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The sub., 1946-06-20

.Continue to execute all the ex- press provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, being impossible to destroy it except by some ac- ton not provided for in the in- strument itself" Abraham Lin- coin.
The sub., 1946-06-20
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 "You seem very quiet tonight, Roland" said the pretty girl. Are you sure you love me?"
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The sub., 1946-06-20

primarily to serve their own arnIbi- tions to the neglect of the peoples
 interests" he declared.
The sub., 1946-06-20

Supporting the "Save Bread for Europe" program, Patricia Vani- yer, popular Walter Thornton pin. up model, protects the freshness of the loaf by carefully reclosing the waxed paper wrapper after preparing her "between-exercisev snack. According to the Agricul- ture Department, if each housewife would save only a slice of bread a day the national saving would be one million pounds of bread daily.
The sub., 1946-06-20

The best V repealed is { Lincoln.
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b get a bad law prce it stricuy.--
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
LABOR MEASURE
STRIKING SNAGS
Truman Charged With
"Ham Acting" By OPP
ponents OF Act

WASHINGTON, May 27. -(R-
Sweeping anti-strike legislation hit
snags in congress Monday amid
furious charges and denials that
President Truman was ham act
ing" and that his legislative lieu
tenants were "stalling" on a per-
manent bill to curb labor unions.
AS a powerful coalition of Senate
Democrats and Republicans opened
fire on the Presidents request for
temporary power to draft men who
strike against the government,
Senator Morse R.-Ore.) accused
Mr.. Truman of lone of the cheap
est exhibitions of ham acting l
have ever SEEN"
Charges Truman Knew
He asserted that the White House
knew at noon on Saturday that the
railroad strikers were ready TO
work - more than four hours be-
fore MI. Truman made the an
nouncement of the end of the strike
in a dramatic interruption of his
address to Congress.
Senator Barley of Kentucky.
the majority leader, arose to ac-
See LABOR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
Along The Cape Fear

UNUSUAL STORY - AS helms
man of ALONG THE CAPE FEAR
we've steered this column through
many Wierd waters, peculiar pas
sages, enchanting channels, curious
creeks, and bewildering bayous.
And the prov of our vessel has
nudged many an unusual and ex-
traordinary story.
But yesterday, as we were polling
u craft through a bog of unopen-
ed letters, we struck bottom on
one of the most unusual stories
our keel has ever snagged into.
ANCIENT CUSTOM - 1t is an
ancient custom to name ships af-
ter people. Ever since the palmy
commercial days of the Phoenician
merchant marine, when Sidon and
Tyre we're the worlds greatest
and busiest seaports, vessels have
been both blessed and cursed with
the names of both famous and in
famous personages.
It CAUSED us nc small amount of
wonder, therefore, to discover that
once upon a time a person was
named after a ship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
MARINE BUILDING
RETURNED TO CITY
Expects To Re-
ceive Preliminary Plans
For Auditorium Soon

The old Marine hospital build
lngs and site at Eighth and Nun
streets have been returned to the
city by the federal government,
Acting City Manager ]. R. Benson
announced yesterday.
The city took possession Of the
property yesterday after W. F.
Williams. project manager of the
real estate division, office Of di.
vision engineer, war department,
Raleigh, completed the transac-
tons with Benson over the week
end.
Used for Storage
Benson said the four original
hospital buildings will be used for
storage and recreation department
activities until the city's proposed
municipal auditorium is erected On
the site
1t is also thought that the city
may purchase the temporary struc-
ture5-barracks and mess halls
for salvage purposes.
The land and four permanent
buildings were bought by the city
in 1912 for $40, 900. After the pur-
chase the city leased the property
See BUILDINGS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
CHARGES
ANCL0-U. S. BLOC
Soviet Commissar Sees At
tempt To Control "Small-
er Nations"

MOSCOW, May 27.-P-soviet
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M.
Molotov charged Monday that a
British-American bloc waged an Of
fensive against Russia at the Paris
conference of foreign ministers in
a ''desire to impose their will upon
the Soviet Union"
In an exhaustive review Of the
four-poWer conference, published
by the communist party newspaper
Pravda, Molotov accused British
American capital of attempting to
bend small nations to its will,
charged the existence of a desire
in some circles to dislodge the
Soviet Union" from its place IN in
ternational affairs, and asserted
that advocates of imperialism in
the west ARE instigating new and
aggressive wars"
Five Points
Molotov's article made these
points:
l. The Soviet Union cannot &C
cept U. S. Secretary OF State James
F Byrnes' proposal for a %2l-nation
peace conference until British, Sow
let, French and American foreign
ministers complete preliminary
drafts for European peace treaties.
2. Byrnes, by proposing ultimate
reference to the United Nations of
the Italian colonies question, should
no solution be forthcoming from the
foreign ministers, made an attempt
to utilize methods of pressure,
threats and intimidation" Molotov
said these methods were alien to
normal relations between s~tates.'
"Frustrated Possibility
3. The British and Americans
formed a bloc in their desire to
impose their will upon the Soviet
Union,' because they did not want
to reckon with the Soviet Unions
demands, and thus frustrated the
possibility Of an agreed decision on
PREPARATIONS as WELL"
4. In proposing a 25-year pact Of
the United States, Britain, France
and the Soviet Union to insure the
Standardization of Germany,
Byrnes made a somewhat mac
cuarate statement by saying he
had obtained Prime Minister Sta
consent in principal last Dec
ember." Molotov said in December
byrnes did not as yet have the
draft of such a treaty, and there
fore Prime Minister Stalin's con-
sent to a nonresident treaty could
not have been given.
D.. Eyrnes' y Uposal for a sepa-
rate peace conference on Germany
next November was all the more
unexpected because previously
neither Mr.. Byrnes nor anyone else
had made any proposals concerning
a peace treaty, not to mention that
there does not yet exist any Ger
government with which a
peace treaty could be considered"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
Improvement
In New Areas
Up To Voters
Says New Facilities
Will Not Add To City's
Tax Rate
$1,OO3,OoO ISSUE
Proposals Mean "Develop-
ment OF Wilmington
To First Class City"
BY LARRY HIRSCH

The cit of Wilmington
W n the old city
limits and those within the
new-go to the polls as one
man tomorrow morning to de-
eide whether or not the city
will float a $1,003, 900 bond
issue designed not only to extend
the city's facilities to. the newly
annexed areas TO the soul and the
east but also to improve the facil-
tiles already operating within the
old limits.
No Tax Raise
According to careful estimates
made by j. R. Benson-acting city
manager, city clerk, chief city
finance officer, and a city en-
ployee for q .years-and his fl
nance staff, the bond issue wiz not
require any raise in the city's tax
rates.
Revenue from the water and
sewage service, the ad-valorem
property taxes, commercial licens-
See BOND ISSUE on Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

"HENRIETTA" - Yes, that's
the story we ran aground on yes
terday - and an exceedingly ex-
traordinary story it is.
Long, long ago, some time be-
tween the years of 1865 and 1870,
a certain steamboat piled the Cape
Fear river between Wilmington
and Fayetteville.
And its name was "Henrietta."
A little girl who lived on the
riverbank just below Fayetteville
would listen for the whistle of the
boat a. it came around the bend.
And then she would run down to
the landing and wave her little
"frock-tail' at the ship as it
steamed and footed by.
CIVIL WAR ORPHAN-The little
girl, you see, was living with her
grandmother. Her father, a sharp
shooter in the Confederate army,
was killed about six months before
she was born.
Her mother, through lack of med
ical care and other privations of
See CAPE FEAR on Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
STATE MAY HAVE
FOUR new S0L0NS
Redden Gusts Veteran
Zebulon Weaver; Sec
ond Primaries Loom

RALEIGH, May q. -(P)e AS
a result of Saturdays Democratic
primary, North Carolina will have
three new representatives - and
possibly four - when Congress
convenes next January.
Since the Democratic nomination
virtually assures election, the three
new congressman in all probable
ity will be Monroe M. Redden of
Hendersonville in theTWelfth dis
trict, Hamilton c. Jones of Char
lotte in the Tenth, and c. B. Deane
of Rockingham in the Eighth.
In the Fourth district, Thurmon
Chatham, Winston-Salem indus
trialist may replace Representative
John H. Folger of Mt. Airy.
Chatham Leads Folger
On the basis of unofficial re-
turns from all of the al precincts
in the Fifth, Chatham led Folger
in the primary by the narrow mar
gin of 152 votes, Chatham rolling
up a total of 81, 083 as compared
with 20, 931 for Folger.
Since there was a third man in
the race, Joe J. Harris of Winston
Salem who received 689 votes, Fol-
ger is entitled to demand a second
primary, and there is every indica-
ton that he will demand it.
my friends are demanding that
l call a second primary and I see
no other purse open to me except
to call for one,' declared Folger
on primary night when the returns
indicated that Chatham was lead
ing by a narrow margin.
A second primary also may be
called in the sixth district where
Representative Carl Durham of
Chapel Hill led a three-cornered
race. Reports from all 1875 pre-
cincts in the district gave Durham
II, 082 votes to 1918 for Earl Rives
and 1908 for D. E. Scarborough,
both of Greensboro. Rives is entitl-
ed to ask for a second primary.
Boards Meet Today
County boards of election will
meet Tuesday to officially canvass
the returns. The State Board of
Elections will meet later. and if
a second primary is called, it will
be held on June %.
Deane Is Winner
Deane won over W. E. Horner of
Sanford by a margin of 8,649 to
5000 with 201 of 206 precincts re-
ported for the seat left vacant by
the death of the late Representative
W. o. Burgin.
Horner sent a wire to Deane
congratulating him for his victory.
See SOLONS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
MARINES KILLED
in RAIL ACCIDENT
Engineer Also Dies In
Pennsylvania Train
Wreck

HARRISBURG, Pa. May 81. -
P)- Two Marines and a Pennsyl-
vania railroad engineer died Mon
day in the derailment of a Mary
land-bound troop train Is miles
east of here.
More than 80 of 208 Marines on
the train were injured, eight
seriously.
Engineer C. E. Merget of Phila-
delphia was killed by scald.ng
steam in the cab of his locomotive.
The Marines died several hours
after the derailment in nearby nos
pitfalls. Both were burned by escap-
ing steam.
Officials at Harrisburg hospital
identified one of the servicemen as
Earl Ireton, (no address,. Identi-
fication was made from a dog tag.
The other Marine died in the
Middletown Air Depot hospital. His
name was withheld pending notifi-
cation of next of kin.
Names of injured Marines were
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
STORM DRAINAGE
PROMISED GROUP
Winter Park Residents To
Aid Commission With
Installations

Adequate storm drainage was
promised to residents of Winter
Park yesterday afternoon at a
joint meeting of a citizens dele
CATION, the New Hanover County
Board of Commissioners, and
members of the State Highway
commission.
The commission members-T. T.
Belts, division engineer, Fayette-
vile; R. V. Biberstein, district en-
gineer, Burgaw; A. K. Mallard,
maintenance supervisor, Whining
ton, and j. A. Bridges, highway
commits 5ioner, Bladenboro- re-
vealed that work on the Winter
Park storm drainage bitches has
been underway for about three
weeks.
Inadequate Pipe Lines
The main trouble in the situat-
ton, they said, is the inadequate
pipe lines which Winter Park resi-
dents have installed under the
driveways over the bitches.
They promised to furnish the
necessary pipes-18" and larger
to replace the present ones on con-
dition that the residents do the
installations.
If this is done correctly along
with the commissions general re-
pair of the drainage bitches proper,
the Winter Park drainage problem,
which centers on the old Wrights-
vile Beach and Masonboro roads,
should be alleviated satisfactorily,
the highway men said.
Tentative Welfare Budget
Among the 20 Winter Park resi-
dents who attended the conference
were Mexican Maffitt, c. L. Har-
ris, E. NJ. Proctor, and A. G. King.
Earlier in the day, the county
commissioners-who officiated at
the drainage hearing-approved a
tentative welfare budget of $685.
1874. 20. This will be submitted to
the state welfare department for
a state and federal supplement of
ST, 200.
The commissioners also:
See STORM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
Wifi RADIO RANGE
WORK BEGUN HERE
Coast Routes To
Have "Super-Safe"
Highway

Work on Wilmington's new WIFI
(very high frequency radio range
one of the first Of its kind to be
erected on the Atlantic coast-Was
started yesterday by three Civil
Aeronautics administration tech
nicians on a site about five miles
north of Bluethenthal airport.
Construction is expected to re-
quire about three weeks.
'Instrument Coverage"
When completed, the range will
provide the airport with ''instru-
ment coverage" in place of the old
contact type. This means that
planes will be able to move in and
out of the field almost regardless
of the worst sort of weather. The
WIFI beam will punch through
thunderstorms, fogs, and all the
other natural hazards of aviation
and guide the planes for landings
and takeoffs on an unmistakeable
straight line.
One OF Six
The Bluethenthal range is one
of six scheduled to be constructed
soon to give the Atlantic coast
its first WIFI super-safe air
highway"
Ranges RI slated for cree
ton in Charleston, S. c., New
See RADIO on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

ton, D. c., this coming Friday.
The men. chosen at a joint meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce
Aviation co: lmittee, Wilmington
New Hanover Airport authority, and
city and county officials, are:
Lane -.eads Group
Mayor W. Ronald Lane and City
Councilman Garland S. Currin, for
the city; Addison Hewlett, ST.,
chairman of the New Hanover
County Board of Commissioners,
for the county; Hargrove Bellamy,
for the airport authority; John H.
Farrell, Tor the Chamber of Com
merce; and Warren W. Bell, presi-
dent of Tide Water Power COM
pany, for the chambers aviation
comittee.
The protest meeting called by
Mayor E. Edward Wehman, Jr.,
Of Charleston, S. c., Immediately
after CAB denied Colonial Airlines
a southern route to Bermuda and
the Caribbean last Wednesday, will
demand a showdown with CAP
for its continued discrimination"
against southern cities in it's re
current %refusals to grant airlines
southern hopping-off points to the
resort islands an. towns.
ENJOYS From South
A large number of delegates
from Charleston, New Bern, Nor
folk and other cities S o h of
Washington is expected to attend
the meeting along with the Will
hington ENJOYS.
Congressman j. Bayard Clark
and Senator Clyde R. Hoey, of
North Carolina, and Senator DIN
D. Johnston, of South Carolina, are
also expected to attend. The three
Washington officials pledged their
support to the southern cities al
most Immediately after CAB issued
the adverse ruling to Colonial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

eral administrator of the seized
mines sent word to reporters that
attorneys for all parties would be
busy Monday night working or
the progress made"
Contract Form
The lawyers seldom are called
into such disputes before there
has been a general meeting of
bringing the issue down to
details of putting the agreement
into CONTRACT form.
A spokesman for Krug, however,
declined to say definitely that a
contract, was being prepared.
Another meeting will be held in
office Tuesday at II am,
Meantime, the stoppage in the
interrupted by a working
truce that ended Saturday night,
was again virtually complete.
Lewis himself had nothing to say
when Monday nights four-hour
session rok up at Z p. m. lie re-
ferred all questions to Krug, and
would not even say whether he
would be back Tuesday.
Lewis Not Unhappy
The UNIV chief, several Of his
aides and two lawyers appeared
tired but not unhappy as the CON-
ference ended.
Krug maintained the policy
which he adopted last Friday when
he said that as long as the gov
eminent was in negotiation with
he would not discuss de-
tails of the conferences.
The governments tentative pro-
See MINERS on Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
The Weather

The Cape Fear river is expected to
reach a flood stage OF near q feet at
El~izabethtown on the morning of Thurs
day, May 30, Paul Hess, head Of the
local U. S. Weather bureau, said yester-
day.
Rains from the current thunderstorm
were given as the cause for the expect
Hess said that the flood, if it does oc-
ed high water mark.
cur, will nave little or no effect on the
river stage in Wilmington.
FORECAST
North and South Carolina Partly
cloudy and slightly cooler Tuesday.
eastern Standard Time)
tBy u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a ST; 1880 a 81; 1:3Op 81; 7:3Op. SO.
Maximum -; Minimum s.; Mean IS;
Normal "a.
Humidity
1:30a 80; 7:3oa So; 1:30p SIS; 7:3Op 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30p-4.0 8
inches.
Total since the first of the month-4.1S
inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
wilmington ------------ 7:31a 2:26a
8:03p 2:32p
Masonboro Inlet 5:08a 11:28a
sap --p
Sunrise SODA: Sunset 7:15p; Moonrise
3:32a; Moonset 4:51p.
River Stage at Favet+ev;JIa NJ r. ~ o
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
HURRICANE DEFENSE
Hess Plans In Advance
To Beat August Blows

Although coastal North Caro-
llna's hurricane season isn't
expected to begin until Au-
gust, Paul Hess, head of the
districts U. S. Weather bureau,
has already completed his an
nual tour OF preparation
around the area.
Be Prepared
THE hurricane season-and
l guess that's an apt enough
name for it since we get it
pretty regularly once a year
usually starts some time in
August" Hess said. But
there's no such thing as get
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

national economy, persons
close to the White House ex-
presse fears that the Presi-
dent had stepped too far ito the
right in his drastic anti-strike
program.
Republicans "On Spot"
But these same individuals re-
fused to forecast a Democratic
congressional defeat in No
vemLer, and said they were
confident thot House Repub-
licans, who voted hurrledly
with their Democatic colleagues
Saturday night to enact the
Presidents plan into law,
See LABOR on Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
COAL STRIKE ACCORD BELIEVED NEAR
H2sA7TORNEYy DRAW NEW CONTRACTS:
</<EEJND HSUEATSTAKE HERE TOMORROW
though Fight"
LABOR ASSAILS
TRUMAN'S STAND

WASHINGTON, May 27-W.D
Political advisers close to
President Truman conceded
privately Monday night that the
Democratic party faces a
tough fight to retain control
of the House this fall as a re-
suit of the Chief Executives
sweeping demands to curb
labor -nions which strike
'against the government"
Too Far to Right?
Stirred by growing reports of
antagonism in labor's ranks
against Mr.. Truman's attempt
to whip through Congress an
Emergency program giving
him broad powers to deal with
labor disputes endangering the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

ting prepared for it to soon,
especially in view of the fact
that a hurricane in July is
always a possible, though not
very probable, threat.
Peak In September
1.-THE season usually hits it's
peak in the latter part of Sept
ember and dies off by the end
of November"
Hess went on his annual tour
last week. Wednesday through
Friday. He visited storm
warning stations and Red
Cross offices in all of the
HURRICANE on Page Tw
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
And So To Bed

Last week a man inserted u
want-ad in The Star.
A few days Later he received
a letter from a local lady tell
Ing him she had forwarded the
ad to a friend of hers in Hen
derson, Ky.
The lady in Henderson, KY,
sent her reply to the ad a few
days after that.
The classified ad man who
handled the replies to the ad
stood up and shouted when he
came across the lady's reply.
"TH be logged" he said.
"Here's an answer to that ad
all the way from Henderson.
KY"
"That's nothing unusual" said
his co-worker. "We get ad
answers from all over the
country"
81 know that" answered the
first, "but this Is the first one
I've ever run across from my
home town..
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
GRIPPING OUTLOUD
Sweeping Change In Army
Protocol'AskedByG Group

man. and "officer" in favor of
plain SOLDIER for everybody.
Number of Reforms
In addition to removal of the
social dividing line between
officers and men, the board
also "strongly recommended"
a numhet Of other reforms.
/. 1t proposed that the system
of promoting officers on the
basis of seniority be discarded.
Instead it urged a merit sys-
tem-one which would permit
officers to be denoted, too. or
dismissed entirely if incom-
See CHANGEs 90 Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

WASHINGTON, May 27-(R-
Far-reaching proposals by the
Doolittle "gripe board to
sweep away all social distinc-
tons between Army officers
and men were made public
Monday by the War depart
ment with a promise that they
will be adopted if feasible
Declaring that much of the
present structure of our Army
hanks back" 70 the old Prus-
sian and British military or
ders, the board called for
abolition of off-duty salutlng,
of social determinations, and
even of the terms enlisted
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
SHORTAGES
u ADVERTISING
OUT OF OBSERVER

CHARLOTTE, May ~. Up
- The Charlotte Observer an
nounced Sunday night that "for
the next several days, the OBJ
server will be reduced to eight
pages daily and "a pages Sun
day, including its comic Sec
tion," because of the ''inabili-
ty of the manufacturers to ship
within the last so days an
amount of paper which would
have permitted the rebuilding
of its inventory stock"
The announcement said that
during the period all advertis-
ing will be eliminated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
CARC0ES BY AIR
EXPECTED TODAY

Meteor Air Transports giant
Douglas DEB cargo plane, origi-
nally scheduled to start its daily
service linking Wilmington with
Baltimore, Washington, Philadel-
phla, New York, and Boston yes
terday, will arrive here on It's
maiden flight at 4 o'clock this aft
ernoon, according to a telegram
received yesterday afternoon by
See CARGOES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
Krug Reports Progress
After Session With Lewis
Chicago Daily News Reveals That Govern.
ment Has Agreed To Health And
Welfare Fund For Miners

WASHINGTON, May 27-P-Secretary of the Interi-
or j. A. Krug reported Monday night that "some progress
had been made toward an agreement with John L. Lewis
and there was every sign that lawyers were preparing a
draft of an actual agreement to end the ~stoppage.
Closing out six and a half hours of conferences during
the dav with the United Mine Workers leader. Krug as fed
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
AIR BID ADVANCED
Leaders To Attend
Washington Meet
Southern Air-Minded Citizens To Protest
CAB Ruling Regulating Colonial Air
lines Route To Bermuda

Wilmington's ~unflagging bid for a southern clipper
route to Bermuda and the Caribbean was advanced another
notch yesterday when six prominent air-minded men were
selected to represent the city at a southern cities protest
meeting' against the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washing
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28

See STORM on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-28
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity-Slightly cool
er Tuesday and cloudy.