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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
Clayton Asks
Tito For Pay
For. Families
Reparations Also Demand
ed For Damages To ,
American Planes
CHARGES ARE DENIED
S tat Department Note
Couched In Diplomatic
Pleasantries "a

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. -
United States mott
fled Yugoslavia Tuesday that
it expects Suitable indemnifi-
cation" for the families of
five Americans whose plane
was shot down., plus compen-
sation for property damage.
1t also denied with facts and
figures Marshal Tito's charges that
American planes made 278 unauth-
orized flights over Yugoslavia be-
tween July IS and August % and
offered its official conclusion:
"That violations of Yugoslav ter
ritory by the planes set forth in
your governments note x x x must
have been made by planes other
than American planes"
This cryptic remark was reit-
Grated four times, but without any
amplification.
This governments latest word on
the incidents was in a note to
Yugoslav Charge D'Affaires here.
DR.. Sergio Makiedo, from Under
secretary of State William L.
Clayton, in charge at the State
department in the absence of Sec
rotary Byrnes and Undersecretary
Acheson.
Expected Offer
Clayton said he vas "constrain-
ed to advise the diplomat that the
United States had confidently ex-
pected that the expressions of
Yugoslav regrets respecting the
loss of members of the crew who
CO. TT vTON m paoe Tuo
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
STRIKE
TRUCKERS STRIKE
100, 900 Idle As Stoppage
Threatens Food Supplies

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 up "A
noe and hour dispute between
sTI, union truck drivers and three
~sio~ trucking concerns Tuesday
sro1,gbt idleness, union spokesmen
..id, to 1OO,0 900 workers and a
hrsa+ of food shortages in some
asrts Of greater New York city.
and P, one of the largest
.,na store chains in the city, said
. WV food is being delivered to our
stores"
Union Spokesman, however, said
.;ta1 commodities had been moved
y. teeping with al agreement with
M.vor william O'Dwye-.
There is no occasion for the
,,blic 10 become %panicky,'' the
wavor said. before departing for
no State Democratic convention
at Albany.
o,Dwver and union officials
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
Correction

Wilmington's new Community
Center, the former Second ano
Orange street USO, Will be opened
with dedicatory ceremonies at {
p. m.-tomorrow night.
City Manager j. R. Benson will
preside at the Thursday ceremonies
which will feature an address by
DR.. Harold D. Meyer, director Of
the North Carolina Department oil
Recreation.
In yesterday mornings Star, the
date for the official opening was
given as tonight.
The Star regrets the e-ror ano
is glad to print this correction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04

agreed Monday On an emergency
plan to deliver essential items
such as medicine and perishable
foods in the event of a work STOP
page.
Deliveries Made
Joseph Mccarthy, chairman oil
the negotiation committee fo= Local
o07 OF the International Brotherhood
OF Transfers (AFL), said such
deliveries were made.
A police department survey
reported adequate supplies of meat,
fresh fruits and vegetables in most
sections of the city. 1t was not
made. clear whether they we're de-
livered Tuesday or had been held
over from last week.
A check of traffic at strategic
bridges and tunnels entering the
metropolitan area, however, show
See 100, 900 On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
TO SPEAK
ON U. S. POLICIES
Secretary Of State To lay
Cards On Table At
Stuttgart Friday

BERLIN, Sept. 3.-P}-U. S. Sc
rotary of State James F. Byrns
will make an unprecedented speec
Friday at Stuttgart that will la
on the line American policy
Germany, a high military govern
ment ource told the Associate
Press Tuesday night.
A high authority in Paris sal
the American secretary probabl
would remain in Germany severe
days after his speech.
Byrnes will fly to Stuttgart fror
the Paris Peace conference to &C
dress a select audience. This wi
include German officials of tn
U. S. occupation zone, high U. s
Army and Military government o:
ficers and chiefs of the Quadr.
partite administration of German
Leaders Invited
Invitations have been extended
Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Doug
las, commander of British force
in Germany; Marshal VASTLY Sol
olovsky, commander of Russia
forces in Germany, and Genera
Pierrekoenig, commander {
French troops in Germany.
Before this audience in tn
Stuttgart opera house, Byrnes wi
review our whole policy in Gel
many, past, present and future,
the high source said.
I'VE have been accused of hay
ing no policy in Germany" tn
source continued, "But this wi
review the whole case of occupa
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
Nv FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
Wilmington Morning Star
washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. - only
if President Truman raises his re-
cent "anti-inflation" limitations on
expenditures for river and haroor
improvements can the million dol
lar project Of dredging the cape
Fear river channel to 80 feet deep
and 400 feet wide be started in this
fiscal wear or even the next, an
;nformed Washington source said
Tuesday. a
The project, originally scheduled
~ begin this autumn. was delayed
when the budget bureau at the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
The Weather

FORECAST
South Carolina-Clear to partly cloudy,
little change in temperature Wednesday.
North Carolina-Wednesday fair, cool
er southeast portion.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1880 am. IS; 1880 am. Sc; 1880 pm. 86.
1880 pm. "a.
Maximum Sc; Minimum s.; Mean u;
Normal rs.
Humidity
1870 am. 95; 7:30 am. 30; 1850 pm. A;
1880 pm. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:3o pm
0. 90 inches.
Total since the first of the month
0. 90 inches.
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ---- 3:45 am. 11:08 am.
4:30 pm. HAT pm.
Masonboro Inlet 1:27 ON. TAI am.
2:16 pm. 1888 pm.
Sunrise SAT; Sunset 6:34; Moonrise
2:06 pm. Moonset -.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
8 In, Tuesday, 9.6 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04

VEHICLE WOES - There is
probably no truer saying than the
one which says that your own
miseries diminish considerably
when you stop to compare Them
with the worse miseries of others.
In these miserable time of try
ing to keep your tremoring pre-
Pearl Harbor automobile chugging
somewhere near satisfa ctorlly
from home to office to store to
movie 70 beach and back to home
until that dazzling but still dis
tant day when your automobile
dealer sells you a new one, it is
indeed uplifting to cast a retro
spective eye on the vehicle woes OF
Wilmington's early goth century
"Pathfinders."
A DOZEN WONDERS - The
"Pathfinders," in case you have
forgotten or never knew about
them, were a group of far-sighted
local men who sensed that Henry
Ford's invention would do more
than send Old Dobbin neighing
to the horse doctor for nerve
tonic.
They knew shat the new-fangled
contraption would retire Old Dob
bin to the pasture and the shay
to a museum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
32-FOOT CHANNEL
Fate OF Riuer Project
HANGS On Truman Order

Presidents request placed a cell
ing of $185, 900, 900 on Army Engi-
neers' work for which Congress had
allotted $500. 900, 600 for this year.
Of the s25, 900, 900 allowed for
new river and harbor projects
this year, the engineers already
have firm obligations for practical
" every cent, and for flood con-
troll they have exceeded the limit
Maintenance work which has been
neglected throughout the war
period is expected to require near
ly all the funds for fiscal 1948 leav-
ing little for new contracts I'm
See PROJECT On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
APPREHENSION
Speculation Rife Here
Ouer Maritime Strike

Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts
in protest over a National Wage
Sterilization board decision of
August 20 which rejected pay in
creases negotiations by the STU
and the SUP with s%hipowners.
Plan Tie-Up
Union officials were reported
to have plans laid to "tie up all
shipping" by seeking support from
other maritime workers regard
less of their affiliations"
Local shipping agencies report
ed yesterday that "only a few"
ships are expected to make port
See SPECULATION On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
Zone LAW FACING
LAST TEST TODAY
Completed Draft Will Be
Presented To Council
This Morning

Wilmington's zoning ordinance
c,biect of no less than six public
hearings since it started on the
ipsislative road some 20 month:
,so is slated to face its fina.
hurdle to passage at a regular
civ council at 10 a. m. today.
A completed draft of the pro
cosed zone law will be presented tt
he council by Harold M. Weldon,
An associate of George W. Simons
tbe Civ Planning boards consult
ing engineer.
City Manager ]. R. Benson sale
he Anticipates the attendance o.
three or four private citizens with
views on certain items in the zons
draft.
There was no other major bust
ness on the Council agenda las
night.
The council will have before i
70. consideration Is stapled page:
Of t~oolscap detailing the plan under
which the city will regulate new
construction in seven closely de
fined areas ranging from residen'
tial through commercial, and ligh'
and heavy industry districts.
Livestock Banned
Siagle-family districts, broken in
10 three classes, can contain only
one-family dwellings, schools
libraries, public buildings, churche!
city parks, golf courses, and trucl
gardens. The raising Of poultry o.
livestock is strictly forbidden with
in thei. limits.
Sec 70NE o~ Dooo Tr,o
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04
So To Bed

Billy Murrell, of Wilmington,
has an And So To Bed to tell
which staggers credence.
Two years ago Billy a Navy
man, left Wilmington as his last
leave expired before going
overseas. As the train pulled
out of the station he discover
ed he had lost his wallet con-
tanning money and many identi-
fication papers.
The other day when Billy
came back home the mailman
delivered him a box which once
held baby's shoes. In it Billy
found his wallet, still contain
ing every item it had when he
lost it two years ago.
Billy doesn't know who the
gracious finder is, but Billy
has been singing "When MY
Baby (Shoe Box) Smiles For
Me- ever since.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04

See RIoTING On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-04

See COUNTY DADS on Pee Twt
Evening star., 1946-04-27

employed to reach other groups and
scattered individuals. Visiting lee
turers toured the university and
college centers of the country.
Necessarily, the greater portion of
the work of the division was of what
might be called strictly academic
character. But that it is not eXclu-
sively academic in its effects is in
dicated convincingly by a little story
which DR.. Butler tells at the close of
his report. After the First World
War, it seems, the foundation helped
to finance the rebuilding Of the
French village of Fargniers. The
residents of the community wanted
a bronze bust of Mr.. Carnegie in
their municipal center. 1t was pro-
vided. When the Germans occupied
most of France in 1910, they melted
the bust for the metal in it. The
townspeople promptly set up in its
place the original plaster model from
which it had been cast.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
Seton Durr

Few men have been more active
in the affairs Of this community
than was Seton Darr, and not many
were able to contribute as much to-
ward making the National Capital a
better place in which to live.
A hard and persistent fighter for
the things in which he believed, Mr..
Darr played a leading part in the
long struggle to create in Washing
ton Small Claims Court, to reform
procedure in the Landlord and Ten
ant Court, to provide legal aid for
needy litigants and to reduce the
costs of litigation so that the facili-
ties of the courts would be available
to the poor. This, perhaps, Is the
field in which he did his most effec-
tive work, but it is by no means the
only field in which he made his in
fluence felt.
A native of Washington, as were
his parents. he missed no opportu-
nifty to champion the cause of suf-
frage for the people of the District,
and one of his last acts in this con-
nection was the acceptance in Janu-
ary, despite failing health, of the
Craftsmanship Of the Steering Com
mittee of the new Central Suffrage
Conference. Mr.. Darr also was ac-
tive in educational work, having
played leading part in the organ
ization and direction Of the Knights
of Columbus Evening School, now
Columbus University, which was
started primarily for the benefit Of
veterans of World War I and which
has grown into one of the largest
institutions of it's kind in the coun-
try In addition to these activities
Mr.. Darr found time to serve, in
1899, as president of the District Bar
Association and to maintain his
own law practice.
To those who knew him best, how
ever, the word of his untimely death
will mean, not so much the passing
of civic leader, but the loss OF a
good and true friend, friend whose
loyalty could be counted upon in bad
times as we'll as good.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

woman, and more and more reglmenta-
ton, more and longer steps toward
state socialism.
The way to put an end to this move
toward more state socialism, Mr..
Reece and Republican leaders generally
assert, is to elect Republican Congress
next November. A Republican Congress
would be an effective check on the
Democratic administration and its gov
ernmental control program, they say.
::
Mr. Reece's discussion of the Demo-
cratic party as it now is represented in
the National Legislature, while it may
offend some of the present Democratic
allies of the Republicans, is trenchant.
After asserting that the Democratic
party has taken the country long way
toward state socialism, Mr.. Reece said:
1T Is composed of elements who have
proved they have no respect for the
individual rights of those who disagree
with their particular PHILOSOPHERS. One
large element maintains itself in power
by racial discrimination of the most
outrageous variety. Another is led by
those devoted openly to the ideals of
totalitarianism. Divergent though these
two groups may be, they have one
thing in common, complete lack of re-
spect for the rights of others not men,
bers Of their own ruling caste"
The Democratic party, according to
Mr.. Reece. is radical not liberal; radi-
cal in the South in its treatment of the
Negroes and radical in other sections
because of its support of state socialism
and its trend toward totalitarian gov
ernment.
The Democratic party during the last
half century has gained the reputation
OF being the party of the common man
while the Republican party has be-
come more and more considered the
party of wealth and big business" :"
However, if the Republicans can show
and make it stick-that the Demo-
cratic party today is the party of big
government" curtailing more and more
the freedom of the individual, they may
have Sometbipo
Evening star., 1946-04-27
This Changing World
By Constantine Br0,vn

There is new war front in Europe
not shooting war, but war of words,
on the air, in the prints and, in slightly
less open fashion, at the diplomatic con-
ference table in Paris, where the Big
-Four foreign ministers are settling more
than European peace treaties.
The speaking war which has re-
placed the shooting war has on one
side CommuniSm-Sparked by Soviet
Russian diplomacy and propaganda
and on the other, Communism
lightly cemented group of divergent
ideologies united simply in their oppo-
sition to expansion of Communist in
fluence and spanked by American and
British diplomacy and propaganda.
The front" runs roughly from the
Baltic through Germany, France and
Italy, swings into Greece, through
Turkey and into Iran. The soft spots
in this line of defense against Com
munism are principally in France,
where Maurice Thorez's Communist
party is in highly influential if not
commanding position, and in italy,
where political and economic chaos in
creasingly undermines popular support
for the present government and where
Communist influence cannot be idly
dismissed even though Italy is over
Whelmingly Catholic
- X
The strongest defense positions of
ti-Communism lie in the American
and British zones of Germany, where
the Communist partys efforts to swallow
the Social Democrats in one vast leftist
organization have been foiled in
France, where, thanks to American and
British insistence, fundamental demo-
cratic freedoms have been upheld, and
in Turkey, where resistance to Com
munist encroachment is positive and
unflinching. Iran, 1t is true, must be
written of to Russia, in spite Of the
technical victory gained by the United
States and Britain in the United Ma
tions Security Council
Some idea of the ultimate objective
Of Communism in Europe may be gained
from blending the political lines along
which the various Communist parties
are fighting and the diplomatic lines
along which the Soviet Union proceeds.
Politically, Communism is intent at
this stage on pressing a campaign to
overthrow Generalissimo Francisco
Franco, not only before the United
Nations, but before the peoples of
Western Europe. Diplomatically, Rus
sia is intent on securing free access to
Evening star., 1946-04-27

A concerted drive to convince the
American voter that the Republican
party is the liberal party" as opposed
to the state socialism" Of the Demo-
cratic party Of today, is under way
among COP leaders. Republican Ma
tional Chairman Carroll Reece bore
down heavily on this theme in an ad-
dress in Boston.
II call the Republican party today
the liberal party because it is trying
to conserve and protect that hard-won
sphere Of individual freedom which the
early liberals wrested away from all
powerful government" Mr.. Reece said.
1T is resisting the dangerous effort to
reclaim the individual to the state"
To put it another way, the Democratic
party has become the party OF Govern
ment control OF the activities of the
ordinary citizen. 1t has promised "se-
curity," provided the individual gives
up freedom. 1t has, under wartime ne
cessity and wartime powers, taken over
the control of prices, of food, of en-
ployment. 1t has not relinquished these
controls although the war has been over
for many months. Scarcities in many
needed commodities, lack of housing
dllo lhSAi al Oh pay lilS lliCO lllC
hands of the Republicans. And still the
Democratic administration continues to
seek legislation continuing controls and
reaching out for more in various fields
X +
1t may be only single straw in the
wind, but the recent resignation of
Charles j. Michalak as president Of the
Young Democrats of Wisconsin" on
the ground that the Democratic party
has become the party Of state control
has its significance. Announcing his
resignation and declaring he intended
to join the Republicans. Mr.. Michalak
called on other young Democrats to take
the same step.
The Democratic administration has
said that it intends to economic
Nevertheless it backs legislation which
looks to more and more Government
spending-which means more and more
taxation for the ordinary man and
Evening star., 1946-04-27
The Ivory Elephants

Four iuory elephants joreuer cross
An iDory bridge from nothing to
no1Dhere,
Arched ouer space ,Dith nothing over.
head,
Precariously hung in empty air:
One patient foot advanced, toreuer
taking
An unknoWn step along narrow
track,
In single file they test the meager foot
hold,
Flooding ahead as they cannot turn
back
From ,Ohat deep Jungle into Uhat dark
forest,
TO 1Ohat green homeland that then
cannot see
As long forgotten and as I'LL toresighted
As the t1cir heddlunds OF eternity.
YETZA GILLESPIE.
Evening star., 1946-04-27
u. N. Atomic DeIoy

increasingly grave concern is be-
ing expressed, alike by United Ma
tions officials and by American
scientists, over the continued delay
of the U. MS Atomic Energy Commis-
sion in forming itself and proceeding
to those discussions on the control
of nuclear fission with which it is
charged.
1t will be recalled that Trygve Lie,
Secretary General of U. N. sent an
urgent circular letter several weeks
ago to the member nations, insist
emily asking more speed; but it is
disclosed that three members of the
designated twelve nation Atomic
Energy Commission (Soviet Russia,
Mexico and BraziD have not yet
even designated their delegates; and,
until the roster is complete, no in
augural meeting date for the COM
mission can be set No specific rea
sons for the delay have been report
ed, although it is suggested that the
smaller nations have Jagged delib-
erately because they deemed that
the conflict" of major powers on the
Security Council made useless
meeting of the commission at the
present time.
David E. Lillienthal, chairman OF
the board of consultants of the Sec
retary of States Committee on
Atomic Energy, which brought for
ward last March a plan for setting
up an Atomic Development Au-
thority under U. N, expresses grave
concern over the delay In the U. N.
Commission which must precede
everything else in this field. He
urges that the commission get to-
gether and proceed Immediately to
discuss international controls, say
ing that 1--WE have right to know
where we stand with respect to
other nations" in the carrying out of
a workable, reasonable plan. This
delay also has its repercussions on
domestic legislation, specifically the
Mcmahon Bill now before the
Senate, under which basic scientific
information on atomic energy, but
not industrial information, would be
placed in the hands of the interna-
tional body for study to devise peace
full uses of nuclear fission.
Meanwhile, the Federation of
American Scientists is voicing deep
alarm at the delay. This organiza-
ton has just issued statement de-
claring that "the time is short; that
unless proper measures are speedily
taken, the yerld within few years
Evening star., 1946-04-27
To End an Injustice

ActlOn OF the House Civil Service
Committee in scheduling a hearing
for May 6 on a bill to make retroac-
tive certain retirement benefits that
were liberalized in 1912 serves again
to direct attention to an injustice
that long ago should have been
corrected by Congress. Under the
liberalization amendment of Janu-
ary "a, 1912. annuities for Federal
employees were increased substan-
TALLY through adoption of formula
which took into account the size of
employees contributions to the re-
tirement fund. Previously employees
in the higher brackets received no
,greater annuity than the maximum
of $1,000 year provided for all en-
ployes, regardless of the fact that
the higher salaried workers made
larger payments to the fund than
those in the lower brackets.
But in voting these increased
benefits Congress failed to insert
retroactive clause such as had ap-
peared in all prior retirement laws.
The result was that employees in the
higher brackets who retired at any
time befoze passage of the January,
1912, act-even a day or, two before
in some instances - continued to
draw not more than a $1,000 an
nuity. whereas employees who retired
on or after January "a, 1912, received
the full benefit of the increased al
loWances. This was manifestly an
arbitrary and unwarranted discrim-
ination against more than 5000
faithful Federal employees of the
higher brackets who had gone on
the retired list prior to amendment
of the law. Meanwhile about 750 of
these retired employees left the re-
tirement rolls and returned to active
service during the war emergency,
thereby earning the right to benefit
from the liberalized annuity law
Others who were disabled or other
wise could not obtain re-employ-
ment have not been so fortunate.
Their case is all the more persua-
sive.
These retired employees rightly
have protested this unfair treatment
and the Civil Service Commission
has vigorously supported their pro-
tests. Several efforts to correct the
injustice through legislation have
failed, largely because of apparent
Indifference on the House side. The
Senate twice has unanimously ap-
proved bills designed to rectify the
error. The first bill expired in the
House. The second is pending before
the House Civil Service Committee.
Justice requires that this bill be re-
ported promptly and passed by the
House before expiration of the pres
ent session of Congress.