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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
HOSPITAL BUDGET
REHEARINC ASKED
Meeting Of Boards Expect
ed To Be Called To Hear
Community Plea

A rehearing by the city council
and county commission on the
Community hospital budget approp-
ration for 1946-47 was requested
yesterday by W. D. McCaig, hos
pital board chairman.
A joint meeting of the two boards
for reconsideration of the matter
of an annual contribution to the
Institution is expected to be called
by City Manager j. R. Benson and
County Chairman Addison Hewlett
Sr., tomorrow or Tuesday.
The two budget-making bodies
agreed Friday to a tentative joint
contribution of $35, 900 to the Com
munity hospital during the 1916
At fiscal year.
McCaig, in an appearance before
the city and county officials Thurs
day, submitted a request for $780,
1895, The hospital was allocated
$27, 400 last year.
The increase in this years re-
quested figure was attributed by
McCaig to the rising cost of hos
pital operation and a S., 700 deficit
incurred during the past yeaS. Also
included in the new request was
$500 for new laboratory equinuent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
7 PULLMAN
STRIKE DELAYED
Truman Appoints Emer-
gency Board To Consid-
er Wage Demands

WASHINGTON, July 27.1R-
President Truman today created
an emergency board to investigate
a dispute between the railroads and
Pullman conductors, thus staying
for go days a strike called for b p.
EST, Aug. 7. .
The dispute, involving 2,700 Pull
man conductors represented by the
Order of Railway Conductors, is
over Interpretation of a recent
wage increase.
Members Of the three-man
emergency board will be ahnounc-
ed later.
In an executive order the Presi-
dent said the dispute had not been
adjusted under the Railway Labor
Act and threatens to interrupt in
terstate commerce to a degree
such as to deprive the country Of
essential transportation service"
The board has 30 days to report,
after which no change in existing
management = employe relation
ships can be made for another 30
days.
The wage increase recently
granted was Slab a day. The con-
ducters say this should be granted
on the basis of a monthly ~increas.
of 80 times SLAB. The Pullman
company, according to H. w. Fras-
er, president of the conductors
union, has insisted on dividing the
figure by eight and multiplying
that by the number of hours a con-
ducter works in a month.
+ r commended that this
changes the formula for deter
mining wage increases for salaried
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
Jerusalem Detention
Band
Arab Council Disapproves
OF Joint Plan As Vio-
lence Flares
By CARTER L. DAVIDSON

JERUSALEM, July 27.-P)-An
armed band made an unsuccessful
attack tonight on the military de-
tention barracks in Jerusalem
where police are believed to be
holding 376 Jews arrested in a
roundup of suspects following the
dynamiting of the King David
hotel.
Shots we're exchanged between
sentries and the attackers, and
British troops and police immed-
lately threw a Gordon around the
entire Talbieh quarter. Soldiers
were under "shoot on sight" Or
ders.
Every person on the street in the
quarter, which is predominantly
Arab and has not been under cur-
few, was ordered into his home.
No passes valid.
The attack followed by five days
the dynamiting of the King David
hotel, headquarters of the Palestine
government and the British mill
tary establishment, in which the
toll has now risen to 80 dead and Is
missing.
1t could not be learned imme-
diately whether there had been any
casualties in the exchange of shots
or whether any arrests had been
made.
A military source refused to di-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
FEDERAL DECONTROL
P~RICESBOARD CHOSEN
BYPRESlDENT TRUMAN
NEW ORLEANS MAN
|AM0NC APPOINTEES
Louisiana Federal Lane
Bank President Named
Board Chairman

WASHINGTON, July 27-UH-
President Truman today named ms
three-man "decontrol" board that
will exercise final authority over
the revived but weakened OPA.
Under the new OPA bill, the
board will decide by Aug. 81 wheth-
err key foods 60 back noe cell
ines. Later it can override Price
Administrator Paul A. Ported on
either the removal or restration OF
price controls.
Mr.. Truman's appointees to the
board-subject to confirmation by
the Senate--were Roy L. Thomp-
SON.. of New Orleans; Daniel W.
Bell. former unoersecretary OF the
treasury; and George K. Mead OF
Dayton, OHIO.
Mead is chairman ot the board
OF the Mead corp, a pulp and
paper company. Thompson, who
is president Of the Federal Land
bank of Louisiana, will serve as
chairman Of the de control board.
The three men will receive sala-
ries of $4,000 a year.
In making the appointments, Mr..
Truman kept his promise that the
board would not be packed" with
OPA or former OPA personnel.
Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D.,
N. Y, Of the Senate Banking COM
mittee scheduled a hearing for
Monday on the Presidents nomina-
tons.
"It looks Nike q good board"
Wagner said, "the President must
have quite a time getting them to
serve"
Sen. Kenneth 8. wherry, r.,
Neb., objected because Mr.. Tru-
man did not appoint a midwest
erner to the board.
SIT doesn't look like 4 meat de-
control board to me-" he said. Il
would have liked TO have had a
representative from the mid west
on the board. one who knew some
thing about cattle, dairy products,
food, grain"
Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla,
said the panel looked like IAN
able board" which would win
speedy Senate confirmation.
The decontrol board was created
at the insistence Of anti OPA legis-
%lators who feared OPA itself would
be slow to recognize the need to
end controls. The board will have
the final say on whether specific
controls should be abolished or
restored.
Price Administrator Porter said
today the boards decisions would
prove "of enormous help in the
tremendous task of junking con-
trolls over millions of items be-
:, tween now and June 80, 1947.
!. . The boards first decision, to be
taken before Aug. 81, will be
n Continued On Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
HEIRENS TO ADMIT
CHICAGO SLAYINCS
Killer OF Degnan Child Will
Make Confession On
Tuesday

CHICAGO, July T. U.H Will
liam Heirens, 17-year-old college
sophomore who began a life of
crime before he was 10 years old.
will confess to state authorities
three of Chicago's most brutal STAY
ings sometime after he appears for
arraignment next Tuesday, Nal
Coghlin, one of his attorneys, said
today.
Thus the state was set for the fin
al steps in the disposition of three
Sayings which had baffled police
for many month, and apparently all
'ense legal maneuvers had beer
completed. Heirens has been indi-
Gated for the murders of six-year-
old Suzanne Degnan, whom he
snatched from her bed, strangled
and dismembered, and of ex-Wave
Frances Brown, 81. He shot and
stabbed while looting her apart
ment.
He has admitted these slayings
and a third, that of Mrs. Josephine
Ross, attractive divorce, but has
not been indicted in that case.
He was indicted earlier on Is
counts Of robbery and assault, the
latest crimes in a series of offenses
which sent him to a private reform
chool after his. graduation from
grammar school.
Heirens is slated to appear fol
arraignment at 10 a. m. next Tues.
day. but his attorneys were expect
ed to ask a Today continuance.
With Coghlan's announcement thai
the youth will offer a formal con
fession, it appeared unlikely he
would enter a plea until a later
date.
1t had not been determined as
vet what plea would be entered by
Heirens, but it was decided tc
submit him to a psychiatric ex'
animation before any plea is made
Coghlan said the definite time TO,
Heirens' confession had not beer
set and that 1t would be up te
States Attorney William Tuohy tt
have it copied.
"Heirens will readily sign any
statement he makes for the state
Attorney" Coghlan said.
"We will submit our client to Mr.
Tuohy or Mr.. Crowley (Wilber
Crowley, Tuohy's assistant fol
questioning on Tuesday or on any
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
ANAL Offers Large
ewardForLwcher
Cooperation Lack Hamp-
ers Search For Slayers
OF Negroes
BY LARRY DALE

MONROE, Ga, July 81 -U.H-
Gov. Ellis Arnall today Offered
rewards UP to $40, 900 for the mob
of desperadoes" which lynched
four Negroes near here Thursday,
and a state official seeking the
killers said he was up against a
stone wall because the people are
afraid to talk"
Maj. w. E. Spence, head of the
Georgia State Patrol, said after
a "a hour inve stigation that he
would wire every Georgia con-
gresham, or ask Governor Ar
nall to wire them, asking their
support of Federal anti-lynching
legislation.
He will make the request, he
said, because under the condi-
tons now existing in Georgia we
cannot cope with mob violence"
Spence, annoyed at lack of prog
ress in rounding up the lynchers,
revealed that one suspect, a
roadhouse employee, Lester Little,
had been picked up for question
ing but later released when the
lone witness of the massacre, ].
10y Harrison, could not identify
him as one of the slayers.
Spence SAID ''we thought we had
the man who perfectly fitted Har-
rison's description of the mob lead
er, but Harrison now says the man
was 20 pounds heavier than
Little"
Sheriff E. S. Gordon said Little
once had been convicted of muir
dering the warden of neighboring
Morgan county. Little, II, served
several years in prison for the
crime.
Little is tall and rangy and
weighs 220 pounds, fitting the de-
scription of the mob leader as CIV
en- by Harrison yesterday. He is
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
War Profits
Probe Takes
New Channel
Carsson's Soldier Son Was
Ordered Shielded
From Harm
WARREN CALLED
Washington Influence For
War Contracts Re-
portedly Sold

WASHINGTON, July 81 R -
Senate war profits investigators
turned their scrutiny today on a
reported sale of Washington influ.
once on wa contracts to a firm
, that did not get the help it PAID
for.
Another focus of Mead commit
Tee interest was a story that SUI
perior officers had instructions to
shield the son of a munitions
manufacturer froN harm during
his war service.
Members disclosed that these
reports had been turned over to
The staff of the War ~Investiga-
ting committee with instructions
10 determine the truth or falsity
Of both reports.
At the same time Chairman
Mead D-NY) announced that
Lindsay C. Warren, the comp
troller general, has been sum-
moned to a public hearing Mon
day to explore the possibilities
Of checking on improper war prof
its through facilities of the gen.
eral accounting office.
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) dis
closed that a Detroit concern had
been mentioned in the reported
transaction with a Washington
purveyor Of influence"
If there's anybody in my state
that was in on these deals, he
said in an interview, Il want it
exposed just the same as anybody
else, and it doesn't make any diff
ference what his politics were or
are"
From another member Of the
committee, who declined to be
quoted by name, it was learned
that the committee had received
a report that an individual had
offered to obtain a war contract
for a fee and had then reneged
on his part of the transaction aft
er getting the money.
This member said that the con-
tract was reported as not involv-
ing the companies in the Cars
son munitions combine currently
under Investigation by the COM
mittee, but he added that some
Of the same individuals mention
ed in that investigation were con-
cerned in the "entirely new re-
port.
Committee members said the
report did not say whose lin
iuence' the Washington man had
purported to use in obtaining con-
tracts, but declared that this was
one OF the things they would seek
10 bring out in the investigation.
Oh inquiry resulted from a re-
Inc second of the two new lines
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
SOCIETY
PLANS CONFERENCE
Rev. Vandersall Will Be
Principal Speaker AT
Beach Meeting

The Rev. Stanley B. Vandersal,
D. D., Boston, Mass, secretary of
the Worlds Christian Endeavor I'm
ion, will deliver the principal ad-
dress at the Carolina Beach Com
munity church at 7:30 o'clock to-
morrow evening during the opening
session of the Southern Regional
Conference Of the International
Society of Christian Endeavor.
Among other speakers to appear
on the program are Mayor w. G..
Fountain, in an address of welcome
to the community; the Rev. James
M. MCGUIRE, in an address of well
come to the church; and the Rev.
Allen Wilson, Wilmington, leading
the worship. Luther R. Medlin,
Greensboro, will preside.
The conference will continue each
morning, afternoon and evening
through Saturday evening, Aug. 3.
The Southern Region of the In
ternational Society of Christian En-
deavor embraces the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennes-
see, and Virginia, and a representa-
tive number of Christian Endeavor
officers and leaders are expected to
attend from those and other states.
The leaders attending will in
clude the Rev. Lester H. Case, field
secretary of the Pennsylvania
Christian Endeavor Union, the Rev.
Daniel j. Dunbar, secretary of the
Southern Region, Miss Edna Love,
field secretary of the Tennessee
Christian Endeavor Union; the
Rev. Kenneth Balm, president of the
Virginia Christian Endeavor I'm
ion; James A.. Huff, Jr., lockwood,
Tennessee, finance chairman of the
Southern Region; and w. V. Ram
sey, president of the Tennessee
Christian Endeavor Union; as we'll
as officers and leaders of the
/ North Carolina Christian Endeavor
Union.
Appearing on the program will
also be the Rev. John D. Macleod,
pastor of the Carolina Beach Pres
byterian church,. and the Rev. j.
Edwin Carter, pastor of the Caro-
lima Beach Methodist church.
The conference program will con-
sist of study courses, devotional
periods, i%nspirational services, and
organized recreational activities
CONTINUED On Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
NRRASUPPORTERS
NAY SCRAP AGENCY
World Food Situation Ex-
pected To Improve In
Few Months

w. @ASHINGToN, July 27.-UD-
cae United States, Britain and
CaAada - UNRRA'S chief sources
y. money and supplies-may rec
.nllend that the world relief
neency dlsband in the next few
"'o.'ns' it was learned tonight.
studies by State Department
ffsonofnlsts repeatedly have led to
pae conclusion that the world food
MsudIlon will improve so much in
ale coming year that the far-reach-
nig UNRRA program can be scrap
Inc economists conclusion al
ssuy have been discussed in
m,''aIly with British and Canadian
rIwpn1S., preparatory to the next
NNHA council meeting beginning
"us' D at Geneva. Officials. empha-
1eo however, that the U. S. has
n nv. ADOPTED its final policy on the
liar, Dee4 etdly VI otdtC WILL
con L. Clayton, who will 60 to
IN Tya as U. S. Representative on
au oNRRA council, has suggested
tooNcly that UNRRA cease opera
N ~ N Europe by December and
c me Far East by March.
etayton's position, which may be
tba pdIaed into a recommendation
W." oNRRA begin to fold up soon,
) BASED on these points:
rood prospects for next year
nioSt parts of the world look
"9aIy improved.
Individual countries should be
Iiet 0uIaged to furnish their own re.
procurement and distribution
tboSrans, with countries such a.
Nv; ~ s., Britain and Canada sup
ing financial aid when needed
Il existence of UNRRt
'plS countries to use its facili
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
Red Position
Upsets Paris
Confab
Molotov Wants Publication
OF Peace Treaties
Held Up
BEVIN ABSENT
Byrnes En- Route To Most
Vital Conference
Since 1918
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

PARIS, Sunday, July ~8-WH-
Suddenly made Russian demands
threatened today to delay publica-
ton of the five European peace
treaties on the eve of the 81 nation
peace conference already rocked
by the news that British Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin is too i'll
to attend the opening sessions.
The Russian delegation headed
by Foreign Minister. Viacheslav M.
Molotov reversed without explana-
ton its previous stand in a meet
ing last night and demanded that
the peace treaties for Italy and
Axis satellites scheduled for re-
lease today be held up.
Meeting last night to complete
preparations for publishing the
agreed portions of the drafts, the
Russians refused to release the
agreed portions unless those sec
tons not fully agreed upon also
were released.
The agreed publication hour had
been set for Sunday midnight
Paris time & p. m. Sunday EST).
Confronted with the surprise
Soviet move, British representa-
tives of the treaty draft commits
sions of the Big -Four powers said
they could not agree to release
the disputed portions until they had
consulted with dominion delegates.
Copies of the texts of the treaties
previously agreed upon for publ
cation have been spread through
out the world in anticipation of the
release hour, but the Russians in
sisted that they must be recalled
unless the drafts can be published
in their entirety.
1t was believed the only solution
to the involved situation would be
an impromptu emergency meeting
of the Big Four Sunday evening
in a final effort to reach agreement.
1t was not clear, however, whether
such a meeting could be arranged.
Word that Bevin, whose table
humping arguments with Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov of Russia
have made history, will not be
present Monday due to illness hit
the assembling c%onferees like a
thunderclap.
Speculation arose Immediately
whether Prime Minister Clement
R. Attlee who is coming in Bevln's
place would make any change in
British tactics in dealing with the
problems left by the war and par
ticularly what affect his mild man.
ners might have in negotiations
with the Soviet Union.
The announcement that A.tlee
would bat for Bevin at least in the
opening phase of the peace discus
sioas came as most OF the
diplomats OF Europe were arriving
in Paris for the first grand-scale
peace conference since the great
conclave of Versailles which fol-
lowed the first world war.
In an atmosphere already tense
with disagreement and potential
pickering the shift in the British
observation-disclosures attributed by
the British foreign office and No.
10 Downing street entirely to ILL
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
3 MORE PARKING
METERS PLANNED
Will Be Installed On Prin.
cess Between Water
And Front Streets

A contract for 80 new parking
meters-to' be installed on both
sides of Princess between Water
and Front streets-has been en-
tered into by the city with the
Dual Parking Meter company,
Canton, Ohio, City Manager J. R.
Benson said yesterday.
The new meters have been as
signed numbers ranging from 525
to 557 and will swell the tota.. OF
parking meters in Wilmington to
Of that number, Benson explain
ed, onlyA504 or sos are in opera
ton along. the streets, the others
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
10Th Congress Preparing To Adjourn
While Many Truman Proposals bangle

and Crosser D-Ohio) observed
standing IN opposition
There had been some talk OF
quitting on a recess basis, SO that
the House leaders could call the
members back.
Many members already have left
and others arranged for departure
over the week end, on the longest
vacation Congress has had since
1888 when the 18th Congress quit
on June 16.
Behind them lies a broad record
of cooperation with two Presi.
dents-Frankiin D. Roosevelt and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
SOAP Box Derby Race Officials Here
Ready For Starters Flag Wednesday

and waiting for official
and inspection.
Weighing will be conducted at
the Toledo Scale company offices,
10th and Princess streets Monday
and Tuesday and all boys who
can do so, are being asked by
Derby officials to take their rae
ers there anytime after $3.50 a.
M, Monday for weighing. Cars
will be weighed first and then
both car and driver will be Off
cially weighed. Official weight
stickers will be attached to the
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of Finish Line Operations and this
position, together with a staff of
assistants, will be filled by the
Advisory committee before noon
tomorrow.
While a dozen or more boys
who are entered in the Derby
Wednesday to be co-sponso-ed by
The Wilmington Star-News and
Raney Chevrolet company, were
still putting finishing touches to
their racers or making last-min-
ute adjustments, information
reaching Derby headquarters was
to the effect that a majority of
the 4O-odd cars which will face
Chief Starter Gil Packard are
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28

Earlier there had been talk Of
quitting as early as Wednesday.
The Senate has yet to act on the
resolution.
Leaders eoresaw possible difficult
ty, in mastering a. quorum after
today. Withou, the required mum
Der OF members present, any man
on the floor could block considera-
ton of a measure.
The House resolution, by Maori
ty Leader Mccormack (Mass.)
was adopted by a standing vote
of 1853 to 3, with Reps. Randolph
D-WVa), Kopplemann D-Conn),
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
BY lack LUNAN

With the Wilmington AI-An1erI-
can Soap Box Derby Just arouno
the corner" race officials were
busily engaged yesterday com
pleting organization work Tor the
big race and by noon tomorrow
everything is expected to be IN
such shape as to insure a smooul-
running program wednesday over
the Derby Downs course on Ran
kin street.
At late hour yesterday, only one
link in the official chain remain
ed Unsettled. Pressure OF ousl-
ness brought about the reslgna-
ton of vi LeGwin as Director
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
COUNTY REDUCES
TOTAL BOND DEBT
Orrell Reports Reduction
OF $4,000 Effected
During Past Year r..

New Hanover county's total
bonded indebtedness, which stood
at S l ,012, 900 as Of June 80, was
SAT, 900 lower than it was on the
same date last year, County Au-
ditor John A. Orreu reported yes
terday.
The total serial bonds outstand-
ing at the end of the fiscal period,
Orrell stated, was 1887, 900, OF
which sum $3.50, 900 is represented
by school bonds, s44. 900 by the
new courthouse annex issuance,
and SO, 600 county home bonds.
He explained that the school
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Continued On Page Five; Col.
BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON, July 27 = Up =
The 10Th Congress slapped "un-
finished" labels on many of Presi-
dent Truman's favorite legislative
proposals today and started head
ing homeWard.
Barring unforeseen developments
it will adjourn sine die-finally,
that is-late rext week.
The House today picked next
Friday as the date for formal and
final adjournment but there was
little expectation, of anything more
than formalities and non-co/ tro-
versial business after the weekend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
CHARLOTTE o

CHARLOTTE, Oct. "a () =
Spot cotton BATS.
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O AVERAGES

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LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Oct. 24-P-Cattle
were strong, hogs active and S1.OO
to $3.50 higher, and slaughter
lambs $1.0a to SIPS higher Thurs
day as receipts aggregated the
lowest since lifting of price stabili-
cation.
Two loads of good to choice
steers weighing about LOO pounds
topped the market at $4,000 with
most of the quality taking $25. 90
to $34.0 90. Most medium grades
were $17.O0 to $500, while most
good and low-choice heifers were
$1,000 to $500. Good beef cows
were steady at $500, bulls steady
at mostly S17.00 for beef types, and
veale-s steady at $21.00. An early
week glut of cows and bulls was
cleaned out.
Clearance also was good on the
hogs despite higher prices. Ship
lers took $500 of the 10000 on
sale, and packinghouses brought
lit $500 direct. The top price was
S24. so, popular price $4,000, and
most good and choice barrows and
gifts weighing above 100 pounds
ranged from $23.75 to $24.25. Good
and choice sows brought $21.50-
% so.
Receipts included 7,700 cattee,
700 calves, and 1000 sheep.