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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

as a finished, experienced act
resS. As a matter Of fact ! had
only made two pictures, To
Hare and Hare Not and The
Big Sleep, when ] played in
Confidential Agent ] only had
few parts on BrOadway-and
not big ones either-and l
needed help.
Instead OF getting help ]
vas put on my own. II wasn't
the fault OF Warmers any more
than IL was mine. II was all
mistake.
"In Confidential Agent"
said Lauren, who looked very
chic In a green suit with a
beige blouse, ''they gave me
Herman Shumlin as a director.
Watch on the Rhine was the
only movie he had directed and
that was taken from his own
stage play He Is essentially a
stage director. I am not blam
ing him but what ! need Is a
director who Is more familiar
with camera angles and who
viii tell me exactly what TO do.
Charles Boyer Is a finished
actor" she went on, land
suppose he didn't realize how
inexperienced ] really am"
Lauren was very earnest as
she talked with me and couldn't
help but admire her frankness.
] know few girls who would
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

admit any flaws in their per.
Torrance as an actress. She isn't
a pretty girl and she knows it,
Her mouth is big. her features
irregular and she must, because
she isn't beautiful. work harder
than some Of these glamour dolls
who sometimes get by because
they are so easy on the eyes.
asked Lauren If she were
gong TO retire had heard that
she was
After Confidential Agent
certainly am not going TO re.
tire" she replied. Il am going
90 try my very best TO counter.
act the effects OF that picture
with something good. BOgey
wouldn't want me TO quit a
failure He admires success.
But IN say one thing" she
told me. my marriage to him
comes first and II ever my Ca.
Teer interferes with my being
good wife I'll forget IL in a
minute.
"Bogey and ! have SO much
fun. He's so amusing. witty
and gay" she said smilingly.
Perhaps" ! suggested TO
Betty, as BOgey calls her. "it
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06
By LOUELLA O. PARSONS
Motion Picture Editor
international kews Service

Motion Picture Editor
International kews Service
IT MUST say any girl who
realizes her own faults
can't do more than to sci
out TO correct them
Lauren Betty Bacall. who
shot into fame like a skyrocket.
and then fell from favor with the
same dizzy rapidity. isn't going
10 take this knockout blow on the
chin without doing 11er best TO
fight il personally believe she'll
land on her two feet again No
girl who talked TO me as Lauren
did-woman 10 woman-will fail.
Everyone at the Warner
studio, shr- said, treated me
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
POISSON REPORTED
FAVORED FOR POST
BY SENATOR HOEY
Wilmington Star-News
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Usually
reliable sources reported here yes
terday that Fred Poisson, Whining
ton ABC board member, is favor
ed by Senator Clyde R. Hoey of
North Carolina for appointment as
collector OF customs at Whining
ton.
The senator himself, who is at
his home in Shelby for the holi-
days, has made no public commit
ment for or against any Of several
candidates mentioned for the post.
Col. John Bright Hill Of Will
mington, appointed for four-year
term in the spring of 1941, has
released to the press a statement
contending that he is still the col
lector on military leave without
salary, as he was called into the
Army in March, 1912, and so would
have three years more to serve;
but persons favoring a change
maintain that his term expired last
year. Civil Service appointees have
substituted for the collector during
the last four years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
South Ranks High In u. S.
In. Educational Facilities
Continued from Page Ons)

advantage with 43 cent of the ma
tons total. Myrick's figures show
that there are 189 Southern schools
as against 244 for the rest of the
country.
Going further, Myrick says that
persons who have decried lack of
college and university education
for the Negro in the South, should
know that of the LOG Negro institu-
tons of higher learning in the Unit
ed States, 102 are located in the
South.
North CarolinianS who have long
battled for better elementary and
secondary school facilities can take
pride in the fact, also revealed by
The State, that North Carolina
ranks second in the nation in
amount of school appropriations,
led only slightly by New Mexico.
So the next time some one from
another section Of this country twits
you about Ignorant Southerners" i,
these figures should enable you to
dispel one of the many popular
but baseless beliefs about the
South.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
AMERICAN TRAVELLER,
AT OUTFITTING PIER
AT N. c. SHIPYARDS

The S. S. American Traveller is at
the Quitting pier of the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company at
ter being launched Thursday morn
ing under the sponsorship OF Miss
Claire Arlene Nevins of New York.
The sponsor was the 15-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Nevins. He is pier superintendent
of the United States Lines, pur-
chaser of the vessel. Accompany
ing the sponsor here in addition to
her parents, was Mrs. e. F. Nevins,
her grandmother. $780,
The S. S.. American Traveller
237th vessel launched here, is a
duplicate of several previous ships
constructed by the North Carolina
company for the U. S. Maritime
Commission and the United States
Lines. 1t is expected that she will
be delivered to her owners in Feb
ruary, ready for the North Atlantic
freight service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
GOVERNMENT PLANS
SALE OF PIPELINES
TO PRIVATE FIRMS
CONTINUED from Page One)


Philadelphia refinery area. 1t cost
S78, 500, 900 and has a capacity of
100000 barrels of crude oil day.
The little Inch extends 1,475 miles
from the Texas Gulf coast to the
New York area. A 20-inch line, 1t
h l., a capacity of $4,000 barrels OF
gasoline day and cost $67, 300, 900.
SPA said all segments of the
petroleum industry, including small
independent operators, will be Civ
en- an opportunity to acquire the
lines.
Should it prove impossible to sell
the lines, consideration will be
given to the possibilities OF lease"
the report staged.
Another possibility cited by SPA
is conversion to natural gas. How
ever, the agency said this would
be done "only if it proves impos-
sible to keep the lines in petroleum
service and the national security is
otherwise adequately protected.
From the purely economic
standpoint of comparative costs, -
SPA reported, 'there appears to be
no reason that the Big Inch should
not continue in service for which
It was built in competition with
tankers and any other form OF
transportation"
This also is true Of the Little
Inch, it was added, except that it
is sin less strong position in rela-
ton to tankers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
New Whiteville Bank
Gets Off To Good Start

WHITEVILLE, N c., Jan. 4.-P)
AT the conclusion of the first day
of operation for the new First Nat
ional Bank here, c. Bion Sears,
cashier, reported deposits of more
than $500, 600.
The bank, recently charted and
approved by the state banking COM
mission, has an authorized capital
stock of 500, 0OO..
The banks official opening today
was accompanied by reception
attended by banking officials from
all sections of the state. Bill Hooks
is president, and Lee Braxton )
chairman of the board. R. L. Sholer
and S. L. Fuller are vice presi-
dents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
JAPS TO DISCUSS
MACARTHUR ORDER
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
The newspaper Asahi termed the
order "a forward step toward con-
struction Of a new Japan"
The directive caught the Japan
csc cabinet in session but without
the premier, who was home with a
cold.
The cabinet went ahead and an
nounced that the budget would be
balanced for 1916 for the first
time since 1880. Finance Minister
Keizo Shibusawa carried the report
to Allied headquarters and Hiro-
hito.
It called for expenditures Of H.
$4,000 yen 1884, 1873, 1888 at the
Allied-set exchange rate Of Is yen
to the dollar) and estimated income
at 1898, Zoo, 600 yen.
Meanwhile, Macarthur invited 80
prominent United States educators
to come to Japan to help the Japa-
nese revise and base their educa-
vonal system on more Democratic
principles.
His headquarters also denied a
Japanese request to extend fishing
areas into the East China and Vel
low Seas, saying the japanese were
not now making "the fullest pos
sible use'' Of authorized areas near
Japan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
TAFT TERMS TALK
LEFT WlNCISH'
Continued from Page One)

legislation would get early attention
and a suggestion from Senator
Johnson (D.-Colo.) that Mr.. Tru-
man do more about strikes himself
Taft said the measure Mr.. Tru-
man proposed, which would halt
strikes while fact-finding boards
look into labor disputes, was hast
lily drawn and contained no princi-
Piles of any kind. He added:
Zone thing is certain. The Presi-
dents bill will not prevent strikes,
and no one has found a way to pre-
vent strikes, except Mr.. Stain. II
you can only prevent strikes by a
6 neral plan of compulsory wage
arbitration, which leads inevitably
to a government fixing of wages
and prices, then I am not in favor
of prohibiting strikes"
The Senator took the position
that the President had attacked the
Democratic party, not Congress.
Answering Mr.. Truman's com
plant that Congress had been eds
tressingly slow on domestic legis-
lation, he said Democrats outnum-
bered Republicans in both Senate
and House, have more members on
committees, and:
''The speed with which bills are
considered and acted upon by COM
mittees is almost entirely in the
control of xxx Democratic chair
man."
I But hefsaid the Democratic party
was hopelessly split between those
who follow the CIO-Political Action
Committee program on every issue
and those who think progress must
be made within the American sys-
tenn of constitutional government
and free enterprise.
The President, he said, had chos-
en- tqtfol1ow the CIO-PAC on every
econSmic measure except the fact
finding proposal for controlling
strikes.
Half the Democrats and most Re
pupGcans in Congress disagree with
chat course, Taft asserted.
He had this to say about some of
the measures the Chief Executive
bad singled out for special attention
fast night: y
VI More pay for the unemployed.
The President wants to Federal
,ize" unemployment
A so-called full employment
bill.
1.-THE proposal came directly
from the Soviet constitution, the
Communist platform, and from the
CO." The President can do every
thing without the bill he could do
with it. But he said Mr.. Truman
tried to put Congress on record as
requiring the chief executive Ito
submit vast programs for the ex-
penditure OF Federal money when
ever some crackpot economists
thought there might be unemploy-
ment."
Continued rent and price control.
while the President denounced
inflation,' he is promoting the great
est peacetime initiation this country
has ever seen, first by lavish spend
ing of government money, and Sec
ond by promoting a general in
crease in wages and salaries. All
the price control in the world can't
hold prices against those policies"
Taft called Mr.. Truman's recon-
mendation for Federal healt' in
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
RAIL UNION CALLS
!. STRIKE ON FRISCO
Continued from Page One)

threatened strike materializes as
scheduled, wherein half the work
ers in the industry would be on
strike and the other half would
continue their employment"
The AFL union called a confer
ence for Jan. 11-12 in Chicago and
secretary treasurer. Patrick E.
German said the International Of
ficers would recommend a work
stoppage ''unless we get something
considerably better than the 7 IL
cents an hour increase" offered by
the Swift and Armour packing
companies TO the rival CIO union.
Besides some 400, 1000 already idle
in strikes and 1876, 900 involved in
the threatened meat strike, 100000
|CIO steelWorkers are scheduled to
quit work Jan. IA and 100000 CIO
electrical workers at date not
yet determined.
Joseph A. Beirne, head OF the In
dependant National Federation OF
Telephone Workers has urged $780,
900 telephone workers to 60 on a
sympathy strike which he estimat-
ed would affect 100000 Bell 'Tele-
phone workers. He urged the tele-
phone to support strike in West
ern Electric plants in New York
and New Jersey. Pa.
The ~AFL Commercial Tele-
graphers union announced nation
wide strike OF $4,000 Western Union
employees, scheduled for Monday,
had been called off. The workers
had voted in favor of acceptance
of a revised WLB award giving
them salary boosts averaging IL
cents an hour.
Police said three persons, includ-
ing a woman, were injured in what
they described as clash resulting
from an attempt of supervisors to
breaks through a picket line at the
Western Electric's strike-bound
Kearny, N. J. plant. A man indenti-
fled as a war veteran was reported
injured at the company's Passaic,
N. J. plant, but accounts differed
on what happened. Some 1900
members of the independent West
ern Electric Employees Association
are involved in the strike at plants
in New York city and New Jersey.
In Washington, CLIO President
Philip. Murray announced after a
three-hour strategy meeting Of top
union leaders that the entire Con.
gress OF Industrial Organizations
would give "every possible assist.
ance" to the CLIO United Auto
Workers in the General Motors
strike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
ARMY SLOWS DOWN
SOLDIER RETURNS
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The revision lowered the pros
pective European force by approx
mately $4,000 and the prospective
Pacific force by $4,000.
The War Department also an.
nounced that some 600 war brides
and other dependents Of American
soldiers would be brought to the
United States in January; mostly
from England and the continent.
By July some $4,000 more will be
brought from England, 10000 from
the continent and 5000 from the
Pacific.
No date has been set for any
large-scale dispatch overseas Of
families of American soldiers serv
ing abroad.
In announcing the reduced de-
mobilization rate, Collins forecas
that the discharge score for Febru
airy would be lowered less than five
points, which has been the amour
Of recent monthly reductions. The
score now is so for enlisted men.
He told reporters it Cooked
doubtful that the Army would b.
able to return to their homes IL
March the last of the soldiers who
have served overseas two years
General George c. Marshall a!
chief of staff had expressed hope
that this could be done.
Decentralization has progressed tt
the point where troop requirement:
overseas, rather than shipping
have become the governing factor
in the discharge rate, Collins said
As reasons for the reduced dis
charge rate. Collins cited a rapit
pace OF disqualification, failure o
enlistments to keep pace with re
placement needs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
Acknowledgment
Of Ports Surrey Advance

tential tonnage and revenue, in
Guiding those out-of-state areas ir
Virginia and South Carolina with.
in its ports service areas. They
will also determine the amount OF
money needed to construct proper
port facilities to put North Caro-.
lima on a par with other Atlantic
seaboard states in bidding for com.
merce.
If the grant is made and the sur.
vey completed, the Authority's
next step will be to obtain the nee
essary funds to carry out its pro-
gram of port development and i'm
provement. Under terms of the
act under which it functions, this
may be done by either a direct
grant from the federal government
or through the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation Or through the
sale of self liquidating bonds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
Obituaries
OLIVER L. FORMYDUvAL

TABOR CITY, Jan. 4.--Ollver l..
Formyduval died Thursday after
noon at o'clock at his home at
Nakina. He was born November 2,
1877, the son of the late Vance
and Mary Gore Formyduval.
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Paly-
mare Baptist church with the Rev.
o. B. Hardwick officiating. Inter
ment was in Ross cemetery.
Surviving are the widow, the
former Miss Matte Jacobs; five
daughters, Mrs. w. A. Westbrook,
Wiston-Salem, Mrs. T. H. York,
Goldsboro, Mrs. W. P. Horton and
Mrs. H. D. Best, Whiteville and
Mrs. w. M. Ray, Tabor City; one
sister, Mrs. Belle Ward, Nakina;
and five brothers, S. c., G.. D., and
w. c. Formyduval, all of Old Dock,
M. L Formyduval, Shallotte, and
J j. Formyduval, of Hallsboro.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
KIDNAPPED TURNS
OUT. TO BE BRIDE
OF HER |ABDUCTOR'

Bessie Elizabeth Jones, 1e-year-
old daughter of Mrs. William
Jones of New Bern, ''kidnap" vic
TIM has been found, and lawyers
representing both sides were en-
gagged in a discussion yesterday
afternoon over charged filed by
Mrs. Jones that her daughter had
been kidnapped.
Miss Jones was apprehended in
Norfolk, Va. Friday morning and
produced a marriage license which
had been issued Thursday night
to her and Raeford Weaver 10, a
sailor, whom the girls mother
had charged with kidnapping.
Returned to New Bern yesterday
afternoon, the girl declared her
intention of remaining. the wife OF
the sailor. Mer mother, declining
to drop the complaint, said she
wanted Weaver and 34-year-old
Thomas Willim- Jones prosecuted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
SIX AWOL AMERICAN
SOLDIERS ARRESTED
FOR. TRAIN ROBBERY

HEREFORD, Germany, Jan. 4.
-(P)-Six AWOL soldiers were ar
rested Jan. l, it was announced to-
day, in luxuriously furnished box
car from which they are accused
of having conducted large-scale
train robberies and black market
operations during the last ID
months.
British troops, led by American
officers, naIbbed four Of the gang
as they reclined on easy chairs
with German girl friends. The 9th
ers were caught when they return
ed in jeep.
The sextet posed as American
Security Police, an official said,
and contacted rail transport Off
GERS in British and American zones
to arrange the coupling of food cars
on trains. The loaded cars later
were dropped off on sidings and
the contents were sold, it was said.
Names of the soldiers were not
disclosed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
lew HAHN REFUSES
To DlVULCE NAMES

NEW YORK, Jan. 4-(P)-Lew
Hahn, general manager OF the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion declined again today to give
the office of Price Administration
tho names of manufa cturers whose
nroducts were used by the NRDGA
in an exhibit designed to show that
OpA regulations encouraged output
Of low-quality goods.
In letter to Chester Bowles.
oPA administrator, Hahn said:
"You do not need these names.
You have a telephone. Just call
I'D few manufacturers and ask
them some questions. If you can
give them assurance that you will
not allow them to be prosecuted
for daring to tell the facts, you
will learn some things you should
know"
Hahn suggested that Bowles ask:
"the five largest cotton mills xxx
why they are not producing cotton
broadcloth;" ''the leading shirt and
pajama manufactu why there
are no shirts and pajamas to be
had;" why mothers cannot buy
underwear to protect their children
from the cold OF winter" why
the ex-service man cannot buy a
decent suit of clothing in which to
look for a job" and why clothing
manufacturers cannot get ,rayon
Innings to complete clothing partial
ly finished"
The letter informed Bow1es Of
Hams belief that ''by refusing
to recognize that many Of your
war-born policies do not now fit
the present need Of the American
public you are strangling produc-
ton.
Hahn asserted the NRDGA has
been ''the staunchest supporter OF
price control and that most OF
its members "believe that price
controls should be retained for SO
long period as may be necessary
but they want price controls which
will encourage production and not
stifle it,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
CARL ELwoOD ROGERS

Funeral services for Carl FL
wood Rogers, rs, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Rogers, Seagate, who
died Thursday afternoon in Raj
eigh will be held this afternoon at
8 o'clock from the home in Sea-
gate with the Rev. ]. E. Allaro
officiating. Interment will follow
in Seagate cemetery.
Active pallbearers will pe George
Larson, Jr., Linwood Rogers, ]. B.
Parker, Herbert Millikin, Jr., Min
or Bishop and Luke Hines.
Honorary pallbearers will be Ben
Hewlett, Graham Butler, w. J.
Horne and w. J. Bennett.
Survivors, in addition to the par
ents, include a brother, Woodrow
Rogers, Seagate; two sisters, Mrs.
A. B. Powlas, Seagate, and Mrs.
George O'Brien, Chicago, III.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
Saratoga Springs Plans
Month Racing Season

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 4.-WD-
Saratoga Springs, a racing mecca
since before the Civil War, will
have a four-Week season this sum
mer, ending a three-year wartime
interruption, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey announced tonight.
Purses and stakes will be. dou-
bled by revenue from an additional
two-week special meeting to be
held by the Saratoga racing asso-
citation at the Jamaica track prior
to the opening of the Saratoga sea
son.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
1(NjNCIL T0STUDY
CHI CHANGE IN NAMES

ANS in the names Of streets
cha a sunset Park and East VIII
in the 0r sactions, if any, will prob
ming'o oone up before the City
sb ably G0 in the near future, accord
c0uncilr i #, Manager A. c. Nichols.
ing ~ s'y will have to come as a
Changes ,o % of the council, he
SAD ,l.ho1s revealed that he had a
Nlc.'o "+reets in the new territory
t tsd % would Jul pass on to the council
demonstrations as to w wnle :i
reco recon- should be renamed. He ex-
streets 1 hat he would not endeavor
:! plst tell the council what the ne"
James should be- /. ~,
Inc h.d received a recommen-
rea ac,, which nf he, in turn, would sub
da.i4 W the council, that the Wrlghts-
m MT. " Beach s highway fl the old
city city limits to the new lml It's De ues-
sss ,,y oleander avenue or drive.
's4 pasidents of that area became
he aised and appealed to the coun-
eS ,, +, late November, Immediately
e cf+e ~ report was circulated to
allel affect that all of the four differ
. aas+ names by which that road was
s fno~ sn'. .ior to extension .eat would be
h hhonaed to Dawson street.
Az 'I no changes in street names
m nn4l further la consideration could be
siven the matter.
A. Wednesdays meeting, Coun-
Gilman Ray Pollock; sunset ,,netioa pa ARK
i nssa the newly-include portion
If the Carolina Beach highway as
South Third street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
SURVEY START DISCUSSED

Start of the survey OF potential
revenue and tonnage Of North
Carolina ports was discussed here
yesterday by Arthur j. Bulger,
vice president of the Frederick R.
Harris, company, with state and
local port leaders.
During the day he conferred with
Mr.. Page, J. T. HERS, executive
agent Of the Wilmington Port COM
mission, and H. E. Boyd, secretary
of the Wilmington Port commits
sion. ..
Early Indications are that the
groundwork for the beginning Of
the study will be laid by the time
final decision on the grant is made
by FWA authorities in Washing
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
FARM INCOME RATIO

LINCOLN, Neb. U.H-Nebra ska S
state agriculture director, Rufus
M. Howard, sees a seven-to-one
ratio between farm and national
incomes.
In proof of his belief, Howard
quoted u. S. Department of Com.
merce figures showing the farm in.
come to be $4,000, 100000 in 1921,
against a national income of $62,
o,ooo,o 900; $11, ZOO, 100000 against
'$84, 100, 600, 900 in 1928, $6,40O, 0oO,:
900 against $44, 100000, 900 in 1888
and $4,000, 100000 against $780,
600, 100000 in 1913.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-05
Continued from Page one)

Robert company in turn, has made
arrangements with the Frederick
R; Harris Engineering corporation,
Of New York, to carry out the de.
tails of the survey.
In announcing filing of the an.
plication, Mr.. Page stressed that
the survey would include all North
Carolina ports and would not be
centered on any special one
All efforts, he said, to advance
North Cardinals ports depend on
the grant Of 500, 1000 for the survey
In the event it is not granted the
Authority will be under no obliga-
ton to either the Robert or Har-
ris firms as the preliminary ex-
penses Of their work will be ad.
vanced by the federal government
Their surveys will include thorough
studies of North Cardinals 10