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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-03
CAPE FEAR STUDY
SET BY ENGINEERS
"FulI Review" OF Reports
On 35-Foot Channel
Depth Authorized

A directive from the Chief OF
Engineers, Washington, D. c., au-
thorizing a ''full review" of U. S.
Engineers reports on deepening
the Cape Fear channel to 80 feet,
was received by Col. George W.
Gillette, district engineer, here
yesterday.
The directive arrives as joint
Senate-House committee is debat-
ing whether the 81, 1865, 900 appro-
priation to deepen the channel to
% feet shall be retained in the War
departments Civil Functions bill.
Bailey Gets Review
Senator Josiah Bailey, the man
responsible for getting the 32-foot
appropriation approved by the
Senate, is also responsible for the
directive authorizing the review Of
the reports on the 35-foot channel
proposal.
Colonel Gillette said yesterday
that a public hearing on the 35-foot
proposal will be held soon, and all
interested parties will be notified
when final arrangements for the
hearing are completed.
'In the meantime Colonel Gil
lette added, call interested parties
should commence collecting data to
See CHANNEL on Page Two
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CLINTON FUTURE
SEEN AS BRIGHT
$1,OO0,0OO Building Boom
Forecast; Produce Mart
Expansion Set

CLINTON, April "A business
survey of Clinton Tuesday disclos-
ed that the city and vicinity are in
for $1,O0o,0C0 dollar building
boom if materials for all projects
planned now are available.
The 100000 Sampson County
Memorial hospital is the biggest OF
the projects planned for 1916. The
county has already issued $500, COO
in bonds and construction is slated
to begin, unless delayed by supply
shorta ges, with the receipt of a
5000, 600 Federal Works Agency
grant.
Tobacco Warehouses
Construction is already underway
on three large tobacco warehouses
at a combined cost in excess Of
$150,O0 One is being constructed
for McWorter ard Bass, another
for Charlie Warren and a third for
T. M. Bass.
Their completion is expected to
double the pourdage of tobacco
sold on the Clinton Market last
year when 11,0Oa,0O0 pounds were
moved.
Gotten Warehouse
Also in the citing, though pos
sibly delayed by new federal reg
ulations on material priorities is a
large warehouse planned by the
Bethune- Colwell company, one OF
the largest cotton purchasers in
the South, as well as tobacco re-
drying plant proposed by F. L.
Burlington.
Real estate men predict the cree
ton of at least 100 new homes and
revealed that at least a dozen were
already being built in and near
Clinton.
Zoning Ordinance
A city zoning and planning ordin-
ance will be up for consideration
soon. Prepared with the assistance
of George Franklin of the North
Carolina League of Municipalities,
it is expected to control the growth
See CLINTON on Page Two
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Along The Cape Fear

) HEY, TEACHER!-No. Our tai
ents, such as they are, dc no
lie in the geographical field.
So it's no wonder that we placed
the Old Rock Spring and the Ole
Bear Winery on Chestnut street
between Water and Front streets.
The wonder is that we did get
them placed as close to their actua.
locations as we did. We we're, you
see, only one street off. We're
thinking of writing to our old geog-
raphy teachers (the ones who are
still alive and sane) to tell them
how much we have improved.
MULBERRY STREET.-THE Old
Rock Spring was located at the foot
of Mulberry street, not Chestnut.
Mulberry street, you might not
know eve didn't ether, was the
old name for Grace street. Why
Or when the name was changed we
do not know, but we're kind OF
sorry it was. Grace is a nice name,
yes, and yet Mulberry has such
a pretty sound to it.
And it has such sweet childish
connotations, too. Such as the old
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
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NAVY OFFICIALS
T0INSPECT DOCKS
Sixth Naval District Men
Will Fly Here Today On
Ready Reserve Plan

The first step in establishing q
U. S. Naval Ready Reserve train
ing center in Wilmington will be
taken today when three high-rank.
ing Navy officers arrive here tc
make preliminary inspections OF
local ar1nories and docks.
The three officers are Capt. H
c. Daniels, staff officer of the Sixth
Naval district, Comdr. E. A. Stroik
acting port director of the Sixth
Naval district, and a representa-.
tive Of the Navy Civil Engineer
Corps, whose name has not YET
been disclosed.
Arrive BY Plane
The trio is scheduled to arrive
from Charleston. S. c., by plane al
10 o'clock this morning at Blue.
thenthal airport.
1t. H. c. Bost, Wilmington port
director, will conduct the three of
ficers on an inspection tour Of
armies and docks such as the Fed
eral armory on Market street, the
armory at the Marine barracks
the Customshouse docks, and the
Tide Water Construction company
drydocks.
First Action
The inspection tour marks the
first local action taken by the Navy
in the proposed establishment Of
a Ready Reserve training center
here. Recently, Congressman J
Bayard Clark of North Carolina
disclosed that the Navy's tenta
tive plans include "a modern de
stroyer" or some sort of training
shop to be stationed in Wilmington
for the Ready Reserve program.
The plans also include "dry
land' training. 1t has been esti
mated that as many as 1900 en-
listed men and 40 officers will be
trained in Wilmington simultane
ously and that in a years time
several thousand men, recruited
from all over the state will take
part in the program.
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The Weather

FORECAST
North Carolina: Continued warm ano
partly cloudy Wednesday.
South Carolina: Fair and continued
warm Wednesday.
Eastern Standard Time)
tBy U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 PIN. yesterday.
Temperatures
l: 80 am 81; 1880 am 81; 1870 pm IS
1880 pm 81.
Maximum II; Minimum Sc; Mean e6
Normal So,
Humidity
1870 am "a; 7;3O am 80; 80 pm 81
1880 pm IS.
Precipitation
Total for ~ hours ending 1880 pm
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
600 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published b,
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ---- 1882 am 5:38 an
11:12 pm SAB pr
Masonboro Inlet - 1875 am 2:2s an
1857 pm 2 As pn
Sunrise :57 am; Sunset 6:34 pm
Moonrise 7:09 am; Moonset 1929 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, n c. at ;
am Tuesday. 9.6 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Two
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y: When application is made
TO do work using materials
which are not critically sort for
housing, what action can be ex-
pected?
"A. II the materials and labor
would not have any impact on
housing the Citizens District
construction committee which
reviews the application may be
expected to take a sympathetic
attitude.
q. What are the district con-
struction committees?
A. Review committees of rep
See BUILDING on Page Two
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Death Toll
In Disaster
Set At l67
However, Scores More Are
Reported Missing In
Wide Range OF Pacific
MILLIONS In DAMAGES
Relief Supplies Rushed By
Air To 5000 Homeless;
Ships Search Sea
BY DON WHITEHEAD

HONOLULU, April 2.-(A9
The greatest peacetime air.
sea rescue operation in the
history of the mid-Pacific was
pressed around Hawaii Tues
day for survivors of Mondays
disastrous tidal wave.
While planes and ships search
ed the seas for scores of missing
persons, disaster relief supplies
were rushed by air and sea to A.
ono to 5000 homeless.
Howard Ellis, executive director
of the Hawaii Red Cross, said re-
lief work was well under con-
troll and it would be unnecessary
to send disaster workers from
Washington.
80 Craft Safe
Thirty small craft missing after
the tidal wave struck were report
ed safe by the Navy. Still other
small boats remained unaccounted
for.
The search went on Monday
night with the aid of flares off
Hilo harbor and Laupahoehoe point
two. of the hardest hit areas. An
undetermined number of persons
were missing.
The greatest concentration of
homeless we're in emergency
camps at HiIo and the abandoned
See TIDAL WAVE On Page Two
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Soviiet-Iran
Dispute Up
For Airing
Deadline At II O'clock To.
day For Replies From
Two Nations In Issue
MANY POSSIBILITIES
Russian Troops Reported
Already Moving Out OF
Smaller Country
BY CHARLES M. MCCAIN

BY CHARLES M. MCCAIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 2. -
Tension increased in the Unit
ed Nations Security Council
Tuesday night as the deadline
- II am. w e d n e d a y
-neared for Russian and Ira
MAN replies to a council in
quiry on the status of their dis
pute with no indication that either
country had dispatched its state
ment.
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, returning from Washing
ton after comforting with Presi-
dent Truman on the crisis, plan
ned a series of talks with fellow
delegates Tuesday night and Wed
nesday before the council meet
ing.
It was an anxious situation as
the hours sped by.
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala
said that he was confident his
country's reply would be here at
meeting time.
Uno Secretary General Trygve
Lie arranged to receive at any
hour of the night a reply from
Tehran, Moscow or both to the
Councils request for a statement.
Tehran dispatches said definite
ly that Premier Ahmad Ghavam
See UNO on Page Two
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And So To Bed.

The other day a diminutive
Austin automobile put-putted
into a local service station and
the driver stepped out and ask
ed the car-washer for car
wash.
The car washer walked.
around the Austin in three
strides, looked at it from all
angles, and then started
scratching his head doubtfully.
81 don't know" he said to
the owner.
"What do you meant" asked
the owner.
81 don't know whether to
wash it myself here or send it
home and have my wife do it
in her washing machine.
Wash it with a water-gun is
what he outer cone.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-03
RULES FOR BUILDING
CPA INTERPRETS
CONTROL MEASURE

WASHINGTON, April 2-(H
The Civilian Production Ad-
rninistration Tuesday set forth
these interpretations of its new
controls on construction which
vent into effect last week:
G. How long will the con-
ssruction control order remain
IN effect?
A. CPA hopes the production
Of building materials will 50 in
crease that the order may be
either relaxed or lifted by the
end of the year. However, while
building materials remain as
short as they are now, restric-
ton on use is necessary.
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Over the total 1869 miles of
Atlantic Coast Line track to-
day runs $1,000 company-own-
ed and controlled engines and
cars.
This information as listed in
railroad officials journals, the
"Pocket List of Railroad Of
ficials", and "The Railway Of
fetal Guide" just off the press
for March, also discloses that
all company passenger coach
es in use now, are air-condition-
ed.
The company today, follow
ing the war, during which time
practically no equipment of this
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WORKIN' ON DE RAILROAD
$1,000 Engines And Cars
RoHAlong ACL;s Tracks

type to be used exclusively at
ACL's directive could be pro-
cured, is equipped with over
1900 cars and engines.
Two hundred and twenty
eight miles of the total 1863
miles, which does not include
track used for sidings, would
be necessary to place all roll
ing equipment of the line.
The equipment list does not
include the company's private
cars, of which there are not
many, or cars operated by the
See RAILROAD on Page Two
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ZONE WORLD OR NONE"
Control
OF Atomic Energy
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

committed by persons" and that
"only sanctions which reach in
dividuals can peacefully and effec-
lively be enforced" The commit
ments of the Nuremberg trial are
no sudden improvisation out of thin
air: they have their roots in the
history of our epoch, and they have
been evolved during the two world
wars. Though they are, like all COM
mon law in its beginnings, empiric
and uacodified, they are no less au-
taoritative than the Charter. The
fundamental law of the United
Nations, is not confined to the
See LIPPMANN on Page Five
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BIG DECREASE SHOWN
IN BANK CLEARINGS,
POSTAL RECEIPTS

Sank clearings in Wilmington
Tor March show decrease of 3d.
sS0053'77, as compared with March
last year. W. H. King, secretary OF
the Wilmington Clearing house as
ISOLATION said yesterday.
Clearings for the month just pass
I'd totaled, $34, 439, 1884.
A sharper drop was evident in
postal receipts, as announced by
wilbur R. Dosher, postmaster. In
March 1915, postal receipts were
@s,9O5,31, while during the month
Just passed receipts were $32, 517.29.
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Senators Dog-Fight

WASHINGTON. April 2.-WD-A fistshakng
tween Senators Robert A. Taft r. o.. Murray
d. MONTH"; ended Tuesday with Taft stalking out meeting
the Senate Education committee
"shut up' be thrown
The quarrel started the committee
tried register his opposition the
comprehensive national by
dent Truman
He denounced it "socasic,' remark which brought
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these officers in here and have
you thrown out"
Taft jumped to his feet and start
ed for the door. He turned and
See SENATOR'S on Page Two
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Editors Note - This is the
seventh of nine articles from the
book, lone World or None, pub
lisAed by Whittlesey House, Nc
Graw-Hill Book company, inc. Mr..
Lippmann is on trip to Europe.
His To-day and Tomorrow will
be resumed in The Star ~ soon as
ne returns.
We shall have misunderstood the
real principles that govern the
United Nations if we do not see that
as they have rejected the principle
of collective security by adopting
the veto, they have embraced the
principle that "crimes are always
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MURRAY TO MS teet shaking his list
at the Ohioan.
Threatens Taft
I'm chairman of this committee
and l want you to subside," Muir
ray shouted. Il want you to sub
side. If you don't shut up I'll get
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
ROLAND ADDRESSES
INSURANCE GROUP.
School Head Stresses Need
For Junior College In
Wilmington

H. M. Roland, superintendent of
schools in New Hanover county
discussed t h e education program
OF the city and county before a
meeting of Wilmington Life I'm
derwriters Friday afternoon.
The meeting was presided over
oy Ashley Haithcock, president.
David H. Hewes introduced the
speaker.
Roland discussed the general
educational program of Whining
ION and New Hanover county, say
ing that $500 GIs in this county
elther are attending school or col
lege, or have taken some phase of
school work since their discharge
from the service. He added that
they are m king comparable
grades with non-veterans.
Twelve thousand m n and
women were trained in the cou3ty
schools vocational departments
during the war, - Roland declared.
He stressed the point that each
year there are 300 students of
graduating classes in the city who
have to end their training because
they are not able to continue their
work in institutions of higher
learning.
They need" Roland asserted,
"a junior collegetraining of two
years. He added that they could
then finish their college work with
two years attendance at schools
out of the city.
Roland said that at least $50 of
the 300 yearly graduates would
take work in local Junior col
lege, thus giving such a college
favorable enrolment at the very
start, with adjacent counties also
furnishing students n d financial
and economical strength to the
community.
Among t h o attending the
meeting were: A. R. Crow, T.
Macon Womble, William G. Head,
Lindsay S. Bass, Tom James, Bar
ney W. English, c. K. Dixon, H.
N. Radcliffe z. R. Willis A. P.
Russ, S. w. Brinson, H. H.
Bowles, E. L. Mathews, H. L. Me-
Pherson, G. G. Thomas C. R.
Carmon, T. M. Griffin, Dan W.
Gore, J. P. Newborn. Major A.
Dukes E. A. Nets, Jr. and Her
bert w. Slack.
The visitors included c. E. Sex
ton, M. E. Baggs, and S. H.
Coward.
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Surplus Sale Slated
At Seymour Johnson

The office of the salvage officer
announced yesterday that there will
be another small lots surplus prop
erty sale at Seymour Johnson Field,
Goldsboro, beginning at o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Capt T. H. Eubanks, salvage Of
flcer. announced that the property
In this sale will consist of folding
chairs, roofing (mineral surface)
standard concrete resufacer, floor
Ing, limestone, paper plates, paper
cups, garden tools, electric cash
register, electric drill, electric
grinder, piano, work benches, five
HIP electric motor, laundry baskets
trackgin (door hangar)
The inspection period will be be-
tween the hours Of 8 am. and I
pm. from November through No
vember 8, inclusive, it. was an
nounced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
St. Johns Minister
Celebrates Anniversary

The 25th anniversary of the rec
torship of the Rev. Mr.. Edgar W.
Halleck, at st. Johns Episcopal
church, will be honored today with
a program of special music.
A church announcement said the
st. Johns choir will present pro-
gram at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
The Rev. Mr.. Halleck, a native
of Waycross, Ca, came to Will
mington in November 1925. w. 0.
S. Sutherland will be organist for
the presentation, and Mrs. Theo-
core Hashagen, and Cecil M. Ap-
pleberry. soloists, the announce
ment said.
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n. {, State Alumni To
Meet Thursday Night

Motion pictures of the N. c.
e'dle-Duke football game will be
s4oWn at dinner meeting O. the
I'VE" Hanover county chapter of
lne State College Alumni associ-
suon at the Famous Grill Thurs
Jay night at 7 o'clock, N. A.
nVera, secretary. announced yes
tefday.
representatives of the college
are also expected to be present
and speak briefly.
All former students of State,
Nne'her graduates or otherwise,
a,e a., urged to attend the gathering.
al planning to do so are asked
W contact Avera at the Social Sc
cufIty office here.
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COTTON BURNS

ALLIGATOR, Miss, Nov. 2.-U.P)
More than 100 bales of cotton
and large amount of cottonseed
were lost when fire of undetermin-
ed origin destroyed the Alligator
Gin company early today and caus-
ed damage estimated at S15O.OOO
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
UNITS COMPLETED

HICKORY, Nov 2.-U.H- Mar
ried couples attending Lenoir-
Rhyme college at Hickory Monday
will move into temporary housing
units turned over to the college by
the federal government.
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Aee44 : Social 9te~sA

her absence in the playing of the
bells on Sunday and Wednesdays.
Miss Barbara Thomas, young
daughter of Mrs. Margaret
Thomas, has been playing for our
enjoyment on Sundays at AGO
and Wednesdays at 700 and will
continue to do SO permanently.
The songs Miss Thomas picks
have been old familiar ones and
much favorable comment has been
made in the community on her
selection.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellsworth Waters
with their children Joan, Barbara,
and Donald, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
have been visiting here with his
mother, Mrs. Maude Waters, and
with other relatives in the local
ity.
DR.. Frank Broschart and Nh.
end Mrs. James Cissel spent sew
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Notice To Creditors

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the subscriber of Montgomery
County, Nd, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, in Maryland, Letters of
Administration on the Personal
Estate of
LAURA EASTON
late of Montgomery County, Md,
deceased. All persons, resident
and nonresident, having Claims
against the said deceased are here
by warned to exhibit and file the
same, in said Court, with vouchers
thereof, on or before the 9th day
of February next: they may other
wise by law be excluded from all
=. l.. sald estate. All per-
sons indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate pay
ment.
Given under my hand this 9th
day of August in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-six.
RICHARD M. EASTON,
1873 S. Market ST.,
1920 Frederick, Md.
Albert M. Bouic, Attorney,
Rockville Md.
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Robert Peter, Solicitor.
Notice To Creditors

Pursuant to an order of the Cir
cult Court for Montgomery Coun-
ty, Maryland, sitting as Court of
Equity, passed on the oath day Of
July A. d., 1916, filed in a cause
therein pending entitled Henry
Stearman, Committee Of the per
son and estate of Yetta Stearman,
non compos mentis, Plaintiff, VS..
Yetta Stearman Defendant No.
1855 Equity, notice is hereby
given to all persons having claims
against the estate of" Yetta Stear-
man, to file their claims, properly
authenticated, with the Clerk Of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Rockville, Maryland, on or
before the 10th day Of September
A. d., 1916.
HENRY STEARMAN,
Committee of the person
and estate of Yetta Stearman,
1865 Trustee.
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Mrs. Jones Schroeder
Tele. Gaithersbltr0 285-W

Ronald L. Phoebus, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Phoebus is at
his home, having received his dis
charge at Bainbridge last Friday.
Ronald was in the service over
q year, eight months of which
were spent on the island of Sa-
mar in the Philippines. He has
made no plans for the future as
yet. Last Saturday Mr.. and Mrs.
Phoebus, Ronald and Mr.. and
Mrs. M. M. Walker took q short
motor trip down the Shenandoah
Valley and visited some of the
cayerans there.
We want to correct the state
ment we made in saying Miss
Ravenal Monred was taking Mrs,
Lawrence Darby's place during
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-08-08
Robert Peter, Solicitor.
Notice To Creditors

Pursuant to an order of the Cir
cult Court for Montgomery Coun-
ty, Maryland, sitting as Court
Of Equity, passed on the oath day
Of July, A. d. 1916, filed in cause
therein pending entitled Henry
Stearman, Committee Of the per-
son and estate of Dora S. Lewis,
non compos mentis, Plaintiff,
VS.. Dora S. Lewis, Defendant, No.
1886 Equity, notice is hereby
given to all persons having claims
against the estate of Dora S. Lew
is, to file their claims, properly
authenticated, with the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Rockville, Maryland, on or
before the 10th day of September,
A. d., 1916.
HENRY STEARMAN,
Committee of the person and
estate Of Dora S. Lewis,
1862 Trustee.