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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
CHINESE TO HALT
FIGHTING SUNDAY
Au-party Council To Start
Work On Task OF Merg-
ing Armed Forces
By WALTER LOGAN
limited Press Staff Correspondent

CHUNGKING, Jan. 11.-China' S
embattled Nationalist and Com
munist armies will cease firing by
Sunday midnight and the People $
Au-Party Council will start on the
touchy problem of merging the two
armies into a single armed force,
it was announced today.
The first business session OF the
council produced heated debate
as to whether the council as
whole or a three-man committee
would work out the naturalization
of armed forces. The Communists
wanted the major points decided
by the entire council.
Chang Chun, government repre-
sentative, and Chou En-Lai, leading
Communist negotiators, reported
on their cease-fire negotiations
with General George c. Marshall,
special U. S. Envoy and chairman
Of the truce committee, but made
opposing recommendations on the
procedure for merging the armies.
Wang Shih Chieh, Foreign Min
ister and Tseng Chi, president OF
the Young China party, supported
the government stand.
The council voted to choose an
eight-man committee representing
five parties to visit all disputed
areas of China.
Chou En-Lai said the Communist
army would start an immediate
reorganization and limit its size to
20 divisions (about 100000 men,
A communique covering today
session said the cease-fire order
would be effective Sunday at mid
night when it was believed the
truce order would have reached al
points Of fighting.
The council will open executive
headquarters in Peiping on Sunday
and the executive staff will star
arriving next Tuesday. The head
quarters will be in full operation
by Jan. 27.
The executive headquarters viii
be headed by three commissioner
including one American, one Nat
lonalist and one Communist.
The cease-fire order agreed upor
yesterday provides that all trooI
movements on both sides will cease
except south of the Yangtze rive1
and in Manchuria, and for restora
ton of communications which have
been severed by hostilities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
President Acts To Auert Big Steel Strike;
Patterso22zz$ays Hirohito Addiction Unlikely;
-Four " <>zons Added To UNO Security Council
MEN IN MID-PACIFIC
WITH 48 POINTS TO
GET ARMY DISCHARGE

HONOLULU, Jan. 11.-P)E
Headquarters of 1t. Gen. Rob-
ert c. Richardson, Jr., an
nounced today a change in dis
charge requirements which
would mean immediate release
of more. than 5000 officers and
men of his mid-Pacific COM
mand.
The public relations office
could not say Immediately
whether this was the result of a
new directive from the War
Department, whose recent de-
mobilization showdown order
touched off soldier protest dem
OnstratiOns in the Pacific.
Under the change, all male
enlisted personnel with 3S
months of service in the army
or 48 discharge points, and all
male officers, except medi-
cal officers, with Al months Of
service or 68 points are eligible
for immediate discharge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
SBI AGENT CLAIMS
TAVERN OPERATOR
ADMITS SLAYING

CLINTON, Jan. 11.-(P- SB1
agent Howard Pierce said here to-
hlght that George Bell, operator OF
a tavern near Fort Bragg had con-
leSsed to the pistol Staying last Sum-
Gay of Warrant Officer Elmer
orock' Fort Bragg soldier.
rlerce quoted Bell as saying he
shot in self defense after an argu-
ment with Brock.
. Bell was arrested shortly after
brooks body was found in an
automobile parked on a road near
Autryville. A coroner's jury order.
ea Bell held for grand jury action
ana set bond at $1,000.
rlerce, who was assigned to the
T1l,Vestlgation ~, by SBI Director
tl nnomas Creekmore yesterday al
rae request of Solicitor J. Abne1
Parker, a. said an inquiry showed
slaT Brock and Bell engaged in q
hst h light at Bells tavern shortly
eelofe 4 the shooting. However, thu
S;es eMo men apparently settled thei1
bbniilefences bii and entered the automo
WIG together after shaking hands
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
Ne1u York Will Observe
Victory Parade Today

marchers and see the equipment
they used in crushing Italy, Ger
many and Japan.
There will be "a heavy tanks,
some of them weighing As tons; II
tank destroyers, eighteen 15Omm
howitzers, IL eight-inch howitizers,
two. tank transports, u armored
cars, A 57mm anti-tank guns, 21
jeeps, three ambulances and 48
other combat weapons in the par
ade.
Overhead 100 Army fighter planes
and SO transports towing troop
gliders will lend emphasis to the
kind of fighting the 82nd Airborne
and the 18th Airborne Divisions
carried to the enemy in Sicily.
Italy, the Normandy Beach, Hol-
land and Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
N MacArthur's S
Command Is
Still Tops
SHIDEHARA TO STAY
War Secretary Says Com
mander Did Not Protest
Soviet Occupation

TOKYO, Jan. 11-(PeSecretary
of War Patterson assured Allied
newsmen today that General Mac
Arthur's command remains un-
diminished'' under the new Four
Power control setup for Japan, and
said he did not believe Emperor
Hirohito's war responsibility was
such as to require his abdication.
The japanese cabinet meanwhile
decided, after an all-day confer
ence, that aged Premier Kijuro
Shidehara should remain in office
pending attempts to solve reorgani
zation the crisis touched off by
MacArtaur's political purge direc'
tive.
Sources close to the government
said several ministers submitted
their designations during the day S
session, and Kyodo news agency
reported that one of these was
Home Minister Zenjiro Horilkiri.
Kyodo also reported that Education
Minister Tamon Mazda was plan
ming to resign.
The chief cabinet secretary
Daisaburo Tsugita, said another
cabinet meeting would be held tc
decide on the designations of mini,
sters affected by Macarthur :
directive. The directive ordered re.
moval from public office Of all ul.
tranationalists who had helped to
steer Japan into war.
Hirohito this morning received
Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida
for a report on the political crisis.
Government sources declined to
say how many ministers might be
forced out of the cabinet, but Tokyo
newspapers said that six Of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
Large Seafood Industry
PlannedFor Wilmington

A seafood distributing center for
Wilmington that will rival Norfolk,
Hampton, and other Virginia points
was envisioned last night by r. c.
Fergus, head of R. C.. Fergus and
Sons, who said that his 100, 600
pound capacity fish-freezing plant,
now under construction on South
Water street, would be ready for
operation in about 80 days.
The plant will be used to freeze
and store .seafood products assem-
bled here from several points in
North and South Carolina where
the Fergus concern now operates
fish-receiving points. These points
are located at Little River, S. c.,
and Shallotte Point, Lockwoods
Folly, Topsail Sound and Scots
Hill.
The Fergus firm also is operating
trawlers off Ocracoke and Hatteras.
These trawlers make the run into
Morehead City and the catches are
brought into Wilmington by trucks
operated by the Fergus concern.
The new freezing equipment here
will be the latest development in
refrigeration. 1t is the ''quick.
freezing" type of equipment, the
same now being used by nationally
known distributors of frosted foods
Associated with R. C. Fergus
in the operation of the firm here
a firm which was established by
Fergus father, D. J. Fergus-are
his sons, Eldridge and Robert L.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)
~

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
+, Temperatures
1870 am. So; 1880 am. 81; 1880 pm. 60;
1880 pm. SIS.
Maximum 60; Minimum So; Mean IS;
Normal 46
Humidity
1880 am. sc; 1880 am. 73; 1:30 pm. 3d.
1880 pm. &c.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1850 pm
- inches.
Total since the first of the month
- inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables pubIsned oy U
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ass am. - am
5:22 pm. 1915 pm
Masonboro Inlet 2:44 am. S:g7 @ am
3:05 pm. 9:2o pm
Sunrise 7:18 am; Sunset 5:2s Pm;
Moonrise I'LL pm; Moonset 1:54 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. y. at
am. Friday, 11.2 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
SENATOR DEMANDS
MIRA REVISION
Clyde R. Hoey Says Dis
elimination Favoring
Unions 3'Bad"

GASTONIA, Jan. 11-tM-U. S.
Senator Clyde R Hoey tonight call.
ed for a complete revision of the
National Labor Relations Act, and
said that 'unjustifieds discrimina-
tion in favor of labor unions should
be eliminated. -
In a speech prepared for delivery
at the annual banquet of the Gas:
tonia Chamber Of Commerce Hoey
said that the "one-sided and un-
fair provisions" of the act should
be repealed Immediately, and add
ed:
'There should be equality before
the law for labor unions and man.
agement. Now there is unjustified
discrimination in favor Of the labor
unions. XXX
Both labor and management, he
said, "should be held equally re-
sponsible for their contracts and
made to respond in damages for in
violating agreements.
"Both should be held accountable
for their acts
The right to strike, the Senator
said, is guaranteed under the law.
''This law carries the right also to
peacefully picket, but there is no
authority of law for using violence
or force to prevent the owners Of
a plant or workers from crossing
picket lines and entering to work,
even through a strike is in force. "
Asserting that 'there are strong
forces in this country seeking to
infiltrate our democratic processes
of life," Hoey said that because
Of the current wave of strikes,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12

The lodge, which Hess described
in telegram to DR.. Stoyan Garvi-
lovic, chairman of UNO's site
selecting committee as "world
famous" asked the committee to
Join it when it regales itself in pre-
war splendor next month to make
its determination of the weather.
According to tradition, If the
grounding sees its shadow when it
creeps from his hole, there'n be
six more weeks of winter. If not,
warmer days are on their way.
The lodge would be willing to
pool it's knowledge with UNO, even
to the point Of telling UNO its
secret of long-range weather pre-
dictions, Hess said, adding: 'The
predictions must not be used in
waging war. Well give them UP for
peace purposes only "
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
And So To Bed

One of the most eloquent
prayers ever heard has been
attributed to a Negro tenant
of dilapidated farm house In
the Hampstead area.
Like other farmers in SEQ.
tions where the wind some.
times pushes a permanent lean
into flimsy dwellings,, the
Negro had attempted to defy
nature with long stout props to
prevent further damage.
At the height of a high wind,
he is reported to have dropped
to his knees on the floor and
prayed fervently, ooh Lord,
put braces in the leaning
places"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
DARST TO PREACH
ON RESTORATION
IN SERMON HERE

The Rt. Rev. Thomas c. Darst,
retired bishop of the diocese OF
East Carolina, will deliver the SER
mon at the II a. m. service at
St. Johns Episcopal church.
Bishop Darst will take as the
subject of his sermon 1.-The Recon
struction and Advance Fund, %
which is devoted to the rebuilding
of church properties destroyed by
the war, a subject of vital interest
to all Christians.
This is the bishops first visit
to St. Paul's parish since his re-
tirement and all members of the
congregation are urged to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
w. Elliott O'Neal Named
City's Young Man OF Yea
Young Business Man Pre-.
sented Distinguished
Service Award

w. Elliott O'Neal, voted the out
standing young man of the year by
committee of representatives OF
the Wilmington Junior Chamber OF
Commerce and other civic clubs
here, was presented the Distin-
guished Service Award at the Jay
GEES Silver Anniversary banquet
at the Cape Fear Country club last
night. O'Neal is a member of the
firm of E. c. Moore and Co.
In pointing out the many achieve
ments of O'Neal, Walter J. Car
tier former Chamber of Commerce
secretary here, told of the various
civic activities which O'Neal par.
ticipated in during the past year
which caused the presentation te
be made.
''The Wilmington Jaycees are
making this presentation of the
award because it affords recogni
ton to the young man who has
made the most outstanding contri
button to the community" he said
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
Textbook Commission
To Select carts" Books

+ RALEIGH, JAM, IL up The
State Textbook Commission met
here tonight to; begin. preliminary
work on the evaluation of Language
arts books on which the State
Board of Education will call for
bids this spring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
By the Associated Press

President Truman arranged for
continuation of the steel wage talks
at the White House today as at
tempts to- settle or avert major
labor walkouts collapsed on sew
eral fronts.
The White, House announced last
night that top leaders of the CIO
Steelworkers union and the United
Steel corporation had accepted the
Presidential invitation.
These were" other major de.
velopments as labor controversies
kept 416,000 idle, not counting an
estimated several thousand tele-
phone workers whose exact nun.
Der was not Immediately deter
mined:
l: The nations long distance and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12

There will be no union picket
ing in Wilmington at present
as result of the strike of the
Association of Communications
Equipment Workers, C. L. Gar
ner, chairman of local No. 615
and state chairman of the plant
department, Southern Fedora
tlon of Telephone Workers, told
the Star last night.
Garner explained that picket
ing is being done by Western
Electric installers in places
where telephone equipment
work is being done.
There is no such work being
done in Wilmington" Garner
said, "and we have not been
called upon to do any picket
ing"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-12
GIN Rejects
Fact-Fiinder
WageReport
PHONE TIE-UP GROWS
Truman Calls Principals To
White House For Meet
ing Today
BULLETIN

LACKAWANNA, N. Y, Jan.
u-R)-AH entrances of the
Bethlehem steel plant at Lacka-
wanna were picketed tonight
and unofficial reports said most
employees had left their jobs
at the plant.
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FORECAST

wilmington and .yisin visinity; iyi;bt Partly 1aFns
shty sss4sss seass hsRf a% teashs Is Sunday
Clearing oas1 and colder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11
PAUL S0RENS0N OUT OF ARMY;;T0 REOPEN HIRST : CHICHAG0F

Major Paul SorenSen is in the United States after three years with the army in Europe, three years during which he fought from the Ncrmany beach landing to the Elbe in Germany. In about month he will be coming to Alaska to re- open the Hirst- -Chichagof mine oi which Le was manager before min ing operation was discontinued be- cause of the war.
 News of Major Sorensen reached Juneau recently in a letter to the Keith Wildes. He is now on term inal leave at Spanish Fork, Utah where Mrs. Sorensen and theil daughter lived after leaving Alaska over three years ago. He will Ee placed on inactive duty April l and will leave for Juneau and the mine early in April
 As major attached to the mill tary government, the Alaska mining engineer did considerable work or tn mines of France, Belgium. Hol- land, Luxembourg and Germany before returning to the United States.
 This is Major Sorensens second and, he hopes, his last war, he said In World War I he served in the submarine service.
 In his letter to the Wildes, Ma jor Sorensen sent best wishes to his many friends in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11

A Gun & Rod Club has been formed and will meet next Tues day evening at o'clock at the American Legion Dugout. All sportsmen interested are asked to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11

Andrew Hope has started work on a 50 foot combination troller and halibut boat for Reuben F'raki The keel was laid last Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11

long illness. MT. DidricEson was born in Christiansand, Norway, ID January, 1871, and came to this country as boy.
 He came to Sitka about 30 years ago and remained as logger and fisherman.
 He is survived by his wife, six sons, Simon, Alex, Benjamin, Char les and Gsorge, and daughter Elizabeth, and several grandchil- dren.
 Funeral services were conducted at the Lutheran Church by the Rev Ernest Nygaard and graveside rites at the Moose Cemetery oy LOOM of which he was a charter member
 Tom Butler, who entered tho Pioneers Home from neJchikan il December, 1899, passed away Sun day and was buried at the Pion- eers' Cemetery by the Rev. Ernes' Nygaard the following day. Butler was born sn Milwaukee Wisconsin in May, 1862, and cam' to Southeast Alaska in 1898 to pros. pect around Juneau, Ketchikan anc Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11
TITS IN THE BAG" WITH ALLEN AND
 BENNY, CAPITOL

Its In The Bag is a good rlp- snorting comedy at the Capitol for the last times tonight. Fred Alien of course is the principal character and his radio shows are all pack damned into one feature.
 Allen wrote the greater part or the funny material The lengthy se- quence with Jack Benny IS an m- tegral chapter of the story.
 Many celebrities are seen in the cast such as Don Ameche, William Bsndix, Victor Moore, Rudy Valiee' Binnie Barnes aind Jerry Colonna'
 AS an added feature there IS Guam -Salvaged Island" a release of This Is America Series
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11
TN THE MEANTIME DARLING" IS FILM
 AT 10TH CENTURY

The picture, Tn The Meantime. Darling starring that dazzling newcomer, Jeanne Grain, with Frank Latimore, Eugene Palette, Mary Nash, Stanley Prager and Gale Robbins, is at the 20th Gen. tury for the last times tonight.
 Here is the full, rich, heart warming story = the pathos, com edy and gallantry of those young wives of Army men, who dig into the "foxholes" of overcrowded Irooming houses near camps throughout the country to be with their husbands (for as long as fur~ tough passes psrmib until the boys shipping notices come through.
 More specifically, Tn The Mean time, Darling" is the story of Mag gie Preston's CT honeymoon at the Craig Hotel (reom complete with paper thin walls and cracked mir rors) and the efforts oil It. Danny Ferguson to get his CT bride to live in the style to which she 6efi- nently was not accustomed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11
News Notes
 From Sitka

SITKA, Alaska, Mar. 8.-(Special Correspondence) To-day is World Day of Prayer in Sitka. Sponsored by the United Council of Sitka Church Women, the entire day and evening is heing given to fellow ship in prayer. All schools are closed. All business houses clos ed during the noon hour to allow employees to attend the special noon service, followed by lunch i served at the Lutheran Service Cen ter.
 Morning and afternoon services were conducted at the Lutheran i, Church and an evening candle light service at the Presbyterian church A special afternoon service for youth was held between 2:45 and I3:45 o'clock, and another for the Pioneers at the Home between 1 and 4:30 o'clock.
 i Positive identification of the troller found wrecked at Point Hayward some weeks ago was made Thursday when the Chichagofi succeeded in getting a line on the wreckage and towing it into shal- How water in Sukoi Inlet. Aboard the Chicagoff were Jack Calvin
 Stockson Webb, Howard Bradshaw and Frank Hennessy. Tke men were all agreed that the boat was un- doubtedly the Remy. lost on De cember 27. The body of the skip
 per, Cliff Hedges, has not beer 1 recovered.
 i On February 28, the 52 fooi seiner Empress was launched from the Hope Boat Shop and taker alongside the Northern Voyagel from which a 65 Atlas Imperial en- zine was lowered into place in tht
 boat. The Empress was built fcl 1 Charles Daniels.
 Gordon Whitcomb has beer granted a Territorial experimenta otter trawl license for his boat, tht 1. Tulip King. Whitcomb has teer working all winter building and in.
 stalling the necessary gear and or
 Sunday last made an experimenta
 drag in Sitka Harbor. He plans tt
 start a thorough survey of th'
 local waters about the middle O the month.
 Tn reply to arguments at otter trawling is detrimental to halibut
 Whitcomb argues that with tht
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11

proper regulation and restrictions the damage would be infinitesimal, if any, and that the new industries made possible with this type ot fishing would more than offset pos sible losses. It would provide year round work for fishing boats which are now tied up for six months or more. MT. Whitcomb's experiment has aroused a great deal of interest and provided topic for endless and speculative arguments. Last Saturday afternoon the first bcatload of herring was brought in by the Sea Ranger, boat owned by Bill Walton and chartered and skippered by Ed Hansen. Being a beautiful sunny spring day, the Cold Storage whistle announcing the catch brought out large crowds of spectators, and 190 barrels were unloadsd in record time by tke crew of ex-service men, who were all new to the job. Hampered by tlocks of excited seagulls and swarms of equally excited children, the crew waded into the herring up to their ears and got the boat un- loaded in time for it to return to the grounds before dark.
 Andrew Hope has started work on a 50 foot combination troller and halibut boat for Reuben Fraki. The keel was laid last Friday.
 The June K, Charley Bonnet skip per, and the Admiralty, George James, skipper, are in from Angoor for a complete overhaul by the Webb Forbes Machine Shop. Webb. Forbes are also overhauling tht Biorka, Nick Kasakan, skipper. Al three boats are seiners.
 Jack Ballinger and oscar Til. son are having cabin built or their power -dory seiner, the Runky Work is being done by John Nord. ness.
 Scotty Jennings has launched th' combination troller and halibut boa Ostrid, which he rebuilt for Axe Peterson.
 The Hix, troller owned by Ol, Owe, is at Scotty Jennings boa shop for new decks and cabin.
 Fred Nelson has begun work ol the foundations of the new Colt Storage addition to be built thi spring.
 Bill Beach is building a nel grid to the rear of his shop ol Front street. The grid will b reached by a board walk to b s constructed between his propert
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11
TIDE TABLE
DIR. K. N. HESTER

DIR. R. N. HESTER
 Eye Specialist from Ketchilxan, will be at the Juneau Clinic about Mar. II for a few days. Appoint ments may be made by calling Clinic, No. 644. (206-tD
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11

EASTERN STARS Rainbow Girls Exemplify their work. Balloting, Tuesday Mar. 12, o'clock.
 ALICE BROWN, Sec. (214-t2)