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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03
YUC0SLAVS ENTER
GRAVE" CHARGES
United Nations Told Fifth
Column Practices Still
Alive In Camps

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-R-Yugo-
slavia charged Monday night that
The Axis fifth column which OPP
Grated in wartime within her own
Oorders still existed in the form OF
.suoversive organizations in refugee
camps under Allied control in Italy,
austria and Germany.
Inc Yugoslav charges were con-
famed in a document formally SUBJ
mltted to the United Nations as
Semoly. The document accused
war time fifth columnist groups
VI lhStlgating fraticidal wars, pro-
voklng racial and religious hatred
anu committing mass murders in
,usoslavia or behalf of Hitle- and
Nussolini.
declaring that these "subver.
eve organizations remained I'M
zee ENTER on Page 2; Col. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03
TIE UP
P~aralyzing Strike
Hits Oakland TODAY
Labor Unions Set ga. M. Deadline For City
Wide Walkout; Street Cars, Ferries
Bars, Retail Stores To Be Affected

OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. 2.
W.H- A general strike in Oak
land has been set for 5 a. m.
(PST) Tuesday by the ALL
Alameda County Central Labor
Council and Building Trades
council, according to unofficial
advices Monday from union
members and management
sources.
Union workers said they had
been instructed not to report
for work.
James Galliano, spokesman
for the Oakland AFL unions,
declined to confirm or deny
the reported action, saying
only Labor is considering what
action it should take as citizens
of the community to protest
these high-handed violations
of peoples rights"
G%alliano's, statement refer
red to Sundays demonstration
in which police were called in
to break up mass picket lines in
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03

from active participation in many
fields of work. Heaven knows the
day may be close at hand when
that may be essential.
"But as long as I live, I hope
that what little wisdom l have ac-
quired in the world may be of
value to young people, many of
whom are going to have the thrill
ling experience of trying to keep
their nation going forward instead
OF backward in the years to come"
Mrs. Roosevelt said many people
apparently thought her heavy
schedule Of United Nations work
was pretty good for IAN old lady
Of g."
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03
CASTEEN URGES
FULL ATTENDANCE
Kiwanis Club Sponsored
Safety Program Schedul-
ed For Saturday

An appeal to parents of all young
Wilmington bicyclists to urge the
attendance Of their children at the
Kiwanis club Junior Traffic Safety
program, to be staged in Legion
stadium Saturday morning was is
sued last night by Police Chief
Charles H. Casteen.
"The safety program is partic-
timely, coming as it does
at the close Of National Safety
Week for motorists, which was OBJ
served here last week." the police
chief said, expressing the apprecia-
ton of all local law enforcement
agencies for the interest which the
See CASTEEN on Page 2; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03

front of two downtown depart
ment stores in order to convoy
IL truckloads Of Christmas mer-
chandise into the stores.
United Employers, Inc, which
numbers more than 900 bust
nesses among its members,
urged employers to open for
business as usual" Tuesday
whether their workers show up
or not.
The group, which acts as
advisor on labor relations to
its members, said it had re-
ceived no official notification
from the ALL of a general
strike in Alameda county Tues
day, but many East Bay en-
ployers reported their en-
ployes told them "everything"
will be closed Tuesday morning
at 6 a. M, a spokesman for
United Employers said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03
CHRISTMAS SEAL
SALE CONTINUES
Slightly Over $500 OF
$4,000 Goal Raised
Head Announces

" 80
The New Hanover County Health
and tuberculosis association has
so far raised slightly over So, 500
towards its goal of $4,000 in the
1916 Christmas Seal sale, DR.. John
c. VESSEL, seal sale chairman,
announced last night.
OF the sum so far raised, 81, 400
has been solicited through sale Of
tuberculosis bonds by the Whining
ton Junior Chamber of Commerce
with the remainder coming from
the first weeks mailing of Christ
mas seals to some $500 county
residents, DR.. VESSEL said. =,
The bond drive is expected to
See SEAL on Page q; Col. Z
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03
TRAFFIC DEATHS
MOUNT in STATE
Weekend Toll Reaches 8
With 4 Others Victims
OF Fire, Guns
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Traffic deaths took the lives of
eight North Carolinians over the
weekend and at least four other
persons died violent deaths.
Mrs. Lillian G. Wrede Of Kinston
and Norfolk, Va, died in a Green
vile hospital of injuries suffer-
ed when the automobile she was
driving failed to make a curve near
Farmville.
Pvt. Gordon Lee Woodcock, 18,
See TRAFFIC on Page 2; Col. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-03

See STRIKE on Page 2; Col. 2
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ROUTE on Pare 2; Col. ! See CASTEEN on Page 2; Col. Al
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Truman Approves TACA
Air Route 10 Latin America

President Truman has approved
a Civil Aeronautics Board decision
authorizing TACA Airways to oper-
ate between Latin America and the
United States, the airline announced
yesterday.
TACA is already flying specially
chartered flights between this coun-
try and the other Americas. The
CAB ruling gives the system au-
thorization for the first time to
serve the United States on a regu-
larly scheduled basis.
The CAB decision permits TACA
of Colombia, South America. one of
the 10 afflliates Of the airline sys-
ter, to fly two routes between Bo-
gotta, Colombia. and Miami, Fla, one
by way of Cuba and Jamaica and
the other through Balboa, Canal
Zone.
The TACA system was first or
ganized in 1881 and today makes
regular flights carrying passengers
and cargo over routes totaling more
than $4,000 miles. Gen. Julius G..
Holmes, president of the airline,
said, in respect to the CAB decision,
that Official entry of TACA into
the United States is a great step in
the completion of a truly inter-
American airline, dedicated to the
service Of the Western Hemisphere. :"
Evening star., 1946-07-21

posted $500 bond for release on a
United States commissioners war
rant for violation of section OF
the District Code ruling it criminal
offense to aid or abet the exposing
of child under IA with intent to
abandon the child.
Woman is Held.
Miss-Sarah Jones, 27, said by po-
lice to be-the mother of the aban-
do1ed baby, was in custody -of@tle
women's Bureau last night, being
held as a Government witness. She
was arrested Friday.
Miss Eleanor Northcutt of the
Womens Bureau said the woman
told her that she lived with the
babys father in the 1900 block of
Fourteenth street NV. Gallinger
Hospital Zee cords reveal the wnman
Listed the father of the bahy born
there on June as, as Howell Jones
E "a soldier" She told Miss North
cutt she was not married and that
she was the mother of two other
children, the policewoman said.
A former elevator operator in a
hotel here, Miss Jones told them,
police said, that the father took the
baby from their home about 1:30
pm. Thursday. She said she un-
derstood he was going to place the
infant on plane and send it to
relatives out West" according to
police.
Boys Find Infant.
The infant was found by two IL
year-old boys who were passing
through the alley behind the Gov
ernor Shepherd Apartments.
According to police, an unsigned
note, pinned on the baby's blanket
was addressed to a couple who had
expressed an interest in adopting
a child.
The infant was reported in
healthy, well-nourished condition
by authorities at Gallinger. Foot
print, records at Gallinger led to
identification of the baby.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Air Tragedy Expected
To Produce New Rules
BY the Assoeinied Press

New civil air regulations to re-
nuire increased precautions against
fires in commercial aircraft are in
prospect as result of investiga-
tion of a plane crash near Florence,
S. c., last year.
The Civil Aeronautics Board yes
terday published a report including
these conclusions regarding the ac-
cident, in which 10 passengers and
three crew members were killed.
l. AL D.C.-3 passenger equipment
Is not provided with adequate ac-
cess to the baggage compartment
from the cabin.
2. Maximum safety in flight re-
auires the installation of fire de-
tecting equipment in cargo COM
partments
The board also declared that
further emphasis should be placed
on use of non-conbustible materials
in building planes, and that car
rying paper lunch and lavatory ac-
cessories constitutes a fire hazard.
"On the basis of conclusions
reachedas result of investigation
of this. accident, and review OF
available records of aircraft fires
the board has completed an ex-
haustive study Of the problems OF
fire in flight" the report stated
land has under consideration ex-
tensive revision of the civil all
regulations, to include requirement
of additional installation of fire.
preventions equipment.pn air car
rier aircraft" 10 i
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Bill Libera|izing GI
Insurance Permits
Lump Sum Payment

House acceptance of Senate
amendments sent to the White
House yesterday legislation liberal
izing war service insurance for GIs
and veterans.
The legislation is designed to give
Government service insurance the
same features as commercial poll
cies. 1t permits lump sum pay
ments, ends restrictions on the NAM
ing of beneficiaries, adds total dis
ability coverage, and provides a
flexible system of conversion from
military to civilian-type insurance.
The major Senate amendment
permits trial by jury on contested
claims.
Under present law, the permitted
class of benefciaries is limited to
wife, child, parent, brother or sister
and the beneficiary Is not permitted
to assign his interest in the proceeds
of insurance to any other person.
The legislation provides that the
insured may designate any person or
legal entity as beneficiary and that
beneficiary may assign his interest
to the widow. widower, child, father,
grandmother, grandfather, brother
OF sister of the insured. ...
provisions of the bill, total
disability protection would be avail
able, on payment of an extra pre-
MUM, to all war-insurance policy
holders in good health at the time
of application. ..-
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Po|etti Denies Saying Italy
Would Have 10 Keen Kinq
By the Asxoeiaisd Pies,

ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y, July
20.-Charles Poletti, former Ameri-
can Military Governor in Italy, to-
day denied an assertion by Sicilian
separatist leader Andrea Finoc-
chiaro Aprile that Mr.. Poletti told
him in 1943 it was necessary to keep
the House of Savoy on the throne
Mr.. Poletti, a former New York
Governor who returned to this
country last fall after assignments
at Palermo, Rome and Milan. said
there was a mistake" in the sep
aratist leaders recollection" made
on the floor of the Constituent AS
sembly in Rome last night.
Mr.. Poletti said he had served
notice to the Sicilian and other
political leaders shortly after the
Allied landings in Sicily that they
should not engage in political ac-
tivities at that time, by order of
the Allied command.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Final Preparations Being Made
For Underwater A-Bon1b Test

a depth that will remain a secret.
Plutonium will be placed in the
bomb casing and the intricate trig-
ger mechanism will be set.
When everything is In readiness.
the men will leave in fast boats.
A series Of clocks and radio i'm
pulses will prepare the bomb for
explosion and the final radio i'm
pulse will fire it.
This type of long-distance firing
by radio impulse has never been
tried before. But in rehearsal II
activated an electronic device stim-
ulating the bomb trigger mocha
nism, and Crossroads officials say
it worked perfectly.
However. if the decorating i'm
pulse should fail scientists say the
bomb would not become an un-
controlled weapon. 1t would be dis
armed by clock mechanisms anc
rendered harmless for the men who
would have to return and reset the
trigger for another try.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Europe, Mediterranean
Army Assignments Cease
BY tho Associoied Pres,


The Army has suspended specific
assignment of individual recruits to
Europe and the Mediterranean be-
cause occupation forces there are at
full strength. War Department off,
cials said yesterday.
Regular Army volunteers signing
up for three years had been given
the choice of selecting these theaters
for initial assignment. The privi-
lege was suspended in May for
Europe and last month for the Med
iterranean, except for six groups OF
scarce specialists.
The occupation force in Germany
and Austria is down to the quota of
100000 set for July by Gen. Eisen-
hover. Approximately $4,000 troops
are in the Mediterranean, it was
estimated.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
BY the Associotsd Prsas

ABOARD U. S. S. APPALACHIAN,
Sunday, July 21.-Operation Cross
Dads today neared its second cli-
mactic test, which will be the de-
cisive factor in determining whether
the atomic age has made present.
day navies obsolete.
From the tests conducted in BIZ
KIM lagoon. the join chiefs of staff
will make their decisions and draw
a great many conclusions on what
the atomic bomb has done to shape
|navies of the future
The second test, scheduled for July
rs, Bikini time tJuly "a, United
States time), perhaps is more i'm
portant than the first, staged July /,
in determining the destructive force
of atomic energy loosed against ma
val vessels. 1t will be a shallow un-
derWater explosion greater than any
Iman-made explosion in marine his
tory-throwing fantastic pressures
against ships hulls.
Superstructure Crumpled.
The first test, In which the bomb
burst in the air above the target
feet, proved that naval architects
must redesign superstructures of flu
ture combat vessels. On the old
Isuperstructures, the comparatively
fragile masts, stacks and exposed
radio and radar antennae, were
twisted or crumpled into uselessness
by the fury Of the atomic burst.
This time the destructive power
of the bomb will be pitted against
the hulls of the target vessels. This
explosion will put pressure against
them much like giant ramrod.
What changes in naval strategy
and tactics are necessary will be
the decision of the Joint chiefs Of
staff" Vice Admiral w. H. p. Blandy,
commander of the test operation,
told correspondents. ~rv *r
That the atomic bomb will change
naval tactics and strategy as we'll
as construction Is certainty. For
not only does the bomb create fam
Itastic shock and blast threat to ships,
but deadly Pathological hazards must
be reckoned with.
1876 of Animals Dead.
Fifteen per cent of the animals
placed aboard ships in the first test
were either killed outright or have
died since. More Of them may die
from exposure to lethal rays. Ad-
miral Blandy said he considered it
too early for final estimate on what
would have happened If the ships
had been manned as for combat.
Crossroads personnel Is set for the
second test. Thursdays rehearsal
went off on schedule and was marred
only by premature explosion Of a
Photographic flare, blamed on a
stray radio impulse.
Capt. K. NJ. Gentry, communica-
tions offlcer Of the Crossroads task
force. said today there would be
circuits during the test.
The possibility of a shutdown had
been raised because of the prema-
ture explosion.
Capt. Geitry said 1t was known
definitely there was no interference
possible with the atom bomb radio
trigger from either news trans
mitters or radio circuits.
There will be high drama In
Bikini lagoon in the last hours be-
fore the explosion. After the lagoon
is deserted by nontarget ships, q
small group Of men will go to a
special raft in the center of the
target fleet.
They will prepare the atomic
weapon, suspended from a barge at
Evening star., 1946-07-21
u. 5. Clerk Was Kept
In Embassy 2Months
BY the AssAeiatsd Pres. :.

MOSCOW, July 2O.-Ari unusual
diplomatic situation in which Waldo
Ruess, 34-year-old American en-
baSSy clerk, was confined to the
embassy for two months because
Of Russian charges OF "hooliganism, !"
has ended with his departure by
plane for his Los Angeles home.
The State Department announced
Wednesday that Russia dropped
charges against Mr.. RueSs,
Mr.. Ruess was summoned to ap-
pear at the Moscow city prosecu-
tors Office last May to answer
charges growing out of what Trud,
Moscow trade union organ, de-
scribed as "insolent, hooligan acts"
toward a Russian actress.
The hooligan charge resulted from
an attempt by Mr.. Ruess to kiss
a girl goodnight MIR. Ruess' father
said in Los Angeles.
Mr.. Ruess said the State Depart
ment instructed him to remain in
side the embassy because the ques-
ton Of diplomatic immunity was in
volved. The United States, he
said, did not want him to 60 out
side where he might come under
jurisdiction of the city police court.
Meantime, the embassy had con-
tinued to ask the Russians for a
visa to permit Mr.. Ruess to leave.
1t finally was granted without COM
ment.
Neither the Soviet Government
nor the American embassy stated
today whether the question of Dip
lomatic immunity involved had been
settled.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
District Post Office
Employees in No Rush +;
For DELAYED Salaries !;

Only 1000 City Post Office en-
ployes showed up to collect their
delayed pay checks yesterday, POST
master Vincent G. Burke announced
last night, although the cashiers
window was kept open until 10 pm.
for those who needed their wages
Immediately. Payment was made
possible by President Truman's late
afternoon signature to the Treas
ury-Post Office deficiency bill.
Mr.. Burke said the number who
collected their checks was less than
one-fourth of the post Office pay
roll. Post Office Department work
ers, as distinct from the City Post
Office employees, were not able to
collect their checks at all yesterday,
it was said, since the department is
closed all day Saturday.
Most city postal employees ap-
parently decided to wait until to-
morrow, when Mr.. Burke said every
one can be paid.
First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral J. M. Donaldson said tele-
grams were sent to every post Office
in the Nation yesterday afternoon
as soon as President Truman affixed
his signature to the bill.
Both houses of Congress passed
the bill Friday, after its passage had
been delayed by controversial
amendment on the price of silver
tackled to the supply bill. Passage
followed swiftly when House and
Senate conferees agreed on a price
of 905 cents an ounce for silver.
bought and sold by the Treasury and
cut the rider from the supply bill
to make it separate measure.
No funds could be paid out on
the regular post office payday Fri.
day because the bill had not be-
come law, officials explained.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
House Action Is Blocked
On 100-MiIIion Cancer Bill
BY tbs Assosioted Press

Immediate House consideration of
bill to provide 100000 900 for a
Federal cancer-control program was
blocked yesterday by Representative
Bulwinkle. Democrat, of North
Carolina.
Chairman Bloom of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee asked
unanimous consent of members to
bring the measure to a vote, but
Mr.. Bulwinkle objected. He said
the legislation should have been
studied by the Commerce Commit
tee, rather than the Foreign Affairs
group, which held hearings on it
and approved it. ...
Mr.. Bloom told newsmen later he
would attempt to get Rules Com
mittee approval next week to force
consideration of the bill
Evening star., 1946-07-21
House Approves Bill
To Overhaul u. ).
Foreign Service
BY the Assoeietsd Press

The House yesterday passed by a
voice vote and sent to the Senate
legislation providing for a broad
overhaul OF the State Departments
foreign service.
Sponsors Of the measure said it Is
needed to put America's foreign
service on a afpaf with those of other
principal powers.
One of the chief provisions is to
increase salaries of nearly all career
workers, including an increase from
s17,500 to $4,000 yearly for ambass-
adors. The proponents said this
action would open foreign service
work to persons who are not f1nan-
cially able to accept such posts now.
The House also passed by voice
vote another measure establishing an
Office of Undersecretary of State for
Economic Affairs.
A major section of the reorgani-
cation bill would establish a Foreign
Service Institute, making possible
q postgraduate training school for
foreign service officers similar to
that now attended by Army and
Navy officers.
Another provision would call for
automatic retirement of officers not
qualifying for promotion as often
as specified in standards outlined.
The bills sponsors said this would
permit the department to clean out
dead wood" among employees easier
Other provisions would:
l. Create an Office of director gen.
eral Of the foreign service and set
up foreign service board to ad-
wise the Secretary of State.
2. Require foreign service officers
to spend at least three of their first
is years of work in the United States
and to take home leaves every two
years they are abroad, to keep them
abreast of affairs in the United
States,
Evening star., 1946-07-21
-Four Slain as Tension
Mounts in Turkey
On Eve Of Election
BY ihe Assoeioied Press

ISTANBUL, July 20.-Four per-
sons were shot to death and violence
swelled on a mounting tide of ten
sion, opposition reports said today,
as Turks prepared to vote tomorrow
to determine the fate of President
Ismet Inonu's government.
Members of the opposition Demo-
cratic party said they had received
reports of increasing violence and
terrorism throughout the nation,
and in Istanbul, the military COM
mander issued a directive warning
that no election disorders would be
tolerated.
Three of the four men reported
killed were said to have been slain
while sitting in a village coffee
house at Izmir. One of them was
identified as the president of the
village branch Of Jelal Bayar's op-
position Democratic party.
The fourth man, described as a
member of the opposition restora-
ton party, was killed near Istanbul
by a gendarme who sought to ques-
ton him, these reports said.
The opposition Democrats accused
the government police of beating
party members and applying pres
sure against them, but a govern
ment spokesman dismissed these
accusations as ridiculous"
Tomorrows election Is the result
OF government decision last De-
cember to lift the prohibition
against opposition parties. In the
% years since the revolution, there
had been only one legal permanent
party in Turkey.
1t was conceded in most quarters
that President Inonu's government
would be retained.
Detachments of police reserves
were reported in the press to have
been moved into Izmir, and the
military was on the alert in Istan-
bul, still under the state of siege
to which its citizens have become
Injured during the past few turbu-
lent years.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Bill 10 Raise Judges Pay
$4,000 Sent 10 Truman
BY the Asseeioted Press

The House yesterday passed and
sent to the White House Senate
approved bill increasing salaries of
Federal judges $1,000 yearly.
More than 300 judges, ranging
from those on the Federal district
bench to the Chief Justice of the
United States will get the pay in
crease. 1t will be their first since
1926. Cost of the raise is estimated
at $1,500,000 annually.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Hughes Slightly Better.
Chest Tapped Again
BY the Assoeioisd Press

LOS ANGELES, July 2o,-Howam
Hughes, plane and movie maker
critically injured in a test flight
crack-up July 7, was scheduled to-
night to have his chest tapped for
fluid for the second time, Physician
Verne r. Mason reported.
At the same time Mr.. Hughes will
be given his seventh blood trans
fusion, DR.. Mason said. The physi-.
clan described Mr.. Hughes condition
as slightly improved in the last II
hours, although his pulse, which has
been f1uctuating between 105-120,
counted 100.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Army Medical Branch
To Mark 171st Year

The Hist anniversary of the Army
Medical Department will be OBJ
served Saturday afternoon in the
formal garden at Walter Reed Hos
pital, 1t was announced yesterday.
Although arrangements have not
been completed, exhibitions by am
putees driving automobiles and
swimming have been scheduled, also
on the use Of rehabili-
tation therapy.
Evening star., 1946-07-21

old girl found
Tuesday in an
alley behind the
Gov. Shepherd
Apartments, will
be arraigned be-
fore Un t e d
States Commits
sioner Needham
c. Turnage to-
morrow.
G h a v remont,
accompanied py
t wo attorneys
and a bondsman,
was brought to
police headquar-
ferS where he