the price on, and Parker
said that although the supply of the
former remains very low" the
latter is coming in more plentiful
quantities.
Hard hit by beef shortages caus-
ed by high prices, the community
can look forward to enough for
actual needs" while packers
promise an abundance within a
week.
Some beef has been coming into
the territory from the West, on
foot, the president said, and
there is a larger supply of pork
than before price controls were
lifted.
See SUPPLIES on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
new D0RMIT0RIES
PLANNED AT UNC
Wilmington Man Listed
Among Competing
Architects

RALEIGH, July 49, R Con
struction of three 100-room dormi-
tories, housing 900 students and
costing approximately 81, 200, 900,
IA approved for the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill by
the executive committee of the
board of trustees of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina meeting
with Governor Cherry here Thurs
day.
The committee also endorsed a
proposal that the old infirmary
building, near the eastern end OF
the N. c. State college campus,
would be used as a wing of a
proposed alumni building which is
to be a memorial to the colleges
300 World War II dead.
Set For Fall
Construction of each building
project is scheduled for ethe fall.
Bids already have been let on the
Chapel Hill Gormitories, and Gov
ernor Cherry expressed a hope
Thursday that they would be ready
to use by September, 1947.
Governor Cherry said that he
expected no advance for dormi-
tory rents.
Director of Foundations Robert
D. Beam at N. C. State college
announced that six State graduate
See UNC on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina: Partly clou-
dy. slightly warmer Friday, few thun-
dershoWers in mountains Friday after
noon.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By u, S, Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperatures
1 BOA 60; 7:30a 10; 1:30p 81; 7:30p rs.
Maximum 81; Minimum "a; Mean 10
Normal 70.
Humidity
1:3oa rs; 7:30a SO. 1902 81; 7:30p 66.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
1897 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the It'd Tables published BY
u. S, Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington - 1:04a 8:15s
lisp 8:28r
Masonboro Inlet ------- 11:O8a 5000
11:29p 5:17r
Sunrise 5:14; Sunset 1922; Moonrise
10 :58p; Moonset 10:13a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville
yesterday. 10.1 feet.
River Stage at Fayetteville, at 8 am
Thursday, 10.1 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Five.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
So To Bed

Yesterday afternoon as .
young man was walking down
Princess street a stoeshine boy
called out to him:
"Shine, mister, shine?"
The young man stopped. do
you really think / need a shoe
shine?" he asked the shoeshine
boy.
"Yessuh," replied the boy,
"and l could really shine 'em
for you in just a few"
Then the boy stopped. ooh
mercy me-" he breathed soft
ly as he suddenly recognized
the pair of shoes he had shined
only 10 minutes ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
CE0RCIANS HOLD
MISSISSIPPI LINE
Reverts To Tradition By
Returning Talmadge
To Office

ATLANTA, July 10. -(R)- Repu-
dating a new Southern liberalism
espoused by Ellis Arnall, Georgia
has reverted to tradition and sent
61-year-old Gene Talmadge back
to the governors office.
1t marks the fourth time over
the years that Talmadge, beaten
for the governorship four years age
by young Arnall, has been elected
governor of the South's Empire
State"
Complete Returns
Complete returns from 146 of the
states 159 counties Thursday night
gave Talmadge the Democratic
nomination equivalent to cleo
ton over the Arnall candidate,
36-year-old James V. Carmichael.
Talmadge, whose political show.
manship and unruly forelocks have
become familiar to a generation O.
Georgians, was nominated in Wed
nesday's primary apparently with
out the popular vote.
Earlier this month in Mississippi,
Senator Theo CThe NAM Bilbo and
Representative John Rankin, like
Talmadge, won on an issue OF
white Supremacy but few Ne
groes were qualified to vote there
and even fewer voted.
226 Unit Votes
But Talmadge, who advised
wise" Negroes. to stay away from
the polls, won in a primary in
which ar estimated 100, 900 Negroes
voted for the first time, as well as
thousands of 18-year-olds.
The %tabulation gave Talmadge
226 county unit votes, 20 more than
is necessary to nominate. Carmi-
chael had only 1913 unit votes.
ex-governor E. D. Rivers, who
ran a poor third, had 10. Hoke o.
Kelley, the fourth man, had none.
The county unit vote is the only
thing that counts in the Georgia
Democratic primary. Carmichael,
it appeared, would get the popular
vote. The count stood: Carmichael
BOT, 1875; Talmadge 296, ISL; Rivers,
81, 1876; O'Kelley, 11,520.
Besides the unit votes in counties
which have completed ta%bulations,
was leading in seven
counties with IA unit votes, and
See TALMADGE On Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
|GAS BLAST KILLS
8 NEAR CAPE COD
Sixty Others Injured As
Tiny Village Is Shaken
In Explosion

WAREHAM, Mass, July 49,
U.H-Eight persons were killed and
more than so injured Thursday
when an Illuminating gas ex,
plosion shattered the calm of the
Cape Cod village of onset, ano
rescue workers feared that the
ruins of four buildings would give
up still other victims.
Weary searching parties, con.
tinuing their work under arc
lights, uncovered the eighth body
from the debris -strewn MAR
street. It was taken to a funera-
parlor where already the bodie:
Of four men and three women had
been carried.
Houses Shaken
The blast, which shook houses
within a quarter-mile area, wa
believed touched off either by
lighted match OF a spark from 9
eaulty refrigerating unit.
Most of the dead we're trap
ped when the buildings collapsed.
A total of 81 persons-many Of
them summer tourists-were hurt
so badly by broken glass and fly
ing debris that they required hos
pital treatment. Another 80 were
accommodated at hastily i'm
provised first aid stations set up
at the scene.
See BLAST on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

"The Role of the VFW In
National and Local Affairs"
will be the topic of an address
here Saturday night by James
M. Hayes, Jr., Winston-Salem
attorney and commander of the
North Carolina department OF
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
speaking to veterans in the
Federal courtroom of the
Customshouse at 8 o'clock.
Formerly Launch Drive
Hayes, who at q years OF age
last month became the young
est State department command
er in VFW history, will arrive
in Wilmington shortly before 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
Today and Tomorrow
Rv WALTER LIPPMANN

in the east it is Russia, and Rus
STA alone, which can restore the
territorial integrity of the Reich.
It is, moreover, Russia which may
restore it by doing again what Rus
STA and Germany have done be-
fore - namely by making an
other partition of Poland. The lev
erage On the Germans of this
sinister masterpiece in diplomacy
is bound to b e.. m m e 4 S e i:
at the expense of Germany's two
hereditary enemies, France and
Poland. M. Molotov has fixed the
situation so that German terri
torial unity, which all Germans
will desire. is entirely dependent on
collaboration with Russia.
See LIPPMANN on Page Twelve
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
YOUNG COMMANDER
HAYES To Launch WW
Drive At Meets Here

O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
and with Mrs. Hayes will be
welcomed to this part of the
state at an informal reception
at that hour in the Cape Fear
club. It will mark the depart
ment commanders first official
visit into Eastern North Caro-
lima, and his address in the
Customshouse will formally
launch the organizations
Statewide membershi cam
paign.
Reviews Program
A hard-hitting, two-fisted ex-
See HAY ES on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
Atom Fleet Moves

Aboard The U. S. S. Mount Nc
Kinley, July 18.ItR-Task force
ships moved out of Bikini lagoon
Thursday in preparatic,~ for Fri
days dress rehearsal of the under
water atomic bomb explosion.
Seventy-five target ships, rang
ing from small craft to aircraft
carriers and battleships, have been
set up for the underwater test
which will determine whether their
hulls can withstand the terrific
pressure of the explosion.
The underwater bomb, suspend
ed from a special raft in the center
of the target fleet, will be detonat-
ed according to present plans at
1886 l.. m. July Is 4:35 p. m. EST,
July "a, U. S. time).
1t will be set off by a young Cor
nell physicist, DR.. Marshall Hollo-
way, from a secret ship in the task
force outside the lagoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
[Ic<&0 DEMANDS IMMEDIATE PAY HIKES
OPA CONFERENCE HITS S7ALEMAT TIE;
STATE APPROVES NEW INTERSECTION
EXTENSIVE REPAIRS
Shipyard To Operate
Under One OfTwo Plans

.cides to handle the shipyard-
by itself or through the SPA"
Congressman Clark said.
eff the commission decides
it needs the yard all to itself
for maintaining government
owned vessels the door will be
closed and that will be that"
the Fayetteville congressman
said.
IF, on the other hand, the
government work will not just
ify use of the whole yard, the
commission may consider turn
ing it over to the SPA" he con-
tinued.
May Turn Yard Over
The commission, he said, is
expected to receive a recon-
See SHIPYARD on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
Wilmington Morning Star
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 18-The
North Carolina Shipbuilding
.company's huge Wilmington
shipyard will definitely carry
on extensive ship repair activi-
ties regardless of whether it is
operated and maintained by the
U. S. Maritime commission or
transferred to the North Caro-.
lima State Ports authority, con-
gresham j. Bayard Clark re-
vealed Thursday following a
conference he and SPA Chair
man R. B. Page had with Adm.
w. W. Smith, Maritime COM
mission chief.
"Something Substantial"
Wilmington stands to get
something substantial which
ever way the commission de-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
BELT CROP
DAMAGED BY RAINS
Range From Four To 80
Per Cent AS Result OF
Adverse Weather
Special To The Star

WHITEVILLE, July 49, Dam
ages ranged from four to thirty
per cent to the tobacco crop in the
Border Belt as a result of heavy
rains and other adverse weather
conditions, according to a survey
conducted by Walter H. Paramore,
sales supervisor, who contacted
agriculturists in II counties that
produce over 100, 1000 acres Of to-
bacco.
Columbus Highest Damage
Columbus county in North Caro-
lima reported the highest per cent
damage while Florence county in
South Carolina reported 10 to 20
per cent. Other counties reported
as follows: Brunswick IS per cent;
Duplin eight to IL per cent; Robe
son four per cent; Bladen 10 per
cent, Hoke, Horny Is. c.. Dillon,
IS. c. reported no damage.
It was revealed that harvesting
See RORDER BELT on Page 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

his move largely to the e1Iects OF
the proposed materials purchases
on prices.
The congressional negotiations
on OPA jolted to a halt when
senate conferees turned, down a
house proposition to allow restora-
ton of price controls on meat,
butter, eggs. and other foods.
Coupled with that suggestion wa
a proposal that manufacturers
price increase formula in the
senate bill be made mandatory by
removal of discretionary author
ity for OPA.
"Complete stalemate"
The debate went forward In
what one conferee, who would
not be quoted by name, called a
"complete stalemate." Others in
the compromise-seeking group,
however, were less pessimistic.
Meanwhile the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported a fractional
decline for the day in its index of
% basic commodities, the first
such decrease since price controls
expired the first Of July. The in
dex dropped a percent to 248.8.
still showing a rise Of 24.8 points
this month. How much Of the in.
crease during tie week-ended July
subsidies on various items wa.
not discussed.
Soc STALEMATE mn Pare F{v6
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19
Senators Balk At Plan
To Renew Basic Ceilings
Labor Leaders Ask President For National
Conference To "Stabilize The Econo-
N.Y.; Ask Buyers Strike
BY FRANCIS M. LIE MAY

WASHINGTON, July 18.-AP)-While senate-house
conferees argued in virtual stalenate Thursday over terms
on which OPA might be revived, the CIO called for a buy
ers' strike, immediate pay raises to meet rising costs, and
a national conference to stabilize the economy.
At the same time President Truman recommended
a years postponement of a big shipbuilding job, a%ttributing
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly CLOUDY.
slightly warmer Friday.
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STATE WILL RECEIVE
$50 SURPLUS HOUSING
UNITS, MIA STATES

WASHINGTON, Jan. M.-R-
Eight towns and four schools in
North Carolina are to receive sur
plus housing unit auotments, to
house veterans and their families.
the National Housing Agency an.
nounced today.
The Federal Public Housing reg.
ional office, Atlanta, Ca, has allot
ted approximately $40 houses to
the state, the agency said.
These will be available as soon
as the temporary war units become
surplus property, MIA explained.
adding it did not know when the
housing would be ready or from
where it would come.
Units will be distributed as fol
lows the agency said:
High Point, so; Raleigh, 30; Dur.
ham, 90; Greensboro, 30; Newton,
Is; Hickory, Is; Wilson, IS; Char.
lotte, $50; Agriculture and Tech
meal College, Greensboro, IS; Uni.
versity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, $50; North Carolina State Col
lege, Raleigh, 100; and Elon Col
lege, 20.
MIA explained these units die
not make up the total North Caro-
lima could expect and were in adj
dition to those announced in 1915
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SANTA BARBARA
LAUNCHED HERE

The SIS Santa Barbara. first
commercial passenger ship to be
launched by the North Carolina
Shipbuilding company since VI
day, hit the waters of the Cape
Fear yesterday afternoon shortly
after christening by Mrs. Alan
Corey, Jr., Of Old Westbury, Long
Island.
The ship is the first Of six
sister ships which will be built
for the CT ace line by the company.
After her delivery she will make
her maiden voyage from New York
to Panama, Columbia, Ecuador,
Peru, and Chile. The voyage will
mark an additional step in the
resumption by Grace lines Of SER
vice on its traditional routes to
the Caribbean and South America.
Mrs. Corey is the granddaugh.
ter of the founder OF W. R. Grace
and company and daughter of w
R. Grace, first vice president oil
the Ingersoll-Rand company. Ac
companying her here for the cere.
mony were Mr.. Corey Phillip
Inglehart, vice president of the
Grace Line, and Godfrey Macdon.
aid, passenger traffic manager OF
the Grace Line, all of New York.
Designed to combine the mod.
ern features of a large ship with
the intimacy of a small liner, the
new Santa Barbara will carry 50
passengers. All rooms are outside
and each has private bath and
intra-ship automatic telephone.
Public rooms as well as individual
staterooms for passengers and
crew quarters will be air-condi-
toned. Other innovations include
full-view windows instead of port
holes in all rooms and comfortable
beds which are convertible, max.
ing the stateroom a comfortable
living-room by day. movies I'M
der the stars" can be viewed from
a verandah cafe. A built-in tiled
swimming pool will dominate a
beach deck and ample deck space
allows opportunity for shipboard
sports.
The Santa Barbara is the 238th
vessel to be built by the North
Carolina yard since the SIS Zebu-
lon B. Vance was completed in
February of 1912. She is the c.
S1-AJ4 type, developed for Grace
Line and is 459 feet long, So feet
wide and will displace 14,945 tons.
Her 5000 horsepower steam tur-
bines turn an aerfoil design bronze
propeller 10 feet in diameter at
90 revolutions per minute, for a
designed sea-speed Of Is IL knots.
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Take advantage of the new War Depart
ment ruling. If you were discharged less than
90 days ago. get full information about this
opportunity from your nearest U. S. Army
Recruiting Office. There's no obligation to you
in finding out what the Regular Army offers.
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OFFICERS PROBE
CASE OF DRUNK
WINDING CHILD

An unidentified man was Or
dered to pay court costs yesterday
morning in Recorders court on q
charge OF being drunk in public.
The charge was brought after
officers had been called to a local
rooming house to investigate the
case of a man, who had returned
to his room early yesterday with a
girl whose age was given as three
or four years.
Police said the man had beer
sitting in a local cafe drinking
with the parents of the child. He
said he asked the parents to let
him take the child home with him
for the night and they consented.
Juvenile authorities said the par
ents told them they were not well
acquainted with the man who took
their child home with him, but
they thought it would be alright
since he had not been drinking
heavily.
No charges were brought against
the parents, but an investigation
is under way by juvenile authori.
ties.
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NEARBY COUNTIES
GET ROAD WORK

Work on highway projects in
Brunswick and Fender counties
are expected to get underway soon
following letting Of contracts yes.
terday totalling 100000 by the
State Highway department.
The work will include replace.
ment of the Alligator creek and
Brunswick river bridges which are
Immediately west Of Wilmington
They are a part of a $1,811 ,684. 70
letting on IL North Carolina high.
way projects.
Numerous automobile accidents,
many resulting in fatalities, have
occurred on these and other Bruins
wick county bridges in recent
years. State highway patrolmen
have attributed the mishaps, in
the main, to the extreme narrow
ness Of the structures.
Contracts for the two southeast
ern North Carolina counties were
awarded included:
misunderstanding, sand rs.
phalt base and surfacing, and
structures, 0.556 miles on U. S. II,
"a and 76, bridges and approaches
at Alligator Creek and Brunswick
river, E. w. Grannis company
Fayetteville, $84, 1876; structures,
v. P. Lofts company, Charlotte,
$187, 426.15.
Pender-Structures on N. c. 50,
from a point about four miles east
of Burgaw to Jacksonville, V. P.
Lofts company, $81, 331.40.
Pender-Structures on N. G. SO,
from point about IS miles east
Of Burgaw toward Jacksonville, V.
P. Lofts, Charlotte, $50, 536.