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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
Seamen Plan
$2,0O0,000
Strike EX2p'.
Unions PREF
Worldwi3 ' gs
Beforr ser
CALM / AILS
Conciliators Say General
Labor Picture Brightest
In Months

WASHINGTON, June Is -lR-
The CIO-supported committee for
Maritime unity, with one doc&
strike just averted, announced
tonight plans for a ST. 900, 900
"strike fund.- and for worldwide
meetings in preparation for new
contract negotiations Sept. 30.
The GNU, headed by Harry
Bridges and Joseph Curran as CO.
chairmen, disclosed plans for
Joint conferences with the mari
time unions of other nations dur
ing the summer preparatory to a
new maritime crisis next fall.
This indication Of future labor
front difficulties came as peace
was just returning to the nations
waterfronts. The Labor department
was viewing the strike outlook,
with last nights maritime dis
pute settlement as background
as the best in months.
Louis Goldblatt, GNU secretary,
announced that the GNU execu-
tive committee had voted - on
the heels of the settlement - to
build a 81, 1000, 900 strike fund.
CMU's seven component unions
with more than 200, 900 seamen
and dock worker members, he
said, will raise SIS each for this
fund.
AN additional ST, O0OtO 1000 will
also be raised for the strike fund.-
he added.
GNU sources said the additional
81, 900, 900 would be raised from
GNU unionists beyond their S.
apiece.
1.-THE world federation Of trade
unions will be approached on this
matter and conferences arranged
as soon as possible for both the
Atlantic and Pacific areas" Gold
blatt said.
Before the GNU made its omi-
nous announcement OF future plans
the capital had looked at the labor
situation with fresh optimism.
1T looks better now than it
has for some time very much
BETTER" said Howard T. Colvin,
associate director of the U. S.
Cancellation service. There are
not over a dozen strikes in the
entire country of sufficient ma
tional importance to cause any
excitement at all"
This relative calm gave the ma
ton its best postwar opportunity
to turn full steam ahead on a
reconversion program crippled in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
Carolina May Get More
Sugar Shortly, Clark Telegraphs
STOCKS DEPLETED
Hope OF Supplies To Be-
CHEEKY News For Many
Housewives

Officials of the Department of
Agriculture and other interested de-
partments are hopeful the sugar
situation in southeastern North
Carolina will ease up considerably
early next week Representative ].
Bayard Clark wired J. T. HERS, ex-
ecutive general agent of the Will
mington Port commission yester-
day.
These are cheering words for the
worried domestic and commercial
users of sugar in this area, for
some of whom the outlook has been
dark, according to HERS.
The telegram. in response to a
letter from HERS, ended with word
that Clark was urging special ship
ments be ~allocated to the area.
StOckpiles Low
HERS wrote to Clark after con-
ferring with local sugar brokers
and some commercial users who
laid before him information indi-
eating that stockpiles were rapid
ly dWindling and refiners were no
longer shipping sugar into North
Carolina, presumably, according
to some sources, upon orders Of
the War Shipping administration.
Facts later disclosed indicate that
as the government has requisition-
ed such large amounts of the re-
output there is none left
with which to satisfy domestic re-
quirements.
Wilmington wholesalers contacted
yesterday were completely out and
saw no shipments in sight for 20 to
so days, by most estimates. Flu
ture shipments as a whole appear
most uncertain, the majority de-
clared.
Shipments Stop
Since the start of the war the
largest single shipper of sugar to
the Wilmington area has been a
Savannah, Ga. refiner, who now
has stopped shipping altogether.
Other refiners and importers of So
called 'Off-shore' sugar report they
are in no position to provide relief
until some government controls are
either lifted or otherwise modified.
The word from Representative
Clark is most encouraging and re-
suits may be soon expected, &C
cording to HERS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16

partment made quite clear to as
sembled members of the press, are
strictly in the laboratory stage.
More elaborate tests will be IN
dertaken at Camp Davis, accord
ing to Navy department sources
in Washington.
Developed for the Navy by Wash
ington scientists and engineers at
the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
laboratory, Silver Springs, the ram
jet engine has shot through the air
at speeds up to 1900 m. p. h.
double the speed Of sound. 1t de-
rives it's nickname from the fact
that it's appearance resembles moth
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
LONDON SLEUTHS
TRAIL MURDERER
Housekeeper Found Dead
In House OF King George
Of Greece

LONDON, June 15-UH-Agents
from Scotland Yard arrested a
married man at Brighton today
and hauled him back to their
headquarters for questioning about
the murder of Elizabeth McLindon,
a shapely, middle-aged housekeep
er who was killed at No. As Ches-
ter Square, a house belonging to
King George II of Greece.
The married man was Arthur
Boyce, thought to be the foreman
of a house-painting gang. Although
he already had a wife, he was re-
ported to have been engaged to
Miss McLindon and had planned to
marry her soon.
AS Scotland yards investigation
of the case progressed. it became
clear that the motive was one
basic emotion. When the body was
first discovered, the yards special
branch - charged with investigat-
ing the crimes of foreigners-Was
called in.
That indicated a political motive
was suspected. But the special
breach withdrew and the investi-
cation was taken V e by the Grim
inal investigation division. A CID
officer said he hoped to crack the
case within a few hours.
Even without a political motive,
the murder at No. As Chester
Square had all the earmarks of a
Sherlock Holmes thriller.
Neighbo-c last saw her alive
Saturday, a week ago. She was
going out, quite agitated," they
said, in a blue dress-instead of the
customary black - with sheer silk
stockings and blue snake skin
shroes. A few minutes after she
left a man called.
That was the last report Of Miss
McLindon until police broke into
her house yesterday at the beaest
of the neighbors, who had become
alarmed at the growing pile of bot
ties Of milk and newspapers on her
front STEP.
They found her stiff and cold in
a chair by her telephone in a lock-
ed study. There was a %blood-taln-
ed hole in the back of her head,
put there by a caliber . 81 pistol
fired at close range.
There was no sign that a muir
dered had ofrced his way INT
the house, and no trace OF the
murder gun or a used shell. Scot
land yard fingerprints experts were
COMPOUNDED by the marks OF dec
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
Construction Group
Maybe Formed Here
TO CHECK PERMITS
Chamber OF Directors May
Appoint Committee AT
Meeting Friday

A proposal to create in Whining
ton a District Contraction com
mittee to review building applica-
tons affected by terms of the
Civilian Production administra-
ton program to channel supplies
into homes for veterans will be
high on the agenda of the di-
rectors of the Wilmington Chamber
of Commerce, meeting here Friday.
Organization of a District Con-
struction committee is authorized,
John H. Farrell, Chamber of Com
merce secretary said yesterday,
under regulations of the CPA. Sole
function Of the committee would
be to review and recommend to
district CPA headquarters, ap-
prevail or rejection of non-housing
building or repair projects over
which the CPA has control. Its
recommendations would not be a
final determining factor insofar as
any application is concerned, Far
rell said.
We have felt for some time
that the situation in Wilmington
insofar as housing is concerned
that CPA regulations r not wholly
applicable in this county. The
need here is for industrial plants
commercial building - and not
housing, at least at the present."
Farrell said today in revealing his
plan to place before the Chambers
directors, the proposal for crea-
lion Of Construction committee.
Through such a committee it
may be possible to make this point
clearer to the CPA offices in
greensboro the secretary added.
membership of the committee,
Farrell said, would be composed
OF men Intimately familiar with
me city and county building needA
NO limit on its membership, from
standpoint of size, is imposed by
me CPA, Farrell said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
WOMEN TO ATTEND
DISTRICT MEETING
New Hanover Demonstra-
ton Clubs To Go To
Southport Wednesday

Sixty or more New Hanover
county women affiliated with the
Home Demonstration clubs viii
travel to Southport by bus Wednes-
day to attend the 18th District
meeting in the Brunswick county
courthouse.
Two special chartered buses viii
provide the transportation, it was
announced yesterday by Miss Ann
Mason home demonstration agent
Buses will leave the customshouse
at 9 am.
Mrs. Carl S. Ward, president OF
the 18th district federation will
preside over the Southport meet
ing.
Meyer To Speak
The principal address of the
day will be from DR.. Harold D.
Meyer, director of the North Caro-
lima Recreation committee. An,
other address, "Setting o ii
jStakes," will be given by Miss
Ruth Current, state home demon
stration agent.
The days program will oper
with a brief devotional by Mrs
F. A. Jordan of New Hanover
county. Delegates will be extended
welcome by Mrs. O. c. Burton o.
Brunswick county, and Mrs. B,
Van Balel, also of Brunswick, viii,
give the response.
Mrs. A.. w. Pierce, state fedora
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
YECCS LOOT TWO
GROCERY STORES
In Cash Reported
Stolen From Market
Street Food Center

Reported break-in of two upper
Market street grocery stores late
Friday night or early yesterday,
and the alleged theft of $4,000 in
cash from one, a being inves-
tigated by city detectives yester-
day.
Robbed, according to city police
reports, were the Food Center, 2439
Market street, and the Broad
Circle Grocery, Market at Ken
wood avenue.
The $1,000 loss was reported
from the Food Center by it's own
er, J. G. Carney. Entry was gain
ed to the Food Center, Carney
told police, ostensibly with a pass
key through the front door, after
a screen door had been cut with
a knife to gain access to the lock.
Four cash registers, Carney said,
were looted of about So, 000-most
of yesterdays receipts, the own
er reported.
Broad Circle Entered
The Broad Circle store, owned
by C. A. Olmstead, was broken
into and a small quantity 1 gro
ceries taken. OlmsteaG said no
Continued On Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
TRUMAN SENDS TO CONGRESS
ARMED FORCES MERGER PLAN;
ARMY GAINS MAJOR VICTORY
Cordially Peruades Conference
OF Big -Four Ministers In Paris

By EDWIN w. BEATTIE
United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, June 15.-U.H-The
Big Four Foreign Ministers to-
day reassembled in what was
described as an atmosphere of
"great cordially" and agreed
upon a four-point aAgenda, in
Guiding a peace treaty for Aus
tria.
The inclusion of Austria as a
Subject for discussion repre-
scented a victory for Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes who
argued at length during the
previous Paris Big Four meet
ing for a discussion of Austrian
peace terms.
The Austrian discussion at
that time was blocked by For
eign Minister v. M. Molotov.
Molotov today, however, with
drew his opposition and the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
STATES PLUMBERS
MEET TOMORROW
Wrightsville Beach Host
To ESQ Plumbing And
Heating Contractors

H. S. Richie, of Albemarle, will
discuss OPA area prices during to-
morrow's afternoon session OF the
North Carolina Association Of
Plumbing and Heating Contractors,
Inc, which opens in the morning
at Wrightsville Beach.
Sessions Of the tWo-day conven-
ton will be held in the Ocean
Terrace hotel. it has been announ
ced by R. M. Kermon, executive
secretary of the Tar Heel associa-
ton.
An estimated $50 delegates and
members of the association are
expected TO register for the con-
vention according to Kermon.
The convention will be called to
order by L. V. O'Callaghan, presi-
dent. Following invocation by
George A. Moore of Wilmington,
Mayor W. Ronald Lane will well
come the convention visitors. He
is scheduled to be introduced by
R. l.. Lucas, president OF the Port
City Plumbing and Heating as
ISOLATION, of Wilmington.
Response to Mayor Lanes words
of welcome will be given by v. G.
Moser, of Asheville, first VICE
president of the state group.
The afternoon session will be de-
voted to the talk by Richie and
an address by E. B. Grady. oil
Concord, who will explain the acti-
vities of the national convention.
Following reports OF officers and
committees the group will elect
their officers for the coming year.
A blngo party will be held during
the evening for the ladies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
BILL HACKERS
WILL DEFER ACTION
Will Work Instead For
Modified Emergency
Strike Laws

WASHINGTON, June Is up -
Backers of the vetoed Case labor
disputes bill reported today they
have called off their fight to re-
vive the controversial measure I'm
til probably next year.
They said they will work III
stead for passage of a modified
version of President Humans
emergency strike control legisla-
ton, which would give him power
to take over essential strike
bound industries.
Added to the presidential pro-
posal, they said, will be only such
sections of the Case plan as the
chief executive indicates he will
accept. At present they have no
assurance he will agree to any
such addition.
Opponents of the far-reaching
Case measure held the decision
of it's sponsors to withhold their
fight for a while as "a smashing
victory in congress for Mr.. Tru-
man in his fight over the holly
debated bill.
This Interpretation of the move,
which came from Rep. Biemiller
D-Wis) and others who fought
the Case legislation, was prompt
ly disputed by its hackers.
I'VE are not surrendering to the
president in any sense" Rep. Case
(RSD) author of the measure, told
reporters.
But there is no sense in the
president and congress making
faces at one another.
1--WE are seeking a constructive
result and we could not achieve
it now by sending him another
bill he would veto.
"The issues still exist however.
and sooner or later we will have
to meet them with legislation such
as ours"
Rep. Cox D-Ga) asserted that
this does not e we are Civ
ing up, only that we will not press
the matter for the time being"
Cox added that his colleagues
will go along with creation of a
joint senate-house committee as
requested by Mr.. Truman, to draft
permanent labor regulation legis-
lation.
The Georgian reported some
legislators want this committee to
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addition of Austria to the sched-
ule as Byrnes suggested.
The four point agenda adopt
ed was as follows:
1-Peace treaties with Italy
and the former Axis satellites.
2-Questions regarding Ger
many.
3-Questions about Austria
and the Austrian treaty.
4-The Italian political situa-
ton.
The chief sensation of the
meeting was MolOtOv's Italian
demand. Molotov noted that
there had been blOodshed in
Naples and laramie and charg-
ed that certain groups were
trying to use violence to over
turn the referendum results.
He said the Allies could not e
main Indifferent to the threat
Continued on Page Two; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16

question was placed on the
agenda.
AT the same time-at MOlO-
TOYS request - the Big Four
agreed to discuss the italian
political situation. Molotov
charged that Italian Monarch
lists and pro = Fascists were
trying to upset the results of
the referendum disesetabilish-
ing the Monarchy and setting
up a Republic.
Molotov backed up his re-
quest for a discussion of the
situation in Italy with a state
ment that "a state of civil war"
is threatened by the activity of
the Monarchists and Fascist
sympathizers.
When his colleagues agreed
to the Molotov proposal the So
Wet Foreign Minister quickly
reciprocated by approving the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
BY JACK LUNAN
Star-NeWs Staff Writer

While more than 300 civic, edu-
cational and industrials leaders
of Akron, Ohio, are working with
the Chevrolet Motor company in
an effort to make the 1916 ALL
American Soap Box Derby finals
in Akron, August 16, the greatest
success in the nine-year history
of the race, Wilmington service
clubs, business men and educa-
tional leaders are also combining
to make the Wilmington event
on July 81, one to be remembered
for years to come by every youth
in the district.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
By KEN r. NOBLE
Star-News Staff Writer

A strange locking gadget whose
odd appearance has already earn
ed missiles the Navy department:
pipe will be among the new guld
ed missiles the Navy department.
will test at Camp Davis beginning
sometime this summer.
Powered by an engine that
weighs a mere 70 pounds-an en-
CINE technically known as ram
iet'-the Flying stovepipe" was
unveiled by the Nays Ordnance
bureau last week in Silver Springs
Md. The Maryland tests the de-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
Navy Reveals More Details OF New
Missile Due For Camp Davis Tests

ing more than an ordinary every
day variety Of a stovepipe. In
fact, the initial ram-jet missiles
were made from the exhaust tubes
of Army PAT fighter planes.
Thus far ir its experimental
stage. the ram-jet engine has been
used exclusively in propelling
small missiles-missiles which, by
the way, may be guided by radio
much as pilotless aircraft r guild
ed. The Navy and its scientists,
however make no particular secret
of the possibilities that the ram
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16
CHIC Business Leaders
Get ReadyForD Derby Day

All civic and service organiza-
tons of the city are represented
on the advisory committee govern
ing the race here which is being
sponsored jointly by the Whining
ton Star-NeWs and Raney Chevro-
let company. Civitan, Rotary, XII
wants, Lions. Exchange and the
Brigade Boys clubs are partici-
pating, as well as the city and
county, Y. M. C. A, Boy Scouts
and other organizations. Officers
and members of all groups are
banding together to make the
Wilmington event the best local
Continued on Page !. Column 81
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North Carolina Sunday partly cloudy
and warmer, widely scattered thunder
showers over western portion.
Evening star., 1946-09-08

reality of Gypsy funeral. A 12-piece band
played Italian dirges behind the procession of
hair-tearing, breast pounding, screaming and
sobbing mourners. Through the slum canyons
of Manhattan fat fortune-tellers snaked their
way, chanting Oriental death songs smoking
cigarettes and scattering the ashes over their
shoulder to stop evil spirits from following
them. Loud arguments broke out about the
best route to take. The casket swayed danger
ously as questions of pall-bearer priority were
settled by jostling, pushing and showing.
Both public and private welfare insti-
tutions in the United States put barriers
in the way of Gypsy admissions. Few
private hospitals will accept them. Sick
Gypsies are invariably accompanied by large
retinues of sympathetic advisers. They camp
in hospital Railways and build bonfres in the
waiting room. Late at night, after the lights
are doused. they brew ancient cure-alls.
Although sickness and death brings the
Gypsy face to face with the civilization
around him, marriage is a strictly inter tribal
affair. The ceremony is performed by an
elder of the tribe, and the bonds may be
dissolved at the husbands convenience. But
this doesn't mean the Gypsy takes his nuptials
lightly. Far from it. Matrimony is the occa-
sion for the most luscious barbecue of all.
First, the family rents hail. The next step
is assuring plenty of food for all. This is done
by having all the girls in the tribe enter
cooking competition for the honor of being
bridesmaid. Guests are not allowed inside
the door unless accompanied by roastable
pig or lamb. As the great moment approaches,
a ceremonial bottle of Plotska, or festive
whiskey, is brought out. Everyone takes
symbolic svig except the bride and groom.
They save what's left in the bottle and finish
it one year later on their first anniversary.
Maldng The Collection
HE Gypsies are past masters at the art of
collecting wedding presents. First, the parents
bring out an immense loaf of bread. The
brides mother tears hole in the dough with
her fingers. Then the bread is passed around
and everybody is supposed to deposit we'd
ding present - gold and silver coins are the
accepted thing - in the dough hole. A double
check is kept on all donors by means of silk
handkerchiefs which the bride bestows on
every male who forks over gift.
Finally, an old man binds the bride and
groom's hands together with silk scarf.
Then everybody gobbles barbecue for three
days. The newlyweds 60 home and kill a
rooster on the doorstep - the bride sets up
fortune-telling business, the groom lies
down for long snooze - and the Gypsy
cycle of all play and no work moves into the
next generation. The End
Evening star., 1946-09-08

Detective John Sheehan, specialist in way
ward Romantics for the New York City pick
pocket squad, gave me some less picturesque
lowdown on the Serbian tribe.
They're the slickest gyp artists in the
world" he said. They pocket as much as
nine thousand dollars after ten minutes of
fortune telling hocus-pocus." The technique
goes like this: fortune teller rings your door
bell and offers to read your future for dime.
She takes an alarmed view of your palm,
suggests you sleep with an egg under your
pillow Next day she returns, finds the egg
''hexed',. and warns that all your belongings
are cursed. Your only chance for happiness,
she prophecies, is for her to take all your
money and have it blessed. This goes for your
fur coats, too. Needless to say, this cleaning
and blessing service skips town within an hour
Irs $leo. 80 Business
SoMErIMEs" declares harried Detective
Sheehan, they even park truck down the
street and haul away the furniture, too"
Sheehan estimates that Americans give
Serbian smoothies $4,000 worth of dirty
money, fouled fur coats, and bewitched flrni-
ture suites every year.
The Police Department says one thing for
the wandering tribes, however: they're seldom
involved in crimes of violence. They rely
more on outwitting than out-hitting their
victims. For their part, the earths most pic
turesque hoboes don't think our own honesty
record is anything to write home about even
if they had home and could write.
Sascha Botcha, for instance, is one member
of the brotherhood who thinks that if there
are any scales in heaven weighing guilty
consciences, his people would tip them lightly.
He had just been charged $1,000 by city
doctor, who had administered vitamm pills
to his dying father for one month. The next
Occidental samaritans Sascha encountered
were an undertaken and florist. They nicked
him for an additional $4,000.
l met Sascha Botcha under son1ber circum-
stances. He was sitting ON the floor with
dozen wailing members of his tattered
family in a bare, rat-reeking room on
New York's lowest Lower East Side. Next
to him in coffin lay his dead father.
Excuse me for not shaking hands and for
our appearance, Sascha whispered. "Shak
ing hands in the presence of death would bring
on another death. And our religion forbids
washing, shaving, or combing our hair for
several days after relative dies"
Sascha spoke we'll. He had once dictated
an authentic article on the life of his people
and sent it to true story magazine. The
people there rejected it as being pure fig
ment of the imagination.
But no fiction story could exaggerate the