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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
CITY WILL PROBE
POLICE, FIRE JOBS
City Manager Authorized
By Council To Investi-
gate Situation Here

An investigation of city police
man and fireman who are report
led as holding down other jobs in
their off-hours" was authorized by
the City council in special session
yesterday.
City Manager A. c. Nichols was
directed to collect inform alton on
all policemen and firemen who do
other work in their leisure time,
what kind of work they do, and how
many hours they put it on it.
Veterans Ask robe
The investigation results from
letters written to Mayor Lane from
the James A. Manley Post 2573,
Veterans of Foreign Wars. The
letters charge that certain police
men and firemen are holding down
two Jobs, thus depriving returning
veterans Of employment.
During the war, the city's policy
restricting city employees from &C.
cepting off-duty emp yment was
relaxed because of the shortage
of man-poWer.
Turn-About
Since the declaration Of peace,
the man-power situation has done
a turn-about, but it Is said that the
city employees are still continuing
their dual-duty.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
LAMB, VEAL CUTS
TO GO UP MONDAY
OPA Announces Ceiling
Price Raise Averaging
One Or More Cents

WASHINGTON, April 5-(P)-
About so per cent of all lamb,
mutton and veal cuts will cost
housewives a cent pound more
beginning Monday.
Announcing this Friday night,
OPA said this retail price increase
results from a wage boost of 10
cents hourly recently granted to
packing house workers. Higher
prices for beef and pork became
effective last Monday.
OPA said that the new increases
would raise the average price OF
all lamb and mutton by about a
half cent a pound. Average prices
for veal will 60 up about a third
of a cent pound.
The one cent a pound increase
for individual cuts will not apply
on uniform basis throughout the
country, since retail price cell
ings are figured on costs which
vary. For example, housewives
in Los Angeles and Nashville will
pay a cent more a pound for loin
lamb chops, OPA said, but present
prices for these chops will be con-
tinued in Chicago, New York, and
Dallas.
New prices for lamb, veal and
mutton will be posted in retail
stores next Monday, OPA said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
HOUSE COMMITTEE
APPROVES ANOTHER
YEARS. LIFE FOR OPA

WASHINGTON, April s. B -
Legislation giving OPA full years
new lease on life was approved Is
to Friday by the House Banking
committee, after it wrote in an
amendment an OPA official esti-
mated would boost consumer costs
ly over $500, ooo,o a year.
Chairman Spence O.-KyD said
the amendment, curling OPA's
application of it's retail price alb
sorption program, would hike prices
on autos, refrigerators and many
other reconversion items.
The OPA official, speaking pri-
vately to reporters, said the amend
ment would jump the price of an
average auto $50.
See OPA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
VINCENT Y0UMANS
DIES AT DENVER
Composer Of Many Tuneful
Melodies Succumbs To
tuberculosis Friday

DENVER, April 5-UP)-One of
Americas most popular compos-
ers, Vincent Youmans, whose
songs caught the singing heart and
the dancing feet of the nation,
died Friday.
The 48-year-old composer Of the
smash-hit musical comedy, ''No,
No, Nanette,' died in a hotel room
of tuberculosis.
Youmans, who will be buried
in his native New York, first gain
ed fame in 1920, when he was just
~. It marked the production of
his first musical comedy hit on
Broadway, 1.-TWO Little Girls in
Blue"
Many Hits
Among the song-hits written by
Youmans, besides '"Tea For Two
from mo, No, Nanette," was ~
Want TO Be Happy" from the
same show, as well as "Hallelu.
jah,'' 81 Know That You Know"
thine On My Hands," Drums
In My Heart" and his own favor
| tie, the sentimental ballad, Thru
The Years" He also wrote the
musical score for the motion pic
ture, "Flying Down To Rio"
Although funeral arrangements
have not been completed, You
mans close friend, r. W. Marland,
who was at his side when death
came, will accompany the body
back to New York. Funeral ser
vices will be held in st. Thomas
church there and Deems Taylor, q
fellow-co1nposer, will officiate al
special services of ASCAP. nation
wide organization of composers
and music publishers.
Unfinished Songs
zone of the tragic things about
his DEATH" Marland said, sis thai
it probably means some of his
finest works will never be pub
lished. Shortly before his death
he played some of his latest works
for me. They were truly beautiful
Unfortunately, they were unfln'
ished.
Youmans was married in 1927
to Anne Varley, a dancer in one
of his productions, and twins
Vincent and Cecily-were born to
the couple, but the marriage end
ed in divorce in 1933-the year the
composer was stricken with tub
erculosis. He later married Mil
See YOUMANS On Page Two
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Crack Train
Leaves Track
In Mountains
Western Pacific "Exposi.
ton Filler" Runs Through
Switch AT Pilot
CARS TELESCOPED
Army Air Base At Wend.
over Dispatches Ambu-
lances And Doctors

ELKO, New, April 5UD-Ten
cars and the locomotive of the
Western Pacific's crack exposi-
ton Filters, bound from San Fran.
cisco to Chicago, plunged from,
the tracks in the rugged Pequot
mountains near Pilot, New, late
Friday.
Railroad officials said two per
sons had been killed and at least
So injured but Deputy Sheriff R. S
Percifield of Wendover. Utah, re
ported that approximately 200 per.
sons had been injured and thai
three were killed.
Cars Telescoped
Percifield said that eight car!
were completely telescoped.'
Among the injured, he said, wer,
many women and children and g;
lot Of servicemen on their way Il
their Eastern homes for discharg,
from the Army and Navy"
Substantiatiag Percifield's repor
was the disclosure by the Army
hospital at Wendover that it hac
been ordered to be prepared to &C
comodate 200 injured.
Through Switch
The fast train, carrying 294 pas
sengers, went through a switch a
See TRAIN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
MOUNT OLIVE MAN
FATALLY INJURED
Elmor Combs, Goldsboro,
Seriously Injured In Oil
Tanker Crash Friday

One man is dead and another
severely injured as the result OF
an oil tanker crash near Whining
ton yesterday.
According to Sheriff's officers,
the accident occurred about 200
Yards north of Prince George
creek on the Castle Hayne road,
Yesterday afternoon.
Investigators found Luther A.
Gurley, Mount Olive, and Elnor
Combs, Goldsboro, unconscious In
the ruins of their truck which had
plunged into a roadside wood.
Gurley Dies
Gurley died shortly after he was
admitted to James Walker Memo
rial hospital. His condition de-
scribed as critical, Combs was re-
ceiving transfusions at last re-
ports.
The tanker, tractor-traile1
model, had apparently jack-mifeo
upon sudden appHcatlon OF the al
brakes. The trailer broke loose
from the tractor and overturned
while the tractor left the road ano
crashed into the woods.
Gas Channeled
1000 gallons of gas from the
tank trailer had flooded the roao
in the area of the crash, creating
hazard for rescue and investlga-
ton parties.
The gas was channeled off In
safety when neighborhood volun
teers, H. E. Moore, S. A. Venable,
J. E. Parrish, and Eddie Davis
dug outlet trenches along the road
side.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
COUNCIL SELECTS
AUDITORIUM site
Members Unanimously APP.
prove Old Marine Hos
pital Base Property

Wilmington's $1,000 900 civic au-
ditorium will be built on 10 acres
of city-owned property at the old
Marine hospital base, and the en-
tire tract will be developed into
public recreation center.
Selection of the site was made
yesterday by the City council in
special morning session.
The area lies between Eighth
and Tenth streets, starting at Ann
street and running south to point
midway between Church and Cas-
tie streets.
Plans Underway
Preliminary plans now being
drawn up by Lynch and Fsard,
city architects, call for seating
capacity of about $500. Other de-
tails of the proposed structure
have not been revealed yet. But
if it follows the general plan OF
the Augusta, Ga, auditorium,
which is being used as working
model" the building will also have
small Emusic hail." down.
stairs exhibition room, and a
small service kitchen.
With the cost of the structure
estimated at $1,000,000, city Of
ficials say it can not be built with
out federal help. 1t is hoped that
Congress will approve appropria-
tions for a public works program
to share the cost of new mu-
nicipal projects, such as the local
auditorium, throughout the nation.
Only Location
The decision to use the old Ma
rine hospital site is based on the
fact that it is the only city-owned
property large enough to accom-
modate the auditorium and the
surrounding recreational facilities
with plenty of room left over for
auto parking.
Councilmen had considered pur-
chasing property for the audito-
rum elsewhere in the city, but
prices were found to be "exorbi-
tant, running as high as $500, 1000
for one block
The resolution to use the select
ed site received the unanimous
vote of the council
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
DOODLE-BUG DOES 1T
Mine-Detecting Device
Unearths Stolen Money

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April S.
-P)-A mine-detecting device that
saved untold lives during the war
located $153,150 nine feet deep
Thursday night in the back yard
here of a nw-dead postal en-
ploye, bringing to light the bulk
of $3.50, 000-largest amount of cur
rency ever stolen from the postal
service.
The money-missing since the
night of May Is, 1944-Was dug up
by three postal inspectors between
chicken coop and the East FIRST
street rooming house of Mrs. Joseph
D. Marshall, widow of the man
who confessed the theft just be-
fore he died August 10, 1914, after
an appendicitis operation.
Wife Not Implicated
Postal authorities said Mrs. Mar
shall, who was acquitted by "a Fed
eral jury in 1945 of charges of con-
spiracy and of secrtaing and car
rying away the money. was not i'm
plicated and that she had given per-
mission for search of the grounds
but that the investigation was
continuing in an effort 10 deter
mine, if possible where the re-
naming $4,000 might be hidden,
for postal authorities said Marshal
spent nearly $4,000 for jewelry.
They said, too, that they were
convinced the theft was accomplish
ed by only one man. Otherwise,
much more Of the money would
in all probability be missing.
See DOODLE-BUG on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
COURT POSTPONES
GAMEWELL HEARING
UNTIL MAY SESSION

The hearing of the Gamewell
company's injunction against
the City, originally scheduled to
take place, April IL, has been
postponed until May Is, City
Attorney w. B. Campbell said
yesterday.
The injunction seeks to stop
the city's contract with the Will
mington Electric Supply COM
pany for Ill Horni fire-alarm
boxes on the grounds that the
Horni boxes do not meet speci-
fications.
1t developed that all partici-
pants in the case could not at
tend the April IL session. Upon
agreement of both parties,
Judge Hunt Parker, Superior
Court, put the hearing forward
to the May term of court.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
What You Don 'tKnoW Re
Railroads, Quiz Answers

tons more often than other groups
of railroad employees probably be-
cause human nature is demand
ing customer. Children, travelling
alone, or with their parents, never
tire of asking what station do we
come to next" and the little old
lady with the age-old bonnet, who
knits as the miles fly by, travels
more comfortable when the con-
ductor assures her at least every
quarter-hour, that the train will
arrive at Seldom Seen on time.
Therefore, when one sizes up the
See QUIZ On Page Two
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Senate:<<%$;<::
IS - flour
.LawOnW Wages
Insurgent Farm Coalition
Southerners Load 1t
With Farm Riders
TRUMAN TO VETO
Opponents Dub Measure As
Legislative Cadaver"
Without A Chance

WASHINGTON, April 5.-WD-
The Senate Friday night passed a
bill raising national minimum
wages from 40 to IS cents an hour,
after loading it with farm bloc
riders that led its foes to dub it 3
Legislative cadaver" certain to
be vetoed by President Truman.
Led by an insurgent farm eoali-
ton, including IL Southerners, the
senate ignored administration
warnings to drop a controversial
amendment linking agriculture
prices with industrial wages.
Voice Vote
The bill was steamrolled through
by voice vote after a final rough
and-tumble debate and passed
along for almost certain doom in
the House or by presidential veto.
The chamber made one last ges-
ture for administration approval
by resetting the minimum wage
level at IS cents instead of the 60
cent floor decided upon earlier as
a compromise.
Out Window
The 60-cent based had beer
adopted Thursday by an over:
whelming rs to 6 count. 1t was
thrown out the window today by 6
vote of Al to q on a substitute
by Sen. Homer Capehart, R., Ind
Capehart's amendment set the
senate off on hot debate in which
opponents and supporters of the
See SENATE on Page Two
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Nations Form
CornpanyPlan
On Petroleum
Accord Catches United Ma
tons Security Council
By Surprise Friday
RED ARMY MOVING
Although Soviet Promise
Of Evacuation Expires
May 6, Move Starts

NEW YORK, April 5-(P-Rus-
sia's new agreement with Iran,
opening the door of Iranian oil to
the Soviet Union, apparently
caught the United Nations Security
Council by surprise, Friday, but
there was general disposition in
U. N. circles to view the overall
picture with satisfaction.
Furthermore, there was imme-
diate speculation that the negotia-
tions in Tehran, which obviously
were going on while the council
debated the question OF Russian
troops in Iran, was the real answer
to the riddle Of why Soviet dele
gate Andrea A. Gromyko insisted
on delaying the Iranian matter
until April 10-and then walked
out when the council voted against
him.
Aims Achieved
It now becomes apparent that
Russia, Iran and, most important,
the Security Council itself, have
achieved their aims in this man.
Iner:
l. Russia will have access,
along with the United States and
Great Britain, to Iranian oil since
the new agreement provides for
nation of a joint Iranian-Soviet
Oil company.
2. Iran has two unqualified
promises from Russia to pull the
Red army out of Iran by May 6.
One promise was made by Rus
to the Council; the other is en-
bodied in the new agreement be-
See NATIONS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
IT'S ARMY DAY
High School Band Will
Lead Big Parade Here

Final plans were complete last
night for welcoming thousands of
servicemen, and ex-servicemen to
the city for celebration of Army
Day, today.
The day of festivity, honoring
the serviceman land his part in
shaping world peace" will begin
with a parade of the band and
ROTC unit of the New Hanover
high school. The band will form
in front of the high school at 8:45
a. M, when the battalion will be
presented to T.. T. Hamilton, Jr.,
honorary principal in the unit, and
principal of the high school. The
band will be under the direction
of Capt. R. S. Andrews, command
ing officer of the unit.
Parade Front Street
Down Market to Third street, the
parade will proceed along Third
to Grace, and up to Front, along
Front to Orange, and back to the
high school.
Veterans and servicemen, all
scheduled to be arrayed in their
best military dress, will then be
feted with refreshments at the
Legion home.
At $3.50 p. M, Lieut.. Col. Harold
G. Osborne, commanding officer
of a training battalion, Fort Bragg
will arrive in the city.
See ARMY DAY on Page Two
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COMMITTEE VIEWS
BELLAMY HOUSE
Citizens To Be Asked To
Submit Suggestions On
Use OF Building

The citizens committee appoint
ed by Mayor w. Ronald Lane to
study the old Bellamy home at
Fifth and Market streets for posi-
BILE purchase by the city held its
first meeting yesterday afternoon
in the city hall council chamber.
Immediately after the meeting
the members went on tour OF
inspection of the mansion "to get
acquainted with its potentialities'
for becoming a "civic center"
Two-FoId Idea
The city's proposal to purchase
the building arises from two
things-the Bellamy heirs desire
to contribute something worth
while and lasting to the community
and the city's need for a large
community building devoted to
"the arts and literature" anc
kindred subjects.
The most popular proposal te
date is to convert the mansion
into a public library. The com
mittee, however, asks that al
residents of the city mail thell
suggestions as to how the building
should be used to City Manager
A. c. Nichols or any member O.
the committee.
The committee is composed O.
Louis J. Poisson, chairman; Mrs
w. A. Fonvielle, secretary; J. E
l. Wade, Richard A. Shew, j. K
Taylor, Mrs. J. Wallace West, ane
Nichols
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40 ct 8 ALL SET
TO WELCOME CHEF
Legion Fun Society To En-
terrain Otis E. Mercer:
Arrives Here Monday

ALI members of local Voiture 245,
40 ct 8, are urged this morning to
return their Invitation cards not
later than tomorrow, Grand Chef
de Care, ] Carl Seymour said last
night.
The state official has asked that
the cards be returned to local voy-
ageur Vance L. Smith, so the COM
mittee on preparations for the
visit Monday of National Chef de
Chemin, Otis E. Mercer, who is
making his first official visits to
the city, may be completed.
Arrives Monday
Mercer will arrive at lis Mon.
day afternoon, and will be well
coined to the city by. Seymour and
a party of local Voyageurs, after
which the national figure will at.
tend banquet, and celebration ir
his honor at the American Legion
home.
Practically all plans are com.
plete for MERGERS arrival, and visit
in Wilmington, after which he will,
60 to Raleigh, and then to Winston.
Salem for a days visit with loca.
Voitures.
Hollis, POSTMASTER
POSTMASTER at the meeting will
be Voyageur, ]. R. (Bob) Hollis.
In addition to a previously-an-
nounced program of entertainment,
several old World War l songs
will be sung at the get-together.
Leading the vocals will be Joe
Mann, Seventh District command.
er, American Legion.
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And So To Bed.

A few nights ago prominent
local citizen was given a watch
by many of his friends in COM
memoration of his $50 years Of
devotion to youth"
The following day one Of the
gift-givers called him up on the
phone and asked him:
Say, what time Is 1t by your
new watch?"
We don't know for sure what
prompted him to give the an
swer he did. Maybe he was
thinking that after devOting so
years of his life to youth he
wasn't SO young himself any
more. Anyway, this Is the an
swer he gave:
"My dear friend, What do you
care about the time of day?
You should be thinking about
eternity"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-06
By JACK C. LUNAN

There may or not, be 1854 CUES
ton on the subject of railroadlng,
but it is others to doughnuts that
conductors are not the only employ
es of rail. Dads who are called upon
to answer this or that query many
hundreds of times daily, as to what
this or that gadget is for; are al
tunnels dark; do mile posts actually
mark off distance, or are cow
catchers placed on engines u
catch cows?
Train crews, especially conduct
ors. trainmen and porters, prop
ablv answer the same line OF ques'
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The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina Saturday
fair and warmer.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the hours end
ing 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
80 am. 70; I 80 am. 81; 1870 pm. II;
1880 pm. "a.
Maximum U.s. Minimum SO; Mean ST.
Normal SO.
humidity
1:30 am. 20; 7 80 am 40; 80 PM 3d.
1880 pm. CO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 Pm
600 inches.
Total since the first Of the month
900 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by U
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ----- - SO am. 1921 am
1:25 pm. 1926 pm
Masonboro Inlet 11:12 am. DIVA am
11:41 pm STA pm
Sunrise 5:52 am; Sunset 80 pm.
Moonrise 9:15 am; Moonset
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. {. at
am. Friday, 9.5 feet
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Along The Cape Fear

Back around 1918 the Howard
Wells Amusement company pur-
chased the park from private own
ers. The company built a. pavilion
over the water, installed whole
lot OF carnival paraphernalia, and
turned the place into southern
Coney Island, at an estimated cost
of $4,000.
Shortly afterwards County
Fair was held there. And what
should greet, the eyes of the Wis
|itors but large sign suggesting
that the city buy the park and turn
lit into a public playground.
The sign was put there by the
|Sorosis club, and the whole idea
was originated by Mrs. r. W..
Hicks.
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
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PRECIOUS AND PRICELESS
We've written about Greenfield
Park in this column before. We've
told how old it is, how it got its
name, how Community Drive"
came to be built, and so on.
We've also told something which
all you folks are well aware Of
that it's one Of the most beautiful
parks in the good old U. S. A. And
all you Cape Fearians, we feel
sure, agree that the park is ons
Iof our most precious possessions
not only precious but priceless.
There is something else, how
ever, that many of you may not
be aware of that this priceless
possession of ours was bought by
the city for mere $25, 600.
CONEY ISLAND IN DIXIE
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CUSTOMS COLLECTION
REACHES NEW RECORD
HIGH SINCE MAR. 1910

The highly monthly customs col
lections in the North Carolina dis
triet since May, 1910, were re-
corded last month, Col. John
Bright Hill, district U. S. collector
of customs, announced yesterday.
Last months. total was $685.
587.81. In May, 1910, the total was
S., olO, 445.18. u.
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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, April D.
(SpeciaD- Senator Josiah w.
Bailey was reported to be in
Serious but not critical con-
dition" Friday as the result OF
the "arterial apprehension"
which caused him to enter Doc
tors hospital Thursday.
The 72-year-old North Caro-
linian spent a Comfortable
night and appeared to be
somewhat better Friday &C
cording to his physician. DIR.
Walter Bloedorn, noted Wash
ington heart specialist.
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See MCFARLAND on Page Two
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wilmington and vicinity - Fair .as
warmer.