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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
Rubber

Natural rubber is again arriving in
this country. Not long ago steamer
made fast at Long Beach, California,
dock and unloaded $500 tons.
Nearby is synthetic rubber plant,
a wartime project, which, 1t is claimed,
can supplant the production of a planta-
ton of 100000 acres containing 3O0,-
100000 trees and employing $4,000
poorly paid native workers. This plant
produces only one-eighth of this coun-
try's synthetic rubber.
It is also claimed for the California
plant that but six days are required for
manufacture of raw materials from Pc
troleum fields into tires.
Manufacturers of synthetic rubber
declare that they have made such ad-
vances in production that their product
lacks little of the qualities of natural
rubber.
The industry created in the war
emergency represents such heavy in
vestments and has made such marked
improvements, it's postwar utilization
would appear to be fully justified.
There was talk some time back when
the rubber plantations of the southwest
Pacific islands were again ready to
make regular and large shipments the
synthetic plants, alrgely financed from
public funds, but in which manufacture
ing companies have also made large in
vestments, would be discarded. In view
of the value and productiveness of the
synthetic plants coupled with the long
voyage from the far Pacific, (the. first
shipment was delivered after a thirty
day sea trip, to abandon them would
be sheer waste and bad economies.
States rubber manufacturers to be
There is no good reason for United
again subjected to the monopoly of
Dutch and British syndicates which ex-
listed before the war. Certainly il
would be unjustified, if synthetic rub
Der can be made the equal of natural
rubber, which seems likely.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
At Any Price

It sounds like Sanford and Merton.
if anybody else remembers that goody-
goody pair of little darlings, but it is
worth telling anyway as it reflects the
attitude of all too many persons toward
work and the willingness of one thrifty
kid who wanted job and knew how to
get it.
After snowfall down East some
where two husky big boys arrived at a
home where the man of the house was
away. The housewife asked them to
clear paths here and there. They
went into a huddle and, returning, de-
manded $3.50 in advance Remember
this was down East where pennies have
greater value than in some other Sec
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
THREE SHIPYARDS
FACE PAY CHARGES
Will Be Cited For Nom
Compliance With Retro
active Wage Increase

MOBILE, Ala, March 30-U.p)-
Three shipyards will be cited te
the Shipbuilding Wage Sterilization
committee in Washington for non
compliance with an 18-cent retro.
active wage increase, a union Of
fetal said today.
Charles w. Hansen, general ex.
ecutive board member of the IN
dustrial Union of Marine and Ship
building Workers of America
(CIO), said the yards failed to
meet last nights union deadline
for the demands.
Yards affected at the Alabama
Dry Dock and Shipbuilding COM
pany, Mobile; Todd-Johnson Dry
Docks, New Orleans; and Merrill
Stevens Dry Docks, Jacksonville,
Fla. Hansen said the Dade Dry
Docks, Miami, previously listed as
seeking the increase, was not Gov
cred by zone standards.
The sterilization board recon-
mended the increase retroactive
to Dec. 4. Hansen said they Woulc
remain on their jobs until after
the board meeting in Washington
April 3. The union recently voted
TO strike to support their demands
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
Fundamental Principles

One way to know for sure that cleo
ton time is drawing near is the con-
slant reference to party groups in
Washington dispatches. Republican
senators are doing this or that. Demo-
cratic senators are doing something
else. Southern democrats are deter
mined to do thus and so. New England
or Middle Western Republicans are
equally determined they mustn't do it.
The news is all about party, or group,
or factional activity and opinion. If
any reference is made to fundamental
principles it is more in the nature of
a foot-note than anything else.
Please note the reference to "funda-
mental principles. They are differ
ent from mere party principles and
deserve first place in the consideration
of the American people en- masse. Isn't
it time we got back to them? They
underlay the structure of American
liberty. 1t is not right, certainly it is
not safe, to bury them under litter
of party principles which change con-
stantly, while they remain firm and
Interchangeable. 1t is no more right to
submerge them in election year than
at any other time.
What the United States needs is not
so much change in the congressional
complexion as return to Constitution
al government and the Bill of Rights.
Neither has had a fair break in recent
years. For the most part both have
been shunted aside and dictatorial gov
eminent substituted.
1t was the general hope that with
the end of the war the nation would
be brought back under their protection
and privileges. Instead we are still
subjected to fiat rule and controls that
have nothing in common with the logi-
cal and established, but present
ly ignored, rights of man.
The danger of this is that if there
is not a quick reversal of the existing
formula it will make no difference who
is elected to either branch of the Con-
gress. Private enterprise, initiative
and unhampered competition will still
be throttled.
Nor will it matter WHO is sent to the
White House in 1948 unless there is a
complete about-face at Washington, in
which the paternalism and state social
ism that have dominated industry and
business so long and extensively are
stricken from the American philosophy
of life and government.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
The Ubangis, 1t Seems, Brought Tough
Luck To Shou Folks Under Big TOP

through with a lot of mumbo-jum-
DO and bowling and kowtowing.
That was all they did. Just looked
funny to most folks.
But from that time on, so the
show folks will tell you-and Mr..
Raftery tells me that the show
folks believe pretty much in the
superstition - the Ringing circus
hit a streak of hard luck that has
logged the circus to this day.
Back in 1937-if I have my dates
straight "a couple of outstanding
aerialists fell and were killed in
Madison Square Garden, tradition
al spring opening ground for Ring
ling. Then the circus ran into
strike and had to take the road
with only part of the circus.
For several years now, the Ring
ling show has run into a series
of hard luck. You know about the
disastrous fire the show had last
year, I believe it was, in Hartford,
Conn.
Well, Mr.. Raftery emphasizes
that show-folks everywhere shake
their heads and say the Ubangis
were bad business for the Ring
lings.
And, according to Mr.. Raftery,
who tells you about it with his
tongue in his cheek and a cat-ate-
the-caaary grin on his FACET he
can do both at the same time
there are today few, if any, real
Ubangis travelling with shows in
America.
The owners don't want to tempt
Fate and the Ubangis' curse.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
Editorial Comment
Brotherhood

Tolerance is virtue, but in the United
States we need much richer virtue than
that 1t is not enough that we should treat
those of different race or different religion
from ourselves with Indifference or even po-
likeness. Unfortunately, even that minimum
standard of decency is not achieved by some.
We need to cultivate in all our public and
private relations the will to seek and know
the best among our neighbors of all races,
colors, and creeds; to appreciate and foster
their good qualities; to learn from them as
readily as to teach them; to become their
friends and in truth their brothers and sis
ters as BELTS the children Of God - Chicago
Daily News
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
CHAPLAIN FRANK M.
THOMPSON

Passing the buck is called the
old Army game. The general told
the colonel, the colonel told the
major and so on down the line
However, you must go farther
back to find the origin. You will
recall that Adam blamed Eve and
Eve charged the transaction to the
serpent. And there is abundant
evidence that passing the buck is
not the property of any particular
race hut that it has been and is
a popular indoor sport among all
people of all ages.
1t is such comfortable position
to take. Reproved for swearing,
the man claimed exemption or the
ground that he had been reared
in the vicinity of the Chicago stock
yards. Another excused his i'll
temper because it ran in the fami-
ly. 1t never occurred to him it
was time it was run out of the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
PARENTS BATTLE
INVASION BY RATS
Two Children Under Doc
tors Care After Being Bit
ten Scores Of Times

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 81
-LR-Two infants were under doc-
tors care here today after Ghree,
night battle between their deal
mute parents and hordes OF 'fa'S
that invaded their Springfield sec
ton home, biting the children more
than a score of times.
Four-month-old Herman Gordon,
Jr., was still in county hosp-'di
crib-his body purple and bruised
but l8-month-old Kathlee hau
been sent home after preventative
treatment had been given her IoI
tetanus and gas gangrene.
The story was told today ny
DR.. H. M. Anderson, resident sur
geon as he received it from nelsHl
bors-a story of three nlgh's u
horror during which Mr.. and NIP,
Herman Gordon fought with e-uDs
to keep the invading rats rom '-''
beds of their children.
Neighbors told DR.. Anderson IH''
the Gordons moved into the Aog'1
early this week and that Iot '"'
first three nights they heard nam
noises all over the mouse
noises that at times were nl-a2-5u
with screams and shouts. many
some went to investigate,
They found the Gordons Uranus.
Iy hamnering up gaping ho-ss
in the walls, pausing no" anu
then to swing a club at La'
that had managed to get II az
spite their efforts.
AS best they could, the paFell.s
told their story. First rats swarm
ed into the beds of their ch1aseA'
and the parents took the chi-a.en
into their own beds. The rats ll-'
lowed. Then they got up ana BE-
gan the battle that eveninaE
brought the neighbors.
Yesterday the children were TAX
IN to the hospital.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
BY JOHN SKIES

If you get around very much
you hear about a lot of things.
That seems perfectly silly and
obvious way to start out an item.
But, anyway, that's the way I hap
pened to react when I heard about
the Ubangis.
The Uba1gis, about whom you
probably know a whole lot more
than I, are those strange people
from darkest Africa who have low
er lips the size of coffee saucers.
Just as an aside, it seems the
Ubangis, from birth, have some
body start stretching their lower
lips so they, the lips. will become
all mishapen and large. Seems
that's the Ubangis' mark of
beauty.
Well, in a conversational bee
with Jimmy Raftery, the show
man, after boiled New England
dinner, I learned about Ubangis.
That is, I didn't exactly learn
about UbaAgis, but l learned what
their voodoo, If you believe in WOO
docs, did to the Ringing circus.
1t may be the Ubangis' curse,
or whatever it was, didn't have
anything to do with Ringing, but
there are superstitious shoW-folks
who'll swear swear as big as
an elephant that they did.
You may recall that back in the
thirties the Ringlings brought
troupe of Ubangis to the United
States to be an extra added at
traction with the circus.
1t seems that when the agent
went to Africa he had to make
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
Passing The Buck

family. Robert G. Ingersoll at
tributed his agnosticism to the
teaching of his pious Puritan par.
entS.
Call the roll of all who get in
wrong from the lad caught with
his hand in his mothers fruit lar
to the instigators of the world
war, and all with one accord will
make excuses.
Why all these alibies. these
evasions, the unwillingness to take
the responsibility? Simply this. we
want our friends and associates to
think well Of us. We make no ex-
cuses for our virtues, only for our
mistakes, defects, sins.
In all this no one is deceived
for,
1T matters not how straight the
gate,
How charged with punishments
the scroll,
I am the master of my fate.
L am the captain of nv soul"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
TRUMAN HOUSING
PLAN DENOUNCED
Termed Scheme To Support
Pre-Fabricated Houses
Over Other Types

WASHINGTON, March 3o-(P)-
Inc administrators plan for build
ing material subsidies was de-
hounced before Senate commit
Tee today as a scheme to support
pie-1abricated housing to the dis
advantage of conventional build
ers.
me accusation came from Jo-
sepn l: King, counsel for the Ma
elonai retail Lumber Dealers as
soclatlon' who said the plan had
with Sterilization Di-
iee'or chester Bowles rather than
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31

Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt,
its present chief advocate.
Urging the Senate Banking COM
mittee to reject Wyatt's request
for $500, 100000 for subsidies, King
and Building Supply men con-
tended price adjustments would
produce all the building materials
needed and would result in lower
cost housing.
Wyatt has testified that hep ro-
poses to guarantee a market for
prefabricated houses under certain
conditions. This would mean the
government would buy them if the
could not sell them
in the market.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31

the Ubangis a solemn promise be.
fore ever they'd agree to join UP
with the show. AS a matter Of
fact, the Ubangis didn't know any.
thing at all about the show bust
ness. They were just coming along
for the ride.
But they told the agent he'd
have to have them back to their
native land at certain time. They
couldn't tell him exactly what
time because they don't have any
such things as clocks and calen-
dars. They have a system of their
own of keeping up with the pas
sage of days and months and
weeks.
They told the agent they must
go through certain rite at GER
tain time and they'd have to be
back on their native heath to go
through it. Couldn't do it any,
where else but at home.
The agent promised. But after
they'd-the Ubangis - been over
here for while the agent forgot
all about his promise. Maybe he
didn't intend to keep it in the first
place.
At any rate, there came a time
when the Ubangis got to getting
sullen. They'd just NOPE around
the tents. They wouldn't talk their
sign language and they wouldn't
talk through an interpreter. They
just kept to themselves.
Then, one day When it must
have been around time for their
cereD1onials, the y gathered in
front of the big top and went
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
Interpreting
The News
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs AnsIr~t

Back from adventures in fore,-u
fields just in time for the enro%r
aging declaration by UNRRA's 1a '
chief, Fiorello LaGuardia, that NV Nv
is going about in providing food ~
hungry countries.
There's no doubt in my min.
after survey in the field 49,
the global food shortage is the nrr.
Der one crisis of the moment1a -
it's urgent. The political and sco 1
nomic problems on hand, wbiI"
pressing, are long term affair, .
compared with the plague nj S,, az
ger which is sweeping manv nart,
of the world and is increasing w. ~
intensity daily. LII
There's no use giving a man mn.
chlnery for economic recover -
hes too weak from Starvation -
work it. '''' ~
Millions Face Starvation
Let's state this thing in terros
ol the crude truth. Millions Of PEG.
pie are going to die from lacI, ~
tood during the next six months
and even the best efforts we 70,
make will not prevent that.
There are half a billion hungry
folk in the world. There is food
enough for only three-quarters ~
them. In other words some 125 O00.
600 unfortunates are condemned
OF course these figures cover tbe
whole globe. We hear more about
Europe because it is closer to us
but the hand Of hunger lies heavy
on many parts Of the Orient-no.
tably India, China and Japan.
The question of food RELIEF isn't
one for tomorrow. It's today's bis
issue. The situation In the under.
nourished countries is deteriorating
rapidly, and will continue to do 50
until the next harvest brings re.
lief. That harvest is months awav
and we have assurances that it will
be a good one.
In any event, my observation is
that this crisis won't by any means
be confined within the period be-
tween now and harvest time. We
shall be wise to face that right
now.
The bulk OF the relief naturally
must come from the western hem.
isphere, and Uncle Sam has the
greatest resources to meet the
emergency. However, Canada and
the Argentine will be looked to for
heavy contributions. Mr.. LaGuar.
dia's announcement that he will ap.
peal to the Argentine for grain is
good news, since the underpriv.
LEGGED countries are banking much
on help from that great country,
Still, even if every nation con.
tributes its surplus food to relief,
there won't be enough to 60 around.
We mustn't forget that the stocks
el hand are sufficient for only
three-quarters of the hungry folk.
And what's the answer to that?
Well, one answer is the one I've
given already-that millions must
die. But that's not the complete
picture. We can increase the avail.
able relief stocks If we peoples Of
the western hemisphere will tight
en- our belt a bit in the way Of
food rationing. I'm sure
there are mighty few who wouldn't
be eager to make that contribution
if they could see the pinched faces
Of the hungry people abroad, es'
pecially the children.
The babies Of every land employ
the same language in crying for
food.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
HELD

HENDERSON, March 3O.-(P-
Julian Robertson, 30-year-old Vance
eexnty man, was held without priv
ilege of bond ~ coroner's jury
here last night investigating the
death OF Gordon Allen. Prelim-
mary hearing for Robertson was set
for next Tuesday by CorsAsr Asa
Paschall, by request Of sounsel.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
RESINS

CHARLOTTE, March 30.-PN
John H. Dixon, Charlotte agent of
the U. S. treasury department bur-
eau of narcotics, has rendered his
resignation, to be effective April
20. Dixon said he will enter the
hotel business at Myrtle Beach, S.
C.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
NO MARKET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March so
-P)-Hundreds of tons of Alasaa
1915 spuds will have to be dumped
in the river" fol lack of mar
ket.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31

"A newly Matched bird weighs
only about two-thirds as much as
the fresh-laid egg.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
QUOTATIONS

tuSSld duO Tie Ou1CeQ OldteS d1C IOooy Lue
most powerful nations in the world, Sc unless
we can get along together, there is no hope
for peace. DR.. E. U. Condor, National
Bureau of Standards director.
L we must seek means OF correcting the
vicious educational systems which fed the Nip
ponese and Nazi fury, we would better not
ignore the anomalies and absurdltles Of our
own. DR.. Everett Case, president Colgate U.
The United States is the rlcnest and most
important country in the world and what we
do in the next few years determines what
the world will do in the next 3D. = Rep. Chase
Going Woodhouse (D) of Connecticut.
Air defenses for the United States far SUI
perior to those which prevailed in Germany
would still leave American industries vulner-
ah1 ei Oil Division report, United States stra-
tegic Bombing Survey.
country which attempts to gain security
through 11ni1ateral action, through aggressive
independent action, is ONLY opening the gates
- d;sa s+er W. Averell Hartman, fornoer
ambassador to MOSCOW
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-31
TOP o. MORNING

rhere ;s a. Mace where thou canst reach
the store
Of boarded gold and free 1t for the Lord:
There is a place-upon some distant
shore
Where thou canst send the worker or the
Word;
There is a place where Heavens resist
less power
Responsive moves to thine insistent plea;
There is place-a silent trusting hour
Where God Himself descends and fights
for thee,
Where is that blessed place-dost thou
ask "where?"
o, Soul, 1t is the secret place Of prayer!
Adelaide A. Zollard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-22
Plan on Contoctinq Men at Sec
 Red Cross In Position
 To Relay Family
 Messages

Red Gross may now forward ein- ergency messages, welfare reports, and vverihcations in connection with emergency leaves, to conl- manding officers of ships at sea through a recent agreement with the Navy Department, Mrs. Julius Smith, chairman of the Home Serv- ice Committee, announced at a monthly meeting last Friday. She added that families may colnmuni- cate with men aboard these ships through regular commercial chan nels.
 During the war because of the secrecy surrounding vessels at sea, 1t was impossible for the Red Cross or families to communicate with per- sonnel aboard ships. All messages had to wait until the ship reached port. The procedure followed by the Red Cross when notified of an er1l- ergency is to have the family notify the serviceman by regular commer- cial channels while the local chapter sends veriflcation of the emerg- ency to the national headquarters of the Red Cross in Washington. The national headquarters notifies the commanding officer of the service- mans ship using naval communica- tions facilities.
 From April 1945 to March l946 the Waterbury Chapter assisted l. l3l families by sending verificationS of critical illness or death in the immediate family of servicemen, Mrs. Smith reported. The veriflca- tions were needed so that service men could obtain emergency fur loughs or leaves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-22
WidowLoses Contest For Benefits
 Former Commissioner
 Claims insufficient
 Evidence Offered

Workmen's compensation pay rnents claimed by Mrs. Mary c. Davis of Bantam for the death of her husband, Chester, were denied today by former Compensation Commissioner John T. OConnell.
 MT. Davis, an employe of the Un- ion Hardware Company in Torring- ton for 24 years, died last Christmas Day. a month after the former corn- missioner held a bedside hearing at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington on the case. The com missioner, whose term expired Jan. l, finished the hearing here April IS.
 Mrs. Davis claimed the death was caused by lead poisoning acquired during her husbands employment as e painter. The commissioner. in his finding and award, discussed various medical testimony and ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show that death was caused by an occupational disease.
 Although recognizing that there was edivence of lead content in the employees bones, the commissioner ruled that the death did not have cauSal connection with the work.
 The American Brass Company, a prior employer of Davis, was dropped from the case by the com missioner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-22
TceSquadStages TlOO Early Morning Raids
Manager, Frequenters of Bishop Street
 Establishment, "The Hole" Pay Total Of $1O5; Vine Street Place Also Visited

The Police Departments vice squad turned the heat on shortly after midnight last night and smoked four men from "The Hole" a gambling establishment at 4S Bishop Street Arraigned before Judge Charles R. Summa in City Court this morning they paid a total of Sl05 for nolles.
 The raid came as an aftermath of a tip received in City Court last week when James Manning was ar- raigned along with others after a stabbing in the North End. At that time Manning mentioned that the prelude to the stabbing took place in "The Hole" Asked by Judge Summa what The Hole" was, Man. ming replied that 1t was a gam bling establishment. Well, 1t won't be for long," was the judges reply and 1t wasn't, as last nights raid proved.
 Charged with being the proprietor of the establishment. Arthur Jones, 40, of 3s Canal Street received nolle on payment of $75. Three others, charged with being frequent