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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
LOCAL BOY DIES
in PHILADELPHIA
Blast Kills Leroy Gainey
And Injuries Rest OF
Family

Three-year-old Leroy Gainey,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Carney,
who with his parents and six other
children was seriously burned
when a mysterious explosion rock
ed the tourist cabin they occupied
near Clifton Heights, Va, died in
the Fitzgerald Mercy hospital at
Philadelphia last night, accord
ing to an associated press dis
patch.
The seven young children and
their parents at one time resided
near the Sugar Bowl, a night club
on the Carolina Beach Road.
Blast Cause Unknown
Sgt. Francis Blankley, of the
Delaware county Borough's police
said cause of the blast had not
been determined.
The explosion which occurred
Saturday, blew off a whole side of
the cabin. The father said he was
awakened by a flash of fire.
That's all | can tell.
Blast Not Heard
The dispatch reportd that the
flash blast was unexplainable and
that it subsidized without starting
a fire. No one in the other %
cabins reported hearing the blast.
Taken to the Philadelphia hos
pital with extensive burns were
the following:
James R. Gainey, "a; his wife,
Annie, 90; and their children:
David, 10; James, 8; Sara and
Francis, five year old twins; Don
ME Lee, 2; Betty Joyce, eight
months and Leroy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
The Weather
FORECAST


NORTH CAROLINA - Partly cloudy
Monday, thoundershowers in late after
noon.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 a.m.sO; 1880 am. 70; 100 pm. so;
1880 pm. 80.
Maximum 90; Minimum ~; Mean 80;
Normal 78.
Humidity
1:3O am. 96. 1880 am. 85; 1870 pm. 81;
7:30 pm. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30 pm -
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
4.25 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington 1888 2:19 am. 1927 Am.
: 2:57 pm. 1925 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 1902 an 1922 am.
12:45 pm. 7:O5 pm.
Sunrise 5:39; Sunset e:55; Moonrise
IL rs pm; Moonset 1927 pm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19

a hole in the side OF the troop
ship, the British said, but the ex-
blossoms caused neither damage
nor casualties. Nevertheless, the
vessel turned back to Haifa after
a hour at sea.
Arrived Last Week
The Jews, all seeking to enter
Palestine without immigration
permits, arrived in Haifa harbor
last week from Europe. Sunday the
British sought to transfer them to
the Empire Haywood for tran
shipment to refugee camps being
prepared for 10000 persons on
Cyprus.
The Jews retired to the fenice's
hold, removed the ladders and
refused to bulge.
The British employed tear gas
and played a fire hose on the Jews,
and finally succeeded in driving
them aboard the Empire Haywood,
which left the harbor at $50 am.
Shortly afte- 6 a. m. a small
explosion took place in the hold Of
the Empire causing neither dam
age no casualties" an official
British announcement said.
This explosion was caused by
the defamation Of two small cleo
trio torches containing geligaite
Can explosive containing ~nitrog.y-
cerine)." They had been introduce
ed into the hold with the apparent
object of blowing a hole in the side
of the vessel"
The announcement said that 300
See PALESTINE On Page Two
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So To Bed

As is customary, although
we'll never get accustomed to
it, several hundred Whining
ton sports fans beleaguered us
with phone calls yesterday af-
ternoon and last night about
the outcome of the Whining
ton VS.. Dunn-Erwin baseball
game.
One fan, a woman, made the
best comment of the evening
on the lopsided 2O-4 score.
"You mean to say Whining
ton got beat by 20-?" she
asked incredulously.
eyes" we answered fatalis-
tically.
"That's terrible" she said in
a shocked voice. Then, as a
happy afterthought: ooh, well,
I win another five dollars"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19

street-clothes, waded in too and
helped in surviving the girl.
A few hours later Wrightsville
Beach Police Chief M. S. Fair
cloth hired Everett Jones, a
discharged Naval lieutenant,
as lifeguard for the danger
spot. Jones will patrol the area
from 9 am. to 6 pm. every
day, Chief Faircloth said. The
new lifeguard, a native of
Monroe, lives on Nathan street
at the beach.
Farrar, his clothes soaked and
his shoes full of water, had this
to say after the rescue: For
two years l have tried to get
first-aid stations established
on both ends of W~rightsville
Beach. Every effort 1 have
made in this direction has been
See RESCUE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
LARGEST CROP
BY UNITED PRESS

The auction season on the
Eastern North Carolina flue-
cured tobacco market begins
Monday amid predictions by
Agricultural officials that the
largest crop in the areas his
tory will be offered for sale.
The United States crop report
ing board said Sunday that
431, 200, 900 pounds of the deaf
would be harvested this year,
topping the previous record
made in 1899 by a "slight mar
GIN and last years produc-
ton by nine per cent.
The yield per acre will drop
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
FRANCE SPENDS
U. S. DOLLARS
Two Billions Worth OF
American Credit
Nearly Gone

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-(P-
France already has spent or plac-
ed orders calling for use of at least
three-fourths of the nearly two bill
lion dollars in American credit
granted her. since last September,
French diplomatic officials said
Sunday.
Because less than $3.50, 600, 900 re-
mains, they said France is now
looking to the international bank
to supplement the dwindling sup
ply of American dollars needed to
modernize French industry.
One-Third Spent
In reporting how France has
used American financial help, I.
Leviant, head of the French econ
omy commission said more than
one-third'' of the last American
credit of $3.50, 900, 900 has been spent
since May % when the loan agree
ment was signed. ,
All of the Previous American loan
of $500, 900, 900, granted late in 1945,
has been used, plus the $72O, 000,-
900 credit extended France last
spring to enable her to wind up
lend-lease and purchase surplus
American property, he said.
American Machinery
About $3.50, 900, 900 of the Loan
funds, Leviant said in an inter-
view, went for purchases of Ameri-
can machinery, transportation
stocks and agricultural equipment.
But thus far only six per cent of
this has been delivered.
See DOLLARS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
TERRIFIC TORNADOES
Minnesota Winds Reduce
Tue. Towns To Shambles

town, IS miles southwest of
Minneapolis.
About Is persons were injur-
ed in the Wells twister, but
to a village policeman went the
honor of being a hero who pos
sibly saved the lives OF many
more
Patrolman Acts
Patrolman Gorda1 banks
was standing in front of the
village theater when he saw
the storm approach. Inside sat
about 400 persons. He ordered
the theater doors closed. then
See TORNADOEs On Page Two
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Forty-Three Killed

TRIESTE, Aug. 18.-P-Forty-
three persons were killed and 81
were injured, 10 seriously, when
several mines piled to await dis
posal exploded Sunday on a beach
at Vergarola, reports reaching the
Allied information service said.
Cause of the explosion, which oc-
Cured only 80 feet from a place
where hundreds were bathing,
could not be determined immed-
lately. Vergarola is south of here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
BREAKS OUT IN PALESTINE
AS JEWS PROTEST DEPOR ATIOMS::
CALIFORNIA BOY WINS DERBY RACE
DARING RESCUE
Wilmingtonian Saves Girl
From StrongSea Undertow

A Wilmingtonian's daring res
cue of Doris Edwards, 13-year-
old girl of Riverside apart
ments, from the strong under
tow at Wrightsville Beach's
northern extension yesterday
afternoon resulted a few hours
later in the hiring of a life
guard for the area.
Miss Edwards, caught in the
underttV and in danger of be-
Ing swept out to sea, was saved
by L.. H. Croft, of SIS Avon
street, Maffitt Village, as hum
dreds of spectators watched
helplessly. Croft, clad in SWIM
ming trunks, swan out to the
girl. hauled her to shore, and
revived her with artificial res
piration.
Bill Farrar, northern extern
sion shopkeeper, dressed in
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19

The city hall. Aside from this one
feminine quirk she is one of the
most pleasant, araiable, un-con-
,fary, and yet feminine women it
mas ever been our fortune to sit
Gown and chat with - about topics
other than the inner workings of
WAat makes Wilmington go.
Unorthodox Attitude
Her name is Mrs. Mary B.
sutherland, and her unorthodox
feminine attitude toward city gov
eminent gossip stems from two
closely allied facts-the fact that
she has II years of city hall en-
Eoyment behind her and the fact
mat She is the first female city
c+GGk IN Wilmington's history.
YOU have to interview Mrs.
~Soutnerland just one time in her
distinctive role as city clerk tc
'eSfh that only IL years expert
eee SWITZERLAND on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
TYPH00N STILL
RACES IN EAST
OF Two Jima Storm
Roaring Westward To
Asia

TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. ID -(R)-
The center of a severe typhoon
which caused major damage on
Two Jima Friday crossed the
Ryukyu chain Sunday morning at
seven miles an hour, a slower rate
of movement, the seventh weather
station announced.
Course Unknown
A weather station forester said
he could not tell definitely whether
the typhoon would continue its
west course, striking Korea and
the China coast, or follow the
water path through the Korean
straits into the Sea of Japan -
the usual course for typhoons in
the region.
There were no visible effects of
the typhoon in the Tokyo and Yo-
.kohoma area, but all western Hon
shu, Shikoku and Kyushu remain
ed under storm alert.
High binds Forecast
Winds of IS miles an hour were
See TYPHOON On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19

MANKATO, MINI, Aug. 10
up - Two tornadoes strlk-
ing about an hour apart killed
six persons in Southwestern
Mankato Saturday night and
reduced to shambles much OF
the town of Wells, 40 miles
south.
The Mankato tornado wreck
ed it's greatest damage at the
Green Gables Tourist camp.
Within an area of two by four
blocks. it caused six deaths
and injured at least so persons
as it leveled all % cabins in the
camp in this Minnesota valley
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
KOREANS CAUGHT
ENTERING JAPAN
British Nab Ships Snug
Cling Black Market
Asiatics
KURE. japan. Sunday. Aug. 18.

KURE, Japan, Sunday, Aug. 18.
than 5000 Koreans who
landed illegally on Honshu have
been rounded up and returned to
Korea, headquarters of British
Commonwealth occupation forces
announced Sunday.
The British said Illegal entries
mad reached such proportions that
large-scale preventive measures by
Naval and land forces had been
employed. Allied plane patrols spot
some of the smuggled ships.
Health Menace
The British announcement said il
legal entrants are a menace to
health because they may carry
cholera or typhus. 1t added that
most Koreans planned to operate
on the black market, although 9TH
ers return after repatriation to OBJ
tain valuables they had been un-
able to take with them.
Boats Nabbed
Cited as a typical ~interception
was the capture by the ninth New
Zealand brigade Aug. 7 of 300 Ko-
reans who we're ferrying ashore in
two small boats from a large YES
sci anchored off the west Honshu
coast.
Smuggling of illegal Koreans IN
to Japan is a highly organized busi-
ness. the British said.
The British announcement fol-
lowed reports in the Tokyo news
paper Mainichi that at least 10, 900
Koreans were attempting to slip
into Japan each month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
BODIES OF GIRLS
FOUND ON ISLAND
Coast Guard Air-Sea Res
cue Planes Locate
Missing .Scow

CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 1o.-
~ The five-day old mystery of
the Scow "T'' and Get" and it's
four young passengers was clear
ed late Sunday with the finding of
the capsized boat and bodies of the
two girl passengers on the beach
at d%esolate Otter island, about IS
air miles from Charleston.
Bert Thornley,, a flying ex-in-
fantryman, discovered the bodies
of Miss Peggy Burk and Miss Betty
%Sturcken, both 10, of Charleston.
while flying as a member of the
Auxiliary Coastguard Air-Sea Res
cue unit. They were washed ashore
on the Otter beach, not far from
where the capsized scow lay
aground.
No Trace
No trace was found of their two
young companions On the Inflated
See BODIES On Page Two
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LARGEST CROP
Auction Hammer Pounds
On Tobacco Mart Today

below tae 1945 figures but the
greater acreage given over to
the tobacco crop this year is
expected to more than make up
for the loss, the board said.
Superior Quality
Federal and State Agricul-
tural officials said that this
years tobacco in Eastern North
Carolina appeared to be superior
in both quality and color to the
1945 harvest despite heavy rains
during June and July. The
coastal plain especially sus-
tanned an abnormally large
See TOBACCO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
Use Tear Gas
To Force Jews On Shin
Mass Meeting Erupts In Violence At
Tel Aviv; City Of Jerusalem Turned
Into Barbed Wire Cage

Haifa, Palestine, Aug. 10. P- The British used
tear gas and fire hoses to drive $40 Jewish immigrants
aboard a Cyprus-bound transport Sunday but the Jews ex-
ploded two bombs in an effort to scuttle the vessel and
forced her back to Haifa.
The two small bombs went off in the hold of the trans
port Empire Haywood. The Jews apparently hoped to blow
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
UNORTHODOX LADY
Sees All, Knows All,
Says NothingAtAH
That's Mrs. Mary B. Switzerland.
Port City's First And Most
Gracious Lady City Clerk
By LARRY HIRSCH

The person who probably knows most and says least
about the city government is, %contrarily enough, a woman.
This would seem, at first glance, to bear out truth of
the old saying that women are contrary creatures.
But, as far as we can determine, the contrariness Of
this particular woman begins and ends with her see-all,
kn0WaH, and sav-nothinq about the intricate doings of
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19
FORECAST

Wilmington ana Vlclnlty-Partly cloudy
Monday, thundershowers in late after
noon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-19

See PALESTINE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
BYRNES REFUTES
M0L0T0V CHARGE
State Secretary Claim
Stain In Accord With
U S. Steps

WASHINGTON, May %. -W.D-
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
challenging Soviet Foreign Minis
ter V. Molotov in a long-distance
controversy over accuracy, Tues
day insisted that Marshal Josef
Stain agreed in principle to the
American plan for a four power,
25-year treaty to keep Germany
disarmed.
At the recent foreign ministers
meeting in Paris, Molotov virtual
ly rejected the American proposal.
misunderstanding
Byrnes told a press conference,
devoted primarily to questions
about Molotov's version of the
Paris conference, that Molotov
must either have been misquoted
or that there is a misunderstanding
Byrnes adamantly stood his
ground. He repeated that Stain
told him in Moscow last Deem
Der that the Soviet Union would
Fundamentally support the four
power treaty plan for Germany
if the United States sponsored it.
See BYRNES On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29

ious imp jumped us as the tele-
phone rang and the voice of an
elderly lady came over the wire.
"About that dancing school," she
said. IT don't believe it was in the
building across from the city hall.
Pm pretty sure it was located in
the old fire engine house on the
southwest orner of Fourth and
Princess streets"
Frankly, folks, we never knew
there was an old fire engine house
on the southwest corner of Fourth
and Princess streets. But now that
we do know, we find ourself wond-
ering how in the world a dancing
school got into the place.
Could it be that the firemen
once had a 'Firemen's Ball" there
and some terpsichorean enthusiast
simply stayed after the ball was
over and set up shop?
Il = =
PURELY VOLUNTARY - Well,
regardless of how it happened,
the lady said it was so. She even
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
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At the weekend Mr.. Lewis,
Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Johnston had
brought the country to a point
where there was no good remedy
for an intolerable situation. A gen
eral coal strike, and in the near
future a general maritime strike,
would be a combination of disast-
ers which the nation could not sit
out patiently and quietly. The gov
eminent was compelled to act. 1t
had no choice but to act. Yet there
was no way it coud act which
does not do violence to the princi-
pies of liberty which our people
cherish.
The dilemma has been imposed
upon us because the law of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
The leather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina: Fair and
warmer Wednesday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm, yesterday.
TEMPERATURE
1870 am, So; 1880 am, 81; 1870 pm, n;
1870 pm, 10.
Maximum rs; Minimum So; Mean 10;
Normal IA.
HUMIDITY
1870 am, 81; 1880 am, 80; 1880 pm, So;
7:30 pm, 81.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 7:30 pm,
Jos inches.
Total since the first of the month,
4.23 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington --------------- 8:26a 3:19a
8:58p 3:22p
Inlet --------- 6:05a 12:11a
6:38p IL :19p
Sunrise, SOFA; Sunset 7:16p; Moonrise
4:O7a: Moonset soap.
See THE WEATHER On Page Two
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morning, the hour not fixed.
cts the same old word - moth
ing to say" Lewis told reporters
Afterwards.
Asked whether the picture is
dark or BRIGHT" he replied that
"the secretary will have to ad-
wise you on that" I
Krug had told of progress as
the session started, but had made
it clear he did not expect any
settlement Tuesday night.
Progress also was reported to
President Truman when Krug and
Lewis conferred with him before
their night meeting.
Emergency Stockpile
The government meanwhile
created an emergency stockpile of
coal by freezing all loaded cars
at the idle mines.
The order is similar to the one
issued March % just before the
strike started and which provided
a pool of approximately 1850, 600
tons for emergency use.
The Solid Fuel administration,
which issued the order, estimated
that "a few thousand cars" Of
coal now are loaded at mines which
are not producing. This coal now
will be released only on STA orders
to public utilities, railroads, hos
See COAL On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
SENIORS TO GET
DIPL0MASTONICHT
To Be Graduated From
MINIS In Stadium
Ceremonies

A graduating class of 259 New
Hanover High school seniors will
tonight conduct their own COM
mencement exercises at $3.50
0 o'clock in the American Legion sta
dunn.
This function concludes the cere-
monies which opened Tuesday eve
ming in the high school auditorium
with the presentation of the class
history, will, and prophecy.
Gypsy Camp Scene
Beginning at $3.50 pm, the exer-
else was presented upon the audi
forum stage against the back
ground of a gypsy camp scene.
Dressed in a Romany costume,
Helen Rosenman read the class
to the Senior Superlatives
who were introduced by Jimmie
McCarl. Also in gypsy garb were
Jane Head, who reviewed the his
tory of the class, and George OAR
den, who read the class will.
Others In Exercise
Other seniors taking part in the
exercise were John Hearn, the
king; Sarah Ann Eaton, a
captured senior; Melrose Strong,
a ragged Gypsy maiden who sang
Poor Gypsy; Cynthia johnson, a
See SENIORS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
CUT
EDITIONS SHARPLY
Several Publishers Sus-
pend Advertising Dur
ing Shortages
By The Associated Press


More of the nations newspapers
today printed abbreviated editions
because strikes and crippled trans
portatlon systems had cut deeply
into available paper supplies.
For more than a week some pub
fishers have sharply cut the size Of
their newspapers and others, able
until now to print normal editions,
announced they would begin limit
ing advertising, features and even
news to nurse their depleted paper
stocks through the emergency.
Rail Strike Hurt
The recent railroad strike, dis
rupting deliveries from paper mills,
the coal strike and a strike of Bri-
fish Columbia lumber workers who
supply pulpWood all were contribut-
ing factors in the scarcity. of news
print.
The Observer and News, both
of Charlotte; The Commercial
Appeal and Press Scimitar, Mem
phis, and the Kankake GILL Daily
Journal cut out all advertising.
The Des Moines Register and
Tribune has, since Monday, elm
mated all advertising except
obituaries. They plan to resume
advertising tomorrow.
In addition to death notices
the Age-Herald and Evening News
See NEWSPAPERS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
HUGE SLUSH FUND
WOULD BREAK LAW
Whitney's Threat Secuted
By Author OF Famous
Hatch Act

WASHINGTON, May 28-W.H-If
A. F. Whitney spends part of his
Railway Trainmen brotherhood's
SAT, 900, 0co M) bank account in
an effort to defeat President Tru-
man and anti-labcr congressman,
he will directly violate the Smith
Connally War Labor Disputes act,
Senator Carl A. Hatch, (D-N.M.)
said Tuesday night.
Furthermore, the union leader
will violate a provision of the
Hatch Political Activities act if
he spends one cent more than the
S., 1000 limit, the Senator added.
Whitney "Flaunts" Law
Author of the famous law design
ed to keep government employees
from playing politics, Hatch said
in an interview that Whitney
"again Haunted the law" when he
referred . my unions" $47,DOO,-
900 bank account and the political
purpose to VIII, :, it would be direct
ed.
Whitney made his threat Sun
day, a day after Mr.. Truman had
forced a settlement of the nation
wide railway strike. Asserting
that the Presidents handling of the
strike would cost him labor's sup
port, Whitney predicted that Mr..
Truman would not be elected In
1948.
Denies Report 9
Blu h. subsequently denied a
report that he had committed all
of the brotherhood's SAT, 900, 900,
if necessary, to bring about a
Truman defeat. He explained that
his board of directors had au-
thorized him to sid 49, 500, 900,
and that is what we will spend"
Hatch said the Whitney pro-
posal ''would not be a violation of
the Hatch act except insofar as
See SLUSH on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
JUNIOR CHAMBER
APPROVES ISSUE
New Committees Named
For Year By Civic Or
ganization Here

The Wilmington Junior Chamber
of Commerce meeting in executive
session last night gave whole
hearted endorsement to the city
bond voting which will be held
here today.
The Junior Chamber committee
on aviation was given another
boost following the flight of IS
members last Sunday to Colds
boro.
Ken Steadman, chairman of the
committee reported that plans have
been completed FOR the purchase
of a trainer-type plane which will
be purchased by the club soon.
Plan Beauty Contest
Another matter which the club
discussed was the sponsoring of a
See JAYCEES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-29
SENATOR GLASS
DIES AT CAPITAL
Famous Virginian, SO,
Served Half Century In
Public Office

WASHINGTON, May %. -P)-.
The nations capital put its pres
sing problems aside Tuesday to
do homage to an elder statesman,
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia,
who died in his sleep shortly be-
fore 3 a. m. at the age of 88.
Death came to Glass in his
apartment al the Mayflower hotel
ending a half century public ca
reer embracing service in Con-
gress and as Secretary of the
Treasury under Woodrow Wilson.
He was dean of the Senate in
age although outranked in length
of service by Senators Kenneth D..
See GLASS on Page Two