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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
SOUTH EAST WILL
USE FIELD TODAY

The inaugural flight Of South
East Airlines for Bluethenthal field
is scheduled to arrive today at 2:35
D. m. weather permitting, B. F..
Mallard, Wilmington station man
ager for the line, disclosed last
night.
Offices for SEA are being estab-
lished in the building now occupied
by National Air Lines, Mallard said
in announcing the inaugural flight,
leaving Wilmington at ESQ pm. for
western N. c., which will take place
three days following granting OF
conditional right to use the field by
the New Hanover Board of County
Commissioners.
Mallard said the SEA twin-en-
gined transport will be flown by
the company's president, W. c.
league, of Charlotte. He added that
it was hoped that the plane would
arrive enough ahead of schedule to
permit flying ofthe Commissioners
present at inaugural ceremonies
over the city.
High on the list Of future plans
for the company, after the move to
the huge 100000 field is the pur-
chase of one or more 21-passenger
Douglas DC-3's in speeding service
and providing extra space.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16

shown definite traces OF AMBER
girls.
From all We can find out about
Ambergris it looks like we nave
the real stuff" he commented,
''but we're not claiming anything
until we've had it thoroughly an
alyzed." o.
The substance, cut UP into 20
pound Jumps, is stored in the snip
icebox. Magann said that because
of it's understanding on the or
der of Lumburger cheese = ne can
not get commercial storage plant
to take it.
First to sight the mass floating IN
the ocean, the Captain said, was
Third Officer Jim Johnstad OF Oak
land. Calf. A group of volunteers
headed by Louis Russell OF May
field, KY, manned life-boats and
brought it in. Sharks were swim
ming all around
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
United States Plans Key
Location For UNO Force
Troops Would Be Based
Geographically For
Police Duties

LONDON, Jan. Is. - G9 - A
plan that TAINTED States forces as
signed to the United Nations world
police force" be scattered geog-
raphically has been brought to
London by American representa-
tives, informed sources said today.
American troops thus would be
within reach of any spot where the
world force might be called On to
put down aggression.
Many details of the plan still are
under consideration, these sources
said, with the work being kept
secret pending negotiations with
other members of the United Ma
tons military staff co1nmittee-Rus-
STA, Britain, France and China.
Tentative principles on which the
Americans were reported working
included: 49,
l. Each geographical unit should
contain balanced contingents on air
and sea power.
2. The size of the forces should
be determined by two factors-the
Job they might be required to
tackle and the power required to
give UNO the same prestige mill
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
ACL NAMES CAIN
DAVIS ASSISTANT

Disclosure of the appointment Of
George L. Cain as assistant to C.
Med. Davis, president of the At
lantic Coast Line railroad, came
yesterday from the general offices
of the company here.
simultaneously, the appointment
of F. B. Robbins to the position of
staff assistant by S. D. Hurst, Jr.,
assistant to the president, was ans
nounced. The appointment is eff
fective Feb. 1.
Since Nov, 1914, Cain has serv-
ed in the presidents office as
staff assistant.
Cain joined ACL in August, 1928,
shortly after he graduated from
The Citadel in Charleston, S. c.
He was first employed as mail
clerk in the Traffic department.
later becoming a file clerk ard
statistician in the same depart
ment. He then was promoted to as
sistant chief clerk in the presi-
dents office, moving from that
position to the job as staff assis-
tant.
An officer in the Wilmington
Light Infantry, Cain lives with his
family at 4O5 South 18th street.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
MEATSUPPLES
HERE MAYLAST
EORTWO WEEKS

his supply for next week left St.
Joseph yesterday.
j. A. Jones, Smithfield, treasur-
er of the Carolina Packing com
pany which distributes meat pro-
ducts in this territory, said he did
not believe the strike would at
feet his distribution. He pointed
out that all his company's pro-
ducts are slaughtered and packed
in the Smithfield plant and there
is no union there.
He said his company gets a
large portion of cattle from the
Midwest and that he foresaw no
strike trouble unless some unfore-
seen stoppage is made in the ship
ment of live cattle. q
He said his company normally
ships about 800 pounds of meat
products into the Wilmington area
each week. He also pointed out
that this is very scant'' sup
ply for this area.
Sloan said it was possible Ar
mour would continue to ship a
greatly curtailed'' amount of
beef and pork into this area from
the company's processing plant
In Richmond, where there is ex-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
POW CAMP HERE MAY
BE DEACTIVATED ON
OR ABOUT APRIL IS

Approximately 300 German pris'
oners, now stationed at the Pris-
oner of War camp in Wilmington,
are expected to complete their
work here and activity at the
camp be terminated by April Is,
according to directive received
here by Capt. R. H. Hazel, COM
manding officer of the camp, he
disclosed last night.
Part of general move to return
the more than 10000 German and
Italian prisoners to their home
lands reported in an Associated
Press dispatch, it was planned, &C
cording to Secretary of War Pat
terson, to have all prisoners out OF
the United States by the end of
April.
Capt. Hazel said he had received
a directive on the matter advising
of the terminating action. Pris-
oners here have worked for many
of the county's farmers, in ferti-
lizer plants during the rush season
and on local diaries. At present
some of them are assisting in put
ting out the lettuce crop in the
Castle Hayne section.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
Truman Serves Notice
OF Island Control
Intentions
By GRAHAM HOvEY
APP STAFF WRITER

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is B :
President Truman served notice on
the world today that the United
States intends to keep exclusive
control for a long time of the
Pacific island bases it regards
essential for American security.
The President told his news con-
ference this country will ask the
United Nations organization for
authority to, establish exclusive
trusteeships over these islands,
many of which were wrested from
the Japanese by American forces
at the cost of terrific casualties.
Islands not deemed essential to
American security will be turned
over to the UNO and collective
trusteeships probably will be estab-
lished over most of them, Mr.. Tru-
man said.
The Chief Exc utive did not name
the islands he regards as essential.
Newsmen recalled, however, that
the Navy Department filed a re-
commended list with a House
Naval subcommittee last Sept. II.
On it were such former Japanese
owned or japanese controlled
islands as Tinian and Saipan in
the Marianas; Two Jima in the
Bonins, and Okinawa in the Ryuk-
yus-all scenes of bitter fighting
during the war.
The discussion of the Pacific
islands came when reporter told
the President the various delega-
tons to the UNO Assembly in Lon
don appeared split over the issue
of trusteeships in that part Of the
world.
Did the U. S. favor trusteeships
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
COAL Mine BLAST
TAKES HALVES
y Others Injured, Over
200 Escape From Un-
usual Catastrophe

WEIGH, w. Va, Jan. IS. -(P-
Thirteen men were killed and
another died subsequently in hos
pital, while more than 200 escaped
today in the most unusual catas-
trophe recorded in a century of
coal mining in West Virginia.
Twenty two additional men work
ing deep inside the Havaco No. 9
mine of the New River Pocahontas
Consolidated Coal company were
injured in an explosion which was
so great that it wrecked buildings
in the immediate area.
School children in a building 500
feet away were injured by flying
glass. Five women and children in
the company grocery store were
takellato a WEIGH hospital for treat
ment of various injuries resulting
from the terrific blast.
Thirteen Of the IA known victims
apparently were killed outright,
while Luther Tolley, "a, of Havaco,
died several hours later in Grace
hospital.
Five of the % injured men were
discharged after treatment and re-
turned to the mouth of the wreck
ed shaft.
Company officials reported that
267 men were at work when the
deep rumble first warned the dis
aster-wise section that a blast had
occurred.
The miracle" aspect Of the ex-
plosion was that with so many in
the blast area, SO few were killed
or injured. In most catastrophes of
this kind, seldom do more than a
few of the trapped come out I'M
scathed.
Within an hour after the blast,
the first survivors walked out I'M
assisted up an emergency stair
way which somehow renamed in
tact although the head house" of
the opening and the tipple were
destroyed.
All through the day as the IA
miliar disaster crowd of relatives.
nurses and others assembled
around or within the roped off
area, workers continued to emerge
from the wrecked workings.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16

m,ere will probably be a nor
- s,,nnlv of heavy beef and pork
ma d;sfribution in the Wilmington
i an.. ul for the next two weeks de-
area t the nationwide meat pack
'p pl strike, representatives OF three
trS ,s s,, companies supplying the
pa sior part of the areas meat
MAJ ma last night. This normal"
s s',L,n,v i' however, already was a
su apg hit below pre-war levels these
representatives p pointed out
'S ONE Of these companies, whose !s
hacking plant is located IN IN smith s tn
PAD was not expected to be at
t tected by the strike.
r, Sloan, Wilmington manag-
- tor Armour, said his allotment
e ef M neat for the current week al
r pa has arrived here and that
n rr normal conditions his sup
u u1r for next week was due to have
lof+ St Joseph, Mo-, yesterday
.dtt for delivery here next
Monday.
Allen Gravely, Swift manager
,arn indicated his situation, so
4 far as the Wilmington area is con-
l carned. is similar to Armour's. He,
too VT, received the current weeks
. .II, Yesterday and believed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
AIR CARGO PLANS
MAY CLOSE TODAY

Completion Of arrangements for
placing Wilmington on the air car
60 map of the U. S. are scheduled
today in a conference between Har-
riss Newman, prominent city at
torney, and M. M. de Brou, traf-
fic manager of Air Cargo Trans
port company, of New York.
De Brou will fly here IN one OF
the company's new Douglas Sky
Trains. 1t will be piloted by Cap
tain Rhome.
Arrangements to obtain air
transportation for flowers, fruits,
special seafood and other high
class commodities from Whining
ton to other points throughout the
country have been underway for
sometime. The plan to be discuss
ed today will be based on charter
service.
Mr.. Newman explained that the
group he represents is proceeding
on the assumption that it will be
<~x., r-o. Cov ~
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Argentine Government
Forces Stores To Open

| BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 15.-(P)-
Argentina's military government
forced the opening of number OF
food stores today, denting the solid
front of three-day lockout by in
dustry and commerce in protest
against the governments labor pol
icies.
Gen. Filomeno Velazco, chief OF
the Federal police, said $4,000 OF
Buenos Aires $4,000 business estab-
Iishments had been reopened. He
said the sale of food was normal
in the capital and that other bust
ness firms would be opened grad
ually.
However, the second day of the
72-hour lockout was marked by
long lines of persons in front of
grocery stores and bakery shops,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
BY bICKNELL EUBANKS
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Jan. 15-W.n)-Efforts
to. settle a bitter wage dispute
between the nations meat packers
and CIO and AFL unions collapsed
tonight and a walkout by more than
100000 clearinghouse workers at
midnight Qocal time) apparently
was inevitable.
Edgar L. Warren, U. S. Concili-
ator who earlier had been reported
to have left for Washington, said
he had remained over for final
effort to find solution that would
avert the nationwide walkout
which, it was predicted, would shut
off the nations meat supply in a
week.
Warren, accompanied by several
aides, left the hearing room Short
ly after 8 p. m. (EST) and con-
fessed the failure of his service to
find workable compromise. He
said, 1.-THE only people left to handle
the case now are the regional con.
Citation officers"
Both CLIO and ALL packinghouse
workers said all was ready for the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
BERRY GROWERS
PLAN MEETINGS

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 15-Several
hundred Columbus county straw
berry farmers are expected to at
tend meetings in Tabor City and
Chadbourn Jan. 81 to hear State
College officials discuss production
nd marketing of Strawberries
Charles D. Raper, Columbus coun-
ty farm agent, said here tonight.
The Tabor City meeting will be
held at 2:30 P. NJ in the afternoon
of Jan. 81 and the Chadbourn meet
ing will follow at 7:30 in the eve
ming.
Scheduled to lead the discussions
at the two meetings are DR.. L. d.
Beaver, head of the experimental
station at State College; J. Y. Las
sitter, extension service horticul-
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and a majority Of the capitals
stores remained shattered.
Opening of the food stores follow.
ed government threat to take
action, under the flexible provi-
sions Of the wartime law, against
firms which joined the closing.
In reply, the executive board Of
Argentine businessmen declared
the closure was not infringing any
law and asserted that any action
against stores and factories would
be "overstepping official powers"
The lockout was directed against
the government decree ordering
a year-end bonus to workers
equivalent to a months pay and
salary increases, employers
spokesman said.
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Taft Demands Quick Strike Action;
U.S.. Will Retain Bases In Pacific
WITHHOLDING TAKES
OF CITY EMPLOYEES
TOTALS $50,62l.29

Total withholding tax Of city
employees during 1945 amount
ed to $50, 621.29.
City Clerk j. r.. Benson, who
released the figures yesterday,
said this figure represents taxes
withheld from 1,151 employees.
This includes the employee
turnover of the city. There is
an average of 400 personnel on
the city payroll at one time, he
said. -.-.
During the first quarter Of
1915 withholding taxes amount
ed to Sill, S44.96; Second quarter.
S12,43S.14; Third quarter, $751;
1868 and Fourth quarter,
$12,981.60.
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If It's An1bergris, Creuu
Of Ship Has $1,(~ 1000

, MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 15.-R)-The
.40ef'y ship Albino Perez brought
NV port today a ton of ill-smelling
s'eslsh matter and the skipper
to l pno IL it isn't Ambergris. I'd like
aa ..o" what the stuff really isl
.ro nnli'oo,efgris, hillary concretion
= ra. me stomach of the whale, is
cost Ile and high priced base for
!.s ' scaI perfumes. It is priced for
cs snretn55,,lr.e91taining properties.
NIL ~ y, william P. Magann of Nor
I \. w. master of the Perez, said
ne Understood ad it was selling for
m n'opnd $500 a pound. That would
max tthePerez's haul worth some
a ming ikeN, 900, ooO-if it is Amber
find Ma az aid his crew made the
on ON n ABOUT for days off Gibraltar
tior Dsecember>4 and an examina-
ny a chemist at Algiers had
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
And SO To Bed

The Star heard last night
there is at least one city bus
driver whose heart beats with
the spirit of good will towards
his fellow man.
The night was cold and rainy.
The lone passenger on the last
bus to the eastern part of the
city,-as passengers will-en-
gagged the driver in CONVERSE
ton, and when his stop was
reached, regretfully arose to
debark, thinking of the several
blocks of wet walking ahead of
him. .-5
Maybe it was the cane the
fare used. Maybe the driver
was just good guy. At any
rate, the driver asked the pas
senger where he lived and
drove him to his front door,
several blocks off the regular
route of the bus, and watched
while his ex-fare went in to be
sure he didn't fall.
Brother, for five cents that's
really service!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
INSTEAD OF CLOTHES
MAN FINDS GRENADE,

A resident of Riverside apart
ments who went out to get his
clothes from the clothes-line last
night almost got his clothes scar
ed off him.
A Regeneration hand-grenade
was hanging on the clothes line,
obviously put there by a prankster
as further investigation showed
that it had been detonated.
City police officers, H. A. Want
and E. P. Herring showed the
grenade to the Marine MP's at
headquarters who opened it, and
found it quite harmless.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-16
Government !,
To Protest
Violations
SOVIET MAN KILLED
Nationalist Drop Leaflets
Asking Clearing Of
Chihfeng Airport
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent

ny NE NOAOO 1AOAAhO
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHINESE NATIONALIST HEAD
QUARTERS, Manchuria, Jan. IS.
-W.H-More than 10000 Communist
troops attached and recaptured the
South Manchurian port of Wing
kow three hours after a cea se-fire
order was issued at midnight last
Sunday, Gen. Tu Innings Nation
alist headquarters charged today.
1t was understood authoritatively
that the Communist attack against
the vital port, captured only five
days before by Nationalist troops,
will be protested to cease fire
executive headquarters in Peiping.
First reports from Yingkow indi-
cate that a number of Nationalist
troops died in the fighting. The
main Yingkow garrison had been
pulled out, in view of the cease-fire
order, to participate in the official
entry into Mukden, it was said.
Those left fouhgt to hold the port
but were outnumbered by the Com
munists five to one.
Nationalist headquarters said al
so that fighting had ragged for two
days past the cease-fire deadline
at Panshan, SO miles northwest OF
Yingkow. Five thousand Com
munist troops attacked and cap
tured Kanshan at the same time as
the attack on Yingkow, it was said,
but government troops counter-at.
tackled and finally took complete
possession of the town today.
(The Communifs New China
Daily charged today that the Ma
tionalist 47th army had launched
violent attack against the major
city OF Kwangshan, in south Honan
province, on Monday morning. The
paper did not say whether the at
tack was continuing.)
(The pro government Central
News agency reported from Peip-
ing that the first action of the
cease fire executive committee
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YECGS SMASH GLASS
AT KINGOFFS; TAKE
WATCHES WORTH $631

Twelve watches valued at $751;
q were stolen from Kingoff S
Jewellery store last night after
someone had crashed a glass VIM
COW where they were on display.
The theft occurred at 11:25 ac-
cordlng to W. c. Jordan, city po-
lice officer who said he was just
around the corner from Front
street on Princess street when he
was told by Nathan and Dudley
humphrey that someone had
smashed the store window.
A Mr.. Naylor reported to the of
ncer that he was turning the cor
hef at Front and Market streets
%hen he heard the crash and short
~ after noticed three white men
s.,ppearantly civilians running from
lne Kingoff's store toward the
river.
Martin Friedman, manager OF
!Aalhgoffs, who made the tabula-
uoh Of goods stolen, said there
y, vas apparently nothing else miss
nle from the window.
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Stream Of Speech e S
&c no In H alls OF
Both Houses
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
AP Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. -(R-
More demands to check strikes
and speed rehabilitation boiled
ur today in Congress. -
Calls for hurrying soldiers home
continued even after Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower personally explain
ed discharge plans to Congress
and said releases were slowed to
prevent the arny's collapse"
Some lawmakers said, however,
that the Chief of Staff's explana-
ton ought to answer many COM
plants.
House members got off stream
of speeches calling for strike RENE
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Along The Cape Fear

gobbled up about as rapidly as
they could get there.
There'll probably come a time,
though, when a good portion OF the
crop will have. to be canned.
Farrell thinks that besides pro-
viding Wilmington with another
good industry, such a food indus
try here will also afford an excel
lent market for volume products
for the farmers in all Of the south
eastern area.
HITCH-HIKING DOG? = Harold
Howard, who works at T. w.
Woods here and who lives IN
Hampstead. is wondering how his
newly-acquired flee dog made the
tr p from his home at Hampstead
to Rocky Point.
Last Thursday Willie Sanderson,
Rocky Point, gave the dog to How
ard. Howard missed the dog Mon
day morning. Yesterday Sanderson
went into Woods to report to How
ard that the dog had turned back
up in Rocky Point which is about
IA miles from Hampstead.
He must have hitch hiked,'
oanderson reported, because
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
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CHINA OUTLINED
AT ROTARY MEET

Rotary club members were
treated to a program with an in
ternational flavor yesterday noon
at the meeting in the Friendly CAT.
eteria when Hon. Berlin, Chun.
king, China, spoke to members and
guests on China.
Berlin, who has been affiliated
with the bridge department of the
Atlantic Coast Line since last July
is a graduate of Northumberland
Engineering college in China and
a former employe of the China
Bridge company.
He came to ths Atlantic Coast
Line for further training and will
return to China within several
months to take up his work in
bridge construction.
Guests of the club were T. r..
Zunn Brunnen, Rotarian from
Salisbury, John Farrell, secretary
Chamber of Commerce; George G..
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WEATHER

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1850 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1 80 am. At; 1880 am. so; 1: 80 pm. As;
7:30 pm. Al.
Maximum SO; Minimum 40; Mean s.;
Normal 46
Humidity
1870 am. 70; 1880 am. 90; 1870 p.m
100; 1880 pm. 100.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:3O pm
lib inches.
Total since the first of the month
lib inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tides Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington 8:51 am. BIS am.
$40 pm. 1853 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 6:42 am. 1916 am.
1902 pm. 1:02 pm.
Sunrise TIT am; Sunset SGT pm.
Moonrise 4:43 pm; Moonset :27 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 8
am. Tuesday. 10.4 feet.
Continued on Page Six; Col. g.
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Settlement
Plan Fails
At Chicago
FORD RAISES OFFER
Westinghouse Plans Ter
mination OF Clio Agree
ment On Wage Scale
BULLETIN

CHICAGO, Wednesday, Jan,
16-(UR)-A strike of 300, 900
CLIO and AFL clearinghouse
workers began early today
after vigorous Cancellation eff
forts collapsed, and govern
ment officials predicted the
nations meat supply would be
exhausted within a week.
The strike began officially at
1901 am. local time) but the
full impact of the first nation
de walkeut in the industry's
history was not expected to be
felt until workers began APP
pearing for day shifts. Only
maintenance men were in the
plants as the deadline passed.