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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
EXPLAIN
JEWISH PROBLEMS
U. S. Troops May b
Necessary Ia Immigra-
ton To Palestine

LONDON, July 5.-U.D-Britair
may insist on the presence of Am.
erican troops in Palestine before
she will agree to the immigration
Of 100, 900 Jews into the Holy Land
British quarters said Friday in G
review of the whole question for
American correspondents.
Want U. S. Troops
1t vas stressed that the financia
assistance promised by Presiden'
Truman would not be enough tt
persuade Britain to let down the
immigration bars. The British also
want the United States to share the
military responsibility for any
Arab disorders which might result
from a sudden mass immigration
American newsmen were called
in by British sources to clear uI
what they called misconceptions
in the American press about Bri
tain's attitude toward the Pale
slime problem. While the inform.
ants cannot be named, they are ir
a position to give an authoritative
view of the British stand.
misconceptions"
Among the misconceptions
they sought to correct were these:
l. That the Balfour declaration
promised establishment of a Jew.
ish state. ct did not, the British
said.)
2. That British imperialism ig.
r the rights of the Jews If
Palestine. ("There are twice a:
many Arabs as Jews in Palestine
and British policy must take the
wishes of the Arab majority into
account" the British told news
men,
Complex Problem
8. That the Anglo = American
Palestine commission made only
one important recommendation
namely, the immediate admission
VI 1OO, wv Jews ~ L o1Cot1ilC. ~
British insisted the commission of.
fered this recommendation as only
part of the solution of the cor1ples
Jewish problem, and that Anglo
American negotiations must cover
the entire report, not that point
alone.)
The British stressed that they
feared the advent of 100, GOO Jews
in Palestine would stir the Arabs
to open revolt.
1.-THE Arabs in Palestine are in a
mood for violent action" the Bri
fish informant said. There is :
strong chance of another Arab re.
bellion, and while the fighting
probably would be confined to
Palestine, there is no doubt the
See JEWISH on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
CITY BUDGET MAY
REACH $l,750,000
Wage Increases Included
In Tentative Figures
Proposed

Wilmington's 1946-47 municipal
budget will probably be balanced
at approximately 81, $50, 600, only
about $500, 900 more than the 1886
46 figure of 81, GA, a42, Acting City
Manager j.. R. Benson said yester-
day after the city council finished
its first special budget session.
About $85, 900 of thu budget boost
will come from two sources-a 10
per cent wage hike for all city
employees and a special ALLEGATION
to the city parks department for
the development of Greenfield
Park, Benson said.
Wage Increase
The proposed wage increase will
entail about 5000 and the Green
field Park appropriation about
$25, 900, according to his estimates.
Although the councilmen will not
approve the final.figure for several
weeks yet pending further study
and discussion, they favored both
new measures upon Benson's
recommendation.
No Tax Boost
The councllmen voted unan1-
mously to allow no increase in the
current city tax rate of $1.35 per
500 valuation after Benson showed
that the $500, 900 budget boost
See BUDGET on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06

NICK OF TIME-With a flourish
Of fanfare, beating of drums, and
a goodly number of huzzahs and
hip-hip-hoorays, we wish to an
nounce this morning the receipt D.
our own special personal copy Of
columbus County, North Carolina,
1885,, by James A. Rogers, editor
of the News Reporter, Whitevillt,
N. C.
1t arrived, like the hero of a
horse-opera, just in the nick #
time. Mr.. Rogers and his fe1lo7
Columbusite, MI. E. Evans u
rich, you may remember, had IS
pinned against the wall yesterday
with a Columbus county fence rail
for Gliding other Southeastern
North Carolina counties for MT
publishing year books like Mr..
Taft BASIS Sampson County
Year Book"
Mr.. Ulrich said u head Shout,
be bitten off for overlooking the
Columbus publication, and MI.
Rogers declared he believed we
had thrown it fhe book into tie
waste basket, whereas we actually
had not known there was any sub
book in existence.
BEST SOURCE - Well, we r.
ceived our special copy in lat
nights mail, and it is with a god
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Balks
Proponent
Sees Defects
Price Administrator Says
Bill Lacks Sufficient
Control
TAFT IN OPPOSITION
No Action To Be Taken
On New Measure Be-
fore Monday
By JACK BEL.

WASHINGTON, July s.
(~AP)-Brickbats hit the new
OPA compromise bill from
several directions Friday
night, and senate action was
put off until Monday, mean
ing that the nation will be
without price controls for another
weekend, at least.
Democratic Leader B a k | e y
(Ky.) announced the delay in the
face of unexpected criticism c. the
measure by OPA Administrator
Paul Porter and a new assault on
price controls by opponents.
Barley angrily criticized Sena-
tor Wherry R.-Neb.) for inviting
other senators to join him IN offer
ing a, series of amendments to
eliminate permanently controls
over meat, poultry, milk, butter
and other dairy products.
Billy Sunday Revival
When Wherry expressed the o.
inion that many senators might
want to become co-authors, the
Kentuckian arose to assert thaI
the senate ought not to be "con-
verted into a Billy Sunday revival
with senators hitting the sawdust
trail"
Fifteen other senators, including
one Democrat, Senator Carville
of Nevada, Immediately joined
Wherry in sponsoring one of the
Geo 0pA m p,oo Txyo
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06

w llllllllS III wac ~ ~
He estimated that the wind at the
beaches would probably be so per
cent higher than this, which would
set the velocity at Wrightsville and
Carolina Beaches at 45-miles-per-
hour. Hess said there were prob
ably gusts that hit as high as Co.
miles-per-hour.
Barometer Drops
At las this morning the baro-
meter in the Weather Bureau IN
the Customshouse registered 1918,
a drop of IA since midnight.
Hess drew a chart at las and
estimated that the center of the
storm at that time was so miles
south of Wilmington. He said he
expected the worst of the storm
would hit the beaches around five
or six o'clock this morning.
The storm was apparently of
limited area in intensity. AS early
as six o'clock last night The Star,
after receiving hundreds of tele-
phone calls asking about a rumored
hurricane, telephoned the Coast
Guard Air-sea. Rescue base in
Charleston to gather weather re-
ports. This7 base in turn called
Miami, Fla, as well as the Char
lesion Weather Bureau. Both
Miami and Charleston reported
there was no hurricane, and no
indication of one, anywhere on the
East coast.
At that time the Weather
Bureaus said there would be only
seasonal gales of from 20 to 30
miles-per-hour along the coast and
that there was no cause for alarm.
Anxious Calls
However, when hundreds of more
anxious calls came into The Star
Office on past midnight calls were
See STORM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
RIFE
AT DERBY CLINIC
Some IS Boys Attend Meet
Held AT Y.M.C.A.
Gymnasium

While the inclement weather
which prevailed last night undouo-
teddy kepy many boys at home,
some IS enthusiast lads turned
up at the Y. M. C. A., for the first
of a short series of pre-Wilmlng-
ton All-American Soap Box Derby
clinics and if the many and varied
assortment of questions asked is
any indication, some great racing
cars are, going to face the ottlclal
starter here on July 81.
Following a swim in the ~"
pool as guests of Physical Director
Adam Smith and member OF the
Soap Box Derby Advisory commit
tee, the boys assembled in the
gymnasium and for owe an hour,
piled those in charge, with an
avalanche of questions on many
subjects pertaining to car con-
struction and racing rules.
Raney Men Present
L. E. Turner and j.. M. Ioyaer
of the Raney Chevrolet company,
co-sponsors with The Wilmington
Star-News in promotion of the big
event here for boys of II to Is years
of age, were on hand and took
charge of the Institutional part OF
the clinic after brief preliminary
remarks by Adam Smith and Jack
c. Lunan.
Attentive throughout, the boys
asked and received answers to
many problems of construction,
setering apparatus, brakes and wheel
alignment. Using paper and crayon,
Messrs. Turner and Joyner, clear
ed up to the satisfaction of all, most
of the important things that they
wanted to know about.
Safety Stressed
All present, and over fifty per
cent of them have already for
warded signed entry blanks for
the Derby, we're specifically told
that they must construct their cars
exactly according to rules laid
down by National Soap Box Derby
headquarters. And both Turner
and Joyner stressed the necessity
of making every effort to build
cars that will provide the utmost
in safety to themselves as we'll as
the hundreds of people who are ex-
pected to watch the Derby race
on the Rankin street Derby
Downs" course, Wednesday, July
81.
Many of those in attendance re-
ported that they have their Derby
cars we'll on the way to completion,
while others stated that their pros
pective racers were still on the
drawing board, or only partly
built. One or two voiced the infor-
nation that their cars are almost
ready for the first actual road
tests.
New Entries
Three new entries Were received
at the close of the clinic and sew
See ENTHUSIASM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
SMALL BOYS lie
SETS OFF P0CR0M
40 Persons Killed In Anti
Jewish Riots In
Poland

KIELCE, Poland, July 5-OD-
A %tow-headed, fat-faced boy of IL
shrugged and grinned unconcerned-
ly Friday night when told that the
lie he had been coached to tell
had set off a bloody anti-Jewish
pogrom in which 40 persons were
killed and 60 wounded.
In a bare room of the city jail,
little Henryk Blasczyk repeated
the lie authorities blamed for the
tragedy-the lie that he had been
kidnapped by Jews, held captive for
three days, and had seen the bodies
Of Is Christian boys killed by them.
Just Runaway
The youngster admitted he had
lust run away from home on Mon
day, instead of being kidnapped,
and that he had been coached to
tell the lie by a farmer who gave
MIN shelter. Authorities believed
the farmer actually was a member
Of the underground, purposely plot,
ting a pogrom.
The boy returned home Wednes-
DAY and told the story to his father,
who Immediately took him into the
police. The rumor already was
spreading - another indication o.
q plot, according to authorities -
and the bloody pogrom got under
way.
Battered Bodies
AS a result, the battered bodie!
OF 80 Jews lay in rows in the mum
clpal hospital. They included mint
women and one prematurely bori
girl.
A Polish army second lieutenant
d member of the secret police ant
TWO non-Jewish Poles also Wert
See POGROM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Reds Delay
Calling Of
Peace Meet
Fridays Session OF For
eign Ministers In
Deadlock
CHINA PROBLEM POSED
Soviets Would Bar Chinese
Nation AS Inviting"
Bv JOSEPH DYNAN

PARIS, July SLAP
Russia raised obstacles to the
formal calling of a European
peace conference on July 20
and Fridays session of the
four-power foreign ministers
ended in a deadlock after al
most four hours of discussion,
Senator Vandenh urg R.-Mich.)
sid Friday night.
Soviet Foreign Minister V M.
MoIotov argued that China should
NOT be one of the inviting powers
along with the big Four and in
sisted that rules of procedure
should be drafted and approved by
the ministers before formal invita-
tions were issued for the 21-nation
conference, Vanden ,urg said.
Byrnes Willing
A deadlock arose on both .ques-
tjons. although U. S. Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes indicated
his willingness to c%apitulate to
Russian arguments barring China
as an inviting power if the invita-
tons were issued Immediately,
one American informant explain
ed.
China is one of the members of
the five-power foreign ministers
council set up at Potsdam last
August, and which met in London
last fall. The present meeting is
confined to the foreign ministers
Of the United States, Russia,
France, and Britain.
The ministers scheduled their
next meeting Saturday afternoon
when their deputies are to report
on the question of rules of proce-
dure.
See PEACE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
HIGHWAY ACCIDENT
FATAL TO WOMAN
Two Others Seriously In
jured On Carolina
Beach Road

One woman was dead and two
men we're reported in serious on
dition as the result of a three-car
accident on the Carolina Beach
road last mite, New Hanover coun-
tvs first serious traffic accident
of the long Fourth of July holiday.
The dead woman was Miss Pat
sy Ruth Roberts, 81, OF Kama
polls. The men r W. L. Nance
of Kannapolis and E. K. Taylor,
1O1 &c" Marion Drive, Mattltt
Village.
George Bordeaux, Carolina
Beach, was in New Hanover county
Jail early this morning charged
with 'wreckless operation OF an
automobile resulting in injury and
DEATH as a result of the accident.
He was arrested by Highway Pa
trolman R. E. Sheriff. a few hours
after the accident. He was placed
under 1000 bond which he had
failed to make early this morning.
Bordeaux car was n OF the
three involved.
According to Patrolman Sheriff.,
Bordeaux a rammed the auto
mobile in which Miss Roberts,
Nance and Taylor were riding,
causing it to veer into the path
of an approaching a driven by
James A. Phillips, Riverside
apartments. Bordeaux was not in
jured.
The accident occurred or the
Carolina Beach road approximate
ly one mile south of Stacy's Tavern
at 7:55 pm. The highway at this
point is straight.
Driving Rainst0rm
The death car, driven by Tay-
lor, was going toward Carolina
Beach in a driving rainstorm. An
other car, driven by Phillips, Was
heading north on the highway
toward Wilmington. Near the point
Of the accident, Phillips said, the
car driven by Taylor suddenly
veered to the left hitting the front
end of Phillips car. Both Phillips
and Taylor's cars were badly
damaged.
Miss Roberts was apparently kill
led instantly when the cars collid-
ed. She was not thrown from the
car. All three occupants of the Tay-
lor car were riding on the front
seat. Nance was reported to be
suffering severe head and internal
injuries. Taylor's head was badly
bruised and his left knee was in
jured.
Phillips Uninjured
Phillips was uninjured except for
a slight cut on the knee.
Taylor and Nance were taken
to James Walker by a passing
motorist and Nance was reported
late last night in a dying condi-
ton. Taylor will probably recover,
according to hospital attaches.
The warrant was drawn for
Bordeaux when highway patrolmea
said that the Bordeaux car
rammed the rear end of the death
car causing it to veer in front OF
the Phillips automobile, resulting
in the fatal collision.
80 Feet From Road
The warrant for Bordeaux was
issued to highway patrolmen ION
information and belief" After the
accident Bordeaux car ended up
See FATAL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06

NEW YORK, July 5.-PE
International ownership of all
atomic raw materials was put
forward by the United States
Friday as one Of the essentials
of an effective atomic control
PLAN.
A lengthy memorandum SUBJ
mitted to the Atomic Energy
commission by Ferdinand Eb-
erhardt, a member of the U. S.
delegation, recommended that
the proposed atomic control
authority have power to con-
troll the mining and processing
Of uranium and thorium as well
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
ORDNANCE CHIEF
BARES PRESSURE
Says Representative Tried
To Aid Munitions
Maker

WASHINGTON, July 5 R -
Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell, Jr.'
wartime chief of Army Ordnance
complained Friday that Represen-
tative May (D.-Ky.) put special
PRESSURE on him to help an ILL
nois munition manufacturer.
The general supplemented prevl-
GUS testimony that May, chairman
of the House Military committee,
had been active in behalf Of an IN
dutsrial combine that reaped big
profits from war contracts.
He told the Senate War Investi-
eating committee that he "got red
under the collar" over Mays in
sistence.
May Unfair
TT was unfair to me-" said
Campbell, now a vice president OF
the International Harvester COM
pany. He said that at the time ne
was up to the neck in the gigan-
tic Job of arming the U. S. forces
and didn't have time for that sort
of thing.
His testimony came as the com
mittee pried deeper into the affairs
of 10 closely linked concerns and
their officials whom Chairman
Mead D.-N.Y.) has accused OF
the worst kind of war profiteer-
ing" 1t produced these develop
ments:
/. An assertion by Brig. Gen.
T. S. Hammond that the Erie Basin
Metal Products company had been
given the Army-Navy "E" award
for production over the objections
of the Chicago ordinance office
that it didn't meet half the re-
quirements." Hammond, former
ordnance chief of that district, said
the award didn't amount to much
after that
Telephone Introduction
2. Testimony by Campbell that
May had introduced Henry Carson
to him over the telephone and ask
ed him to see Carson. The latter
has been described by Army Off
Gals as tine brains" behind the
Illinois combine.
3. Introduction of a War depart
ment transcript of a telephone con-
versation which quoted Col. John
Slezak as saying Carson uses
Congressman May and Congress-
man May goes behind the limits of
propriety in getting things DONE
5. Signs of resentment among
members of Congress over the
practice of recording congressional
calls. Speaker Rayburn D.-Tex.)
expressed ~displeasure and Republl-
can Leader Martin of Massacnu-
sets termed it a "mean practice"
Deposition Taken
6. Disclosure that Murray Cars
son, brother of Henry Carson and
a principal stakeholder in the war
swollen corporations, is now in
Cuba suffering from ill health.
Committee attaches said a deposi-
ton of his story had been taken.
Z. A denial from Campbell that
Secretary of War Patterson, as
under secretary, had discussed
with him a war contract for the
Garssons.
Meanwhile, Campbell said that
he had sent a subordinate to Hi.
nois to investigate complaints by
Henry Carson which had been re.
layed to him by May over can
collation. of a contract held by one
of the corporations.
See PRESSURE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
And So To Bed

Of all the hundreds of phone
calls The Star got about the
hurricane" last night, this one
was far and away the best.
A small boy asked the ques-
ton for the upmteenth hundred
time:
care we gonna have a hur-
ricane?"
mo hurricane" was the an
swer.
"No hurricane?"
That's what we said. No
hurricane"
Then the boy made the class
ic remark of the stormy eve
ming:
"Shucks!"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
DEATH RIDES THE HIGHWAY
Holiday Death Toll
In Nation Reaches 2C<
BY The Associateu Press

The nations violent death
toll rose to EOS yesterday as the
halfway mark neared in the
long Independence day week
end.
The fasalIties-Well below ad-
vance forecasts of the National
Safety Council-indicated most
vacationists were mixing eau
ito nwith pleasure.
Council Forecast
TIE council estimated the four
day holiday period would result
in 1900 violent deaths, $50 OF
them in traffic accidents. OF
the total, the council said, 800
probably would be killed out
right, including 275 traffic &C
cident victims.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06

Candid camera fans, get your
cameras ready!
Sunday afternoon, at Wrights-
vile Beach amateur candid
camera fans will be afforded
the opportunity Of a lifetime
when all entrants in the Will
mington Junior Chamber OF
Commerce beauty pageant. will
pose for informal beach shots.
Six File Entries
Arrangements for the anna
teur photographers to "shoot'
the bathing lcvelies were com
pleted last night by the spon-
sorlng organizations pageant
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
JOHNNY GETCHA CAMERA
Here's Chance To Snap
Miss America--- Maybe

committee. The announcement
said the girls-as of last night,
six OF Wilmington's most beau
tiful and talented young wo-
men had filed their entry
blanks-Would be on hand for
the candid cameramen between
the hours of four and five o.
clock on the beach directly in
front of IumIna ballroom. Be
tween three and four o'clock
Sunday afternoon the girls will
be posing for official Miss Am
erica contest photographs by
professional cdmeramen.
See CAMERA On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
NAVY TO CONTROL
T0PSAIL ISLAND
Property Owners Must
Evacuate Property
AT Once
BY LARRY HIRSCH

Topsail Island, all 2,493 acres Of
it from New River inlet in Onslov
county to Topsail inlet in Pender
county, is in official possession Of
the United States Navy this morn
ing for use in conjunction with the
Nays super-secret development
of super-powerful war missiles at
Camp Davis.
All residents, permanent and
otherwise, will be notified 10
evacuate the island without delay
for a period of one year effective
Immediately and ending June 81,
1947.
Papers Filed
The possession order and pre-
See TOPSAIL On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
45-MnE-HOR GALE LASHES BEACHES
x3UTNOP PRO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BRICKBAY HIT PROPOSED OPA BILL
JUST INCHING ALONG
Essential Food Prices
Continue UpwardM Move

dent Humans recommended
tons.
No Commitments
General Mills, Inc, said in
Chicago it was selling flour
and cereal products "for i'm
mediate shipment only" The
firm said it was not commit
ing itself to any set price until
a new OPA bill SIS either pas
sed or not passed." Several
other companies are doing like
wise, a spokesman said.
A threat of a buyers strike
came from Louisville, KY,
where the Jefferson County
Citizens Political Action COM
mittee said persons who raise
rents or prices may be picket
ed.
See FOOD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
The Weather

FORECAST
.Nofth and South Carolina: - Con-
%NVtepIe cloudiness with little change
!" temperature Saturday except slight
~ warmer in the interior, scattered
,mio"ers near coast and light drizzles
" he interior.
Eastern Standard Time)
by U S. Weather Bureau)
chronological data for the "a hours
'4U''g 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
IVA it; 7:30a IS; bop II; 7:30p IS.
rr1Hlmum 30; Minimum II; Mean IS;
Humidity
Iowa 96; 7;30a "a; l:3op 81; 7:30p Sc.
Precipitation
o.08 inch.
Tides for Today
= IRON the Tide Tables published by
n y Coast and Geodetic Survey. -
"lhhlngton --- 3:1Sa 10:38a
4:o0p Hoop
Masonboro Inlet - 1:17a 7:32a
2:01p 8:02p
sunrise .06a; Sunset 7:27p: Moonrise
Las p; Monset 12:l2p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
WORLD TRUSTEESHIP
Control
AskedForAtom Material

as the actual production of
atomic energy.
THE authority, in short, must
have such control of mining
and concentrating operations
as will assure its complete and
absolute ownership of all
uranium and thorium actually
Produced" the document said.
The memorandum set forth in
detail the United States views
on atomic control previously
outlined by Bernard M. Baruch
at the opening meeting of the
commission.
See ATOM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
BY the Associated Press

The cost of many essential
food items continued to inch
upward yesterday as the nation
neared the end of its first post
war week free of government
Price controls.
Wholesale prices of meat,
butter, and eggs increased
slightly in New York City while
in Chicago the livestock market
tapered off.
Stock Exchange Slow
The New York Stock Ex-
change had one of its slowest
days in months with stocks
quiet.
And, as the consumer paid a
little more Tor the necessities
of life, OPA Administrator Paul
Porter asked Congress to re-
wise the OPA extender bill
further to conform with Presi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Storm Covers Small Area
With Center Hitting Here
Weather Bureau Here Figures Worst Of
Gale Strikes Around Six A. NJ;
Only Point Reported Hit

Galelike winds that, in sudden gusts, hit as high as
6O-miles- per-hour dashed the beaches from the mouth OF the
Cape Fear to Topsail inlet last night, causing hundreds OF
summer residents of Wrightsville and Carolina Beaches to
plan evacuation.
At an early hour this morning Paul Hess, chief OF the
United States Weather Bureau here, said wind velocity in