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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
VILLAGE BURNING
BLAMED ON ''REDS''
By SPENCER MOOSA
APP Staff CORRESPONDENT

CHUNGKING, Jan. 14.-P)-A
Chinese government spokesman
accused the Communists today OF
"enlarging rather than ceasing
their military operations and OF
putting the torch to many villages
in violation OF the truce which be-
came effective at Midnight Sum
day.
A. The Communists yesterday made
similar charges against the gov
eminent forces, and added today
that the Communist regions OF
North China still were a double
ring blockade strengthened by
hundreds of newly-constructed
government block-houses.
The government has denied the
specific accusation of continued
advances into-J ehol province, and
although observers at the current
political unity conference here ex-
pressed some misgivings about
the charges and countercharges.
hope persisted that all remaining
clashes would cease soon.
Two theories were advanced
here for the alleged violations of
the truce-one was that the scat
tered forces had not yet received
the cease-fire orders, the other
that each side might be trying to
secure a little extra advantage
vYvI,i1n ~ still roccs1,1n
It will be several days before
the three-man truce commission,
including an American. is in posi-
ton to send inspection troops to
strategic points.
Today's charge was made by
the spokesman for the National
Military Council.
He said that this morning, after
the deadline, Communists were
attacking National troops in An.
yang, on the Peiping-Hankow rail
way; were on rampage" in
Shensi province, and were burn
ing villages all along the eastern
section of the Lunghai railway
which crosses northern Kiangsl
province to the Yellow Sea-.
Meanwhile the unity conference
formally received the Chang kal
shek plan to broaden the base O
the government by including az
parties, then adjourned until Tues
cav without acting on it. =.
There was no immediate actor
on Communist demand for re
lease of the so-ca1led Young
Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang ane
Gen. Yang Hu-cheng.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY
TURNS UP In COURT
FOR DUTY ON JURY

NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-tR-Five-
year-old Freddy Fisbach trudgeo
obediently into Supreme court TO-
day in answer to summons call
ing him for jury duty.
James McGurrin, commissioner
of jurors, took one look at the
brown-eyed prospective juror"
and Immediately vacated the sum-
mons, while Freddy amused HIM
self by sailing paper airplane'
The lads wavering "X' on the
document officially relieved him Of
his jury call.
How did it happen? McGurrin's
explanation was that the names
were chosen from a list OF regis
tered voters issued by the Board
of Elections and nothing is known
about the person summoned. Fred
dy's father, Allen hold no exple-
nation. A 18th Airforce flyer, he
said he hadn't registered as a vot-
er since he joined the Army in
1912. ......
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
MAYOR LANE ASKS
FUND COOPERATION ! j
Chief Magistrate Issues
9'March OF Dimes" Pro-
.clamation Monday

Featured by a proclamation
from Mayor w. Ronald Lane, the
18th annual March of Dimes"
conducted by the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis, got
under way in Wilmington. yester-
day, with the New hanover county
goal set at So, 200.
Mayor Lanes proclamation:
WHEREAS the disease of in
fantile paralysis RACES in many
cities of our nation every year,
leaving in it's wake hundreds, even
thousands, of stricken men, women
and children, many Of them Grip
pied for life, and
WHEREAS the National Foum-
dation for sInfantile Paralysis, by
assuring care and treatment for
all victims of poliomyelitis and
by carrying on its great program
of research for the prevention and
possible cure of this virulent dis
ease, has earned the overWhelrn-
ing gratitude of the American peo-
pie, and ~
WHEREAS the March of Dimes
conducted annually by the Nation
al Foundation will be held Janu-
airy IA to 81.
THEREFORE, be it resolved
that all citizens are urged to CO.
operate with the March Of Dimes
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
Cold, Hunger
Taking Toll
Over Nation
LANDS ARE FLOODED
French Nationalist Fear
Chinese Will Withdraw
Before Troops Arrive
BY STANLEY M. SWINTON
APP Staff Correspondent

HANOI, French Indochina, Jan.
IA --REFrench and Annamite
sources in this politically tense
capital said today they believed
between 100000 and 100000 per-
sons in northern Indochina were
doomed to die of starvation with
in the year.
Cold and hunger already are
taking a heavy toll, and the situa-
ton in this plagued capital was
aggravated by the explosive atmos-
phere engendered by the bitter
feeling between the French and the
unrecognized republic of Wet Nam.
Chinese occupation forces have
forbidden 10000 Frenohmen to
carry any weapons, although fully
armed Annamite soldiers of the
Wet Nam republic circulate freely.
A French spokesman has claimed
anarchy prevails throughout the
north, with no police in this city,
no coal, no railroads in opera
ton
It has been estimated that there
are about $1,000 armed men in the
Annamite army, about 5000 of
them in the Hanoi area. The
French here have 5000 troops I'm
armed since the Japanese seized
their weapons last March, and
there are some $4,000 French civil
lians here.
the japanese seized their weapons
last March, and there are some
Is, 900 French civilians here.
This will be the second success
sive year Of hunger for northern
Indochina. Estimates of the dead
last year range between 100000
and 100000 and the French and
both fear this year
will be no better. In two days this
correspondent counted 400 dead
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
'-MONTHS-OLD BABY
IN FAMILY
WASHING MACHINE

ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 14.-(UD
- Linda May Kimble, 49,
mOnths-Old child, was found
drowned in the sOapy water of
a mechanical washing machine
today shortly after her mother
had notified police that the
baby is missing. q
Mrs. Henry T. Kimble, fran
tic when she discovered little
Linda missing this afternoon,
telephoned police to get help in
finding her. Police arrived as
the frantic mother discovered
the child in the mechanical
washer.
Police said the child appar-
emily had climbed into the ma
chine from a chair at its side.
Mrs. Kimble became hys-
terical and collapsed upon find
ing the dead child.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
Along The Cape Fear

ing, interpret this item as meaning
the yard will get contracts to
build four MORE ships, the con
census-still unofficial-is this fl.
cure represents ships already
built and now at the Quitting
piers.
Certainly there seems to be no
reason for believing at this tlme
any new contracts for the yaro are
presently forthcoming.
ZIG YEARS YOUNG-New Liver
pool, thriving hamlet on the cape
Fear, is ZIG years old now ana,
like Johnny Walker, still going
strong.
Born in 1870, New Liverpool
had its face lifted, so to speak, TWO
years later when it became known
as Newton and was a major trad
ing post for commodities such as
rum, cotton, and naval stores.
Seven years later, in 1739, the
name of the town was again chang
ed, this time to (you guessed IT,
perhaps) Wilmington, in honor
Of Spencer Compton, Earl of VIII
mington.
In 1852 the population was LOCO
I. -. now, minus official census
figures, it is $4,000 or more.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
And So To Bed

There is something new
"under the SUM-.
T. HI. Spr0use, Jacksonville,
who was arrested in the city
recently for speeding sent his
regrets, fluctuations and his
check for S9.05 to city police
department "to settle charges"
In the letter, D. M. Hall,
motorcycle patrolman, was
commended by Sprouse who
wrote HE was mighty nice
in every respect-the depart
ment should be proud to have
a man of his type on the force"
Both the regrets and felicita-
tons together with the check
were gracefully received by the
department.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
MODOC T0RETURN
IN NEAR FUTURE

Confirmation OF the return of the
U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc
to Wilmington in the near future
came n a telephone conversation
with Commodore M. j. Ryan, dis
trict officer of the Sixth Naval dis
trlct in Charleston, yesterday.
The Modoc, long stationed here,
comes as near being a land
mark Of the city as a ship can
be, and was formerly commanded
BY Admiral Joseph F. Farley, now
Coast Guard commandment.
Subject of many wartime rumors,
sunk and resunk several times
by 'unoff cial' reports, the Modoc
Is now on her peacetime Greenland
ice patrol under Navy orders, but
IS scheduled to be returned to the
coast Guard by June 30, according
10 Commodore Ryan, at which
ume she will be restationed at Will
mington.
Commodore Ryan disclosed that
ooy the end of the fiscal year, June
ou' all operations of the Coast
Guard will have been reduced to
peace-tlme proportions and Naval
control withdrawn.
Aho her matter, the disposition Of
me Coast Guard quarter boat sta
uoned here, has been recently re-
opened, Commodore Ryan said,
ana 1t is expected that final dis.
position of the 155-foot vessel will
come soon.
Inc hull of the vessel, which serv.
Cd as Coast Guard barracks here
ourlng the war, was constructed
III III me old shipyards here during
"ofio War I, and is one of the
lew concrete ships still afloat.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
BUSINESS DEFIES
FARRELL REGIME
Argentina's Iudustrialists
Clamp Stranglehold On
Trade, Commerce

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 14-F-
Argentina's industrial and CONNER
cial leaders clamped a strangle-
hold on the nations business activi-
ty today in an impressive show OF
civil resistance to the Argentine
military government labor poll
cies.
Not wheel turned in any factory
and scarcely any store of import
ance opened. Small merchants, in
GLIDING grocers, fruiterers and
bakers joined large industrial firms
in the three-day lockout called to
protest wage increases and year
end bonuses decreed by the govern
ment of Gen. Edelmiro Farrell ten
days before the end of 1945.
The permanent committee OF
businessmen, industrialists a n d
manufacturers who called the lock-
out disclosed that they first had
asked the government to suspend
for 80 days the execution OF the
government decree.
This proposal was made, a COM
mittee spokesman said, so that the
issue could be discussed after the
election of Feb. "a. It has been
charged that the governments de-
cree was an outright bid for labor
votes on behalf of the presidential
candidacy of Juan Domingo Peron,
Argentine strong man and former
vice president. The government re-
jected the businessmen's proposal.
Political observers said the lock-
out was so per cent Effective
throughout the nation of $4,000, 600
people. The streets of Buenos
Aires, usually damned with shop
pers, were virtually deserted. =,
Only ice, milk and meat deliver
les continued. Butchers said they
would join the lockout tomorrow.
Open restaurants were rarity, and
taxi service was reduced to mini
mum. Some drugstores functioned
on an emergency basis.
The government, which may
order some services resumed on the
grounds that public health is men
aced, has assured the public that
no one would be deprived of
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
Unions Will
QuitPlants
In l6States
MEAT FIGHT HANGS
JAW Lay Aside Industry
Wide 80 Per Cent
Wage Demands
BY DELOS SMITH

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. lathe big
Three of the electrical, appliance
industry and the third largest union
of the CLIO begin a test of strength
at 5 a. m. Qocal ti1ne) tomorrow
when 100000 workers start strik.
ing 70 plants in 16 states from coast
to coast.
Any possibility that the new, ma.
Jor disturbance in the nations
industrial reconversion to peace
might be averted at the last mo-
ment seemed to evaporate tonight
while the national telephone net
work returned to normal, with the
exception of Washington, after
three days of strike disruption.
And there was no word from a
corps of government, labor media
tors working in Chicago to avert a
strike of $4,000 slaughter and
packing workers scheduled for
Wednesday which would reduce
the nations already short civilian
meat supply to a fraction of de-
mand within week.
Additionally, a strike OF 70O,LJ0
steel workers impended. Originally
scheduled for today, it had been
postponed one week at the request
of President Truman to permit
more time for negotiation.
Both sides in the electrical in.
dustry dispute reported tonight
that so far as they were concerned,
the strike was on" 1t was UNI
derstood that the labor concilia.
ton service Of the Department OF
Labor contacted officials of the
companies and of the union this
morning, wanting to know if there
was anything" it could do. The
answer of each side was that it
knew of nothing.
The United Electrical, Radio.
and Machine Workers of America,
whose 100000 members makes il
the third largest CIO affiliate, said
it had made every effort to avoid
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
RALEIGH WOMAN
KILLED ON STREET

RALEIGH, Jan. 14.-R-Detee,
tive Captain R. E Goodwin said
tonight that a formal charge OF
murder would be made against
Robert l.. Nash, 42-year-old former
moving picture projectionist, in
connection with the Staying of Mrs.
Margie L.. Parker, comely young
Western Union clerk who was IA
tally shot on Raleigh's main bust
desk and told Desk 1t. O. c. Jor-
Goodwin said that Nash ran into
the police station, block away
from where the shooting occurred,
threw a 80 caliber pistol on the
desk and told Lesk 1t. o. c. Jor-
dan, II want to give myself up. !
have just shotHR woman"
The 23-year-dd girl, wife of war
veteran who recently returned from
overseas, died after she was struck
f1-~x:-~nI n< Da~a Trun. roI ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
Byrnes Asks
Atom Energy
Commission
TREATY DRAFTS DUE
1JNo Delegates To Give
Security Council Power
To Enforce Peace
nv R. H. sHACKFORD
,rn;ted Press Staff Correspondent

rr;tpd Press Stan Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. IA - Secretary
Il State James F. Byrnes called
w w the United Nations Assembly
t todsv to create promptly q COM
msj on control Of atomic
snergv and to give the Security
c G1 ri the force it needs to main
tain peace in an atomic age.
Calling the creation OF the COM
n,ission of an atomic energy COM
mission, as recommended at the
Moscow Foreign Ministers con-
terence "a task of transcending
importance" Byrnes said:
establishment OF a commission
n deal with problems raised by
tbe discovery Of atomic energy
is inseparably linked with the
nroblen of security. 1t is matter
Of primary concern to all nations.
We must not fail to devise safe
guards necessary to ensure that
this great discovery is used for
human welfare and not for more
deadly human warfare"
81 hope that this Assembly will
approve promptly the resolution
proposed by my government in
association with the United King
dom, the Soviet Union, China,
France and Canada so that this
commission may begin its work
without delay"
Even before Byrnes spoke, the
Assembly formally put the atomic
energy resolution on its program
under item XVII-urgent matters
which means that it will come up
for early debate.
Then it will be referred to COM
mittee No. l on political and
security matters, with Senator
Tom Connally, D., Tex, represent
ing the United States.
Byrnes is expected to return to
as soon as the atomic
resolution is approved.
During the Assembly session
officials made known
that deputies of the Big Five
Foreign Ministers probably would
start drafting peace treaties with
Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary
and Finland this week.
Byrnes in his speech opening a
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
JACKIE GETS HOME
OKAY BUT-LATE
Young lack Moore was ba,

Young Jack Moore was back
home this morning none the
worse for wear.
ac.ie. who is seven, didn't
sscome home from school yester
Jay afternoon as early as uc-
ual and his parents were wor-
ried about him. They asked
the police to help find him.
Jackie got his name on the
radio, as missing. All through
the evening people called up
the Star and asked if Jack
had been found.
Jack came home, all right.
Got horne about ! o'clock. Just
didn't know there was any rea-
son to call up anyb0dy.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
sHIPYARD RUMORs- An

SHIPYARD RUMORS- An item
in the current, MARITIME RE-
PORTS, quasi-official publication
of U. S. Shipping, may or may not
be misleading.
With rumors around the North
Caro1in Shipbuliding company here
rifer than rivets, most any item
is pounced upon as possible fore
cast of what is to happen to the
shipyard.
The general answer to all such
rumors seems to be that the yard
will close. Most forecasts place
the termination time around June
1, this year.
But, if anybody official knows
any thing official there has been no
official announcement.
Thus the item.
FOUR MORE SHIPS?- The item
published under a general heading
about large shipbuliding program
or the United States in 1946, is as
follows:
1.-The North Carolina Shipbulldlng
company at Wilmington VIII ou,io
six C2-S1-AJ4's and four Go
AJ5's next year..
Although there are those-not Of
ficials-at the shipyard VINO; n
dulging in a little wishful 'nll'h-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-15
WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)
Ky IT G yu.kA

~ HastcrH Stanuard TlmeD
NY Y. S. Weather Bureau)
snd I;salsoToioglcal data for the "a hours
'4s ''5o pm. yesterday.
,.oo Temperatures
r. 3cSo am So; 7:3o am. 80; 1880 pm, 81;
f'So pm, AZ.
Normal Is 90 MINIMUM 'A' Naeen ~
,..o Humidity
73 3o'u am. 80; 7 80 am. 10; 1 80 pm. "a;
ro.., Precipitation
10 lor "a hours ending 1880 pm
10'l since the first of the MONTH
s. co,.. Tides For Today
FAST as' and Geodetic Survey
c ION the Tide Tables published by U.
eodst and Geodetic Survey
Wil,,;. High Low
ston $50 7:55 am. 2:22 a m.
Masonboro BIS pm. 3:06 pm.
Aooro Inlet 48 am. am
s,,,ri.. 6 :0S pm. 1912 pm.
Moonrrilssee u, n;ls am: Sunset 5:26 pm;
RiM tise 3:34 pm. Moonset SIP am,
I'm sage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 8
feet monday. 1913 feet; and Sunday, 1O.s
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FORECAST

wilmington and vicinity: Increasing
c1o,diness with possible light rains to-
dav High temperature today So degrees.
low temperature tonight So degrees.
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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
Renters
Picket
Folds Up

For the first time in months,
the OPA rent control offices in
the Fidelity Building, 600 Girls
void, were free today from a one
man picket line posted there by
the Greater Detroit Property
Owners Association.
Carl Wilkelfesky, 60. who lives
at the Mariners Institute, 300
Griswold, had been making a
steady job of his picket duties,
which consisted of passing out
handbills which urged passersby
to contribute to the landlords
association.
But yesterday office workers
noted that the job that Carl was
doing was becoming less and less
steady.
He was unsteady in the
morning.
He wobbled visibly at noon.
Finally, late in the afternoon,
he staggered from the outer cold
10 the friendly warmth Of a radf-
ator in the lobby of the building,
curled up on the floor and went
to sleep.
Central Station police picked
him up gently, scarcely rousing
him, and took him TO head
quarters, where he was booked as
golden rule drunk.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
Canada Ford, JAW
Decision Next Week

Ontario Supreme Court Justice
Ivan c. Rand announced today
that he would hand down a deci-
sion in arbitration proceedings
between Ford Motor Co. and
the UAW-CIO sometime late next
week.
Company and union representa-
tiveS have been summoned to
Toronto 10 confer with Rand
Tuesday. Major point in dispute
is the JAWS request for a closed
shop and checkoff
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
Close Report
On Juveniles

The mayors committee on the
community care Of children. meet
ing today with Police Commits
sioner John II. Ballenger and DR..
Howard Lane. police department
psychologist, completed the draft
of its final report on conditions al
the Juvenile Detention Home.
The report will be sent Feb. ]
to the Wayne County board OF
supervisors. who have held in
abeyance a requested one-man
grand jury investigation. and TO
the mayors advisory committee.
The investigation resulted from
charges by a Wayne University
professor of maladministration
and congestion al the home.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
seIene Walters TO Wed Scientist TO U. S.

s WASHINGTON, Jan. "a tINS)
DR.. Lise Meitner. noted woman
scientist, is en- route 10 the United
States 20 assume a profesSorShip
at Catholic University in Wash
ington
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. "a tUP)-
Actress Selene Walters. 20, will
marry DR.. Alfred G. Huenergardt,
Beverly Hills surgeon. on Feb 10,
she said today.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24

Que 10 the lack OF er0a8
When you feel tired and all-in,
life really isn't worthwhile. So
do as thousands Of happy, ener-
getie people are doing. Take
Nutrex TO keep up your pep and
avoid that tired feeling due 10
lack Of thiamin. It's swell TO have
all the energy you want to do your
days work and enjoy your eve
For ttyearef5 Age 10
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
For That Tired FeeIinq


tbian1iH in The daily diet)
nings besides. So don't put it OIL
Get Nutrex at your drugstore to-
day, without fail, and get results
or you'll get your money back.
Widely recommended by thousands
Of satisfied users everywhere. Buy
the economy size Nutrex-it saves
you l5e5.
Der eaSIsJ, SEQ doctor.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
Traffic Cleanup
Sends 13 10 Jail

Traffic court attaches relaxed
bit today after their busiest day
in four years, having disposed of
.248 cases which came before the
four referees In addition 20 the
more serious cases handled by the
traffic judges.
Thirteen defendants in the lat
ter group went TO jail, 10 for
drunk driving.
900 IN COURT
Including witnesses but not
counting attorneys, police and the
court attaches themselves, APP
proximately 900 persons milled
around in the referees court
Traffic Judge John d. Watts
handed out Today Jail sentences
10 the drunk drivers who appeared
before him yesterday. They are
Rexford c. Preston, AZ. Berkley;
Joel O. Nelson, 40. Of l443l Sara
toga; Robert Sturtevant, %, OF
5000 Ohio; James Mcintosh, 81, OF
1907 Maybury Grand; Matthew
Kirby, A, of 643 Prentis; Joseph
Salzer. AZ. of 5730 Kensington;
John r. Leftus Jr, "a, of 1888
Danford; Walter w. Blundy, p,
OF Poll st. Aubin; Aaron Alex
ander, 54. of 6773 Vinewood. and
Julius Green, 81, of 1865 W..
Warren.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-24
4O-DAY SENTENCE

a 40-day term went TO Frank
Yettke, 81, of S037 Stockton, who
drove a heavy truck through
safety zone, injurIng woman.
Henry Strong, 81, of 334S Hud-
son. was sentenced Is days for
inluring q woman slightly when
he ran through stop street.
striking q truck, car and a gas
station. He was charged with
RECKLESS driving.
A SIS fine was assessed against
Del J. Delbridge Jr.. Of 1885
Meyers, for reckless driving Dec.
IS, when his car struck a taxi at
McNicholS and Wildemere. He is
son of the orchestra leader.