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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
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NICE STUMP SOUND OYSTERS IN
Shell. Variety fresh fish. Jacksoni
Fish Market, SIT N. 4th. Dial 9195,
FOR COMPLETE TRAVEL RESERvA'
lions anytime. anywhere. consult WI.
minrton Travel Agency. 128 Princess
street. Phone 2-lo37 SEA tickets
reservations.
FELTON's STOCK YARD. LOCATED AT
Myrtle Beach, S. c., on Myrtle Beach
Farm Road will have auction sale for
live stock. personal property, or any
thing you have to sell. First sale Jan
uary It'll, 1947 and every Tuesday
thereafter. Sale starts at two o'clock.
Bring your stock early. Market prices
paid. We also sell dressed beef and
pork daily. Inspect our new Slaughter
house. E. B. FELTON,. Myrtle Beach,
S. C.
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FLOWER BULBS, LAWN GRASSES.
fertilizers garden tools n supplies.
T. W. Wood n Sons.
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~75-Household Goods

FOR SALE-ONE AND 2-BURNER on.
heaters. See them at Dixie Furniture
Co., SOB Castle street. Dial 1896.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23

SEEDS, SPRAYS. SPRAY MATERIALS.
dusts. busters for farm-garden-lawn
Cross Seed Co. Dial 1858.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23

FOR SALE - COMPOST SUITABLE
for flowers shrubbery and gardens.
50 load, delivered Dial 6083
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
NEW CUT LOOMS
FOR u. S. BREAD
Agriculture Department
Issues Gloomy Report
On Wheat Stocks

WASHINGTON, April Is. III
A new and drastic cut in bread for
the family table or in essential
wheat reserves appeared Thursday
night to offer the only means Of
fulfilling United States promises
of grain to hungry foreign areas.
This prospect was raised by a
gloomy Agriculture department re-
port that stocks of wheat in this
country on April l amounted to
only 1888, ga, 900 bushels-6O per cent
of those on hand year earlier.
Under Estimated Need
This would be at least 1900, 900
bushels and possibly as much as
40, GOO, 900 or more bushels under
the estimated amount needed be-
fore the new harvest comes in.
Calling for still more stringent
measures to conserve wheat, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Anderson said
the report showed that this coun-
try is in "a very serious situation
in regard to total supplies"
In statement telegraphed to the
See BREAD On Page TIVE
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ACCORD KEYNOTE
AT PARIS MEET:
Russia Comedies Right Of
U. S. To Sit In On
All Parleys

PARIS, April 25. -U.D- The
big Four" foreign ministers con-
ference opened on note of har-
mony Thursday when Russia con-
ceded the right of France and the
United States to participate in the
discussion of peace treaties with
all five Axis satellites.
Russia's adamant refusal to per-
NIT France to join discussion of
treaties with Bulgaria, Hungary,
Finland and Romania was major
cause of the breakdown of the
foreign ministers meeting in Lon
don last September.
Thursdays decision also grant
ed to the United States the privi-
lege OF sitting in on discussion of
the treaty with Finland, with whom
the United States was not at war.
Voting Powers
France may participate in dis
cussions Oh all five treaties, but
may vote only in the case of Italy.
The United States may not vote on
the Finnish treaty.
Delegates reported after the first
session that the atmosphere was
"amicable throughout" a surpris-
ing development to pessimistic OBJ
servers WHO had predicted bitter
wrangling and tight bargaining
over all issues.
The delegates met at old Luxem-
bourg palace in deepest secrecy
and under protection of an extra
ordinary security guard, but the
following communique was issued
after a three-hour session:
BidauIt Welcomes
cat the beginning of the meet
ing (French Foreign Minister
(Georges) Bidault, who presided
since he was the representative of
the inviting power, made a well
coming address to the other minis
tiers. Byrnes, Molotov and Bevin
answered him. E'oreign Ministers
James +. Byrnes of the United
States. "Wednesday Molotov of Rus
STA and Ernest Bevin of Great
Britain,
Following this, the council
adopted rules of procedure for this
session which is annexed to this
communique. The council then pro-
ceeded to study questions which
See KEYNOTE on Page Two
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Along The Cape Fear

sucked up by the sun into the sky,
falls back TO earth, and freezes
again.
But not in summer.
IN A METAL 1RAY-Man makes
his own ice. He puts water into
a ma chine which shuts out summer
and inprisons winter in metal
tray.
The vehicles of Now shunt up and
down the steets of Today. Among
them is a repair truck full of tools
and a man who knows how to use
them to make the ice-ma chine con-
tinue its work Of winter.
But no longer among them is the
wagon with the patient horse at
one end and the trickle of cold
water at the other.
y WHITE GODDESS-Gone is the
ice wagon trundling down the
streets along the Cape Fear, the
children hanging onto the back
platform with daggers of silvered
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
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SIDEREAL SWJNG-Time is

SIDEREAL SWJNG-Tlme is a
spiral.
Each loop encompasses the an
nual sidereal swing of the seasons.
Each year these things return to
us-the green of spring, the gold
of summer, the sepia of autumn,
the grey-white of winter.
Yet, in it's circular track, time
also moves forward, a spiral bit
boring into the unknown material OF
the future. And though the seasons
always come back, the unknown
material of the future becomes
known and sloughs aside the out
worn material of the past.
ETERNAL ICE - Those days are
returning again, those days of sus-
pended sunsets, Of children's voices
sounding clear in hazy streets Lit
by the lingering light of eight
o'clock, of electric fans buzzing IN
unison with nighttime insects.
And the ice cubes clinking in tall
cool glasses of tea.
Ice is eternal. Water freezes,
melts. returns to the earth, is
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26

W. Ronald Lane
The telegram reads:
Telegram To Lane
Honorable Ronald Lane, Mayor
If we advertise and hold another
open meeting inviting all citizens
will you vote at next council meet
ing for the mar. we endorse by ma
jority votes cast? Please answer
by s p. m. Otto Pridgen, commit
tee chairman"
Western Union told Pridgen that
the telegram was delivered to
Mayor Lane yesterday. Up to 10
o'clock last night the mayor had
sent no answer.
Elected by People
Meeting last night, the commit
tee, composed of Pridgen, B. P.
Curtis, C. W. Bloome, j. B. Hin
nant, Arthur Williamson, w. T.
Weaks, and E. F. Pittman, issued
the following statements to the
press:
ID We are not a self-elected
group. We were elected by the
people of Sunset Park at the re-
cent mass meeting to present the
Rhodes petition to the council last
Wednesday.
CD We are under no pressure
from Rhodes or any other person
or party.
90 we are not trying to rail-
road" Rhodes into the empty coun-
Gil seat.
An, Other Citizens
"a If the citizens had elected
any other suitable man, such as
J. E. Fur or R. L. Burnett, for
the position, we would give him the
same support, as representatives
of the people, as we are now giving
Rhodes.
90 If Mayor Lane gives us an
affirmative reply to our telegram,
we shall advertise for another
mass meeting to determine wheth-
er the majority of Sunset PARK
citizens still want Rhodes or some
other man. Otherwise we shall con-
tinue to support Rhodes as the
Sunset Park candidate.
Action May !
Rhodes was rejected, temporar-
lily, at the last council meeting
See SUNSET on Page Two
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TOP o. THE MORN
SKIPS FIRST ISSUE
IN PAST 81 YEARS

Today, for one of the few
times in almost 81 years, "Top
o. The Morning is missing
from The Stars editorial page.
Miss Eliza Murphy. who has
authored the daily morning
refresher since June s, 1915,
is still i'll with a heart all
met at James Walker Me-
mortal hospital.
"Top o. The Morning" may
appear in The Star in another
week or so, however.
Yesterday afternoon, Miss
Murphy's physician, DR.. David
r. Murchison, said she is
''getting better"
81 hope" he said, "that she
can resume her work in about
a week"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
SPANISH ISSUE
UPSETS COUNCIL
Russia Bluntly Stand S
Against Investigating
Franco Regime

NEW YORK, April Is. -R-
A blunt Russian stand against any
II S igation of Franco Spain by
a United Nations Security Council
commission stalled the council
Thursday and caused 1-2-hour
confused debate which ended with
out a decision.
The council adjourned at 6:35
pm. until II am. E. S. T. Friday
after arguing IN vain over a rapid
succession of resolutions and
amendments which had council
members thoroughly bewildered at
times.
"Serious Danger"
Andrea A. Gromyko, the Russian
delegate, summed up long speech
in Russian early in the session with
the declaration that evidence al
ready put before the council left
mo doubt that the Fascist regime
Of Franco, as it exists at present
in Spain, is indeed a serious dan
ger for international peace and
security"
In view OF this fact" he said,
ii is not necessary to set up any
kind of commission or committee
to study this question.
In the presence of an abundance
of facts and evidence which con-
firm the accusations against the
Fascist regime made by the Polish
delegate, the formation of a COM
mitee could only have a negative
effect both on world public opinion
and upon the democratic forces Of
Spain herself" Gromyko said.
mistaken In Stand
He remained mistaken in his
stand against a proposal by the
A9rt~9lian delegate, Lieut-Col. w.
R. Hodgson, for a commission to
inquire into the affairs of the Ma
drid government despite direct
~ Sir Alexander Cadogan,
British delegate.
Il appeal to my Soviet colleague
not o oppose that entirely" Ca
dogan said.
Gromyko thus stood opposed to
SIX Of the 11-member council TAX
ing a position against the United
States, Australia, Britain, The
See SPANISH on Page Two
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S0L0NS MAY ACT
ON TIME PLAN
Nichols Expected To Put
Daylight Savings Up
To Council

Two important matters come up
before the city council in a special
session this morning.
First, the council will probably
be asked by City Manager A. C.
Nichols to take vote on whether
or not the council should endorse
the Wilmington Chamber of Com
merces drive to get daylight saw
ing time adopted throughout the
state
Initiated BY Harrington
The chambers drive wa. initial
ed Wednesday by it's president, c.
M. Harrington.
If the council does endorse the
drive, the chamber will have a
strong ally, and in all likelihood
other civic and commercial or
CARNATIONS of the city will follow
suit.
With the majority of the city
behind it, the chamber will attempt
to influence other cities in backing
the plan. And if this attempt is
successful Governor Gregg Cherry
is almost certain to authorize day
light saving time throughout the
state for the coming summer, &C
cording to Harrington.
Z0ning Ordinance
The other matter which the
council is expected to take action
on is the city zoning map and
ordinance.
After several months of intensive
study and hard work, the city
planning board, in cooperation with
City Attorney w. B. Campbell and
See SOLONS on Page Two
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The w Gather
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Friday. partly cloudy
and mild becoming warmer in west por-
ton in afternoon. Showers along coast
during forenoon.
South Carolina: Partly cloudy Friday,
slightly cooler.
eastern Standard Time)
by u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7: 80 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. Sc; 7 80 am. So; 1870 pm.
76; 7 80 pm. Sc.
Maximum. rs; Minimum 66; Mean IL;
Normal IS.
Humidity
1 80 am. 81; 7:3O am. SO; 1870 pm. co.;
1880 pm. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm.
600 inch.
Total since the first of the month
3.39 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
N High Low
Wilmington $1,000 SIG am. 1906 am.
5:44 pm. 12:37 pm
Masonboro Inlet - 2:52 am. 1926 am.
1922 pm. 9:43 pm.
Sunrise 5:28 am; Sunset 6:52 pm;
Moonrise PA am; Moonset 32 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c., at
at am, Thursday, 100 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
TRUMAN DELAYS
TRIP TO CONFER
President Discusses Pacific
Problems With Cen
eral Eisenhower

QUANTICO, Va, April 25-(P)-
President Truman unexpectedly
delayed his departure from this
Marine base, Thursday night, to
confer aboard the Williamsburg
Friday with Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover on Army problems in the
Pacific.
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters the
War Department chief of staff will
board the White House yacht at
10 a. M, Friday and remain for
lunch with the Chief Executive.
Plans Pacific Tour
The conference is preparatory to
departure, Saturday
for an inspection of Army installa-
lions in the Pacific expected to
last a month. He will return to
Washington in the afternoon.
Ross announcement followed
Mr.. Truman's arrival from Wash
ington where he attended funeral
services for Chief Justice Harlan
F. Stone. The President drove to
and from his anchorage in down
pour of rain.
Reconversion Director John W.
Snyder drove to Quantico with the
President, talking over recover
sion problems on the way down.
He will meet the Chief Executive
again Saturday when he joins the
See TRUMAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
WARTIME CLAMPS
PUT ON BUTCHERS
Government Hopes To
Shunt More Meat Into
Normal Channels

WASHINGTON, April 25-(R--
The government slapped wartime
controls back on slaughterers
Thursday in an attempt to shunt
meat from "black markets" into
normal channels"
OPA and the Agriculture depart
ment announced that a slaughter
quota system will go nto effect
April %. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Anderson termed it share
the-livestock' plan.
Cut In Hogs
1t provides that meat plants
may butcher as many cattle and
calves each month as they did
during the corresponding month
in 1914.
See BUTCHERS on Page Two
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MACARTHUR WINS
IN FEC STRUGGLE
General To Have Free Hand
In AlIocating Food
To Japanese

WASHINGTON, April 25-U.H-
Gen. Douglas Macarthur appeared
to have won out in his latest I'M
dercover tussle with the Far East
ern commission, Thursday night
when it was announced that the
FEC has agreed to give him what
amounts to free hand in deciding
how much food to import for the
Japanese people.
The FEC decision was announced
by Chairman Frank Mccoy in the
first policy statement released by
the commission, composed of rep
resentatives Of all the Pacific ma
tons.
Theoretical Limit
Some members of the commits
sion, notably Rr~~ia, have been
See MACARTHUR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
LOVE A PARADE?
Jaycees To Sponsor
Boy Scouts Circus

members of the drill squads of
the various packs will stage a
parade on the show grounds
during the evening perform
ance, Carol Tinsley, scout ex-
ecutive, said.
Rehearsals for the gala event
have been started, and another
will be held next Wednesday
night, Jack Atkinson, chair
man of the committee for the
promotion of events, said yes
terday.
The Junior Chamber general
See CIRCUS On Page Eleven
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WASHINGTON, April 25-U.H
Harlan Fiske Stone, 18th
Chief Justice of the United
States, was buried in a rain
swept, corner of Washington's
Rock Creek cemetery, Thurs
day, mourned by the nation ne
had served through almost a
quarter-century Of public life.
Handful of Friends
Only a handful of lifelong
friends stood with his WIDOW
and two sons at the gravesloe
as the body Of the New hamp-
shire liberal was lowered 1n'o
its earthen niche.
The high and humble OF WASH
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And So To Bed

The other afternoon a local
man of considerable public stat
ure telephoned his office from
his home and got the busy sig
nal.
A few minutes later he called
again and once more got the
busy signal. This went on for
about half an hour, and the man
waxed wr0th.
Gust wait Till ] get down
to the Office he said to his
wife. "I'm going to give my Of
flee force the dickens for keep
ing the phones tied up so long"
Once again he picked up the
phone, diaIed, and got the busy
signal. He slammed down the
phone, turned around, and
bumped into his wife who had
been watching over his Shout
der.
Dear" she said soothingly,
you've been dialing our home
number"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
NATION MOURNS STONE
Chief Justice Buried
In Capital Cemetery

ington, led by President Tru-
man and nine of the ii living
jurists who sat with Stone on
the Supreme Court bench, had
paid him their last tribute only
an hour before in the vaulted
splendor of the National Epis-
scopal cathedral.
Truman Returns
Mr.. Truman, who broke off his
seagoing vacation when news
reached him of the Chief JUS
tees { nth Monday night, re-
turned to Quantico, Va, i'm
mediately after the Cathedral
See STONE on Page Two
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COUNCIL TO Get
PLAN OF zONINC

A master plar calling for city
coming and sweeping improvements
in urban streets and recreational
facilities is to be presented to the
City council today, it was disclosed
by planning expert George Simons,
Jr.. at last nights meeting Of the
local Civitan club.
The result of extensive surveys,
the plan proposes the division OF
Wilmington into seven zones. By
passes and over-passes for the relief
of through highways will be rec
commended.
A. further recommendation, said
Sirnons, calls for sub-river traffic
See ZONING On Page Eleven
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
LOVE A PARADE?

The second annual Boy Scout
circus, under the sponsorship
Of the Wilmington Junior
Chamber of Commerce, will
be held Frcday night May 10 at
Legion Stadium.
The circus, complete with
strong man acts and master
minds; fancy drills and crack
parades, is scheduled to present
also the New Hanover High
school ROTC band, under the
direction OF Lieut.. Eugene La
cock.
Parade Scheduled
More than 400 Boy Scouts,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
Train Wrecks

NEW YORK, April 75-W.B--
The worst train wreck in the
history of U. s. Railroading
occurred at Nashville, Tenn,
July 8, 1918, when 101 persons
were killed.
Other wrecks which killed 80
or more persons:
Ashtabula, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1870
"a.
Chatsworth, M., Aug. 1881
81.
Eden, Colo, Aug. 7, 1904
96.
Wellington, WASH, Mar. 1,
1910-96.
The worst train disaster In
recent years killed 10 persons
at Frankfurt Jet, on Sept. 6,
1943. On Dec. Is, 1913, 70 per-
sons were killed near Lumber
ton, and ON Dec. 81, 1914, so
were killed at Bagley, Utah.
The dieSel-powered Exposition
Flyer, bound for San Francisco
See WRECK on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26

A check Of dead in Napsrville
mortuary establishments and In
hospitals placed the known dead at
SO. At least 70 injured were taken
to hospitals in Aurora.
The accident, worst in the rail-
roads history, occurred when the
Advance Flyer, bound for Omaha
and Lincoln, Neb., made an I'M
scheduled stop at this Chicago SUI
burb, the railroad reported, ap.
parently when trouble developed in
the undercarriage of the train.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
so PERSONS REPORTED DEAD
IN ILLINOIS TRAIN WRECK:
BROTHERHO0DS VOTE STRIKE
Crack Limiteds Collide
On Burlington Railroad
125 Injured When Engine Rams Into Rear
Coaches Of Stalled Train At 80
Mile-Per-H Hour Speed

NAPERVILLE, Ill., April 25.-(AP)-The Burlington
railroads Exposition Flyer powed into the of the
roads Advance Flyer at 80 mile hour speed Thursday
The Red Cross, which hurriedly set up disaster relief
headquarters here, reported that SO persons killed
and 125 injured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
VACANT COUNCIL SEAT
Sunset Park Group
Queries MayorLane
Committee, Headed By Pridgen, Claims
Backing Of Citizens In Presenting
Candidates To Commissioners

The Sunset Park committee which submitted w. K.
Rhodes Sunset Parks choice to the city council
him at next Wednesdays council meeting unless the
mittee gets reply telegram sent Yesterday to Mayor
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26

CLEVELAND, April 25.-
sUP)-General chairmen of
two rail brotherhoods, repre-
S en- ting 100000 railroad
workers, voted unanimously
Thursday to stage a nation
wide strike beginning May 18
unless their demands upon the car
riers are met satisfactorily in the
meantime.
In a boisterous joint session of
the two unions-the Brotherhoods
of Locomotive Engineers and Rail-
road Trainnen-the ITS general
chairmen backed up their presi-
dents plans for strike on some
See STRIKE on Page Two
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May IS Set
AS Deadline
OF Walkout
Rail Employees Suggest
Only Way To Avoid
Nation Standstill
MEET IN CHICAGO
All Trains Except Milk
And Troop Carriers
Would Be Affected

While a nationwide railroad
strike set for May IS, threat
ened to paralyze rail trans
portation, local union sources
last night hoped for "a way out
of it ALL
eve hope there will soon be a
way out of it," local member
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Engineers said, declining the
use of his name.
Asked if the strike set for
May 10, after a two-day con-
ference of labor and manage
ment had failed to agree to re-
suits of a fact-finding COM
mittee, will affect local work.
ers, the Official said "mem-
bers of Atlantic Coast Line and
Seaboard railroad companies
will be affected, as will all
other engineers and trainmen
In the nation"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-26
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity: Friday. partly
cloudy and mild with showers during
forenoon.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

Announcement elsewhere is made of the fact that the Kodiak Garden club will sponsor a Gar den show the latter part of the summer.
 The main object of the club is to stimulate an interest in beau tifying homes and grounds, an object that fits in with all the other efforts that are now com ing to the fore to stabilize our commun ty and make 1t a pleas ant place to live.
 It IS hoped to have the Garden Show be an annual affair, despite the handicap of years of lack of interest and the additional fact that the plans are being started late in the season.
 The Garden club suggests that every one give their houseplants and gardens au extra dose of Vitamin B to perk them up for the show.
 And if necessary, we suggest that if the houseplant planters and garden gardeners need perk- ing up, they take a little extra dose of vitamin, too.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

thought maybe the command had appointed, perhaps, some lovely feminine counsel to whom the lonely Barracks Boys could appeal for help in problems of the heart, etc.
 We could just picture a trim blonde seated at a desk at the end of 612, waiting for an appeal after the paper came out. It would be fun, we thought, to call her up. Now all we had to do was think of a problem. The idea came to us like a light. @ and one quarter watts). We would call and tell her we had a prob lem and when she asked what, we would say that our problem was wondering who would an swer when we called 6l2. That would break the ice, if any, and from there on we would just let matters take care of themselves.
 Walking as slowly as possible under the circumstances we hur- ried to the phone at the ACS of flee, dialed the 6 and the l, and then just before we whirled the 2 that would seal our fate a thought came to us that caused us to abruptly put the phone back on the hook.
 Better be cautious, the thought said, and look the mum. Der up first in the phone book Going down the numbers on the right side we came to it, and read so rapidly from right to left that it appeared to say "2l6- drauG eht fo tnaegreS"
 So we went back to work.