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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-05

creasing suspense builds up to a
point of almost unbearable in
tensity. The final sequence,
which contains both one of the
screens tenderest love scenes and
one of it's most hair-raising es-
capes, is a gem of distilled, quiet
and deadly menace.
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ONE WORD more about this
reviewers favorite actress. Miss
Bergman is far cry from the
stereotyped, traditional heroine in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-05


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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-05

THE Red Cross attempts to les
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
AlongThe Cape Fear

Lu Devaney, 4O8 Nun street, sent
me a clipping from The Star OF
Wednesday, the 18th inst, seek
ing information relative to the
original home of The Star and ask
ed me to reply to it.
1.-THE Wilmington Morning Star
is the States oldest daily news
paper. 1t was founded September
%, 1876, by Major William H.
Bernard. It's first home was in a
room over a grocery store conduct
ed by Edwards and Hall on Water
street between Market and Dock
streets where Major Bernard was
running a job printing press.
"A few months later Major Der.
nrad moved from this room to a
location in the Custom House alley
and continued the publication
there for nearly 10 years.
"In 1876 The Star moved from
that location to Nos. 10 and II
Princess street, previously an ole
inn of earlier Cape, Fear history.
In May, 1909. Major Bernard sold
the paper to a company of Viii
See CAPE FEAR on Page Tire,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
TWO PILOTS LOSE
LIVES AT MOLINE
20 Passengers, Stewardess
Escape Death AS Air
Liner Crashes

MOLINE, Ill, Aug. 21-P- A
twin-engined chartered plane
crashed at the Moline Airport
Wednesday, killing the two pilots
while the stewardess and % pas
sengers aboard yer little more
than shaken up.
Ten passengers were given first
aid treatment for minor injuries.
All expressed amazement that they
escaped virtually unscratched.
The plane split in half, enabling
most passengers to scramble quick
ly to safety.
AS the plane settled after the
crash, Mrs. Helen Theusen Of New
York city, tossed her child to an
other passenger, Mrs. R. W. Ham,
ell, of San Francisco, who ran with
it fearing an explosion after the
crash. Mrs. Theusen suffered an
ankle injury.
Stewardess Hero
Ida Mae Mckenzie, 81, Miami,
Fla, the stewardess, said she sus-
pected something "a wrong
shortly before the crash. turned
on the lights in the cabin, and in
structed the passengers to faster
See PILOTS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
THOUSANDS LEAVE
CACUTTA, INDIA
Refugees Clog Roads As
Squads Collect Riot
Victim Bodies

CALCUTTA, Aug. 21.-P-Thou-
sands of weary refugees plodded
out Of this strife-scourged metro
polls toward the country today as
disposal squads continued the
CHASTITY task of collecting bodies OF
riot victims by the truckload.
Calcutta experienced its first
day of halved ration, decreed to
meet a food emergency caused by
four days of bloody rioting between
Moslems an Hindus, which ended
Monday.
Up to 80, 1000 persons had been re-
moved from the city with govern
ment assistance by Tuesday night,
and almost 20, 900 more had left
by their own means The East
Indian railway rain special trains
for the exodus, much Of 1t to points
distant from Calcutta.
Counting Difficult
Counting of the dead, believed t.
total 5000, will be difficult for Cal
cutta authorities. 1t was feared
many of the victims had beer
pushed into sewers, and remova.
of the bodies will be a major task.
Truckloads of corpses were re-
moved from the areas hardest hit
by the rioting. Hindu and Moslem
organizations and volunteers as
sisted Army personnel in the job.
The four-mile long Central ave-
nue., one of the main traffic
arteries, still is strewn with the
wreckage of looted shops. Here
and there a be see the hulks
of automobiles destroyed by fire.
F.. To Maintain Order
H. S. Shurawardy, chief minister
of Bengal, in a broadcast over the
See THOUSANDS on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
COLLEGE FACULTY
| BLANKS RECEIVED
Seventeen OF Twenty Ap-
plicants To Get Papers
For Filing %.

Application blanks for the " to
20 part-time faculty members who
will teach the freshman courses at
Wilmington's branch of the Uni
versity of North Carolina were re-
ceived here yesterday and will be
put in the hands of prospective in
structors today, D. K. Spencer, CO.
ordinator Of the college program,
announced yesterday.
After the blanks have been filled
out and returned to Spencer, they
will be forwarded to university Of
ficials in Chapel Hill for final ac-
ton, the coordinator said.
AS soon as the instructors. are
selected they will attend oriental
ton conferences at Chapel Hill and
get final instructions regarding
their work here.
New Details
Spencer yesterday revealed new
details on the establishment Of the
college branch In New Hanover
High school following his recent
conferences with Russell Gruman,
director of the miversity's exten-
sion department.. and other uni
versity officials.
He said every effort IL being
See COLLEGE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

TRUE TEMPLE - Home, the
old saying goes, is where the heart
is. But where is it, folks, if you've
got your heart in the wrong
place."
This is the QUESTION which be-
.fuddled us on the morning of We'd
nesday IA. 1t not only befuddled
us but made us sad. For a long
time we had believed that the
James Book store on Chestnut
street between Front and Second
streets marked the site of the Will
mington Morning Stars first
home, only to have Mr.. Louis T.
Moore, the Cape Fear historian,
inform us that we had been Wor-
shipping at a false temple.
Thoroughly upset at the awful
news, we sent out an SOS in this
column pleading for someone to
tell us the location of the true
temple. Yesterday, just one week
after we sent out the sos, the fol
lowing communique came to our
rescue:
WATER STREET STORE =
Dear Sir: My sister, Mrs. Hattie
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
UNSTEADY TRENDS
NOTED ON MARTS
Weaknesses Indicated A.
Tuesday Continued In
Wednesday Sales

The price weaknesses indicated
Tuesday on the North Carolina
Border Belt tobacco markets con-
tinued Wednesday with the aver.
ages again taking a nose dive.
Reports indicated that averages
for most grades were from 81 to 81
per hundred pounds lower thar
Tuesdays figures.
Medium and lower qualities
showed the greatest declines, &C.
cording to reports from the Fede.
ral-State Marketing news service.
1885, 38 Pounds Sold
There was 10, 655, 038 pounds sole
on the markets Tuesday at ar
average price Of $54.00 per hun
dred pounds. This was $3.50 be.
low Mondays average and $4.5I
under the top average set August
IL.
The Chadbourn tobacco market
sold 321, $40 pounds for ar officia.
average of $53.12 per hundred
pounds, according to Hugh Nance.
supervisor of sales.
At Whiteville, Walter H. Para
more reported ~1,117,434 pounds o
the leaf sold at an average Of
$56.26 per hundred pounds.
Willard G. Cole, reporting from
the Tabor City markets said the
mart there had recovered some
what through the aid of a better
break of tobacco. An average o.
$3.50 nearly So more than Tues
days season low of $52.58 wa!
paid, he said. Approximately 800,
900 pounds was sold at Tabor City
Wednesday.
The average prices per hundred
See TOBACCO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
let PLANT BLAST
KILLS SEVEN MEN
Force OF Explosion Jars
Los Angeles District;
Fire RACES

AZUsA. Calf, Aug. 81. -(P-
\ least seven persons were killed
md more than a score injured
Wednesday as a terrific explosion
,f volatile fuels wrecked the Azusa
oIant of Aero-Jet Engineering cor
poration.
The blast, originating in a mix
ing plant. Jared the Los Angeles
area, and was felt within a 80
mile radius.
The plant manufacture jet as
sisted takeoff (Jato) units for
Navy aircraft. powerful explosives
designed to give heavy bombers
and fast fighters additional power
on takeoffs by rocket-like thrusts.
Fire Spreads
Because of the danger attached
10 manufacture of its products,
Aero-Jet built its plant around
several structures instead Of into
one building. Fire, spreading quick
ly after the explosion, caused con-
siderable damage to the property,
Sheriff officers said the seven
dead were civilian employees and
+ 4 there might be other victims
in the wreckage. The fire was
quelled within an hour, equipment
from neighboring cities being press
ed into immediate service.
Some of the injured were taker
to Monrovia, Temple City and
Covina.
Navy officers from the bureau
Of a%eronautics took charge OF the
plant. Many of the products OF the
corporation are classified by the
Armed services as secret.
Navy Man Hurt
Officers of the 18th Naval dis
trict at San Diego said no Nava.
personnel was among those killed
but that one Navy man was in
jured. The Navy sources said the
fire started in the mixing room
where fuels are prepared for je'
engines and spread quickly to othel
eombustibles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
Navy Nurse Des cribes Thrills
OF Two Atomic Bomb Tests At Bikini Bay
MILDRED MCClRT
HISTORY MAKER
Among Group OF Only
Women Ever Setting
Foot On "Amen"
BY ROY COOK

The thrilling experiences of
watching both Atomic bomb tests
was related in a letter to Archie
McGirt, Carolina Beach road, from
his sister Lieut.. Mildred McGirt, a
Navy nurse, attached to the hos
pital ship Bountiful.
Lieut.. McGirt, a native of Fair
mont, graduated from the Fairmont
High school and entered the Win
stoa-Salem General hospital where
she was reported the youngest stu
dent to pass the state nurses ex-
animation.
She entered the Children's hos
pital in Pittsburgh after gradual
ing from the North Carolina insti-
tuition, and in November 194l join
ed the U. S. Navy nurse corp. Aft
er a period of training at Norfolk
she was assigned to the Bountiful,
serving in the Pacific.
She has made five trips across
the Pacific on the ship, bringing
wounded sailors, soldiers and Ma
rines to San Francisco from the
far-flung battle fronts of the Paci-
fic. She was appointed a full lieu
tenant on April l, 1916.
According to a letter received
by Mrs. J. P. King, 2511 Princess
street road, a sister. Lieut.. McGirt
has returned to the West coast and
is on her way home to visit her
parents, and brothers, Theron and
Edison. Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. McGirt
at their home in Fairmont. She
will visit here soon, Mrs. King said.
The 23-year-old nurse was n of
the first American nurses to land
on the shores of Japan after the
surrender. According to e letter
she will remain in the service.
While in Wilmington she will visit
Mrs. j. P. King and the lieutenant's
third brother, Archie. Another
brother, Howard is making his
home on the West Coast and her
sister. Mrs. Robert Davis. lives in
Durham.
The letter, dated August 2. ad-
dressed to Archie McGirt, reads:
"We were at Bikini for both the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
Porter Plans
Hard Warfare
Chislers
OPA Administrator Is To
Throw Book" AT Black
Marketeers Soon
MURRAY PROTESTING
Clio President Sees Little
Meaning In Decontrol
Board Orders
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81.

WASHINGTON, Aug. I'll
(P. - Price Administrator
Paul Porter announced We'd
nesday that retail meat price
ceilings will be restored Sept.
9 and promised to throw the
book" at black marketeers.
There is no substantial
basis for reports that we are
going back 20 widespread
black markets. he told a news
conference. IT hope packers
will devote a substantial part
of their. energy to make re-
control work - at least as
much energy as they devoted
to trying to get rid Of con-
trolls"
Industry spokesman and other
foes of meat controls already are
predicting the possible return of
black markets and scarcities.
A statement by the United States
Chamber Of Commerce declared
See PORTER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
HUGE NAVY PLANE
NEAR TEST STAGE
[ o k h e e d Constitution
Transport Will Have
5,000-M Mile Range

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 -F-
The Navy disclosed Wednesday
night that its biggest transport
plane, the Lockheed Constitution,
capable of nonstop flight from the
West coast to Tokyo, is about ready
to take to the air.
Announcement of the massive
double-decker with capacity for
1863 passengers was made at a
news conference by Vice Admiral
W. Radford, deputy chief of Naval
operations for air.
It will be tested from the Lock
heed air terminal at Burbank,
Calf, it's first flight is scheduled
for about Sept. 20.
The plane has four engines, 189-
foot Wingspan and is 1856 feet long
with three passenger cabins. The
Navy said it will be assigned to
the Naval Air Transport service
for use in the Pacific.
The Constitution is smaller than
the Army's XB36 bomber, which
has six engines and 230-foot wing
span, but the planes are not strict
See NAVY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
YOUNG JEWS WARN
BRITISH LEADERS
Threaten Strong Reprisals
For Conviction Of
Haifa Youths

JERUSALEM, Aug. 81 -(P-
The Jewish underground's war OF
nerves broke out anew Wednesday
as the stern gang threatened wide
spread reprisals to Palestine Of
ficials, police and British military
personnel if Is young Jews SEN
fenced to death. were executed.
Leaflets signed by the Stern
Gang appeared on Tel Aviv walls
during Tuesday night.
"In case you should hang" the
leaflets said in addressing their
sentenced comrades, you can be
assured that none of your hang
men will survive you"
Meanwhile, the IS youths, Con-
demned to death by a Haifa court
fast Friday for firing on British
soldiers during a night of sabotage,
awaited confirmation of their fate
or communication to life imprison-
ment by the British commanding
officer.
Remain Silent
Although Palestine government
Off eals~and~BEitish military lead
ers had considered the possibility
of underground reprisals follow
ing the death sentences, the Stern
gang had remained silent until
Tuesday night.
There was no immediate indi-
cation that any extraordinary pre-
cautions had been put into force
as result of the threats but it was
assumed generally that Palestine
government officials would be
guarded closely and that police
See YOUNG JEWS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

1t thus became the latest IN a
series of strong actions by the
United States against Russia and
countries in the Russia bloc-ac-
tons adding up to a diplomatic
counter-offensive aimed at hating
expansion of Russian power over
other nations and at a showdown
between the Unitde States and the
Soviet Union all along the line.
With the Yugoslav note, officials
conceded that the International
tension has mounted considerably
in the last few days, particularly
because of the Dardanelles and
the shooting down of two American
planes by Yugoslavia.
The 48-hour ultimatum period,
the State department said, will be-
gin as soon as the note is received
in Belgrade Wednesday night or
Thursday morning.
Disputes Claim
In it the United States bluntly
OloPOlSQ q LdSOo1dV N4dlll1 tl1dL TIE
attack was an accident" and
called the incidents outrageous
acts" which are without the
slightest justification in interna-
tional law" and a liolation of the
United Nations charter.
This apparently lays the basis
for an unprecedented appeal to the
Security council by the United
States. 1t is possibly the first time
in the history of either the U. N.
or the old League of Nations that
a great power has thus announced
its intention of seeking organized
international action over such in
flammatory incidents rather than
acting by itself against the small
er nation.
One reason for this course sug-
See NOTE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
And So To Bed

The staff of The Star, always
ready and eager to take news
items from people who come
into the newsroom at night,
was considerably non-plussed
last night.
An elderly man with that al
most unmistakeable "newsy"
look on his face walked into
the office, and the staff im-
mediately jumped to its feet.
"Yes?" the elderly man was
asked promptly. "What can we
do for you?"
II was wondering" answer
ed the man, somewhat abashed
by the staff's eager attention,
could l take a drink Of water
from your fountain?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
Long Time, No Pay

CHICAGO, Aug. 81 up -
T~wenty-six years ago a prospec-
tive father helped shovel out a
snowbound train in an effort to
beat the stork - and Wednesday
he was $3.50 richer for his labor.
In April 1920, T. N. Myers OF
Alliance, Neb., was hurrying from
Interior, S. D., to his home to be
with his wife when their baby was
born. At Chadron, Neb., the train
Was stopped by snow drifts. Myers
volunteered to help shovel the
ram through at so cents an hour.
linen, neglecting to pick up his
pay, he arrived in Alliance in time
10 greet his new daughter.
Myers recently wrote the
ehlcago and North Western rail
way about his neglected money
ana a check of records showed a
1O-year-old credit of $3.50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
WILL SIT IN
Authority To Send
Man ToAirMeetinq

The Wilmington-New Han
wei Airport authority will send
At least one delegate to Wash
ington on September is to take
mart in the Civil Aeronautics
hoard re-argument of the Lat
in Observation-Disclosures airline
case, Hamilton E. Hicks, au-
tbority secretary, announced
yesterday.
TIE announcement was made
shortly after news was receiv-
ID from Washington that the
CAB had set September 16 as
the date of the celebrated
eases reopening at the request
of Colonial Airlines and the
Atlantic Coastal Cities Air
Service association, of which
Wilmington is a member.
Several months ago the CAB
turned down Colonial's petition
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
new coming LAW
SET FOR SEPT. 4
City Council Expects Tc
Adopt Measure Follow
ing Corrections

Wilmington's permanent zonlng
ordinance, the first of its kind IN
the city's history, will come be-
fore the city council for official
adoption on September 4, 1t was
decided at yesterdays regular
Wednesday council meeting.
The ordinance probably would
have been adopted at yesterdays
session of a printers error in the
zoning map had not been dlscoV-
cred.
George W. Simons, Jr., city
planning %consultant from Jackson
vile, Fla, pointed out the error
at the meeting, The printer had
omitted several lots in the Colonial
Village section.
The council then voted to have
the map corrected by September
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
MYSTERY GROWS
Pot Shot At General Has
FBI Looking For Bullet

office in the summer of 1912,
talking with a caller. BY
chance, he happened to swing
around in his swivel chair as
the bullet whizzed by.
In response to inquiries,
Barnes said in Philadelphia
Wednesday that the missile
made the sound of a high
velocity bullet, but neither the
Army Intelligence officers nor
FBI agents were able to find
it later.
The bullet entered Barnes
office through a glass window,
See POT SHOT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

for a route which would have
linked Wilmington with Wash
ington, Norfolk, New Bern,
Charleston, Bermuda, Nassau,
Havana, and the Panama Canal
Zone. Colonial and the Air
Service association countered
Immediately with a demand
that the case be re-opened.
The Wilmington delegate to
the September 16 re-hearing
will ask that Colonial be grant
ed the route and that Whining
ton be pat on it as previously
proposed, Hicks said. This, he
explained, would provide the
city with two vital air connec-
tons it now lacks-a direct con-
nection with Washington and
one with the Caribbean cities.
See AUTHORITY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-R
- A wartime mystery OF the
Pentagon building grew deep
er Wednesday when it became
known that an unexplained pull
let which just missed the
Army's top designer OF secret
weapons never was found.
War department ot1lclals,
disclosing the incident for the
first time, said the shot mar
rowly missed Maj. Gen. Ola
deon M. Barnes, then CHIEF OF
the Ordnance departments
technical division.
General Barnes was seated
at a desk in his fourth floor
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
WITHOUT A HOME
Sea- Going Estonians Get
Heaue-Ho'ByU Uncle Sam

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 81. -(P
Eighteen sea-going refugees
from Estonia sailed into Mi
ami's harbor Wednesday at
ter crossing the Atlantic in a
38-foot sloop only to be refused
permission to land.
Eleven men, six wives and
a pretty, yellow-haired 5-year-
old girl had been at sea for 80
days on the last leg of their
voyage, from Spanish. Nader
ia.
They started from Sweden
May 80, made one stop in
England, and have been at
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
MCNARNEY SCORES
LACUARDIA TALKS
European Commander Says
Army Charges "lncor-
rect, Baseless"

BERLIN, Aug. 81. -(P- Gen.
Joseph T. McNarney, U. S. COM
mander in Europe, caustically at
tackled UNRRA Director-General
F. H. La Guardia Wednesday for
"baseless and incorrect" charges
against the U. S. Army.
McNarney bluntly denied La
Guardia's charges that the U. S.
Army opposed UNRRA's aims in
care and repatriation of displaced
persons, and asserted his head
quarters had supported the pro-
gram sin every way to ensure
success"
See McNARNEY on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

Atomic bomb tests, but we are
'homeward bound, this is the last
trip our dear Bounty will make.
By this time the atomic bombs
r history. You probably, in fact
I know you are, more informed
on the detonation, destruction. etc.,
than I am. However, it was all very
thrilling and exciting, to say moth
ing of the terrible beauty and
magnitude Of the explosions.
This first one on July LIST was
more exciting in my opinion, be-
cause of the broadcast. that was
being sent out from the S. S. Mt.
Mckinley and the other ships that
were closer to the target.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

sea almost continuously for
two and a half months.
With not one valid immigra-
ton permit in the whole lot,
immigration Director Francis
]. H. Dever said he had no
choice but to refuse them per-
mission to land. It appeared
they would have to move on af-
ter replenishing their supplies.
"We had hoped we could
stay" said young Felix Tandre,
skipper and navigator of the
sloop Inarda. II believe we
could have been good Ameri-
See SEA-GOING On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22
UNITED STA TIES SERVES ANGRY WZZMATM
ON >%@$s$&0SLA VIA TO RELEASE AIR PILOTS;
M CEILINGS GO BACK ON SEPTEMBER 9
Note To Soviet Union
Opposes Turkey Demands
Latest Moves By State Department All Indt-
cate Showdown Offensive In Diplo- 4
matte War On Russia

WASHINGTON, Aug. Fl. -P)- The United States
served a 48-hour ultimatum on Yugoslavia Wednesday
night to release American air travellers shot down by Yugo-
slavia fighters or face appropriate action" by the United
Nations Security council.
The angry note was delivered to DR.. Sergio Makledo,
Yugoslav charge, by Undersecretary Acneson only i've
hours after the State department published the text OF a
note to Russia emphatically opposing Soviet demands on
Turkey for a military role IN controlling the Dardanelles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-22

eve were all on deck on the
forepart Of the snip and could hear
the metrotone ticking off the min
utes, then the seconds. The sus-
pense seemed ~unbearable. The
ticking stopped, and we knew that
the bomb had been released. At
about this time we heard the bomb
ardier's voice echo over the radio,
'Mark!-Bomb's Away!'.
ITO add to the thrill we had
see the planes that were to fly
over the lagoon after the danger
had passed. By the time the bomb
CONTINUED on Page Col. u