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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
BOST DISCLOSES
NOR. UNIT PLANS
Organization To Be Acti-
waited Shortly, Repre-
sentative Says

Wilmington's U. S. Naval Organ
lied Reserves unit will be activat-
ed very shortly" Lieut.. Henry c.
Bost, district representative, an
nounced yesterday.
To this end the district office, To-
Gated in Room 243 in the Customs
house, now stands ready to effect
enlistments and re-enlistments in
V-6, USNR, Lieutenant Best
said. The lists are open to Navy,
Army, Marine, and Coast Guard
male personnel.
From these enlistments and re-
enlistments the units strength Of
10 officers and 200 enlisted men
will be chosen, and the remainder
will be put on inactive duty, Lieu
tenant Bost continued.
Ten billets for active duty with
the unit are open now. These in
clude Shikpkeepers and Station
keepers. The office is also parti-
cularly interested in signing on a
Chief Shipfitter, Chief BoatsWain's
mate, and a Quartermaster for
full-time duty.
Ex-Waves Also
Lieutenant Bost is also handling
re-enlistments for Waves i'll Class
VIC, USNR, for inactive duty. His
office takes care of the entire pro
cedlure, including the swearing-in
oath.
Re-enlistment of ex-Waves is also
See BOST on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
Will
Name Cabinet
This Morning
Wavell. Slate Has Backing
OF Strong Congress
Party Forces
MOSLEMS OPPOSED
New Disorders, Standings
Occurring Daily In Riot
Ridden City

NEW DELHI, Aug. 23.-
E-Viceroy Lord Wavell will
announce Saturday an iterim
government of India backed
by the Congress party, it was
S a d authoritatively Friday
night, despite opposition of
the huge Moslem minority
which may make it impossible
for the government to func-
ton.
The new government, intended
to place India on the road to indie
pendence after nearly two and a
half centuries of British rule, ex-
cludes Mahomed Ali Jinnah's Mos
lem league which, demanding a
separate state for Moslems, has
threatened direct action, which
probably would mean a mass civil
disobedience campaign.
The government is expected to
assume office about Sept. l, and the
first great test on the path toward
independence maycome SCOTT after
if India's 90, 900, 900 Moslems ho.d
to their threats.
City Recovering
Calcutta was recovering but slow
ly from the worst riots in Indian
history growing out of the leagues
Direct Action Day" demonstra-
tons there. At least six more stab
See VICEROY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24

Keeps Silent
On Questions
Undersecretary Of State
Refers Reporters To
Document Text
FEARS FOR AIRMEN
Yugoslavs Hold Turk On
'Non-Accidental' Flight
Contention

WASHINGTON, Aug. %
State department Of
ficials said Friday they had
no official confirmation of a
Yugoslav press agency report
that Marshal Tito had decided
to reject this country's ulti-
matum.
Undersecretary Dean Ache
son declined at a jam-packed
news conference to comment
on the report, published in
Paris.
Acheson also declined to say
whether Yugoslavia's release of a
group of American airmen served
to satisfy completely the United
States 48-hour ultimatum.
Neither would say whether the
United States will present its case,
involving two attacks by Yugo-
slav fighter planes on American
transports, to the United Nations
Security council for action.
To repeat questions on both
points he referred reporters to the
ultimatum itself. which said the
United States government will
determine it's course in the light of
the evidence" and the efforts of
Yugoslavia 'to right the wrong
done"
Acheson acknowledged there
See ACHESON On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
Matter OF Fact

member of this triumvirate. He
is a large, affable man who con-
ceals beneath his surface g~eniality,
great shrewdness and real intel
ligence. RAISED to politics" by
his prosperous family, he entered
the Senate in the middle thlrtles
as a moderate conservative, but he
haA tended more and more to be-
come the leader of the small
liberal wing of Southern Congress
men. He has made a real I'M
preston in the Senate, and he has
been mentioned as a Vlce-Presl-
DENTAL possibility for 1s48. But
it is unlikely that this will ever be
more than talk. A national can
didate from the deep South would
probably cost the Democratic
See MATTER OF FACT on Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24

Southern North Carolina cities.
Its organization was formulated at
the business session of the annual
Joint meeting of the Hamlet and
Wilmington clubs of the Carolinas
chapter at the Bame Hotel in Caro-
lima Beach.
George C. Baltzegar, retiring
president of the Wilmington club,
was elected, secretary-treasury of
the new council. Mrs. Francis Glib
son, of Rockingham, is it's vice
president.
II Members
Coastal council membership will
consist of n telephone veterans
in Lumberton, Hamlet, Rocking
ham, Wrightsville Beach, and Will
mington.
Its new officers we're guests last
night at an informal, speech-free
steak dinner which constituted their
meetings. closing event.
The 80 persons attending the
dinner included some 40 telephone
pioneers ranging in service FROM
IS years experienced by Forrest
Berry, of Kure's Beach. retired of
flee manager of the Wilmington
See TELEPHONE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
0PAS Sets New
Ceilings For
Margarine To Cost One
Gent Pound More Than
June 80 Prices
FLOUR STAYS PUT
veavy Increases Announc.
ed On Passenger Car,
Truck Models

WASHINGTON, Aug. %.
-P- OPA Friday night
announced its new recon
troll" ceilings on fats and oils,
setting prices one cent a
mound over June 80 levels on
shortcomings and margarine
when the retail lid goes back
September 9.
The agency handed out a fist
ful of ceiling increases on the
busiest day since its rebirth, boost
ing tire prices two and one half
nercent and raising the prices of
many types of trucks among other
actions.
Mixed feeas were tagged for
higher prices also. OPA included
Them with fats and oil in the first
hatch of new prices on products
ordered back under ceiling by the
Price Decon rol board Thursday.
Bakers flour was sent up seven
rents per hundred pounds at Mime
anolis. and OPA announced that
tbe price to consumers would stay
ppt at the present levels.
But cotton bedspreads and table
cloths went up 20 per cent and
viii 9 meat Tuna rose three cents
a can. while the price agency re-
ported that overalls and other cot
ion work clothing will climb ten
per cent at retail in three to six
weeks.
See OPA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
SEEING THINGS!
"BaH OfFire With Tail"
Startles Wilmingtonians
SEEING

A ball of fire with a tail'' streak
ed out of the southwest at 7:25
p. m. last night, Kissed swiftly over
Wilmington, and disappeared in a
bright glow to the northeast, ac-
cording to many telephone calls
which poured in to the Stars news
room from eye-witnesses.
Fifteen minutes later, at TAO
p. m. the Associated Press reported
that a similar or the same ball
of fire" flashed past Durham, but
if it was the same = it had
reversed directions because the
Durham report said it was headed
toward Raleigh.
The first local eve-witnesses to
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
Ten Ships Here

Ten surplus merchant ships are
now moored in the Brunswick river
lay-up basin, it was learned yester-
day.
The total number of such vessels
stored in the U. S. Maritime COM
missions reserve fleet anchora ges
along the nations coasts is now
about 1000, according to Washing
ton reports.
The latest ship to arrive in the
local basin is the S. S. Jordan,
which was tied up Thursday night.
O'her vessels which arrived recent
ly include the S. S. Edward w. Box
S. S. Roger Sherman, S. S. Joe C.
S.. Blackburn. and S. S.. Anton
Dvorak, all Liberty ships.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24

phone the Star about the mys-
ferrous phenomenon we're the op-
orators at the Tide Water Power
company's plant on the waterfront
at Surrey and Castle streets.
Parallel Flight
1T was about 400 or 500 feet off
the ground" one operator said,
land it streaked like a meteor
from the southwest toward the
northeast. l don't see how it could
be a meteor, though, because it
seemed to be travelling parallel
with the ground instead of fall
See Rail- Of FIRE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
ALL
PIONEERS ALL
Telephone Council
Holds Session Here
0. G. Balm, Manager Of Wilmington Office
Of Southern Bell Elected Head Of
Carolinas Chapter Unit

O. G. Balm, manager of the Wilmington office of the
Southern Bell Telephone company, was elected president of
the newly-organized Coastal council of the Carolinas Chap
ter of the Telephone Pioneers of America at a one-day con-
Nention which closed at Carolina Beach last night.
The council, whose members are all veterans of at least
81 years of service in the telephone industry, embraces five
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
BY STEWART ALSOP
ALABAMA TRIUMViRAIE

III
While Joseph Alsop has been writ
ing his series on England, Stewart Al
son has been on an extended trip
throughout most of the southern
states. his is the third of several
articles by Stewart Alsop on tne
political situation in the South.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-Whlle
Georgia has moved | n one oliec-
ton with the unappetizing fantic,
Eugene Talmadge, nearby Ala
.bama has moved in exactly the op-
posite direction. There the people
have confirmed as the regnlng
political triumvirate three genial,
outsized politicians who ale firmly
opposed to everything Talmadge
stands for.
Senator Lister Hill is the senior
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity - Fair and
moderate temperature today; Sunday
partly cloudy becoming slightly warm
er in afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-24

See MEAT on Page Two
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30
Unions here take first step
to SET up Chicago sports program

from $50 pm. until 8 pm. and
Local AIS uses the alleys from 8
to 10 pm.
Far from being outdone by
this, the leagues at some of the
other unions have gone into high
gear too. AS in the past, one of
the largest is that of Stewart
Warner workers.
Similar teams exist among the
auto workers and some of the
other UE locals. More details on
the various bowling activities OF
various trade union leagues will
be reported in the Star next week
The STAR would like to hear
an expression of opinion of
various trade uniOnists as to
the feasibility of starting
city-wide labor sports program,
branching out into various
sports activities.
1t would seem that Chicago Ger
tairly should not lag behind other
centers in instituting real
sports program among the vari-
Gus unions. We know trade union.
lists are interested in such pro
gram. Let's see what we can do
to get the ball rolling.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30
College football
is big business

AS if to support the contention
of Federated Press Sports Col
umnist Ed Hughes that college
football is big business, the De-
trOit News played up as an i'm.
portant story on its main sports
page the record-breaking box of
flee take of the University of
Michigan home football games.
"The athletic department has
money in the bank for 100000 adj
missions" says the News story.
Moreover, Michigan viii play to
sellout crowds at both Minnesota
and Ohio State next month. This
will add another 10000 to make
a total of some $4,000 that will
see Michigan play this autumn
This figure will be unmatched in
the nation" The home games at.
tendance is nearly 1919 over the
record of 309,5O6 established in
1915, the News story declares.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30
BY PETE WILLIAMS

The trade union sports pro
gram has gotten under way in a
number of Chicago unions these
past few weeks, and although the
program is not a coordinated one
embracing most of the unions in
this area, there are indications
that the prospects of such pro-
gram are well worth considering.
The bowling league of UE
LEGAL 1854 at Stewart Warner
has been in full swing for a
few weeks now, as has been
the league of the Chicago Joint
Beard of the Fur and Leather
Workers.
Walter Nixon, Secretary of the
Chicago Leather Workers Local
43 bowling league, informs us
that 10 teams exists in the league,
as well as 10 teams in Local AIS.
Even through many obstacles
are placed in the way" Nixon
said, Including the highly preiu-
diced American Bowling Con.
gress, we have been successful
in establishing a fine bowling
league in our Union. Bowlers OF
almost every nationality and race
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30

that long buried of the seasons first
they're forgotten the day. piled they
edgng into the world series winning losing
goats baseball series? Ted
Williams and Johnny Peky Williams didn't hit Pesky failed
throw in time off Enos Slaughers steal from third
Well, Williams supposed Sox hitting?
Don't forget his smuggling largely the IN
And how about the assorted mispays and failures costing
games BEFORE Pey forgot player
wholly goat hero Goats and heroes belong in the
the Hall of Fame
Wagner baldom's immoras was the goat of the
first world series in 1903 He charged with young
but brilliant then, it took him while live
first baser forgot to touch second anothes hit which,
veoped would have the 1908 National pennan Later after
playo between the Cubs necessary
to decide the pennant winner 1t was all traced back
The Giants, Christy nchino
with his Cub nemesis ThreeFngered Mere
lived it down. He's still singled the bird pepnapt
for the Giants He didn't All the Giants during The
race lost it. -
Tony Lazze died recently in California Twenty wears a
Grover Alexander struck world series
when Tony was of the best the shat
Day Alex struck him out with two seventh-Bot the
hghIighd TOnys obituaries Alexander is in basebaTs Hall Of
COOpeONn, N. " And Tonys humiliation etered on
Alexanders plaque,
Both the plaque and the newspaper omitted plenty They
forgot who the who outs that out
the becoming
they forgot explain what happened Yankee bafers who
supposed to win the following innings Who were
they? don't remember except that they didn't come through
Yet they
remembered while Tony is
If must take sport seriously honest Cultivate limo
clear memory remnants league world series are won in
spite of countless forgotten mispays They date from tho time
your hairy caught knob instead NJ
with his fingers long line of forgotten plays Don't forget
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30

are enjoying this fine clean sport
in perfect harmony"
The leather and luggage work
ers, 100 bowlers in all, use the
alleys at Holy Trinity Recrea-
ton, 1445 w. Division ST, each
Monday night. Local 43 bowls
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30

of it, offstage sounds and all.
Every sports tests is success story or scene
of objectionable failure. Thus you see these phony
heroes and goats of world series. They are eoun-
terfeit stuff of the imagination. In team play no
individual ever wins or loses a world pennant let
alone seasons league race
A fan-the word derives from fanatic-wraps
up complete game, over a seasons performance
in the last decisive play. Some wretch made a
bobbe and lost the game or the pennanti Doesn't
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30
Who's Who:

Here are Starlets who have
joined recently: Betty Jane
Brown, Raymond Ciarrochi, Ken
meth Cohen, Gilbert Felsenfeld,
Roberta Gellerman, Lee Geller-
man, lisa Nan Hochberg, Fran
cine Blaszynski, Roberta Kaye,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30

Christine Lewis, Richard Lobes,
Robert Owen, Olga Pike.
Teddy Ristich, KyIa Wolf,
Charlotte Teinowitz, Norma Tob-
in, Michael McGuinn, CarIa Nico.
lette, Tony Lufrano, Paul Kelly,
Joan Ristich, Mary Teresa Me
Ginty, Spencer Kezios, Leonore
GIazer, Sandra Eisenstein.
Rose Dublin, Lorraine McDon.
aid, David Ehrlich, Phyllis Pep
per, Joan Cottingham, Sharon
Jones, Nina DelMissier, Kathleen
Honsa, and Barbara Greenberg.
Small Talk:
If Paul Kelly will send his adj
dress in, he will receive a reply
to his recent letter. Also will the
Starlet who lives at 5424 W.
Adams st. send his name in, he
OF she will receive a reply.
Ass the word around that the
club is growing SO fast that let
ters can't always be answered i'm.
:nediateIy. But every letter re.
ceives personal attention.
When you send your stories in,
be sure to send the following IN
formation along with it. name,
address, age, school, grade. II
you are Of high scnool age, or
older, you arc a senior member.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30
BY PROFESSOR HIGGINS

This was a simple procedure,
as the gals lived in an unreStrain-
ed and hilarious manner and the
boys cavorted as if they wee
on a football field. Thus the
foundation of the floor was
weakened, and we shall consider
the Chicago Stadium Or Soldiers
Field for our future stamping
ground. IL, s,e4
PrizeWinners:
THERESA ZACKER of Resur-
rection and SHARON WINER of
/Delano have each been awarded
a prize for the single handed cap
ture of 25 new members.
KAREN CLAWSON of May
school has written very inter
esting article about stamp collect
ing, and will get our long coveted
stamp album. Hope you enjoy Il,
KAREN. -.
JOANNE GLASS, 1852 Forest
vile, wrote a story which wins a
prize and KATHLEEN O'DONO-
VAN, Resurrection and BILLY
PETRI of Resurrection, each
have been awarded prizes for
their contributions.
SPENCER KEZIOS of May
School, also wins a prize for his
poem. Here it is:
''SN NO w.
4 saw the snow i'm my dream
1 saw it flow, like stream
The children were gay, all ready
to play
With their sIeds-and all cheeks
red.
Who's Who:
Here are Starlets who have
joined recently: Betty Jane
Brown, Raymond Ciarrochi, Ken
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-30
CALLING @GS7
EM 49,
STRAIGHT
The phony goats and heroes
By ED HUGHES

Wego overheard sports The sport suggest diversion
Yet satisfied make nothing drama
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-25
What, ALI
Your Service
At Sea?

Asked by the rehabilitation
yeOman at New York how many
years he had been in service, Ed
ward Johnson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. p. Johnson of this city
replied three and one half years.
Asked how long he had been at
sea he said, three and one half
years.
Why that must be wrong"
the clerk said. what about your
root training?" Edward answered
that he had enlisted and fifteen
minutes later was on the Coast
Guard Cutter Triton, serving his
sea duty.
All of Edwards service was on
the Triton which participated in
some Of this wars bitterest anti
submarine warfare between Tor
tugas and New York. Edward
has witnessed the sinking of
many American ships and said
that the Triton had an enviable
record Of conveying in the war
Mr.. Johnson is married to the
former Alice Parks of this city
He was. discharged as a chief
motor machinist mate in the
United States Coast Guard.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-25
Lions To Build
New Clubhouse
MAJORITY VOTE THUS FAR
FAVORS CHANGING
STREET NAMES

Main topic at the Key West
Lions Club experimenting last
evening was the proposed cree
ton Of a concrete block building
or the present club site.
The club has a building fund
for this purpose and a member
Of the organization is to finance
the construction Of the structure
without charging interest for the
loan.
Lion Allan Hampton. pro-
gram chairman. reported that
out of a total of $500 cards
mailed out for the purpose of
taking q poll OF public opinion
regarding the proposed chang
ing of city street names to
number. l.0sl cards had been
returned. Mr. Hampton reveal
ed that the poll now stands 65l
for the change to numbers and
40 against changing the street
names.
Many Of the Lions present last
night spoke on this subject and
il was made plain that the club
is not sponsoring, nor proposing,
70 change the street names but
merely sounding out public opin-
ION on the subject. The general
discussion brought out that some
Lions favor the change and 9TH
ers oppose it.
Probably the best suggestion
was offered by Lion Joe Allen. !,
who said. Let US retain thA
street names. and at the same
time let US give them mum y
bers.
Lion S. M Odom, who has pro-
NOTED and directed the Lions
sponsored Cub Pack, gave a re-
port on the activities of the girls
in the group. His report covered
the field of sports and the help
rendered in the present clothing
drive.
Lion Doherty invited the Lions
TO Scout meetings and urged
more support for Scout work in
the city
A communication was read
from Captain c. E. Reordan. in
which he expressed his graft
tude to the Lions Club for hav-
ing been made an honorary
member and accepting the in
vitstion to attend the meeting
TO be held on January FL for
his induction. Captain Reordan
said that whatever his efforts
have accomplished for the bet
terment of Key West it was
done with the greatest of pleas
ure.
The death of Lion Joseph Edris
Mondul was reported to the club.
Members were urged to attend
the funeral TO be held in Miami
Saturday afternoon.
Lion Mondul was an active
member His last activities in
Guided the Craftsmanship of the
clothing drive carried out last
year.
Guests of the club were: Geo.
F. Morris, Icy Rodriguez and E.
c. Doherty, Key West; J. d. Lea
no, Topeka. Kansas; Chester Cox,
Cincinnati. Ohio; r. L. Ferguson,
Forth Worth, Texas, and Lions
Rudolph Hornickel, Pleasantville,
New York. and w. G.. Nicholson.
Dallas. Texas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-25
CUSTOM ON RINGS

MILWAUKEE,. - The custom
Of wearing rings was, transmit
ted by the Greeks and Etruscans
10 the Romans.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-25

Nearly 10000 ships were pilot
ed IN Scotland's River Clyde in
1894. They had a gross tonnage
Of about l20,00O,000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-25

DR.. Lin Yutang, author, has
invented an Oriental version of
the typewriter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-13
Boiler Blast
 Rocks School

Baroda, Mich. Nov. i5-(UP)- An undetermined number of chill dren were reported killed or in- jured today when a boiler exploded in the Baroda School.
 Gerald Howard, owner of a Baro- da implement store, said he visited the scene of the blast shortly after it occurred and that he was sure some of them must have been killed"
 There's no way of telling, though" he said. '"They have talk en some of them away in ambulanc- G. and they are trying to get at oth- CTS with torches"
 CThe Berrien County sheriff's of- fict at St. Joseph said it had no details on the blast but that it looks like pretty bad situation.D
 Howard said 1t appeared the ex- plosion occurred in the schools boiler room.
 The school is a combination high school and elementary unit with some 70 pupils.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-13
Smuts Pushes Annexation
 Bucks Soviet-Ied
 Hostility to Action

Lake Success, Y. F., Nov. i3-tUP) The Union of South Africa served notice today that ii will annex the mandated territory Of Southwest Africa whether the United Nations General Assembly approves 1t or not.
 Field Marshall Jan Christian Shuts, South Africa's prime minis ter, threw his take-it-or-leave-it proposa! into the Assembly'S trus- teeships committee in the face of EOviet-led hostility to the South Africa proposal 70 take over the ter- ritoFy.
 Southwest Africa, owned by Ger many until the end of World War I, has been administered by South Africa since then as a League Of Nations mandate.
 The South African pronounce rnent came sitter Great Britain had thrown its weight behind the an- nexatIon bid.
 Arthur c. BOttomley, British delegate. warmly defended the South African proposal before the United Nations Trusteeshlp Com mittee. Soviet Ambassador Nieolai NoVikOV previously had denounced the proposal as a fragrant violation of the LIN Charter.