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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
DONATIONS MOUNT
IN CHEST DRIVE
Two More Firms Get Red
Feather Awards For
Topping Quota

The Wilmington Community chest
is today just $4,000 short of its
$1O6, 204 goal.
Chest leaders, driving hard to
wind up their campaign by its new
Saturday night deadline, reported
pledges totaling $102, 1875 at six
o'clock last night. The new figure
represents a gain of $1,043 over
Tuesdays total.
So so major firms are still I'M
reported, Louie E. Woodbury., cam
paign chairman, said yesterday
afternoon.
Should the chest maintain the
$100-a-firm average it established
yesterday its chances of going over
its goal by Saturday are excellent,
chest leaders said.
Yesterdays returns featured a
goal-toppling report of $3.50 filed
by J. B. McCumber, captain of the
chests auto, gas and oil firm
group, a unit of the commercial
division.
Red Feather awards we're pre-
scented to employees of two more
firms which exceeded their quota.
They were John B. Hinnant, con-
tractor, and E. S. Piver and Sons
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
BARNHART SPEAKS
TO AUTO DEALERS.
Production, Barring Labor
Troubles, VIII Double
In l947, He Says

WORKOUT, used automobiles are
going off the highways of America
at a daily rate approximately
equal to the daily production of
new cars, D. C. Barnhart, of the
National Association of Automo-
bile Dealers told members of the
North Carolina Automobile Deal
ers at a district meeting here last
night.
Acknowledgement from seven
counties, New Hanover, Duplin,
Sampson, Bladen. Columbus
Brunswick and Pender we're guests
of the Wilmington new car dealers
at a banquet following a business
session. The banquet was presided
over by R. H. Holland, Wilmington
Buick dealer.
Barnhart also told the dealers
that production in 1947, barring
serious labor disturbances, can
approximate only about double
See BARNHART On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31

WEIRD SOUNDS - Don't be
alarmed at that strange sound you
should be hearing now. 1t is mere
ly Along The Cape Fear eating
crow.
AS a matter of fact, if it was
only crow it would not be so bad,
or at least so noisy. You see, the
unpleasant task of digesting a
typewriter is now this columns I'M
happy lot.
What should arrive in the mail
yesterday but a letter from Mr..
and Mrs. Taft Mccall, of Route l.,
Box 237, Clarkton. Along The Cape
Fear is always happy to receive
mail, but often times we would be
even more happy if u readers
did not have such good memories.
GRANDMOTHER AGAIN - 1t
all happened because Along The
Cape Fear went overheard a week
or SO ago and mincing no words
awarded the record to Mrs. Jane
Best of Columbia county as she is
the grandmother Of 38. We ever
went so far to say, and this you
must admit looks like a mistake
on our part, that if that was not a
Southeastern North Carolina
record We'll eat our typewriter
starting with the keys and finishing
off with the carriage"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
Snyder Scans
Terms 0fNew
Pact On Meat
Sections Of Argentine Eco
nomic Agreement Basis
Of U. S. Objections
DEPARTMENTS ACT
Ban On Spending OF Block
ed Sterling Causes Ire
OF Treasury Officials

WASHINGTON, Oct. 80.
- (F - The United States
has objected to Britain over
sections of the B~ritish-Argen-
t n economic agreement
which, in the view of offici-
ais here, appear to violate
promises Britain made in OBJ
t a i n i n g a $780, 900, 900
American loan.
The objections have al
ready been expressed orally, Of
ficials said. and Secretary of the
John w. Snyder plans to
follow up with a letter to London
asking for an explanation o. one
of the financial provisions in the
accord.
Under Secretary Of State Will
liam L. Clayton discussed certain
to trade provisions Of
the pact In talks with Hugh Dali
See SNYDER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
CAMPAIGN FIRE 81
i
Hannegan Repud'
Support By Co,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3d. R) =
Democratic Chairman Robert 2.
flanagan Wednesday night re-
pudiated all Communist support
for his party in next Tuesdays
elections and blasted at Republican
leadership of Senator Taft (Obio)
and Rep. Martin Mass.)
ITO the Communists, I say, this
administration neither wants nor
deserves your support" flanagan
said in an address prepared for
radio MBS) delivery as the Con-
gressional campaigns drew near
the finish.
you should give it to the Rep
lblican party. In that party r
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
METTS TO PUSH
NATIONAL GUARD
State Adjutant To Seek
Called Meeting Here
For Recruits

State Adjutant General J. Van
Buren, Nets plans to ask Mayor
w. Ronald Lane to call an early
meeting of local civic and military
leaders to lay plans for recruiting
the "a officers and 539 enlisted men
needed to man the city's proposed
National Guard anti-aircraft batta-
lion and infantry company, he n
nouaced from Raleigh last night.
Details of General Mett's request
are now being mailed to Mayor
Lane, he said.
The Mayor, who has already an
nounced that they will give every
city facility to aid the drive for re-
cruits, said last night that he would
await details of General Nets re-
quest before taking action.
The state adjutant general also
reported that he is still awaiting
word from the War Surplus Admin
istration disposal board on his re-
quest that 20 buildings at B%luethen-
thai Field be set aside as an anti
tircraft battalion training site.
The proposed site would include
1888 acres of the airport, which
General Nets described as IAN
ideal training ground for our pur-
poses.
A VISA board is expected to dis
pose Of the airport within a few
days. Some 500 acres have been
earmarked for direct transfer to
New Hanover county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
Strike Notice

DETROIT, Oct. 30.-UH-The
United Auto Workers (CIO) said
Wednesday it would file a 3o-day
strike notice with the Ford Motor
company in behalf of the $4,000
employees at the River Rouge plant.
Thomas Thompson, president OF
Ford Local 800, largest local in
the world, said the notice would
be filed because of a dispute with
the company ove alleged health
hazards in open hearth department.
Thompson said that pending ex-
piration of the 30-day notice,
Ford workers will live up to their
responsibilities under the contract
The 30-day notice dated from Wed
resday, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
LeadersHere
Press Plans
For College
Citizens Meeting Scheduled
Tonight AT 8 O'clock
In High School
CLARK TO SPEAK
Need For Institution To Be
Outlined During Speci-
al Program

Proposals for the establishment
of a Junior college here embrace
inc a c%ariculae both academic and
Industrial, is expected to be given
further impetus tonight at a Citi-
zen's meeting scheduled for 8
o'clock at New Hanover High
school auditorium. Representatives
of educational, veterans, service
and business organizations have
been invited to attend in an effort
10 secure countrywide support of
the movement.
Final plans for the meeting to-
night. as announced late yesterday
by Dr.. John T. Hoggard, chair
man Of the City-County Board of
Education who will preside. call
for a promoting concert by the
New Hanover High school band at
7:45 p. M, with the meeting
scheduled promptly at 8 o'clock.
The band will set the business SEES
sion underway with one verse of
The Star S~pangled Banner
First speaker of the evening will
be T. T. Hamilton, Jr., principal
of the MINIS, who will outline brief
w.. the needs and benefits which
wC1,d be derived by the establish
me-, Of a Junior college in Will
m4.-t0A. Mr.. Hamilton will be fol-
lowed by Alton Lennon, Democrat
ic nominee for the State Senate
who will speak on the general
theme Of Education"
Following Mr.. Lemons talk the
chairman will present R. M. Ker-
mon. Democratic nominee for the
North Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives, who is slated to address
the citizens present or the subject
Of Higher Education in Voca-
tional Training"
During a short intermission
period. the New Hanover High
school band will present one or
more selections and then DR.. Hog
See COLLEGE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
All


your + he proven
Gratis t. : ~ f."
A v! fA7 Y publican candi-
date, ~7a'ae5; declared, "is a
vote FIR IF id 1artin and for
the pa - tina ,1nrmined Amer
ica's So .si4 program in the
last co gre
1T is a vote ~ the party that
sabotaged housing for veterans.
TT is a vote for the party that
wanted to give the secret of atomic
defense into the hands of those
See HANNEGAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
NEW FILM FLAM
Phony Tips On Surplus
Fleece Unsuspecting CTS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 80. -(P)-
Ex-convicts and phony tipsters are
''flim-flamming a small fortune"
from veterans and others by
claiming to have an inside track
to the governments huge stocks
of surplus property, the War AS
sets administration charged Wed
nesday.
Warning against "advertising of
sharpsters," the agency said ten
unidentified publications were I'M
der investigation after advertising
''undercover access to non-eXistent
or reserved surplus war property
at low COST
The cases it has investigated af-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
Many Missing
Blasts
Rock District
Gun 7 Girl, Two Men
Plant Explosives, Shoot
Way To Clear Escape
OFFICIALS WARNED
Burning Arab Truck Falls
Through Bridge | Into
Village Injuring Six

JERUSALEM, Palestine,
Oct. 80. - (UP) - Three
young Extremists, including
a gun-toting girl, blew up
Jerusalem's central railway
station Wednesday. A British
sergeant was killed and at
least IL persons, listed as
i S S i II G, were presumed
buried in the debris.
The three shot their way
out and escaped in a taxicab as
the first of five bombs shattered
:he station, rocking nearby build
The bombs exploded 40 minutes
after a man who identified him
self as IAN Irgun Zvai Leum
Gewish underground organiz@1;on)
private" notified police hes -
ters by telephone that the s,-tion
was doomed.
Police ordered the building
evacuated, but the u missing
persons evidently were inside when
the bombs went off.
A few hours before, two British
soldiers were killed, a third was
said to be dying and IS others
See MISSING On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31

ter complaints, WAA said, showed
the publications offering informa-
ton that the government would
give without charge.
1.-THE offers are couched in
fancy come-ons designed to coax
the subscriber into believing that
priority regulations are a neces-
sary nuisance not to be taken
Seriously and that smart buyers
are short-cutting the authorized
channels of trade" a WAA state
ment said.
Former convicts were found to
have conceived and circulated one
See TIPS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
And So To Bed

No, gentle reader, 1t was
NOT Police Chief Charles H.
Casteen who stopped the driv-
err and could not make the ar
rest because he had lost his
badge. The chief has his
badge ... The incident re-
ferred to in $50 to Bed" sew
eral days ago happened in
Robson county. The Chief
says he has been taking quite
a "ribbing'' about the loss Of
his shield.
The Chief didn't lose his
badge, but, at the high school
football game last Friday
night a local private lost his
badge, at least the announcer
on the public address system
said he did
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
GOVERNMENT SET
FOR LEWIS TALK
New Agreement May Pro-
long Control; Labor Pic
ture Continues Dark

The government arranged last
night to talk over wages and work
ing conditions with John l.. Lewis
despite a warning from the coal
industry that any new agreement
reached might prolonq government
control of the mines.
A high govern.r- official in
Washington told a repor er the ad-
ministration was willing to discuss
Lewis demands a. d SCI eduled con-
ference in the capita, F. ay. Lewis
had demanded he m, ting with
an implied threa c j out his
400, 900 United NJ ~ n,1kers in
a prediction s W Mess his
contract with the IL rament was
reopened. I'll
The reopenln. 4 q contract
the government clea, with
Lewis when it Sc. the mines
during a strike las, fay would
clear the way Ter 'sibly sub
stantial new gains fo re nations
soft coal miners.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
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Fauon

Up to u light Police
Chief CT been - an
official luned to the
approach - hadn't
fit NtsSss populace to
walk wa Ess ionight.
This ( en-, and the
chief beirY man, he con-
tented AL king parents
to advi% en- to enjoy
themseM their hands
from t.
The IT to heed any
friend Szs ne police, so
we'll hat the city
code promiscuous
lightif
The lie witch die
tors of n, and, in the
days be- aesar paddock
ed thel aIoWeen, you'll
recall lavorlte holiday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity Clear to
partly cloudy and continued warm to-
day and Friday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31

See GOVERNMF1
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Iron Foundry Workers
Get J Per Cent Pay Ruise

A wage increase averaging 7>per
cent has been granted employees of
the Fred S. Gichner Iron Works,
Inc, the company announced to-
day.
The boost, company officials said
brought to more than l7ie per cent
the total amount of raises received
by employees since the end of the
war. 1t was said the boost was
the result of a recent study OF
cost of living statistics by the firm
which Is located in the 1900 block
of Twenty fourth street NV.
Evening star., 1946-08-09

Preller to succeed Fred S. Walker
whose interim appointed to the
board expires August 20. Mr.
Walker had filled the post tenn
porarily since the death of John
Locher, January 18.
A veteran of 80 years in the labor
movement here, Mr.. Preller has
been business manager of Local
rs of the international Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers since 1888
He is member of the executive
council of the IBEW. representing
the fourth district, embracing the
Atlantic Seaboard from Maryland
to Florida. Mr.. Preller also is vice
president of the Maryland State and
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Summer School Glasses
End Today in District

School is out today for the Dis
trict's summer school students, the
Board of Education announced, but
pupils were reminded that the regu-
lar fall classes resume September %.
Summer sessions, occupying 80
school days. began July /. Only the
veterans center at Central High
School will remain open after to-
morrow the board said
Evening star., 1946-08-09

Board of Direc-
tors. Capt. Eddie
r i C k e n hacker,
president a n d
general mana
G e r, announced
yesterday.
Mr.. Scruggs,
whose Office is in
the EAL head
quarters h ere,
| i " S at 1905
S e n eca lane,
Bethesda, Md.
In making the
a n n o uncement
c a pit. Ricken-
backer said the
Evening star., 1946-08-09

Advisory Board and field board of
directors will function with the
officers and directors of the COM
pany as part of management fop
the speeding up of administrative
procedure. The boards are to meet
monthly in one of the 66 cities now
served by the airline.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
PreIIer Named 10 D. T.
Jobless Pay Board

Clement F. Preller, president of
the Washington Central Labor
Union (AFL). yesterday was ap-
pointed employees representative on
the District Unemployment Com
pensation Board for a three-year
term, beginning August 30.
The Commissioners named Mr..
Evening star., 1946-08-09
McGranery Heads Justice
Solicitations for Chest

James P. McGranery, assistant to
Attorney General Clark, has been
appointed chairman of the Justice
Department division of volunteer
Evening star., 1946-08-09

S o i ! c | t o rs for
the Community
Chest Federation
campaign, Ed
ward H, Foley,
jr., as S S t a n t
S e r e t Y of
the T I e a s ur Y
who is chair
man of the Gov
ernment Unit,
announced to-
day.
The Commun-
ity Chest FEEDER
alton drive to
raise $4,000 900
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Scruggs Named 10 New
Eastern Air Lines Board

w. P. Scruggs, jr., assistant to the
first vice president of Eastern Air
Lines, has been named member of
( the lines newly formed Advisory
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Foundation Moves Offices

Transfer of the headquarters of
the Automotive Safety Foundation
from 321 Tower Building and 726
Jackson place NV. to the Hill
Building. 839 Seventeenth street
NV, effective August 10, was an
nounced today by foundation Off
cials.
Evening star., 1946-08-09

District of Columbia Federation of
Labor.
He makes his home at 2025
Second street NE.
Evening star., 1946-08-09

~ TOT HtdIIV 10
welfare agencies in the District area
will open October % Six Commu-
nifty Chests associated in the united
fund appeal are those of Washing
ton, the Virginia communities of
Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax,
and Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties of MARYLAND.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
To Meet Competition

Back in the days when train travel
was e~xhausting, however short the trip,
hosts Invariably encouraged arriving
guests to retire to the rooms assigned
them and take a nap" AS a child, we
remember that in visiting relatives in
Baltimore we had Immediately to lie
down for an hour though we had travel
ed only from Washington, and were glad
of the chance to rest.
HAPPY, those days are past. In their
effort to meet the competition OF air
passenger travel the railroads, which
can't get freight cars, are promising
the ultimate in luxury for human pa
irons. Among innovations we learn
that diagonal dining, and localized read
ing lights are to be standard equipment.
Diagonal dining means deep-cushioned
chairs and alcove divans, placed at an
angle to increase window gazing and
decreases congestion in aisles.
There will be dancing, too, even mo-
ton pictures, to entertain passengers.
Seats will be scientifically designed.
Bedrooms will have clothes closets. Ar
tistic color schemes will prevail through
out the train.
We regret that we cannot announce
when these improvements will be avail
able. The roads cannot say when anu
facturers will deliver such luxurious
rolling stock. But a trip in a train like
this is certainly something to look for
ward to, ever by the ancients who re-
call the inconvenience, the cinders and
jolting stops of earlier days of railroad
ing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
QUOTATIONS

Far from freedom having expanded from
this war. it has shrunk to far fewer nations
than a quarter Of a century ago.-Herbert
Hoover.
Everything is unknown save this alone: 1t
the American idea prevails, the future will
offer man some dignity and some chance for
self-improvement. If the American idea IS
ever extinguished, the future will be dark Tor
uncounta3le years.
DIR. Deane W. Malott, Chancellor U. OF
Kansas.
We mutt help deepen the feeling OF orotner-
hood between the earth's emblttereo peoples,
We must aid in extending to all races and
creeds that freedom of opportunity OF worship
which we have enjoyed here t~osatner.
Gov. Edward Martin of pennsylvania
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
German %Inhumanity

Another example of German inhu-
mainly has just been revealed by the
War Department. It is contained in a
volume of secret documents seized after
We Day. One document concerns ex-
periments to determine "the behavior
of organizms at great heights"
A German air force doctor, on Febru-
airy II, 1913, wrote to Heinrich Him.
mler, gestapo chief, that "up to now
he had cooled off" some thirty human
guinea pigs from concentration camps.
His procedure was to strip these mortals
and expose them to winter air for nine
to fourteen hours, until their body
temperature fell to 81 degrees Cente-
grade.
AFTER one hour, I put these sub
jects in a hot BATH" the letter said
Every single patient was completely
warmed up within one hour at most,
though some of them had their hands
and feet frozen white"
He added that when the body tenn
perature fell to % degrees the victims
always died.
The purpose was to determine the eff
feet of cold on German aviators, and
their chances of getting back to the
earth alive.
Burns was right when he declared
Mans inhumanity to mar makes count
less thousands MOURN"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
One-Sided Russia

Andrei A. Gromyko, the Russian dele
gate on the Security Council and presi-
dent of the Council, would be on firm
ground if, when he demands inform
alton on the disposition of Allied troops
in foreign countries, he offered the
same data on the disposition of Rus
sian troops beyond the Russian from
tier. When he notes there is increas-
ing protest against the presence of
American and British troops in China,
India, Iraq, Egypt, Iceland, ~lndonesia,
Greece, Panama, Brazil and South
America, he fails to note the clamor
over Russian forces in Rumania, Bull
garia, Iraq, the Baltic states, eastern
Poland, and the communist governments
set up in still other countries upon die
tation from Moscow.
Mr.. Gromyko erred when he included
Brazil among the countries alleged to
be in part occupied by American troops,
DIS IHe DTdZllldH 1HeIIlUef VI IHe COUNCIL
made clear, but the point is not so i'm
portant as the fact that Russia has Of
fered another example of it's policy to
be the dominant power wherever it can
get a toe-hold and opposes any means
employed by Britain and America to
uphold the sovereign right of any coun-
try to shake off the letters, which Rus
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Complicated squeezes, end-plays
and SO on r made by those play
ing in the amateur events as well
as by the Life Masters. Today's
hand, played by DR.. K. APPEL of
New York, helped him to win the
national amateur team-of-fou-
championship with Charles Lem
beck, Oscar Yablon and Lawrence
Blum.
Lembeck NORTH made the cor
rect decision that it was safer to
play the hand at spades than at
no trump.
In the Play DR.. APPEL (South)
produced seven-odd, although it
looks as if West must make a club
trick.
The, opening lead was won in
dummy with the king of hearts
and three rounds OF spades were
taken. On the third spade West
threw the nine of clubs, signaling
that he held a high club. Decla-er
led the ten Of diamonds and West
covered, SO DR.. APPEL cashed three
diamond tricks and ruffed a small
diamond. He then cashed the
queen of spades and led the six O.
hearts over to dummy. When he
led the good diamond, there re
manned in dummy the seven Of
hearts and seven of clubs.
He discarded the nine of hearts
from his own hand on the dia'
mond, and West vas squeezed. Il
ne discarded the queen of hearts,
dummy's sever would be good. He
cropped the jack of clubs, and DR..
APPEL led the seven from dummy,
went up with the ace and cashed
the queen for the thirteenth trick.
In duplicate bridge yau have to
play for the extra trick. Your
score is match-pointed against
every other score made in the
tournament. In team-of-four con-
tests the extra trick may win the
match foc your side
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
Religion
LILIES AMIDST A
BY L T. L L

NV mornings writing is inter-
rupted by the return of Milady and
our guests from the morning shop
ping trip by boat across the lake
to Delta. They come laden with
food. and. best of all, three large.
gorgeous water lilies. the most
beautiful flower that blooms.
Milady never gathers more than
three blossoms at a time, with two
leaves for background as they
ornament our table.
after crossing the lake, the wa
terway to Delta is a winding creek
connecting the two Beverley
Lakes. I am sorry to say that it
is an ill-kept stream, full Of fallen
branches and all manner of rub
bish. But amidst all this the lilies
bloom, in size and abundance as
nowhere else along u shores.
Wherein I find a little sermon.
We are living in a world filled
with trash, with much of which
our current comment deals. There
are trivial people and trivial and
often dirty amusements. Like the
village of Delta, we have failed to
clean up the mess at u doors.
But amidst it all bloom the lilies
Of beautiful lives. In tue meanest
siums there r noble souls.
Amidst the most scrdid characters
we catch the CLEAN Of knightly
quality. Periodicals and radio and
movies put forth a deal OF piffle,
but also portions Of beauty and de-
light and inspiration and spiritual
vision.
So let us gather the pond-lilies
as we travel life's trash filled
stream.
Open eyes, dear Lord, to all
of beauty and truth that we meet
In our daily lives. Amen