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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-29

More than a dozen visiting fire.
men from Hollywood, here to help
the District with It's Roosevelt
Birthday celebrations, today were
ready to plunge into their two-day
whirl of activities, dedicated to
the fight against infantile paralysis.
The film stars will begin their
busy schedule officially at 100
o'clock this afternoon, when they
will receive the key to the city
from Commissioner John Russell
Young, general chairman of the
celebrations. in ceremony to be
broadcast from the board room
in the District Building.
The stars, most of whom arrived
yesterday, are Van johnson, Alexis
Smith. Margaret O'Brien, Paul
Henreid, Diana Lynn, Eddie Brack-
en-, Angela Lansbury, Zachary
Scott, Reginald Gardiner, Gene
Kelly, Orson Welles, Cesar Romero,
Charles Coburn, Constance Moore,
William Bendix and Lucy Monroe
Charley Spivak and his orchestra
and Sergt. Harvey Stone also will
take part in the celebrations.
Squealing Bobby Soxers.
For Van johnson, the tour so far
has been an endless mob of bobby
soxers, squealing in ecstasy at the
sight of him, even fainting at his
feet, They logged mis- steps and
hung onto his coat wherever he
went. They posted themselves at
his hotel and were willing to wait
for hours for a glimpse of their
idol.
At the Hotel Statler, where most
of the celebrities attended a recep-
ton given for them yesterday after
noon, a 19-year-old girl passed out
cold the moment johnson appeared
in the corridor. A hotel nurse had
to be called to revive her.
Did Van johnson hit you?"
some one asked naively.
Gee, wish he had" the girl re-
piled.
She was invited to join the re-
ception later and was introduced to
Cesar Romero, thus enjoying her
second happy moment of the after
noon.
Romero was worried about getting
into the White House for the re-
ception which the President and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-29

House tomorrow. the stars will visit
the Naval Hospital at Bethesda at
$3.50 pm. Their tours of the birthday
celebrations will begin at Q pm
tomorrow night. They will visit
Uline Arena and the Shoreham
Wardman Park. Washington, Statler
and Mayfiower Hotels and the Lin
coin Colonnade, where dances are
being held.
Tickets Still on Sale.
Climax of the 1915 celebration
will come at 1880 pm. tomorrow
when Mrs. Truman. accompanied
by her daughter. Margaret, will
cut the cake to commemorate the
18th anniversary of the Roosevelt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-29
rthday Celebrations at Uline

Birthday Celebrations at Uline
Arena.
Tickets for the Earle and Capitol
Theaters are still on sale at all
Warner Brothers and Loew's The
aters and at RKO Keith's at $3.50
for orchestra seats and $3.50 for
the balcony. The Howard Theater
has been sold out.
Tickets for the dances can be
obtained at the hotels, at the Will
lard ticket agency and in Govern
ment departments. Tickets for the
affair at Uline Arena are also on
sale at the arena and at the Service
mems Information Center, Four
teenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV.
Tickets for the arena and hotel
dances cost So each; for the Shore
hams Blue Room dinner dance, IS,
plus dinner, and for the dinner
dance In the Statler's Embassy
Room, $40 each, plus dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-29
Robbery at Headquarters

A thief broke the glass front OF a
Washington Society for the Blind
cigarette vending machine in the
press room at police headquarters
last night just across the hall from
the Robbery Squad-and made off
with six dollars worth of cigarettes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-29
New Roosevelt Dime
To Be Out Tomorrow
On Birth Anniversary

Secretary Of the Treasury
Vinson announced yesterday
that the new Franklin D.
Roosevelt dime originally
scheduled for circulation on
February 5, would be released
tomorrow.
The date was moved up to
make the release of the dimes
coincide with the birthday an
niversary of the late President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-29

HERE TO HELP POLIO VICTIMS-Aexis Smith Paul Hem
reid Hollywood citizens chat during reception given
visiting film stars at the Hotel stater yesterday Eighteen
movie celebrities in the Capital to participate the
welt Birthday celebrations today and tomorrow
Star Staff Photo.
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AlongThe CapeFear

told my children about going there
and the growing excitement Tell
as 1 neared MI. Howard who stood
outside and announced to the world
that the show was Never out
and never over, always gong
on. five cents
1.-THE floor was sawdust and
shavings, and the seats were maze
of planks. Everyone who mad an
extra nickle ate peanuts.
"All I can remember about the
movies is much throwing OF Gus
tard pies and the dreadful way
me pictures flickered and danced
before our tortured eyes.
Thanks for the picture you put
in the paper. Sincerely, Mrs. W.
To Dolores Holt Cheatham."
FROM MOREHEAD CITY -
"Along the Cape Fear Column:
Mr.. James Fox Howard opened
the Bijou about 1906.
Snow caved the tent in about
1912, and the present building
was built around the propped-ur
tent with the show still going on.
Never out and never over
was the slogan.
II imagine The Great Trair
Robbery was the first picture
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
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Strike Spreading

ROME, July 21.-W.D- A new
nationwide strike by Italian hotel
cafe and restaurant workers was
called Sunday as unemployed
workers in Florence, protesting the
lack of jobs, rioted by the thous-
ands for the second consecutive
day.
The riots in Florence started
Saturday when unemployed at
tempted to seize a radio station
to broadcast demands for jobs,
but we're repulsed by police with
injury to several demonstrators.
Mobs' roamed the streets Satur-
day night and continued to ter
rorize the city Up to a late hour
Sunday.
The new strike call hit Italy
as a settlement was announced
in the walkout of gasoline pump
workers, who return to their jobs
Monday. A general strike. how
ever, still is underway in two
provinces, Varese and Novara,
and in the northern towns of Asst
and Alexandria.
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OBSERVERS SCAN
BlKlNI SET UP
Press Ship Appalachian
Enters Lagoon On Pre-
Test Visit

BIKINI LAGOON, Monday. July
%. -(P- The press ship Appalac-
hian entered Bikini lagoon this
morning, giving American and
foreign observers their first look
at the arrangement of target ships
for the worlds largest underwater
atomic explosion.
The target fleet has been shifted
into a completely new pattern for
the second test July Is Gully "a,
U. S. time). The Scared Battleshir
Nevada, bullseye for the July ]
explosion, won't occupy the "hot
spot" this time. The Battleshir
Arkansas and the Carrier Saratoga
have taken its place in the center
of the array
The Saratoga is south of the deto
nation center and, in a safer posi-
ton farther south, is the Battle
ship Pennsylvania. West of then
are six submarines, some sub
merged, and to the east r rang
ed six transports.
The gallant Battleship New Yorl
is on the inner circle of ships cas-
of the barge from which the bomt
will be suspended. Behind her 81
four landing craft like chicks will
a mother hen.
On the northern rim of the
death circle" is the Arkansas
thanked by a submarine, landing
craft and a cargo ship. Behind he
is the ugly battered, japanese
Battleship Nagato. West OF the
Nagato is the Cruiser Salt Lake
City, which took a terrific beat
ing in the first test.
North of the Nagato lies thu
Nevada and beyond her is strung
a row of landing ships. The trim
Nazi cruiser Prinz Eugen once
again is in a favored position OF
On the western side of the inne,
the outer fringe of the target array
See OBSERVERS On Page Two
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CRASHES lNJURE
FIVE in COUNTY
One Collision Involves Four
Cars; Motorcycle OPP
orator Hit

Four crashes seriously injured
at least five persons in the Will
mington area last night.
The most spectacular of the &C
cidents involved four automobiles
when a car allegedly operated by
two marines, repeatedly sldeswip-
ed two machines and crashed
head-on into a parked car near
Kures beach. The servicemen
were Sidney McCullers. suffering
possible fractures of the skull
and V e decorations of the face.
and Russell Baker, facial lacera-
tons and possible head injuries.
Occupants Hurt
Occupants of the parked car,
Francis Orrell, % Brookwod Ave-,
Aaron Farrow, Jr., five Montgom-
cry Ave, and Jimmy johnson,
Jr., Seagate, were severely bru1s-
ed.
In another accident near Caps
store on the Masonboro Loop
road. John E. Rouse, L%ouisburg'
reported by police to be the driver
of the car, suffered decorations
of the right arm, and a rider
Perry Griffin, is being held Tor
observation for a possible frac-
ture of the neck.
Hit BY Auto
Thomas R. Hinckley, soldier, OF
Fort Bragg, was struck by ar
automobile while riding a motor
cycle, near the Wrightsville Beach
drawbridge and suffered lacera-
tons, it was reported.
At a late hour last night, State
Highway patrolmen reported an
other accident involving cars SAID
to have been driven by Enoch
Crews and Edward L. Fryar,
Negroes, both of Rocky Point, near
Wrightsboro school. No injuries
were reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22

Mr.. Byrnes's German policy
consists, thus far, of an offer and
a demand. He has offered to give
an American guaranty to keep
Germany disarmed for twenty-five
or even forty years. This offer, as
Mr.. By-nes said, has been received
by the Russians with "~aloofness'
GOODNESS and hostility" and ne
vandenberg did, that it now seems :
Mr. M ~; Byrne ss's also had. a demand:
He wants. to restore trade across
the four military zones in order
that the British a n d American
zones, which are not self-support-
jng, will not have to have their
necessary imports subsidized. M.
Molotov rebuffed this demand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
MASKED PR0WLER
CUTS NEWTON BOY
Armed Posse Starts Search
For Man With Butcher
Knife

NEWTON, July 81. -(P- Many
Newton, citizens, some armed with
guns and pistols, hurriedly formed
a posse here Sunday afternoon af-
ter Billy Rudisill, IS, a son of
former Superior Court Judge j. c..
Rudisill, was attacked by a white
masked, butcher-knife welding
prowler on the sun porch of a neigh
boris home.
Chief of Police George Gilbert
said the attack climaxed several
incidents during the past five weeks
in which some prowler had entered
the Rudisill home and "rifled some
papers" Gilbert said the elder
Rudisill had received five unsign-
ed notes in that period, two of them
last Saturday. He did not reveal the
message contained in the notes, ex-
cept that the latter two referred
to officers inability to apprehend
the writer.
Receives Scratches
Young Rudisill received only
scratches, but during the struggle
his belt was cut in two. Deputy
Sheriff Ralph Pitts quoted Billy
Rudisill as saying that he heard a
noise at the screen door and look
ed around to see a man dressed in
khaki entering, knife in his hand.
The intruder had a white sack
over his head and wore white
gloves.
Goo DR. FIR I'm Pare Two
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R11o1r STORY (~CONT'D)-Like

BIJOU STORY (CONTD)-Like
the legends of the Old Shell Road
the Old Dram Tree, the Old Rock
Spring, the Old Cape Fear Steam
boats. and the Old ct Cetera, it
begins to look as though the saga
of the Old Bijou Theatre has no
page with THE End" printed on
it.
Last week we devoted three
whole days (Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. to the Bijou story, and
we're getting as much'mall about
it now as we got at first.
In fact, we have three unopen-
ed letters lying before us right
now-one from Wrightsville Beach,
one From Morehead City, and n
from Leland and we'll wager
that each one has something to
say about the Bijou.
Suppose we go ahead and open
them in that order and see what
the folks from these three widely
separated towns have to say about
North Cardinals first movie
theatre.
FROM WRIGHTSVILLE-"Dea
Cape Fear: You are certainly
right about the tent behind that
Bijou sign. It was the first movie
I ever attended. and l have often
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22

on-the-job training program as a
gravy train through which they
can draw government subsidies.
GIL educational laws permit the
veterans administration to regu-
late the veteran but not the school
he attends, DR.. Brown said. He
explained that the law leaves it to
the states to inspect the schools
receiving fees for CT training.
No Funds
But it fails to provide funds
for this policing and therefore
many states aren't doing it," he
said.
There already are more than
100. 900 training establishments that
the states nave approved for
veterans. You can see what a ire
mendous job it would be to In
spect all of them"
DR.. Brown said it was impossible
See SCHOOLS on PAGE Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
REGISTRATION SET
FOR LOCAL CLASS
Off, Campus Course To Be
Offered At New Han
over High School

A two-day registration perloo
for some 100 or more anticipated
students to attend Wilmington's
freshman college courses to be
offered at New Hanover high
school, starts this morning.
The applications are expected
for the city's off-campus unit OF
the University of North Carolina
which is slated to begin operation
here about September 23rd, H. M
Roland, superintendent of New
Hanover schools. said.
Blanks Received
Tentative application blanks
we're received several days age
and will be available when regis
tration starts this morning at nine
o'clock. The period of reglstraror
will run from nine to 4:30 today
and tomorrow.
Only freshman courses will be
conducted during the coming
year, and they are expected te
cover practically all studies taker
up at the University. Leaders pre-.
dict that the center will expano
to include sophomore classes also
for the 1947-48 terms. For white
students the classes will operate
on the quarter system meeting one
hour each day, five days pei
week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
ACKETEERS BUSY
RACKETEERS BUSY
Schools, Employers Take
Uncle Sam On GIProgram

WASHINGTON, July 2l.-(P-
nr Francis j. Brown, national au-
nari+y on veteran education, said
sot,rday some schools and employ
Nc are making a racket of the
r. educational program in which
conn 900. 900 already has been
DR.. Brown asserted in a report
- veteran educational opportuni-
w. for the American Council lon
prbljc Affairs, that tighter controls
re needed over a program in
which he predicted 1000, 600 veter-
.rs will participate by the end
Of next year.
increase Fees
In an interview, DR.. Brown said
.,ne schools increase fees and
ofter questionable courses ito get
ii they can from the govern
nent.
He asserted some employers
look upon the CT apprentice and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
Radar Aids Record

PHILADELPHIA, July 21.-P-
The S. S. Atlantic Mariner, first
ocean-going American commercial
tanker equipped with radar, ar,
rived here Sunday in what its own
ers claimed was a record run for
it's vessels from Corpus Christi,
Cex.
Officials of the Atlantic Rein
ing company said the trip took four
days, 10 hours and S. minutes.
The oil company's fastest vessels
usually take five days for such a
run, the officials added.
Capt. Preston D. Williamson,
master of the ship, said the radar
helped him numerous times in find
ing navigation aids. 2. B. Dunn,
member of the company's COM
munication department, said the
equipment had been installed to
attain safer runs in fog and foul
weather.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
Truman Plans
To Sign Bill
Of Conferees
Measure Opens Way For
Another 30-Day Price
Ceiling Holiday
REVIVAL UNCERTAIN
Porter Undecided About
Recommending Veto
To President

July I'll
(AP) - A rebirth of OPA,
with curtailed powers, seemed
assured Sunday as an influen-
tial official said President
Truman h a d indicated h e
would reluctantly sign COM
promise legislation which leaves
undecided whether controls will be
restored on a list of major foods,
The measure opens the way for
another 80 days Of holiday on price
ceilings for meats, dairy products.
grains, cottonseed and soybeans
and food and feed products made
from them. There is no assurance
control will be restored on these
items at all.
Ineffective Bill
Chairman Spence O.-Ky.) Of the
House Banking committee, who led
the administration battle for 8
strong OPA, said:
81 don't think it is a very effec-
tive bill, but it is the best we can
do. I think the House and Senate
will pass it. I believe the Prest-
dent will sign it as a last recourse
However, OPA Administrator
Paul Porter declined to say
whether he would recommend an
other veto. He told reporters I'VE
are now working on an analysis
See TRUMAN On Page Two
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end, would stand on his conStltu-
tional rights as a member of Con-
gress and say that he is too busy
with legislative duties to attend.
Lays Groundwork
Groundwork for such a move
on Mays part was laid Saturday
night with an announcement that
he had referred to an attorney
the technicalities of the call to
testify. The House Military COM
mittee chairman said he had been
too busy to attend to the matters
himself.
Congressional associates of the
Kentucky legislator said he was
considering" an offer to appear
at some time in the indefinite flu
ture, probably after Congress
adjourns, but stipulating again the
right to have an attorney at his
side and the power to call his
own witnesses.
Called .For Tuesday
Lie COllllllltlcC . I'LL c.
ted May to appear for question
ing Tuesday. No provision was
made to meet the conditions he
set up for his testimony.
Meanwhile the committee called
for Justice department records
of its inquiry into a $4,000 check
described by Rep. Coffee Cd
Wash) as a ~"campaign contribu-
ton" from Eivind Anderson,
Washington defense contractor,
in 1871.
"Belated AIibi"
Senator Brewster (R-Me) term
ed Coffee's explanation of the
check a ''belated alibi" and said
the Wa shington legislator would
See CONGRESSMAN On Page Two
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And So To Bed

Yesterday afternoon at the
beach about six or seven girls
were huddled in a circle on
their knees, surrounding some
thing on the sand which evident
Iy did not want to be surround
ed.
AS they struggled with 1t they
uttered cries of Hold it! Don't
let it get away! For golly sakes,
grab on there!" and other
short sharp phrases indicative
of a crisis.
A young man passing by
could not but be alarmed at the
girls struggles and shouts,
He rushed up to them and cried,
"What's the matter? Can I
help?"
Don't excite YOURSELF" said
one of the girls as she turned
away from the struggle for .
moment. "We're just trying to
initiate a rubber raft"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22

which held the body OF Luis Urla,
undersecretary of the presidency.
There was no exact description
of how the president met his death,
but some sources said he was
thrown from a balcony into a
street filled with surging people.
Seize Strongholds
Armed with weapons they had
seized from government strong
holds, the revolutionists depleyed
throughout La Paz and its environs
seeking other leading figures in the
Villarroel government who had
escaped. A revolutionist radio
called on the students TO organize
armed crowds to prevent 1ooting
and barbarous actions.
Even while fighting was continu-
ing against scattered pockets of
resistance, the revolutionists form
ed an institutional government.
They also regrouped their forces
to prevent a counter-revolution and
r e | e a e d imprisoned political
prisoners.
The victory Of the revolutionists
came after three days of battling
in the streets of La Paz.
= Named New Cabinet
Although Villarroel-a Bolivian
"strong man"-only Saturday had
named a new cabinet composed
entirely of military men, some
units of the Bolivian army joined
the revolutionary movement which
See REGIME on Page Two
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YEAR-R0UND PLAN
SET FOR BEACHES
Cooperation OF New Han.
over Resorts To Be
Sought AT Meeting

A cooperative masterplan for at
tracing additional thousands OF
vacation tourists to the already
celebrated beaches of New Han
over county each year on a four
seasonal basis will be drawn up
Thursday night of this week at a
large group gathering of beach
business officials, it Was disclosed
yesterday by John H. Farrell. ex-
ecutive secretary of the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce.
Meet Planned
The group, composed of four
leading businessmen each from
Fort Fisher, Kure, Wilmington,
Carolina, and Wrightsville beaches,
will convene at Trails End on the
sound at $50 o'clock Thursday
night to coordinate and integrare
their interests and draw up the
plan, Farrell said.
The meeting will also serve as a
"get acquainted" occasion, Farrell
continued, with a fish-fry a S the
secondary target of the evening.
THE primary target is. OF
course, the attraction of more and
more upstate and out-of-state
vacationists to all the beaches, not
just for the summer but for all
four season Of the year." Farrell
said.
Cooperation Sought
with the New Hanover county
resorts breaking attendance
records after four lean wal years.
the business leaders of each beach
have come to the conclusion that
a cooperative plan in which all
heads are put together stnads an
excellent chance OF making the
entire Lower Cape Fear resort
region one of the outstanding year
round vacation spots on the At
lantic Seaboard."
In addition to the 20 beach lead
ers, about four or five business
men of the City of Wilmington will
attend the m%asterplan meeting,
Farrell said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
Today and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN

Only if we fail or if we refuse
to understand the Soviet German
policy, which M. Molotov an
nounced on July 10, is there any
mystery about all this. In that
momentous declaration, the most
significant event since the arml-
stice, M. Molotov made it plain
at least to the Germans and to the
rest of Europe-that the Hremlln
has decided to make a unified Ger
many, rather than the little ma
tons of eastern Europe, the man
pivot of Soviet policy.
That explains the aloofness,
GOODNESS anr hostility to the Amer
lean guaranty. The Russian have
See LIPPMANN on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
CLOSE POCKETBOOKS
Penny Wise housewives
Onerate DUN OPA Theory

she'll buy cheaper oleomargarine
instead of butter that is up to 81
a pound.
By refusing to pay sky-high
prices, as she appears to be do
ing on an increasing scale, she
is helping force prices down, eco
nomists generally agree.
Urge Buyers Strikes
The CLIO cost : of = living COM
mittee is recommending such boy
colts, and even buyer strikes, in
a statement to all CLIO unions. So
are many officials and their
wives.
See PENNY-WISE On Page Two
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WASHINGTON, July 81. -U.H-
The nations most effective bud
get director-the penny-wise Amer
lean housewives operating e
own stopgap OPA along lines ap-
proved by government officials
and labor leaders alike.
And she's getting somewhere,
too. in her shopping battle against
increasing threats Of initiation.
Shun Butter
She may not know mucn ABOUT
the economic laws of supply ana
demand or the politicklng oehlno
the OPA battle on capitol hill, but
she does know how 10 say ina
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-22
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
South Carolina and North Carolina -
Considerable cloudiness Monday and
Tuesday, with scattered afternoon and
evening thundershowers; little change IN
temperature, except not so warm In IN
terror Monday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:3O pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. rs; 730 am. IS; 1:3o pm. ~
81; 7:30 pm. 80. m.
Maximum 81. Minimum IA; Mean 's'
Normal 10.
Humidity
1870 am. 96; 7:30 am. 80; 1870 pm. os'
7 80 pm. IS.
Total for "a hours ending 7:3o pm
0.0G inches.
Total since the first of the month
1887 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by u
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
M%asonboro Inlet -------- l:2oa a:aoa
Sunrise SIG; Sunset 7:20; Moonrise
12:O2a; Moonset 1:27p.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N C., at
a m. SATURDAY., 9.8 feet.