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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
ITY-C0UNTY PAY
RAISES PROBABLE
Department Heads, Work.
ers To Benefit Under
Proposed Budget

A SIS minimum monthly wage
raise was tentatively granted yes
terday to employees exclusive of
department heads of departments
Jointly financed by the city and
county.
The department heads were ten
tatively granted raises based on
their present salaries, duties, and
responsibilities.
Although all raises were tenta-
tive, it is expected that they will
be incorporated into the city and
county 1946-47 budgets with little
or no change. They are as follows:
Morse Gets $40
Tax Collector c. R. Morse. $40 to
$3.50 monthly; Williams Brown, as
sistant collector, $225 to $245 month
ly; others, SIS monthly minimum.
Harry Fales, superintendent OF
Identification bureau, $3.50 to $285
monthly; others, SIS.
W. H. Wendt, meter adjuster,
SIPS to $14O monthly.
Health Department
Health department-Dr. A. H. FL
liot, chief, S4,92O to S $500 yearly;
L. I. Lassiter, sanitary engineer,
So, 100 to $1,000; others, $12o to $240
yearly increase.
The proposed $75, 988 health de-
partment budget was slashed to
1874 by eliminating salaries and
travel expenses of an assistant
health officer, junior general clerk,
and health educator. None of those
positions is filled now.
Other Grants
Other tentative grants we're as
follows:
James Walker Memorial hospit-
al, SIG, 300; Community hospital,
$35, 900; DOT busting program for
insect control, $4,000; Associated
charities, $22, 129. go.
Further budget deliberations were
scheduled for next week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
So To Bed

Last night a local man I'm a.
big hurry to get home for SUP
per jumped into his car on a
downtown street.
Since he was in such a great
hurry it vexed him no end
when the key refused to fit into
the ignition lock.
After several minutes of
frustrated key-fitting another
man stuck his head into the
car and said, "Can I help
you?"
"No," answered the first
man. "I'm just having a heck
of a time getting this durn
key into this durn lock-"
"Try this" suggested the
second man as he handed the
first man a key. CATER all, it's
my =, and this is my car"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
NEW OPA SWINGS BACK INTO BUSINESS
BY B2N(SzSTING AND REMOVING CEILINGS;
NJ LINKED WITH LUMBER FIRM IN QUIZ
TAKES LOOK-SEE
Ship May Be Added To List
OF Victims Of Underwater Atom Bomb

ABOARD USS APPALACH-
IAN, Bikini, July 26-P- The
high command of the atomic
bomb test took a quick, peril
GUS ride through the target
fleet Friday and found that the
Japanese battleship Nagato
might soon be added to the toll
of major warships sunk by
Thursdays underwater explo-
sion.
Blandy Makes Tour
Vice Adm. w. H. Blandy,
commander of the joint cross
roads task force, toured the
fleet in a gunboat with top
members of his staff and a
small group of correspondents.
He found these results ap-
parent.
No trace whatever of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
Sugar Direct
Wilmington Morning Star
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 26 - Con-
gresham j. Bayard Clark, meet
ing Friday with OPA and Agricul-
ture Department officials on the
sugar shortage 44tuation, urged
that refined sugar be shipped di-
re fly into the Port of Wilmington
for distribution throughout North
Carolina.
DINA.
1T looks as though both the Ag-
riculture Department and the OPA
are making a splendid effort to
get more sugar sent to the United
States" Congressman Clark said
after the meeting. in their calcu-
lations they have allowed for more
sugar during the canning season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
CITY WILL PRESS
FOR TRUCK ROUTE
Benson Reiterates Stand
In Favor OF Lane Skirt
ing Business Area

City Manager J. R. Benson reit-
Grated yesterday that he and the
city council will continue theiN eff
forts to have the State Highway
commission establish a through
truck route which will skirt, rath-
er than cut through the city.
Others Accepted
Others accepted by the local sta
Benson's reiteration was made
after the State Highway commits
sion announced in Raleigh yester-
day that authorization had been
made for an engineering survey in
the immediate future for a "suit-
able truck route through or around
Wilmington"
See Skirting Route
Although A. H. Graham, com
mission chairman, has said that the
survey will center principally on
Seventh and Eighth streets, Ben
See CITY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
FAST IKIAL9
Derby Cars Make Speed
IN Preliminary Dashes

tunity yesterday, put in the day
IN touching up their derby cars.
or. getting a slant on those
racers which did make or or
more runs down the Rankin
street hill.
Some Nice Cars
There was some real nicely
designed and exceedingly fast
cars trying cut yesterday and
the 400 ood spectators who
watched the boys zoom down
the hill Waxed even more en-
thuslastic perhaps than the
boys themselves. Robert Kress,
acting as starter for the boys,
got each heat away in good
fashion and Clerk of the Course
Adam Smith timed each heat
See DERBY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
Pay Boost

WASHINGTON, July 2e.-R-A
raise in pay for the nations law
makers and sweeping changes in
their methods of working became
virtually assured Friday night as a
congressional reorganization bill
was sent to President Truman.
The bill, on which the senate
completed congressional action Fri
day afternoon, would raise pay of
senators and house members from
$4,000 a year to $12, 500, plus a ST.
500 tax-free expense allowance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
4 NEGROES SLAIN
BY GEORGIA MOB
6O.Shot Broadside Mows
Victims Down 50 Miles
From Atlanta

MONROE, Ga, July 25.-WH-
More than a score of white men,
led BY a six-foot-three giant wear
ne black Simon Legree" hat,
dragged four terrified, pleading
negroes from a car on a desolate
Georgia road Thursday and lynch
ed them with a 60-shot broadside
from rifles, shotguns and pistols.
A Mortified witness of the mass
lynching was J. 10y Harrison, a
prosperous Oconee county farmer.
Harrison was driving the Negroes
two men and Their Wives-to his
farm after posting 5000 bond to re-
lease one of them from jail where
he was held on charges of stabbing
a former white employer
Would Know Lynchers
Harrison vowed that he would rec
ognize two of the lynches if he
ever saw them again-the strap
ping leader of the band and an I'M
dersized youth in G. l clothes who
held a shotgun at his head while
the Negroes we're hustled into the
woods and moved down.
The U. S. Justice department
joined the Georgia Bureau of In
Vestigation and Walton County
Sheriff E. S Gordon in an imme-
date investigation of what Maj. w.
E. Spence of the State Bureau Of
Investigation said was '+the worst
thing that every happened in Geor-
gia."
Party Waylaid
The four Negroes and Harrison
We're waylaid on the approach of
small plank bridge over the APP
palachee river dividing Walton and
0conee counties. 1t was a wild, re-
mote spot where the road was lined
with swamp and lush under
growth, about 10 miles east of Mon
zoe and 50 miles northeast of Al
lanta.
harrison said the leader of the
!FAcAlng party was a towering fig
ue OF a man, weighing at least
~ pounds. He wore a brown suit
and a broad-brimmed black hat.
long black hair, mottled with gray,
See NEGROES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27

Battleship New York, listing
so slightly that Blandy was I'M
certain whether it was natural
or caused by the bomb;
No survey of submerged SUBJ
marines, five of which were
previously reported on the bot
tom but about which Blandy
later expressed some doubts.
Exposed To Rays
Nor was there any trace Of
the weapons craft below which
the bomb had been suspended.
The Blandy party was able
to stay only a half-hour in
the violently radioactive area,
and even then it was announc-
ed that ever member Of the
party had been exposed to five
per cent more rays than was
considered safe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
Super Highway
Wilmington Morning Star
WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 26 - The
lo0'e Of a super highway to run
s9uth from Fayetteville, remain
ea IN doubt after a conference of
S,ale and federal road officials,
cI!oay, Congressman J. Bayard
Clark, said.
opposition from South Carolina
,l.ga"ay authorities who prefer a
lou'e from Fayetteville, South by
aaelord, and Bennetsville, S. c.,
T Tslayed final action, Clark said.
iAFee further negotiations will be
u! order, and it cannot be decid-
W exactly which route will be
,1oSen' Just yet, the congressman
SN4Q.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
.SP0FFORD MILLS
INCREASES WAGES
$4,000 Per Year Salary
Boost Announced For
300 Employees

A SIS, 900 per year wage increase
to the $50 workers of S%pofford Mills
was announced yesterday by }.
Holmes Davis, Jr., company presl-
dent.
The wage raise, the second such
authorized by the company this
year, boosts the minimum pay OF
Spofford Mills employees to 70 cents
per hour, Davis said.
The plant, operating two eight
hour shifts and one four-hour shift,
comes within four hours of turning
out textiles on a round-the-clock
production line.
The plant has almost completed
it's government contracts, and dis
tribution of the goods is still under
governmental direction. Broad
cloth and prints are being turned
out at near-capacity rate.
The wage hike announced yester-
day is in line with those granted
textile workers throughout the
state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27

battleship Arkansas and an oil
tender, both of which were
sunk almost instantly;
Oil and air bubbling up from
the grave of the aircraft car
rier Saratoga, which sank seven
and one-half hours after the
blast;
Increasing List
An increasing list to the 3d.
720-ton Nagato, which was
tilted only two degrees Thurs
day but had increased to
eight by noon Friday, and was
at a much sharper angle by
shutdown;
Transport Fallon, 15-degree
list; one tank-landing craft,
previously reported sunk, found
floating bottom up, another
found adrift;
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
study PROMISED

Further study on a request
by Wilmington's veterans or
CARNATIONS that a Sc, 900 annual
appropriation for a Veterans
Service center in the city, has
been promised by New Hanover
county commissioners and city
council.
Asked to appear before the
board for an early hearing on
the proposed appropriations are
all local agencies concerned
with veterans affairs.
Although the combined boards
were of the opinion that some
such place would be helpful,
thew said consideration of an
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27

Sixteen North Carolina cities
and towns last night had &C
,cepted the bid of the Carolina
Beach Chamber of Commerce
to send their local beauty
queens to the beach resort 1or
a five-day vacation preceding
the North Carolina State Miss
America beauty finals at Will
son next Saturday.
Latest cities to telegraph ac-
ceptance of the beach offer are
Asheville, which will be rep
resented by Miss Evelyn Toth~
crow, Rocky Mount will be by
Betty Brewer, and Washington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
HEADS INSTALLED
AT RESORT POST
William Matthews o m.
mander Oh Carolina
Beach Group

William Matthews was installed
as commander of the Carolina
Beach American Legion Post
Number 272, Thursday night in i'm
pressive ceremonies witnessed by
200 Legionnaires.
Deputy State Commander Ray
Galloway and District Commander
Joe Mann. Whiteviile, officiated
at the installation of new officers
held in the Ocean Plaza club, with
the principal address being made
by Judge John J. Burney who spoke
on american Legion" Post Chap.
lain Fred Plat made the invoca-
ton, and group singing was led by
Commander Mann.
Local Post Represented
The Wilmington Post Number 10
American Legion, was officially
represented by Commander w. K
Stewart and Mrs. Stewart who i.
president of the Legion Auxiliary;
Charles Foard, Chef De Care o.
the Wilmington Voiture, 40 Ell
Eight, and j. Carl Seymour, Che
minot Rationale, of the 40 Eft Eight
A dance which was we'll attend
ed followed the installation of Of
ficers.
Other Officers
Other officers installed were:
William L. Farmer, first vice com.
mander; A. A. Willett, second vice
commander; Eli Kurie, finance of
ficer, Fred Plat, Chaplain; Percy
Morton, Adjutant and Earl Klutz
sergeant-at-arms.
The post has around 60 members
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
CAROLINA BEACH HOST
Sixteen ~ C.. Beauties
To Visit Local Resort

N. c., whose entry is Kath-
crime Nichols.
Twenty-Five Cities
twenty-five Tar Heel cities
and communities are staging
local beauty contests leading
to the Wilmington event, and
Ben Mallard said last night 1t
was possible that all twenty
two of the states beauty
queens would be represented
at the beach beginning Mon
day.
At the same time, now it is
disclosed that the round OF en-
See BEAUTIES On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina-Saturday
clear to partly cloudy with mild temper
atures.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:3O pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1:30a 10; 7:30a IS; l BOP 81; 7:30p rs.
Maximum 80. Minimum 70; Mean IS;
70.
1:3Oa 81; 7:30a 10; 1:30p So; 7:30p 90.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30p-0.29
Total since the first of the month-15.51
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ------------ 8:42a 3:35a
Masonboro Inlet ------- 6:29a 12:33a
7:02p 1882
Sunrise $40; Sunset TIT; Moonrise
4:05a; Moonset 7:01p.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at s
Friday, 1873 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
FAST TRIALS
Bv JACK C. LUNAN

Following successful trial
rms over the Derby Downs"
.onrse Oh Rankin street yestcr-
5ov morning, Is enthusiastic
hoys VINO Will enter their cars
IN the Wilmington All-Ameri-
ran Soap Box Derby next
Wednesday, took their racers
hack home for further tuning
I'D in preparation for the Of
fetal weighing and inspection
ceremonies on Monday and
Tuesday.
some 20 or more other lads
who contemplate facing starter
eli Pickard in the big race to
bs co-sponsored by The STAR
News and Raney Chevrolet
ccmpany and who did not take
advantage of the trials oppor-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
DR.. Smith Named

DR.. Shade A. Smith Of White
vile has been named deputy dis
trict of Region Five of District BIC
of the Lions club, it has been an
nounced by Littlejohn Faulkner,
Wilson, district governor.
Also appointed was Mac F.
Jones, Leland, chairman of Zone
One
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
Consumers Must Wait
To Learn Food Prices
Three-Man Decontrol Board To Begin Func-
tioning Aug. 20 To Decide On Meat,
Poultry, Dairy Products

WASHINGTON, July 26.-UP)-The Office of Price
Administration, riding herd on prices again after rs days
of no controls, Friday boosted many ceilings above June
80 levels and removed them altogether from other COM
modities.
Swinging back into business after President Truman
signed the bill giving it renewed life until next June, the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
RED TROUBLE AGAIN
Chaos In Hungary
Charged To Russia
State Department Makes Direct Appeal To
Molotov For Cooperation In Re-
facilitating Germany

WASHINGTON, July 26.-(AP)-On the eve of Secre-
tary Byrnes' departure for the Paris peace conference, the
United States Friday night sharply accused Russia of
creating economic chaos in Hungary by stripping her of
vital food and industrial materials.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
STUDY PROMISED
Citv-C Will
Consider Veteran Center

other means, other than setting
up a new agency might be eff
fected, however, they agreed
to give the proposal further
consideration,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27

See MAY on Page Two
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WV. Attracts
Working Girls

Four Bostonians, Mary L
Braxton, 40 Hamomnd st, Es-
Their A Francis 16 Greenwich
Park, Rachel Joseph, 66 Ham
mond st and Ethel Neblett, 367
Massachusetts, ave have joined
the new Industrial Girls Pro-
gram at the Boston YWCA.
Open to all girls in industry
between the ages of IS and 35,
the group now numbers so girls
frtm a wide variety of indus
trial occupations. They meet at
the Y every Thursday evening
for a varied program of movies,
speakers, sports and hobbies.
In addition to discussions on
such subjects as current events,
jobs, marriage, the girls have
their choice Of activities in
GLIDING singing sewing, crafts,
dramatics, photography, swim
ming and bowling. They alsD
give dances and parties for SER
vicemen and veterans.
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Stanley DR. Costa Kirton. bril-
liant young musician, who for
past five years has been a stu
dent at the New England Con-
servatory of music, demon
strated his unusual musical
ability Monday evening, De-
cember 16, in pianoforte re-
cital which was given in Re
cital Hall, under the auspices
of the school.
The recital, which rounded
out his prescribed course lead
ing to the degree, Bachelor of
Music, is requirement for
students who major as solo
list at the school. The perfor-
nance gave evidence of the de-
mands involved which Mr. Kir-
ton most certainly mastered.
The hall was filled to capacity
by an interracial group Of stu
dents in music and a crosS-sec-
ton Of the many friends and
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
ANTILYNCH RALLY IN JORDAN HALL

Three hundred and fifty per-
sons at an intercollegiate rally
last Friday night heard promi-
nent speakers pledge their sup
port to the slogan "Lynching
Must Co
Harold Preece author. gave
an eyewitness account Of lynch
ings, stating that in each case
the victim had not been proven
guilty of any crime. Clark Fore
man, president Of the South
ern conference, pointed out that
there are some good white peo-
pie in the south and claimed
that Senator Claude Pepper of
Florida is the best man in the
Senate today.
Mrs, Thomasina w. Johnson,
director of minority relations,
us. Department. of Labor,
thrilled the audience with a
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
U. S. BOND
XMAS GIFT

For Christmas, give a U. S.
Savings Bond, the gift that keeps
on giving" Is urged by Orville
S. Poland, State Director Of the
Massachusetts, Savings Bonds
Committee.
"a Series E Bond costs as
title as $lS75 for SIS bond,
Mr.. Poland explained. That is
exactly what 1t cost last year
and each year back to 1941,
when these savings bonds we're
first issued by the Treasury A
$50 bond cost $3.50, 500 bond
SIS, a 500 bond SIS, In the first
ten months of 1946 Mass people
invested $50 million in U. S.
Savings Bonds, Series E, F, and
q
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
YULE CHEER
FOR SERVICENEN

An appeal for $4,000 Christ
mas gift items, requested by
Army and Navy officials for dis
tribution to hospitalized veter-
ans and service personnel in the
local area, Il issued BY che Camp
and Hospital Council committee
Of the Boston Metropolitan
Chapter, American Red Cross.
Mrs. varaztad H. Kazanjian
chairman Of the committee, asks
the public to cooperate in filling
the request. add hospitalized
veteran or a Serviceman to your
Christmas list she urged. Make
sure our veterans are remem-
bered. Share your Christmas
happiness with them.
Many volunteers are already
hard at work at Chapter head
quarters wrapping and prepar-
ing packages for distribution.
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dinging condemnation of lynch
ing,to which the audience re-
sponded by contributing one
thousand dollars to send dele
gates to washington to fight for
passage of an anti-lynching bill.
A musical program was given
by the cast Of Twilight Alley
featured by Libby Holman, Zero
Mostel, Avon Long and Mildred
Smith. Solos were sung by Mar
garet Tynes and James Brown,
with piano solos by Jean Jones,
famous boogie woogie artist and
Darnley Corbin as acompanist
for the vocal numbers.
DR.. Donald Born was the pre-
siding officer and the entire
affair was under the auspices OF
a committee representing four
teen Greater Boston UNIVERSE
ties and schools.
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she was featured the past
week. The two orchestras of
Buddy Watson and SabDy Lew
is gave out continuous music t.
delight the guests Called upon
to sing, Miss Horne complied
with a group OF songs delight
fully rendered, which included
one that was both new and SEN
sational.
The young ladies of The
Smart Set responsible for the
successful affair were headed
/ by Mrs Adelaide Holbrook
walker chairman, Misses Mar
garet Mckinney, Corona Chest
nut and Inez Russell. The pres
entation Of a beautiful corsage
to Miss Horne from the club
members and the vocal and in
strumental numbers by high
class talent were additional
high Lights in a gorgeous affair,
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21

WASHINGTON, CHS - Re-
publican members of the COM
mittee that aired the charges
against senator Bilbo in Mis-
sissippi recently, are deter
mined that the whitewash at
tempt by Senator Ellender shall
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of the country and from all
groups of the population. This
is a splendid example of DEM
ocracy in action, for through
the good will and generosity of
the American people, thusands
of colored youth will have a
greatly improved educational
opportunity"
Boston campaign. Thomas H.
Eliot, chairman, raised the sum
of $32, 1887.
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NAME RACE YOUTH
FOR WEST POINT

WEST POINT-The U. S. Mill
tary Academy at West Point will
be headquarters for Roscoe z.
Young when he passes prelim-
mary adnittance tests. The ls
year old youth was nominated
for the honor last week by rep
resentative Benjamin J. Rabin
of New York. Young is a student
at the College of the City of New
York, and is rated as a grade
student with an excellent per-
Sonality.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
WISCONSIN OUTLAWS xxx.

MADISON - Wisconsin has
revoked the charter granted to
Ku Kux Khan twenty-one years
ago. Attorney General John
Martin brought the successful
action for dissolution in Circuit
Court here last week and it was
granted Immediately
Martin stated that he did
not know Of a single member
of the nightshirt Khan in the
state, but he pointed out that
he waned 0 remove the infer
ence that the state sanctions
the existence Of the hooded
mob.
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U. COLLEGE FUND
NEARS MILLION

NEW YORK 49, The United
College Fund in its third an
nual drive has raised nearly
$9O5, 900, it was announced this
week by Frank M. lotion. ma
tional campaign chairman and
vice-president of the Chase Ma
tional Bank.
"One of the most thrilling
aspects of the campaign" Mr..
lotion said, sis the wide sup
port received from all sections
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21

well wishers Of young Kirton
and his relatives.
Mr. Kirton will get his degree
in pianoforte with credits for
special studies in organ, choir
training, chorus and orchestral
conducting and liturgical mu-
sic, which has prepared him for
any musical assignment. AS was
expressed by many of the stu
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
TO BE NO BILBO
HlTEWASH

not prevail. A spokesman has
stated that any report from the
chairman giving Bilbo a clean
bill Of health, viii be met with
a minority report proclaiming
his guilt on the charge that he
inspired and advocated intim-
idation of colored voters.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
new YORK NAMES
JAN. 5 CARVER DAY

NEW YORK - The New York
city council this week passed c
resolution proclaiming January
5 as George washington Carver
Day.
The United States Congress
in 1915 voted to designate Jan
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-12-21
ANNOUNCEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Jones
ruth Griffin of 2484 Wash
ington St., Roxbury are happy
to announce the birth of a
daughter, Norma Elizabeth, on
Dec. 9th, 1916. Mother and baby
are doing well.