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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-17

TT YOU'RE a young man just out of high
school, and have the physical and mental
qualifications for enlistment in the Regu-
lar Army, no career in the world offers you
a greater opportunity.
You can have the finest technical training,
and be weH paid while you learn! Army pay
compares favorably with that in almost any
civilian job-for you get food, clothes, hous-
ing, medical care, low cost insurance and
host of other advantages. You will have every
chance, too, for promotion and higher pay.
You'll be working with other keen young
men of your own age, using the most mod
ern equipment, doing an interesting, con-
struCtive job. What's more, you'll have an
opportunity to fulfil your personal respon-
sibility-by helping your country keep its
commitments in the postwar years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
Cape Fear

gentlemen are standing in front Of
was the Wilmington Customshouse
Well, it is neither the Customs.
house nor is it any other building
in Wilmington.
We don't know what building it
is, but we do know that whatever
it is it happens to be a structure in
Charlotte.
The distance from Wilmington to
Charlotte is 205 miles. Don't ask US
how we got the Wilmington Gus
tomshouse moved that far so fast
without anybody knowing about it.
1t reminds us of the days when
we moved the Old Rock Spring, the
Old Spring Hotel, and the Old Bear
Winery from Chestnut street to
Grace street and then back again,
and the memory makes us cringe.
CLEAN Observation-Disclosures, it
is a building in Charlotte. And all
those men standing in front of it
they are not, as We rightly guessed
they were not, the graduating class
of New Hanover High school. Class
of 10. Neither are they the grad
uating class of the Charlotte High
school, Glass of 10.
They are, if you please, the Will
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
VINSON TO TAKE
OATH OF OFFICE
Elaborate Ceremonies Set
For This Morning On
White House Portico

WASHINGTON, June 23.-U.D-
Fred NJ. Vinson, genial 56-year-old
Kentuckian, Monday will become
the 18th Chief Justice of the United
States, a job in which he may have
to referee the bitter personal feud
now splitting the nations highest
court.
He will take the oath of office
on the south portico of the White
House at II A. M. GST) in an
elaborate public cremeony rivaled
in pomp only by a Presidential in
a%uguration. The public will be ad-
mitted to the White House grounds
at 10:3 o A. M. EST.
Double Oath
Vinson, who steps up from the
secretaryship of the treasury and
a distinguished public career that
includes service as a congressman,
Judge, reconversion director and
economic stabilizer, will take a
double oath-to support the consti.
tuition and to mete out equal justice
to all.
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Gron-
er of the United States Court OF
Appeals for the District of Colum-
bia, from which Vinson stepped in
1913, will administer the oath IN
the presence of President Truman
and other high dignitaries.
Truman Has Hopes
President Truman has high hopes
that Vinson, known as a good
peace-maker, can end the discord
in the supreme court which burst
into the open with the recent charg-
es by Justice H. Jackson against
Justice Hugo Black, who has been
Silent to the attack.
Jackson, now chief American
prosecutor in the Nazi war crimes
trials at Nuremberg, said that Black
was guilty of poor Judgment IN
participating in cases in which his
former law partner acted as an
attorney.
His outburst brought to the sur
face the dissension that has long
existed in the court and the ILL
feeling between the very LIBERAL
minded Black and the more con-
sentative Jackson.
Vinson may be called upon to
See yINSON On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
MAYOR TO WAGE
WAR ON RACKETS
Orders Crack Down By
Police After. Wife's
Life Threatened

McKEESPORT, Pa, June. 23-R,
Now that his wife's life has been
threatened, Mayor Charles A. Kin
kaid, of McKeesport, declares he's
more determined than ever to
"clean up the rackets' in this be-
grimed industrial town of $4,000.
'I'll stop them or else" snap
ped the dapper ~54-year-old mayor
as the city's entire police forcce Of
IS men was kept on the alert in a
hunt for the anonymous telephone
caller who rang the Kinkaid resi-
dence Friday night and admon-
ished the mayors wife:
Threatened by Phone
'If that mayor-your good-for-
nothing-husband-doesn't stop do
ing what he is doing, we'll blow off
your head"
PERSONALLY, I fear no evil" said
the mayor, ''but when the peace
of my home and the life Of my
wife are threatened I feel definite
action should be taken"
Police said Sunday they were
without definite leads and that the
mayors order to bring in every
See MAYOR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
TEL AVN ROCKED
FROM EXPLOSIONS
OF Israel" Radio
Says Entry OF Jews
To Bring Peace

JERUSALEM, June %. -(P)-
Several explosions occurred Sun
day night in Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile, the Voice of Israeli.
illegal radio station of the Haganah
Defense organization, said that
peace in Palestine would follow
admission of 100, 900 Jews into. the
country, as called for in the British
American committee report.
1.-THE aim of the Jewish people
is to build and not to Destroy" the
broadcast said. But we unfortu-
nately have to resort to violence
and destruction so that the world
will know that if justice is moi
given, we will take it,"
The broadcast ended with a re-
quest to Irgun Zvai Leumi, mill
tant illegal Jewish resistance move
ment, to release the three British
officers it presumably still holds OF
the six kidnapped in Palestine last
waek
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
New Coalition
Cabinet Set
By Preside{<.
~ e
Communist Agreem
Enter Set-Up Sp~ S
New Government
BIDAULT KEEPS POST
Major French Political
Parties Represented
In Key Positions

PARIS, Monday, June "a
-(P)-A new French coali-
ton government was formed
early today with President
Georges Bidault retaining his
portfolio as Minister of For
eign Affairs.
Bidaults' new cabinet differed
little from that serving under his
predecessor, Socialist President
Felix Gouin. 1t gave virtually
equal representation to Frances
three major political parties
Bidault's W Popular Republican
Movement (MRP), the Commun-
lists and the Socialists.
Vice Presidents
Gouin and Maurice Thorez, Com
munist leader, were named vice
presidents of the cabinet. Francis
que Gay, MRP leader, and Alex
andre Varenne of the Union
Democratique ct Socialiste de La
Resistance party were named
ministers of state.
Bidault's cabinet appointments
left untitled the important ministry
of food.
Other Appointees
His other cabinet appointees
were:
Minister of Justice-Henri Teit-
gen, MRP.
Minister of the Interior-Edouard
Depreux, Socialist.
Minister of the Army-Edmond
Michelet, MRP.
Minister of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tillon, Communist.
Minister of Finances-Robert
Schuman, MRP.
Minister of National Economy
Francois de Mention, MRP.
Minister of Public Works-Jules
Moch, Socialist.
Socialists Named
Minister of Agriculture-Pierre
Tanguy-Prigent, Socialist.
Minister of Industrial Production
Marcel Paul, Socialist.
Minister of Education-Marcel
Naegelen, Socialist.
Minister of Communications -
Jean Letourneau, MRP.
Minister of Colonies-Marius
Moutet, Socialist.
Minister of Labor-Ambroize
Croizat, Communist.
Minister of Population-Robert
Prigent, MRP.
Minister of Public Health-Rene
Arthaud, Communist.
Minister of Reconstruction -
See COALITION on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
N0MURAC CHARGED
WITH Gem THEFT
Tokyo Teacher
Plucked From POW
Camp By Police

BATAVIA, Java, June 23-P-
Col. Akira Nomura, 45-year-old
former Tokyo High school teacher
was plucked from a wal prisoners
camp Sunday and charged with
''illegal possession of property" IN
connection with the theft OF $751;
600, 900 worth of looted jewels.
E. Brunsveld Van Hutton. Dutch
prosecutor, said Nomura was oil
rector of the japanese Planning
board in Java during the Nippon
-ese occupation and was believed
to know where the bulk of the jew
els was hidden.
Large Diamonds
Some Sc, OOO, 900 worth of the loot
trunks full of gold and "dia-
monds as big as your thumb
has been recovered through the
slender, 90 year-old Eurasian
See NOMURA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
CTS Injured
MILITARY POLICE
Shooting Occurs During An
Attempt To Arrest
Jeep Thieves
(International)

VIENNA, June %. -(R)- Two
American Military police were
shot in the head Saturday night as
they attempted to halt four Soviet
soldiers in a stolen U. S. jeep, and
Sunday a russian soldier was shot
as the Americans pressed a city
wide search for the a~ssailants.
The American soldiers were ex-
pected to live. The Russian was
taken to a Red Army hospital and
his condition was not learned. No
names were disclosed, and officers
at U. S. Army headquarters de-
clined to issue an official state
ment until they complete their in
vestigation.
Week Of Unrest
The shootings came after a week
of unrest among Allied troops ir
See MILITARY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24

ROTTEN DIR. WATSON-Do you
Cape Fear sleuths remember our
mystery of the Year'-that huge
and pulling picture which appear
ed on Page Two of The Star last
Thursday?
Well, it has been solved-almost,
that is.
1t would be completely solved il
we hadn't played such a poor DR..
Watson to the man wao played
Sherlock Holmes in the case.
This man called us up and told
us almost everything there is to
know about the picture. He also
told us the name of another man
who could fill in the final details.
So what happened? We lost our
notes. We lost the. name OF the
man who called us up and the name
of the man he recommended for
the final solution of the case.
In short, we are a very rotten
DR.. Watson indeed.
CHARLOTTE STRUCTURE We
do remember, however, part OF
what our Sherlock Holmes told us.
And when we tel you about 1t you
will see just what a dub of a detec-
tive we really are.
First of all, we said that hand
come building all those handsome
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
Fail
In Agreement
On Proposals
Azad, Gandhi Issue State
e. ments Following Three
Hour Meeting
RIOTING In MADURA
Five Persons Killed, Is
Injured In Bloody Fight
ing On Streets

NEW DELHI, June 23.-
~ Statements by Presi,
dent Maulana Abul Kalam
Azad and Mohandas K. Gan.
dhi Sunday night pointed to
Party rejection of
t h e British proposed interim
government, as five persons we're
killed and 10 injured in bloody
political rioting in Madura.
Azad, emerging from a three.
hour meeting of the congress work
ing committee, said YEARLY:
The thing is now over as far
as the Congress is concerned"
Gandhi Comments
Gandhi, the party's spiritual
addressing an evening pray.
er meeting. commented:
Let US not look to the British
Cabinet mission, but let us our
become a cabinet mission
and deveop that power and author
We cannot build freedom in a
nor can we get it in a hur-
ry. We have to work patiently and
perserveringly."
Meet With Wavel
The three-hour meeting, attend
ed by Gandhi followed Immediate
ly a Commute conference of the
committee leaders with Viceroy
Lord Waveu and the threemember
British Cabinet mission to India.
1.-THE whole thing is finalized
now" said Azad. 1.-THE resolution
is being drafted and will be ready
shortly" The committee itself ad-
See LEADERS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
CONFEREES FACE
FINAL 0PA TEST
Battle Looms Tonight Over
Dropping OF Meat, But
ter Ceilings

WASHINGTON, June %. -(P)-
The last big controversy on OPA
extension boiled down Sunday tc
the Senate's insistence on dropping
price controls from meat, poultry
and dairy products, tobacco and
petroleum at midnight next Sun
day.
Three other fairly important
points remained to be settled, but
a member of the joint Senate
House committee working out diff
ferences in bills passed by the two
branches said the specific decon-
troll proposals doomed above all
other matters in dispute.
Without Vote
The meat-poultry-dairy exemp-
ton originated in the Senate Bank
ing committee. The tobacco amend
ment, which includes cigarettes,
and the petroleum amendment.
which takes in gasoline, were ad-
ded on the Senate floor. Each was
accepted without a roll-cal1 vote.
The House singled out no items to
be dropped from control and q
firm majority of the seven House
on the conference group
was reported lined up stoutly in op-
position to the Senate's list.
Patman Alone
Of the seven House %conferees,
only one, Rep. Patman D.-Tex.)
is from an important meat-pro-
ducing state.
Taking note of this, a western
Senator expressed privately the be-
lief that if the House delegation re-
fuses to give ground at the show
down conference Monday night q
%. m. Eastern Standard Time), the
House may force it to knuckle
under.
House Holds Ace
This could come about it the
House conferees reported a dis
agreement with the Senate. A ma
iority of the House could vote to
send them back with instructions
to yield and accept the Senate pro-
vision.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
NAVY DEFENDING
BOMB TEST COST
Officials Deny Cooperation
Crossroads" Expense
AS Half-Billion

ABOARD U. S. S. APPALACH-
IAN, June 23.-R-The Navy de-,
Tended Sunday the expense of the
atomic bomb tests and denied that
the cost would soar above half a
billion dollars, even though the
operation compares in number OF
ships and personnel and supply
problems with a good sized wartime
task force.
Critics of the test have estimat-
ed that the target vessels alone
are worth $500, 900, 900 and that an
other 500, 900, 900 would be spent
in additional costs.
Fraction Of Cost
But, the cost of the operation de-
ponds on how you do your book
keeping. The Navy estimates the
cost, outside of the expense Of
manufacturing the bomb, will be
only a fraction of that submitted
by the critics.
MANY figures as to the cost of
this test have appeared" said
Cmdr. Lawrence Julian, Airing
ton, Va. "None have emanated
from a proper authority and usual
ly have been gross exaggerations."
Await Final Report
The Nays official estimate of
the cost will not be disclosed until
Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, atom
tast force commander, makes his
final report. But Julian said the
entire crossroads operation would
cost less than one capital snip of
the Iowa class, a $110, 000, 900 in
vestment.
What We learn may save many
lives and ships and dollars in the
future" he added.
In figuring the operations costs,
See NAVY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
PLANS CURB
VIA BACK DOOR"
Will Attempt To Write In
Throttle OF Unions On
Money Bills

WASHINGTON, June 23-(P)-A
'tback door, route to curbs on labor
unions through clauses written in
to appropriation bills may be tried
this week.
The first test is expected to
come in an effort by Senator Bal
(R-Minn) to attach to the $1,131,-
4O3, 1875 Labor-Federal Security bill
a provision barring use of any
of it's funds for administration OF
collective bargaining in disputes
involving foremen's unions.
Sponsored Move
Ball sponsored a move to out
law foremen's unions in the omnl-
bus labor legislation recently Veto
ed by President Truman. Success
in his new attempt might give birth
to additional restrictions aimed
at what Congress attempted to dc
in that bill.
Meanwhile, the United States
Chamber of Commerce urged the
Senate to restore a SIT, 000, 1000 ap-
preparation for a census OF bus1
ness and manufacturers which was
eliminated by the House from the
Commerce department approprla-
tons bill.
Write Mcclellan
In a letter to Senator McKellar
(D-Tenn), president of the Senate
the organization said that the
changes which have taken place
since the last census in 1889 make
See Rail-. On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
PLAZA CRITICAL
OF IBARRA REGIME
Ecuadorean Ambassador
Tenders Resignation
Over Politics

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Pe
Gallo Plaza, Ecuadorean ambassa.
dor to the United States, resigned
Sunday night, blaming the political
situation in his country.
In his cable to President Jose
Velasco Ibarra, he suggested that
the President also resign "for the
welfare of the country"
Opposition Declines
Velasco Ibarra, head of the Con,
sentative party, suspended con-
stitutional guarantees March 80.
Four other parties, the Democrats,
Liberals, Socialists and Communists,
have declined to take part in a
forthcoming election of deputies
to an assembly assigned to write a
new constitution. They have indi-
Gated they will refuse to recognize
See PLAZA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
SUGAR WILL GO UP
FIFTH OF CENT AT
ALL STORES TODAY

WASHINGTON, June %. -(P-
Retail sugar prices will go up one
fifth cent a pound Monday, OPA
said Sunday.
At the same time, refiners' cell
ings for both cane and beet refined
granulated sugar will be increased
10 cents per 100 pounds.
OPA said the increase for cane
sugar was allowed to cover higher
costs to refinery. Other home use
sugars were excluded from the
increase.
The refiners' new price for fine
granulated cane sugar was up
from $3.50 to Sc. The retail increase
will amount to one cent on a five
pound package.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
India Riled
MUDALLAR CRIES
DISCRIMINATION
Complaint File d
With UN Against
South Africa

NEW YORK, June 23-(P-In-
dia filed a formal complaint with
the United Nations Sunday night
charging the Union of South Africa
with discrimination against approx
imately 250,0O Indians living in
South Africa.
The complaint, filed by Sir
Ramaswami Mudaliar, head of the
Indian U. N. delegation, called on
: General Trygve Lie to
place the case before the General
Assembly which meets September
8.
Relations Threatened
Sir RamasWami said the diff
culties between the two British
states already had caused India to
terminate her trade agreement
with South Africa and recall her
high commissioner. The situation
See MUDALIAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
Today and Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN

in my view his approach is one
which we have every reason to
welcome.
He is proposing to make the
production, the possession and the
use of atomic weapons "a serious
crime against humanity" and 10
national agreement binding all
states but also by national laws
within each state. If this were
done, then thereafter any person,
private or official, who violated
the law would be a criminal, SUBJ
ject to arrest and punishment, il
See LIPPMANN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
The Weather

FORECAST
South Carolina and North Carolina: =
Fair and slightly warmer Monday. Tues
day, partly cloudy and continued warm.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 80 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a 70; 7:3Oa SO; 1:30p 80; 1902 "a.
Maximum 85; Minimum II; Mean "a;
Normal rs.
Humidity
1:3Oa 95; 7:3oa So; 1902 54; 1902 81.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1870 pm.
600 inch.
Total since the first of the month
4.09 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington -- 5:08a 12:03a
sap 12:2Op
Masonboro Inlet - 2:44a 9:10a
3:27p 9:53p
Sunrise soda: Sunset 7;27p; Moonrise
11:28a; Moonset 2:30p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
Shock Shifts
Long Hillside
Over s. Feet
Walls OF Buildings In Many
Cities Fall, Waves
Crash Beaches
ONLY ONE FATALITY
Classroom AT Courtenay,
British Columbia Wreck
ed During Quake
June %. -(E

T June %. -(P)
An earthquake shook the
Pacific Northwest Sunday
from Olympia in Southwest
Washington north acros S
Vancouver Island off the Brit
ish Columbia coast and inland
to Kelowna, B. c., knocking down
the walls of buildings and causing
one death from a heart attack.
Jacob L. Kingston, SO, was strlck-
en- in Seattle when he saw tall
downtown buildings swaying in the
motion of the quake. The Univer-
sity of Washington seismograph
timed the initial shock at 12:14.3O
P. M. (EST) and at Victoria, B. c.
it was timed at 1874 P. M. (EST)
at the Dominion Astrophysical OBJ
servation.
Towns on the east coast of Van
See SHOCK on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
LOWLY SPUDS
Years Bumper Crop
Will Speed Reconuersion

used solvent next to water, the
spud will come into it's own.
Chief Item
Because one of the railroads
chief bulk items of freight today
is Irish potatoes. Since Floridians
started digging their crops Don
after Christmas, last year, the rail-
roads have been busy hauling not
only number n and two spuds
for distribution to the nations
consumers, but the number three
potatoes or the "too-small-to-eat"
type, which are being %processed
See POTATOES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
MR.. GROMYkOo
CONTRIBUTION

The Russian proposals on atomic
energy are very interesting in that
they do not in principle contradict,
and can be used in a most lmpor-
tant way to supplement, VI own
proposals. They r addressed to
the creation of a system OF uni
versal law in the field of atomic
energy and all weapons OF mass
destruction.
The Acaeson = Lilienihal report
did not deal directly with this
essential aspect of the problem,
and Mr.. Baruch's treatment of the
veto w ,... attempt to supply the
defic; ,fef'v Mr.. Gromyko's pro-
posals are another attempt. and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
LOWLY SPUDS

The Federal governments pro-
gram If utilizing our natural re-
sources as a step to speed recon-
version, will in all probability. re.
suit in the car or aeroplane
which tourists travel being de
pendent on the once loWly spud-
largely for construction and for
power TO operate.
Not only is the alcohol deriva-
tive of the Irish potato going to
hasten the output of factories, those
which produce autos and a million
and one little gadgets to make
the housewives days easier, but
using it in it's most popular form,
ethyl alcohol. the most widely
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
So To Bed

Yesterday afternoon a young
lady who had never seen a
bowling alley before was per-
suaded by her friends to try
her hand at the game.
The idea, they explained, was
to roll the bowling balls down
the alley and try to knock down
all the pins.
Noticing that there were 10
pins to be knocked down she
asked how many balls she was
allowed to throw.
Three, they told her.
"But that's impossible" she
exclaimed.
"Oh, no." said one of her
friends. "You stand a pretty
good chance of knocking them
down with three balls"
"But how" she complaineA
"can 1 throw three balls
only two hands?" -
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
WEATHER DUE
TODAY FOR ATOMIC
BOMB DROP "TEST"
RIKINI, June %. -(P-Good

RIKINI, June %. -P-Good
50 ser was promised Sunday
3 Sonal rehearsal Monday
: 3 e mic bomb drop.
adm. w. III. p. Blandy,
s. .nder of the Crossroads
O set $3.50 l.. m. Bikini time
q J p. m. E. S. T.) as the
8 r for dropping of a practice
,mb on the guinea pig fleet.
The practice drop originally
had been scheduled for Satur-
day, but bad weather forced a
postponement.
Only the target ships and a
handful of other craft were left
in Bikini lagoon as the evacua-
ton plan moved through its
final phases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-24
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity Fair and
slightly warmer Monday, TueSday; partly
cloudy and continued warm.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-09-05
Mrs. Benzien Entertains FRIDAY

Guest of honor at a Friday after
noon party at the home of Mrs. H. A.
Benzien was Mrs. John Peterson,
Long Beach, Calf, sister Of Mrs.
Vern Reese. Other guests included
Mrs. j. j. Reese, Mrs. Jack Christ
opherson, Mrs. Roland Benzien, Mrs.
Ferd Reese, Mrs. Sig Peterson and
Mrs. Jim Everin. Mrs. Benzien's home
grown flowers were used as decor
atoms.