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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01

in event of a strike, using the Navy.
Coast Guard, War Shipping adj
ministration and Army if neces-
sary.
Leaders of the maritime unions
said later that the Presidents re-
marks constituted an invitation to
the operators to be tough" and
refuse a settlement and commended
Mr.. Truman had fired a torpedo
into the negotiations"
Approve Agreement
In Washington the Wage Stabili-
cation board said it had approved,
with certain understandings, the
soft coal wage agreement, and
President Truman endorsed the
WSB step. The Understandings"
were board interpretations of sev-
eral clauses in the agreement.
The WSB order was required be-
fore any of the wage changes
agreed on could go into effect, be-
cause the soft coal mines now are
in possession of the government
and the war labor disputes act re-
quire a board order for wage chan
ges.
The new coal strike. ninth major
anthracite shutdown sinae the
turn of the century, came as the
first of the nations 400, 900 soft
coal miners began returning to
their jobs under an agreement
reached Wednesday with the Fed
eral government.
600 " MN nm pnme TIE
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Along The Cape Fear

opening portal of summer vaca-
ton.
And yet, even as the pages of the
memory-book flicked before our
eyes, we knew that something was
missing from the cen which had
just happened at the close of school
in the year of 1916.
The kids, as they trouped home
for the summer, we're not singing:
mo more pencils, no more
books,
No more teachers sassy looks"
PAST SASS-There must be, we
figure, only one reason why the
school chill en- of today no longer
sing this ancient ballad of school
closing:
. There must be no sassy teachers
left in this world.
And that's good.
When we were kids, we had al,
kinds of sassy teachers. We don't
mean that all of them were sassy;
as a mat of fact, many of them
were the un-sassiest people we
have ever known.
But the remembrance of the ones
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
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LIFE INSURANCE
MEN HEAR PLEA
Full Cooperation OF Local
Underwriters Promis-
ed On CT Plan

Full cooperation of local life
underwriters was promised the
veterans of World Wars I and II
yesterday at a forum meeting held
in the Veterans Administration
contact offices with E. c. Bailey,
regional VA insurance officer.
Bailey told the group that veter-
ans should be encouraged to hold
their term policies, established
while they were in service, until
such time as proposed liberaliza-
ton of the National Service Life
insurance act becomes law.
Desire Cooperation
The officer said the local under
writer's voluntarily expressed their
desire to cooperate fully with the
administration, and the veteran by
supplying him the necessary forms
and information for their insur-
ance, and assisting with claims
from time to time.
He told the group of the import
ance of keeping the beneficiary
of the veteran up to date, because
of cases of claimants, who the
veteran would probably not have
n a m e d., have been receiving
claims.
Bailey said that the trend of the
insurance plans for World War II
veterans is along the same lines
as those which were fashioned for
the veterans of the first world a
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
STAIN REJECTS
PRESIDENTS BID
Generalissimo Refuses Visit
To u. S. Because
OF Health

WASHINGTON, May 81 - W.H -
Generalissimo Josef Stain has re.
jected two invitations within a year
to come to the United States as
President Humans guest to dis
cuss Soviet-American relations. il
was revealed Friday by the Presi
dent.
On both occasions, Stain said his
doctor did not think it was advis,
able for him to take such a long
trip.
This announcement by the Presi-
dent at his news conference, the
first official, one that Stains hea4.n
was not up to par, came in the
midst of a most difficult period
of Soviet-American relations. II
follows sharp exchanges between
Secretly of State James F. Byrnes
and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov over the blame for failure
of the last Paris prime ministers
meeting.
The foreign ministers meet again
June Is in Paris and the State
Department announced Friday that
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R.-
Mich.) has assured Byrres he will
attend. Sen Tom Connally CD
Tex.), hopes to. Both were advisers
to Byrnes at the last meeting and
came back with nothing but praise
for his policies.
Mr.. Truman said the first invita-
ton to Stain was made at Postdam
last summer. The last one, he said,
was made within 80 days-during
the recent unsuccessful foreign
ministers meeting in Paris.
But later Mr.. Truman was proven
m error on his dates. The White
House corrected them and revealed
that the invitation was written
more than a month before the
Paris meeting started.
The White House disclosed that
Truman's invitation to Stain was
written on March 10, more than a
month before the Paris meeting,
and delivered by Lieut.. Gen. Wal
ter Bedell Smith, the new American
ambassador to Russia, on April 4
81 days before the Paris meeting
opened.
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ILLEGAL NYL0N
MARKET BROKEN
Multi Million Dollar Beer
Operations Are Also
Dissolved

CHICAGO, May 81 - W.H - The
government cracked down Friday
on what it described as a multi.
million dollar black market in beer
and a major nylon stocking ring
with indictments charging four
firms and IL persons with violations
of OPA ceiling prices.
Federal grand jury investigating
beer black market operations ex-
tending throughout the South, in
dicted three breweries, a beer dis
tributor and nine individuals on
charges of over-ceiling sales OF
S242, 500 worth of beer in the past
two years
Hosiery Violations
In a separate action, another
Federal grand jury indicted three
Chicago men, charging 40 viola
tons of ceiling prices in the sales
Of nylon and rayon hosiery which
they allegedly obtained from three
New York City firms. The New
York companies now are under in
vestigation, according to Asst. U.
S. Dist. Atty. Robert c. Eardley.
Charged with conspiracy to vio-
late beer price ceilings were:
The Roller Brewing Co., Chicago.
U. S. Dist. Atty. J. Albert Vol said
evidence indicated the company
was involved in more than 500, 600
o~ver-ceiling sales since 1914
The Best Brewing Co., Chicago:
The firm was charged with $40, 600
In ~over-ceiling sales since 1914.
The Frederick's Brewing Co.,
Thornton, ILL.,: The company was
charged on two counts with 81, 500
IN over-ceiling sales.
The Den-Mar Distributors, Chi
cago, charged with 5000, 900 in over
ceiling sales.
During the beer investigation,
dealers, distributors and retailers
from several Southeastern and
southwestern communities appear
ed before the grand jury. Vol de-
Scrlbed the beer black market as a
multlmlllion dollar operation. Ad-
oltlonal indictments are expected.
Ihree officials of the Rosmore
oa1es, Inc, Chicago. were indicted
IN the nylor-rayon case.
Nylon Black Market
Eardley said the suit was one of
tHe tlrst brought against major
oIack market operations in nylons.
ne charged that the Rosmore firm
made at least $25, 900 profit in
olack market sales of nylons dur
ing April and the early part of
MAY mostly in Chicago.
he said the firm sold nylon and
Iayon hosiery to IS distributors
VINO IN turn made door-to-door
sales. Nylons sold from $26 to $50 a
aozen against a ceiling of $11.75 a
oozen, he said Rayons brought
sao.oO a dozen, compared to an
NO ceiling, he said.
he said the three men are liable
70 a maximum fine Of $3.50, 600 or
~ years imprisonment if con-
Ncled on all of the 40 counts.
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SENATOR'S REFUSE
TO REVERSE VOTE
Official Predicts
Meat To Go Up II
To 20 Cents

WASHINGTON, May 31-U.H -
The Senate Banking committee
Friday refused to reverse its vote
to lift price controls on meat, poul-
try and dairy products June 80, a
move which OPA officials said
could lead to death e. the agency
and cost housewives millions OF
dollars.
Chairman Robert F. Wagner Cd
N. W said after the closed ses-
sion that he tried vainly to have
the decision reversed. The COM
mittee nearing final action, had
planned to meet again Friday night
but deferred further consideration
until 10 a. M, Saturday.
Mean to Remain Scarce
The Agriculture department re-
ported that meat will remain
scarce through mid-1947 and
UNRRA Director General Fiorello
LaGuardia predicted that the
committee action, if upheld by the
House and Senate, would shoot
meat prices up one-third.
The department., indicating that
it expects the black market to re-
main a h%indering factor in the meat
meanwhile frightened it's
controls of federally-inspected
packers. To prevent a hold-back
on deliveries it ordered packers
to certify the amount of beef set
aside each week to meet export
needs and said similar regulations
covering pork, veal and lard will
be issued later.
Crimps Plans
LaGuardia warned that elimina-
ton of meat controls was liable
to crimp' plans to ship nearly g.
900, 900 tons of wheat to famine
areas abroad during June and July.
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TO WRITE CONTRACTS WITH LABOR UNIONS;
MARI/%E$$E WORKERS HIT TRUMAN DECISION
Crazy Weather
IN MICHIGAN
IS IN

New England, but cooler wealth
er was moving in from the
north
Meanwhile, floods caused mil
lions of dollars of damage in
Pennsylvania and Texas.
Dallas Hard Hit
North and South Texas SUI
fered from the combined eff
fects of floods, rain, hail, and
high winds. With the Fort
Worth and Dallas areas hardest
hit. The Trinity river broke
through levees in several places
at Dallas. A man was drowned
at Palmer attempting to res
cue cattle from floodWaters.
Disaster and medical workers
were sent to LaWrenceville,
Pa. where the Red Cross re-
ported the entire community's
population of $50 took refuge
from floodWaters in the towns
cemetery. The waters were re-
ceding rapidly, however, after
the worst flood in a decade in
the SuSquehanna valley.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
STAFFS REDUCED
Officials Expect 500 Few.
err Pupils In Grades
Next Fall

The New Hanover county gram
mar school system will reopen for
the fall term with its teaching staff
one dozen instructors short of last
years total, school officials dis
closed Friday.
The staff reduction is the result
of an anticipated summer exodus
of about 500 children of shipyard
workers, they said.
Still Above Average
The state allocates one teacher
for every 40 students, and although
the expected decrease in county
school membership will reduce the
number Of teachers accordingly, H.
M. Roland, superintendent of
schools, Friday said next falls en-
rollment would still be about g.
200 above the pre-war average.
A similar loss of about 500 pupils
was experienced at the opening
of schools last fall, Roland ex-
planned.
The war workers exodus is ex-
pected to be the principal cause of
the enrolment decrease, he con-
tinued, since the number of grad
yates and drop OUTS will be bal
anced by the approximate 1000
pupils who will enter school next
year for the first time.
See GRAMMAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
SPAIN NO THREAT
TO WORLD PEACE
UN Commission Decides
Franco Hasn't Menac-
ed World

NEW YORK, May 31-(P)- The
United Nations investigation of
Franco Spain drew to a close Fri
DAY night as Great Britain at the
last minute submitted a document
maintaining that the regime OF
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
was not a threat to world peace.
The new document was made
public as the Security Councils
subcommittee on Spain worked on
in private to finish its report by
midnight, the deadline set by the
Council April 20 when the inquiry
was launched.
Captured Evidence
A subcommittee spokesman late
Friday said the group would not
ask for an extension of time de-
spite az late deluge of documents,
including evidence captured from
the Germans and submitted by the
United States, along with piles of
evidence from France and Britain.
The subcommittee was sched-
uled to meet again at 10 p. M,
EDT) Thur sday night to wind up
its work. Three working days
must elapse after the reports cir
culation before the Council takes
it up.
The British document, coupled
with a similar document submitted
earlier by the United States, led to
the belief in U. N. circles that the
subcommittee report would leave
the Council approximately where
it was before the inquiry.
Charges Fall Through
At that time Russia. Poland,
France, and Mexico favored a
worldwide break of diplomatic
relations with Franco, but the
majority of the Council members
commended there was not sufficient
evidence to warrant such action.
The British document said Brit
ain had been unable to find any
evidence that Spain was making
undue military preparations, that
Franco was engaged in atomic re-
search or that the deployment Of
Spanish forces was a threat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
Navy Takes Over
CAMP DAVIS WILL
BE NEW TEST BASE

Camp Davis, once the largest
u. S. Army anti-aircraft train
ing center in the nation, is in
the hands of the U. S. Navy this
morning.
Al 2400 hours (12 o'clock mid
night in military terminology)
last night, the Navy Blue and
Gold officially took over the
famous site to begin expert
ments on Uncle Sans newest
and deadliest electronically-
guided missiles.
Shrouded thickly in govern
mental secrecy, the expert
ments at the camp and along
Sears Landing are expected to
cost astronomical amounts of
money. New buildings and
equipment alone will consume
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
STETTINIUS ASKS
TO QUIT COUNCIL
Truman, Byrnes Hope To
Persuade Delegate To
Stay In UN

WASHINGTON, May 31-U.g-
President Truman revealed Friday
that Edward R. S%tettinius, Jr., has
submitted his resignation as Ameri-
can representative to the United
Nations but that both the White
House and Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes hoped he would
reconsider and stay on the job.
Stettinius' resignation, which Mr.
Truman has not yet accepted, was
a great surprise to the President
and came in the midst of a major
UN crisis with the Security Coun-
CTS prestige already extremely
low.
Hopes to Intercede
The President said he would try
and persuade Stettinius not to
resign now.
Mr.. Truman announced at his
news conference that Stettinius had
submitted his resignation two or
three days ago and later the White
House released the text of the
Stettlnlus' letter. 1t said in part:
The ship whose keel was laid at
Dumbarton Oaks and launched at
San Francisco has put to sea-ful-
~ equipped and manned. AS I SUBJ
NIT my resignation. You may be
sure my faith in the United Nations
and my devotion to the cause it
represents will always remain up
permost in my heart and mind"
See STETTINIIIS nm Pa e Two
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BY MEARES HARRIsS

It's not what you'd call on or
binary act, not if you've seer it .
-. this fellow Selden THE STRAIT
osphere Man"
Sponsored by the Senior Frater-
nifty the combined Ratery Shows
and the R. and S. Amusementa
have been holding forth at Bellamy
park with the profits going for
the Fraternity's work with boys
But what interests me is Sci
1873 Feet Up
The guy claims five feet fou1
inches, weighs 1876 pounds, won't
admit his age and does hand
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BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Snow, midsummer heat and
floods gave a crazy-quilt pat
tern to the nations weather
map Friday night.
Snow fell yesterday in Mime
sofa and Upper Michigan and
near freezing temperatures
were forecast for Northern
Minnesota, Northern Michigan,
Northern Wisconsin and North
Weastern North Dakota.
Spreads Southwark
The cold air mass spread
southwark to the Great Lakes,
Mississippi Valley and Ohio
River regions routing summary
temperatures. The mercury
dropped from SO to Al degrees
in an hour in Milwaukee. Chi
cago, which had a hight Of
"a degrees Thursday expected
a low of 40 by Saturday night.
Summertime weather prevail
ed Friday in the East, New
York and Washington record
ing IS degrees. Even higher
temperatures were recorded in
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
SHIPPING OFFICIAL
STOPS BY SHIPYARD
ON VISIT TO AREA

j. L. Luckenbach, president of
the American Bureau of Ship
ping and past president of the
international Propeller club,
Friday stopped in Wilmington
for a tour of the city and an
inspection of the yards of the
North Carolina Shipbuilding
company.
Enroute to Charleston, S. c.,
to attend his daughters COM
mencement exercises, Lucken-
bach broke his trip here in or
der to view the port city that
has lately been so eminent in
national harbor news.
He spoke highly of the North
Carolina yards facilities and
expressed confidence in Will
mington's future as a great
shipping center.
Continuing his journey to
Charleston this morning, Luck
enbach plans to STOP here again
on his return trip to his New
York residence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Scattered showers in
west portion Saturday afternoon, partly
cloudy and warm elsewhere.
South Crolina: Partly cloudy and warm
Saturday with scattered showers In
northwest portion.
Eastern Standard Time)
by U. S. Weather Brreau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
:30a 66; 7:30a IS; 1:30p IS; Bop IA.
Maximum -; Minimum so; Mean 50;
Normal IA.
1:30a II; 7:30a II; 1:3op So; 1892 IS.
Precipitation
Total for "a hour ending 1880 pm.
100 inch.
Total since the first of the month
4.22 inches.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington -- 11:osa 5:5sa
Masonboro Inlet --- s:52a 2:5oa
s:2op 2:51p
Sunrise SOFA; Sunset 7:1sp; Moonrise
6:38a; Moonset 1882.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c., at
8 am, Friday, 12.1 feet.
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approximately $1,000, 900, it is
reported,

approximately $1,000, 900, it is
reported.
With the Nays Bureau of
Ordnance in charge of the
secret experiments, a relative
ly small force of Naval per-
sonnet will conduct the actual
trials of the radically new wea-
pOns.
About $50 civilians will be en-
gagged with laboratory work
and other allied functions.
Questions concerning the
Nays possible testing and de-
velopment of the new bug
bomb"-said to be more de-
structive than the atom-bomb-
have met with strong silence
from top-ranking Navy Off
GERS.
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n. C. OFFICIAL PREDICTS
SUBSTANTIAL" INCREASE

CHARLOTTE, May 31-W.D-An
official of the North Carolina Food
Dealers association Friday pre-
dicted a Substantial" increase in
fresh meat prices as a result of
pending congressional legislation
on the OPA.
James B. Vogler, secretary of
the association, said the increases
were practically assured by the
action already taken by the Senate
and House in amending the OPA
act.
In the trade" he said, sit is ex-
pected that meat prices will go up
II to 20 cents a pound at first"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
IN THE LIONS DEN
Repeat Trip To Chair
Fought In Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS, May 81
U.H-Remember Daniel in the
lions den, the State Pardons
board was told Friday as at
torneys battled frantically to
save 17-year-old Willie Fran
els from making his second
trip to the latter-day lions
den, Louisiana's portable cleo
trio chair.
A parade of witnesses and
Negro preachers trouped be-
fore the board all day long, re-
counting graphically the bizar-
zarre story of Willie's first es-
cape from the chair, and plead
ing that he be spared the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01
HE FLOATS THROUGH THE AIR
"Stratosphere" Man
Feature OF Carnival

stands among other things, 1873
feet above the ground on a slen-
der steel tower which he deliber-
ately sways back and forth in q
35-foot arc.
From now on, I'm remember
ing that as about the least way I
would like to earn a living.
His full name is A. E. Selden:
the name he told me for front was
not for ordinary vocabularies .
I can't spell it anyway.
Without Net
Curious about the why's and
Wherefores of an act which in
See SELDEN on Page I've
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So To Bed

Yesterday afternoon several
Atlantic Coast Line employees
were discussing the current
heat wave.
One by one they pulled their
handkerchiefs from their back
pockets and mopped their
brows.
Another employe, recently be-
comes a father, Joined the
group from another office.
cit certainly Is hot" he ex-
claimed, reached into his back
pocket, and pulled out-beau-
tifully trimmed with intricats
iace-an infants white petit
coat,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01

agony of a second electro
cution" June 7.
Electricity Experiment
A. P. Tureaud, attorney for
the National association for the
Advancement of Colored peo-
pie, asked the board:
Suppose they take him back
and it doesn't work again. What
is this-an experiment in cleo
tricity?"
But it was Bertrand Deblanc.
a frey little Cajun from Willie's
home town Of st. Martinville.
See CHAIR on Page One
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01

I'll lllleIlI anu JOLn Il. Lewis coal
miners. Ball sought to freeze wages
and most working conditions when
the government took and operat-
ed any plant.
Downs Capehart
The Senate previously had re-
jected, II to3, a proposal by Sena-
tor Capehart (R.-Ind.) to permit the
President to adjust wages and
working conditions up to the point
of the highest offer previously
made by the employers.
AS the Presidents emergency
bill passed the House, it empower
ed the President to adjust wages
and working conditions. Ball con-
tended that this put the govern
ment in the business of debating
the terms under which the en-
would get his plant back.
II don't think he (the President)
settled the coal strike on a just
Ball declared. II think he
an arrogant labor leader
at the point of a gum"
Freezing Wages
Democratic Leader Barley
(Ky.) asserted that Balls proposal
would mean freezing wages
when the government took over a
plant or facility. # it had been In
effect, he declared, the settlements
in the rail and coal strikes could
never have been reached.
"All the government could do
would be just to keep on operating
them," Barley said.
Working long past the dinner
hour, the Senate rejected other pro-
to narrow, expand, or shunt
aside the measure after the Presi-
dent spoke up for 1t in it's original
form.
But as successive ballots on those
points showed the legislation toward
a vote on passage, the Senate show
ed no inclination to restore a provi-
sion for drafting workers woh strike
in government-seized industries.
Stays In Session
Democratic Leader Barley (Ky)
planned to hold the chamber in ses-
sion to seek a final vote.
By a skinny AZ to 40 margin,
the Senate turned down a motion
by Senator Ebert Thomas Cd
Utah) to hand the bill back to the
Interstate Commerce committee
under instructions to look it over
and bring it back June 10.
An amendment by Senator East
land O-Miss.) to take the right OF
collective :rgaining representa-
ton from unions striking against
government-operated plants lost by
a voice vote.
Another by Senator Taft (R-
to make the legislation apply
only to strikes in utilities, trans
portation, steel, oil and coal was
defeated As to 35. Most Of the
Republicans but only three Demo-
,rats-Senators O'Daniel, of Texas;
Walsh, of Massachusetts,, and
Wheeler, Of Montana-supported
Taft.
Vote Against Taft
The Democrats who oppose the
dill and whose votes helped to re-
move the strike-draft provision
asst week voted against the Taft
proposal. Apparently they sought
make the bill as Objectionable
IS possible to its critics in the hope
# its final defeat.
Mr.. Truman, placing renewed
md unflinching support behind the
ill at his news conference, de"
Jared the draft provision had been
misrepresented and mis-
understood. He ~contended it would
give him merely the power a sher-
If has to deputize citizens in an
emergency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-01

NOSTALGIA NIP-We got nip
ped by the gnat of nostalgia the
other day. We were strolling past
a school when the doors of the
institution suddenly burst open and
several hundred children rushed
out and all but stomped us under
foot.
Never since last year, when we
dropped a pair of nylons in the
middle of Manhattan's Times
Square, have we been so engulfed
with humanity.
It wasn't until the kids had van
ished down the street and we pick
ed ourself up from the sidewalk
that we realized what had brought
the laundering herd of youngsters
trampling upon us.
1t was the last day of school.