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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-15

Pageant IS the second place win
ner in the main event. She also
won d silver spoon and fork for
the pretiiest baby girl in her age
group and a blue ribbon and
ring for the healthiest baby in
her age group.
Mrs, Lee Rouse, who was OPP
Grated n Thursday. is getting
along as wen as could be expect.
cd.
Mrs. Claude Weaver and little
daughter, Jane, and Mrs. Pearl
Barker and SON. "Cotty," of Brew
ton, A'a., spent the weekend
with Mrs. Bakers sister, Mrs. II.
B. Rollins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Shaw and
Mrs. Louise Thomas were bus
mess visitors TO Mobile Monday.
Mrs Eula Golden of Mobile
spent he weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. n. II Gautier.
Mrs. Eula Golden and Mrs.
James MeGrath and baby son
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-15

News OF Gaufier -.
Group OF Veterans Form Independent
Basketball Team Here; Lose Opener

A number OF ex-servicemcn
from Gautier have organized an
independent basketball team
They will use the court at the
school.
The first game was played in
Vancle.ve with Gautier on the
short end Of 1915 score.
Players are: Marby. Gorden
and Floyd Penton, Grey Lad
nier, Pob McVeav, II. T.. Loper,
Jimmie Clifford. Ellis Adams,
Paul Vaughn. Harry Roberts,
Chester Yocum, and Clifton
Cruise
We offer congratulations to
little Lizzie Agnes Accord who
won a bronze trophy in Ire Baby
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C. C. GAsKIN HOST

A pleasant part of the weekend
visit of Miss Kathleen Everitt and
Mrs. Alex Mathis of Panama
City with the formers aunt Mrs.
r. K. Hollister and MIR. Hollister,
was a boat trip for which c. G.
Gaskin was host.
The trip was made on Mr.. Gas
Kins' new cabin cruiser and those
in the party besides himself were
Mrs. Gaskin, Mr.. and Mrs. Hol-
lister, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Dantz-
Ter, and Mrs. Mathis and Miss
Everitt.
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and Margaret Thompson who was
also celebrating her birthday. Ice
cream and individual cakes
decorated with red, white and
blue were served to Jeana Err
mis-, Susan Williamson, Ella and
Rosie Marie Couch, Sherry
Spann, Kathy Khayat, George
Bond. Clarence Warrington, Bet
ty Bean Mabry, Margaret Thomp-
son, Dorothy Marie Bullock, Mary
Helen Wood, Carol Nelson, Car
son Avent, AL Thomson, Mrs.
Alton Thomson, Mrs. Roy Will
hanson, Mrs. Ennis, Mrs. F. c.
Spann, Jr., and Mrs. T. o. Ma
bry.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-15
Richord Shields
Honored At PortY
On Fifth BirthddY

Mrs. R. v. Shields entertained
in honor of her son, Richard, on
Saturday afternoon with a birth
day party in celebration of his
fifth birthday. Games were en-
joyed during the afternoon with
gifts being presented to Ella
Couch As winner of a contest
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ter the many gifts had been Open
cd and admired.
Besides the honoree guests at
tending were Mesdames Charles
Sanders, John Schillereff, Roy
Jones. William Mayfield, Shelton
Boyette, c.. E. Coward, Donald
Chapman, w. T. Matheny, Rob-
ert Bernstein and Tom Byrnes
and Miss June Conn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
Along The Cape Fear

ter a fruitless search which didn't
turn as much as one horseshoe
or trolley-wheel to light, we came
out and fatty denied that horse
drawn streetcars ever ran SO much
as one city block on any street
along the Cape Fear.
If they al anywhere, we de.
clared, they ran through the
minds of elderly folks who dream
ed them up in much the same
fashion that Major Hoople fabri-
Gates his fabulous fables.
Well, as often happens after we
make a statement about Cape Fear
legends and lore, We now find
ourself in a position whereby we
must, with apologies of an abject
and cheek-flushed nature, withdraw
our previous denial of Whining
toms streetcars-horses included.
: TROLLEYS TRUNDLED-This
turnabout is, we feel, no shock to
you faithful folks who follow QUE
daily blunderings for whatever
reason you do follow them. Like
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
So To Bed

of all the jokes DR.. I. g.
Greer told his audience at the
merchants banquet at Wrights-
vile Beach last night, this is
the one which put the most peo-
pie in the aisles:
A man, observing q group OF
boys playing baseball with
very poor equipment, gave
them S. to purchase new gloves
and bats. A few days later he
saw the same boys playing a
regular game-and still using
the same old equipment.
Didn't you buy new equip
ment with that $50" he asked
them. you'd stand a much
better chance of winning this
game If you had"
1--WE have a better way Of
winning" the boys replied.
eve gave the S. to the UNI
pire."
II assure you," said DR..
Greer, chat the merchants as
ISOLATION has very fine equip
ment and that your president
did not give me S. to tell YOU
how good you are"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
NORTHERN STATES
LASHED BY STORM
Four Killed In New York
And Massachusetts
Towns

SYRACUSE, N. Y, June II. -
P)- Central and southern New
York state was lashed Tuesday
by a series of local thunderstorms
which killed two persons, n of
them a high school girl in an
Elmira schoolroom, the other a
former speed skating champion
at Amsterdam.
Theodore (Ted) Fleetwood, rs,
former eastern states and middle
Atlantic amateur ice-skating title
holder, was killed by Tightening
while playing golf near Amster-
Dies At Desk
Barbara Crawford, 17-year-old
valedictorian of the Elmira free
academy senior class, died at her
desk when a tree, uprooted during
a storm, crashed against the
school building. A long splinter of
flying glass pierced her lung, caus-
ing instantaneous death.
The localized storms, striking
with short-lived but destructive
force, caused widespread damage
and blew down telephone and
power lines. Several communities
were plunged into darkness and
their communications disrupted.
Elmira, hard hit by floods two
weeks ago to the day and by a
severe twister Saturday night, also
felt the force of a 45-minute thund-
erstorm.
72-Mile Gale
A 72-mile gale accompanied
heavy rain at Auburn, uprooting
trees and cutting off electric
power.
The Auburn Citizen-Advertiser,
an afternoon newspaper, vas I'm
able to publish because of lack of
power, The storm blew down a
200-foot tower of radio station VIM
30 forcing it off the air.
Trees blown across highways
blocked traffic at Syracuse where
the storm also brought down COM
mu~nications lines. Wind velocity
reached As miles an hour during
a half hour electrical storm.
Amonk other communities hit
by storms were Ithaca, Oneonta
and Binghamtom.
See STORMS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
100000 NEEDED
FOR WORK CHANGE
40 New Firemen Necessary
If New Schedule Is
Approved Here

Working schedule changes re,
quested by city fire department
would involve an increase of $780,
900 a year in municipal expendi-
lures if accepted by the city gov
eminent, Fire Chief Ludie Groom
disclosed yesterday.
Firemen, under the present ar
rangement, are working on q
schedule of II hours for day and Is
hours for night shifts with no days
off other than 10 days vacation
per year. They have submitted a
request for a full day off each
week, in addition to two week vaea-
tons annually, with pay.
40 More Men
The firemen's demands, as out
lined by Chief Groom, would en-
tail the addition Of 40 more men
to the present personnel in order
to. maintain the department at its
current level, or rating under
standards of the Fire Underwriters
board. Forty additional men, at
See FIREMAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12

ALLEGED LEGEND - About
two months ago we raised a ques-
ton about the old h~orse-draNn
s%treetcars which, a Cape Fear
legend alleges, once upon a time
transported Wilmingtonians along
these now trolley-trackless streets.
Since we came into this world
long after the electric motor had
retired old Dobbin to the pasture,
and since we made u debut IN
Wilmington several years after the
bus company had made obsolete
all streetcars, horse-draWn or
otherwise, we naturally raised the
question out of complete Ignorance.
We had simply heard that the
equine-propelled vehicles once
piled these streets, and we merely
wanted to know I'D. whether the
story was true or. CD whether it
was only an alleged legend which
would never stand up in court.
AFFECT APOLOGIES - AS often
happens in our unskillful probings
of Cape Fear legends and lore.
we didn't find out anything about
the conjectural trans. In fact, af-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
DOESN'T FEEL GUILTY
Says Defense
Material Disappears

BELGRADE, June II. - up -
Gen. Draja Mihailov1c admitted
Tuesday that he had contact with
the Germans and with the Yugo-
slav puppet government in 1941,
but insisted he was trying to lure
quislings to join his forces.
The Chetnik leader said IT do
not feel guilty. when asked how
he would plead to charges of trea-
son and collaboration, and later
complained that the court had
deprived him of much of his de-
Tense material.
Attacked Tito
The spare, bushy-bearded gueril-
la leader testified that in 1941 he
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
STATE TO PROBE
RACE EXPENSES
SBI To Conduct Inquiry In
Fifth District Congress
sional Race

WINSTON-SALEM, June 12.-P)
Solicitor Ralph j. Scott, Of Dan
bury announced Tuesday night
that he would investigate Thur
mond Chatham's campaign ex-
penditures throughout the Fifth
Congressional district, with the
assistance of the State Bureau OF
Investigation
Walter F. Anderson, Of Raleigh,
director of the SBI said the SBl
would aid in the inquiry but that
he assumed it would be an in
vestigation of the expenditures OF
all candidates and would be con-
fined to Mr.. SCOTS solicitorial
district.
See PROBE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
MEET
SET FOR MONDAY
Lieut. Gov. Ballentine To
Speak AT Convention
Banquet

Lieut.-Gov. L. Y. Ballentine will
distinguish the two-day convention
of the North Carolina Association
of Plumbing and Heating Con-
tractors when he appears at the
closing banquet as principal
speaker, it was announced here
yesterday.
Arrangements for the confer
ence, scheduled for Wrightsvllle
Beach June II and 10 are IN
charge of R. M. Kermon, OF Will
mington, executive secretary OF
the state organization.
The convention will open Mon
day, June II, with a meeting in
the Ocean Terrace hotel, al which
L. v. Cailaghan, Of Southern
Pines, president, will preside.
Following invocation by George
A. Moore, of Wilmington, Mayor
W. Ronald Lane, will give an ad-
See PLUMBERS On Page Five
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JAYCEES ENDORSE
COLLEGE PROPOSAL
Group Hears Speakers On
Future Oh Local
Aviation

R. B. Howard, former president
of the Wilmington Junior Cham
Der of Commerce, new chairman
of the clubs Awards committee
last night promised members
more awards in 1946-47,'' dur
ing the first business session pre-
sided over by j. B. Sellers, new
president.
The club also Fundamentally
and unanimously" endorsed the
New Hanover County Board OF
Education's plan to procure a unit
of the University of North Caro-
lima for Wilmington, and the gen.
eral extension of the Greater Uni
versity.
Top Ranking
The club last year, under the
presidency of Howard achieved
top-ranking successes, and was
winner of many of the nations high
awards fo- it's participation in
civic affairs.
Guests. at the meeting were
John H. Farrell, Wilmington In
dustrial agent, Jim Heritage,
Brooks Mincy and Russell Cherry.
Two new members, William
Echo1s and Paul Kil1ian were. vel
coined to the club.
See JAYCEES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12

The feeling that things are not
working out right at home or
abroad is so general that it IS CIV
ing rise to a belief that in fact noun
ing can be done. about anythlng'
But this is only a mood, IKE the
feeling on a winters day ma ue
hounds of spring are far Dehino !:
The mood, which is COMPOUNDED u
inertia and low spirits, Will pass
away, all the sooner as men recog-
nize that it is only the mood whicl
quite naturally and unavoidaoly 1oi-
lows a great war.
It has been the rule that the con.
certed effort and the e~xaltatlon o.
war are followed by a tlfne y,
disunity, depression. hatness anu
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
Castoniia Man
Elected Head
As Meet Ends
Convention, In Final Ses-
sion Here, Slaps At
Cooperatives
DIR. GREER SPEAKS
400 Attend Annual Ban.
quet Closing 44th
Convention
By LARRY HIRSCH

A few hours before they
sat down to their 44th annual
convention banquet in the
Ocean Terrace hotel at
Wrightsville Beach last night,
the members of the North
Carolina Merchants associa-
ton unanimously adopted resolu-
tons cracking down on the state
three per cent sales tax, OPA,
and "cooperative organizations"
The tax resolution asks that the
Governor and the State assembly
repeal the sales tax Gin its en-
tirely."
The OPA resolution requests that
"OPA be required to adopt real
istic incentive pricing programs"
"Tax Cooperatives"
The cooperative organizations
resolution demands that those Or
CARNATIONS be made ''to pay taxes
on a similar basis as all other bust
nesses, thus restoring tax equal
ity."
Having dispensed with their bust
ness agenda, the members of the
association and their guests -
over 400 persons in all-joined with
the North Carolina Credit Women's
Breakfast clubs in the annual tes-
tive banquet.
The features of the evening were
the installing Of officers for the
coming year, the award of three
See MERCHANTS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
BRIDGES OFFERS
TO STOP STRIKE
Maritime Leader Wants
Government To Offer
New Contract

WASHINGTON, June 11.-W.R-
CLIO Leader Harry Bridges offered
Tuesday night to call off the ship
ping strike set for Friday mid
night if the government will negoti-
ate a contract with the seven mari
time unions involved.
Bridges, co-chairman OF the CLIO
Maritime committee, made his Of
fer to a House Labor subcommit-
tee which called him in to testify
OF conditions in the shipping and
waterfront industries.
Negotiations Fail
He declared fatty that negotia-
tons with the shipowners have
broken down completely and that
only more direct government in
PREVENTION can forestal1 the strike
which he and other CLIO leaders
have threatened to extend into a
worldwide tie-up of American
merchant shipping.
Eighty per cent of the ships are
aforementioned now" said
Bridges. II have in mind the gov
eminent carrying on direct negotia-
tons, and under those conditions
there would be no need to strike"
He was asked point-blank by
Representative James E. Geelann
O.-Conn.) a member of the sub
committee, whether he believed the
unions could work out a satisfac-
tory agreement with the govern
ment.
Lewis Comparison
well" Bridges retorted, 1--WE
wouldn't expec: to be treated any
worse than John L. Lewis"
Bridges left the hearing rooms
Immediately after completing his
testimony, and neither he nor his
co-chairman Joseph Curran, presi-
dent Of the National Maritime union
could be reached at once to e1ab-
crate on his bid for a government
settlement.
But sources close to the DISPUTE
said it has beer Bridges position
all along that the government.
which operates the bulk of the
American merchant fleet through
the War Shipping Administration.
should negotiate wages. hours and
working conditions with the sea
men.
Mum On Second Strike
But in his testimony he refused
to say whether the unions - six
CLIO affiliates and one Independent
would issue a new strike call if
they called Of the scheduled walk
out and then were unable to reach
an agreement with the government.
Bridges said he did not believe
the men would continue working
merely because the government
took over operation of the ships -
as President Truman has threaten
ed to do if the strike occurs.
And he expressed doubt that
manning the ships with Navy and
other government personnel would
impel the strikers to return to
work.
He asserted that the shipoWners
did rot offer a single concession
until the strike call was issued and
that their offers since that time
have been unsatisfactory.
Another Compromise
Meanwhile, it was learned that
See MARITIME on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12

vote was announced: l3o to uphold
the veto and 225 to override. This
was five votes less than the two
third needed to pass the bill along
to the Senate over the veto.
4,50O-Word Veto
The dramatic vote was COM
pleted within 30-minutes after the
clerks finished reading the Presi-
dents 1850 word veto message to
the jam-packed chamber.
Mr.. Truman based his veto on
the argument that the permanent,
.long-range bill would breed rather
than curb labor strife and would
force men to work for private en-
ployers in peacetime.
The Case bill would have: Great
ed a federal mediation board, re-
stricted strikes and lockouts while
the board was functioning; probi-
bited secondary boycotts, and per-
mitted court suits against employ
ers or labor organizations violating
contracts.
May Receive Measure
There was talk among its sup
porters of trying to revive it and
tack it onto temporary, emergency
legislation asked by President Tru-
man. In the form it passed the
House. the latter measure would
permit the President to draft men
who struck in industries seized by
the government, but the Senate
struck this provision out. The Tru-
man measure has been stuck in
the House Rules committee, pend
ing action on the Case bill.
The President in his veto mes
sage drew a sharp distinction Tues
day between his own temporary
bill and the case measure.
OF the latter, he said:
See VETO on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12

led an attack on a unit of Marshal
Tito's PartisanS, but he declared
he attacked because here was a
group unknown to me and it be-
gan to plumber"
Mihailovic said he defended
quisling gendarmes in clashes with
Tito's partisans because Il was
preparing them to come over to
me-" He testified his relations
with Milan Medic, puppet premier
who committed suicide while await
ing trial, were maintained in an
effort to lure quisling troops into
See DEFENSE on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
CAPITAL STIRRED
OVER COURT FEUD
Senator Says Both Justice
Black And Jackson
Should Resign

WASHINGTON, June 11.-(P)-
Talk of designations and investiga-
tons in the dissension-ridden SUI
preme court flew about the capitol
Tuesday in the wake of Justice
Jackson's angry blast at Justice
Black.
Sena or Lucas D.-Ill.), a lawyer
t..nself, demanded that both JUS
tees resign, for the good of them.
selves and for the good of the
country" He told a reporter that
"there can't be any confidence in
ta court from here on as a result
Of this feud."
Black Still Silent
Jackson said he was issuing his
statement at Nuremberg "in fair
ness of my future work on the
court" however, and thus it ap-
peared he had no intention of leav-
ing. Black spent the day at his Of
flee in the supreme court building,
despite the close of the term Mon
day, but maintained his silence, as
did the other justices.
Senator's Eastland (D.-Miss.) and
Wherry (R.-Neb.) OF the Judiciary
committee told newsmen they be-
lieve the situation calls for a con-
greSsional investigation and East
land announced he will discuss the
matter in the senate Wednesday.
Procedure Uncertain
Wherry was uncertain just how
the senate committee might pro-
coed.
The House could investigate
since it is the body which con-
siders questions of impeach-
ment," he remarked. 1--WE would
have to have a resolution OF some
thing-I don't know just what"
The Senate committee on Friday
will consider the nomination of
Fred L. Vinson as chief justice but
Chairman McCarran O-Nev.) and
Senator Hatch tD.-N.M.) of the
committee said they did not think
the Jackson-Black feud had any
place in that consideration. McCar-
ran reported the committee so far
has received no requests from any
persons wishing to be heard on the
nomination.
Cable Still Missing
The cable which Jackson sent to
the Senate and House Judiciary
committees still had not been re-
celyed and members of the House
group were reluctant to discuss the
matter.
Representative Celler ON. "
was the only House committee
member willing to comment. He
lold reporters that it appeared to be
"a clash of personalities" and a
matter for the new chief justice to
settle.
Celler also took the view that the
propriety of Blacks sitting in a
case IN which his former law part
AeT, Champion Harris, was interest
ed was a matter for the justice in
u~lVloually to determine, rather
man the court as a whole or con-
greSs.
Zee COURT on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
Today and Tomorrow
Rv WALTER LIPPMAN

Illustration. The six years which
followed our own War of indie
pendence were bad enough to drive
the best men to the verge of de-
spair before they gathered them
selves together at Philadelphia and
found once more the audacity, the
imagination and the resolution
which great difficulties demand.
The Civil War was followed by ten
years of the worst government. the
country has ever endured. The
first World War was followed by
the Harding administration. The
second has been followed by the
Truman administration which,
though it is certainly a good deal
better than the Harding admins
See LIPPMANN on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
Battle;
0verKingdom
Forestalled
100000 Republican
Demand Expulsion
OF Umberto
NEW FIGHTING LOOMS
A n -Monarchist Demon
stration Scheduled
For Today

ROME, Wednesday, June IL.
-UR-At least IL persons
were killed and more than
100 wounded in Naples Tues
day night when armed pro-
monarchists engaged police in
gun-batNes and stormed COM
munist headquarters, the naval
barracks and a provincial
government building.
ROME, Wednesday, June
12.-(AP)-The blazing gun
and bomb battle in Naples
died to an occasional ex-
of g%unfire today as
the casualty toll rose in Tues
clash among monarchist
demonstrators, troops and oppos-
ing police factions.
A similar demonstration of
violence was averted in Rome
when almost 100, 900 angry pro-
Republicans, who marched on
palace demanding cabi-
net action to force King Umberto
II into exile, dispersed after
their sentiments.
Urges Canton
Giuseppe Romita, S o
Of the interior, who in
the march on Viminale
palace, cautioned the Republican
sympathizers against bloodsheo
and warned them not to attack a
See BATTLE on Page Two
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The w Gather

FORECAST
North Carolina - Wednesday, partly
cloudy during morning with scattered
th1ndershoWers in the afternoon.
South Carolina-Continued warm Wed
nesday with thundershowers in the aft
ernoon.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hour
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:3Oa SO; 7:3oa ST; 1:30p "a; 7:3Op Is.
Maximum 81; Minimum So; Mean Is;
Normal rs.
Humidity
1:3oa SO; 7:3Oa 10; 1:30p 81; 7:30p 70.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30p-0.O0
inches.
Total since the first of the month
0.55 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
u, S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington -------------- 8:06a SOFA
8:42p 3:11p
Masonboro Inlet . 5:54a "a
6:29p 12:05p
Sunrise 5:O0a; Sunset Tap; Moonrise
sap; Moonset 3:35a.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 8
am Tuesday. mo REPORT feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-12
The Case Bill Veto
Can EditOriaD

President Truman used $500 words to explain his veto
Of the case Bill. He might have done it with fewer. All
that was necessary was to admit that labor exercises great
g influence at the White House than the great majority of
the American people, who are not affiliated with unions
There were three courses open to Mr.. Truman. He
could have allowed the measure to remain on his desk
unsigned until midnight, when it would have become q
law automatically. He could have signed it. He could
veto it.
In any case whatever hope he may have entertained
Of succeeding himself in the presidency would have faded.
Having chosen the latter, he is lost.
Inasmuch as his political prospects could not be i'm
proved and he would be severely censured whatever his
decision, it is difficult to understand why he turned his
back on Congress and gave labor's leaders opportunity to
chalk up another victory and Observation-Disclosures
surrender.
Why could not Mr.: Truman be strong for once!