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Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
THE SPIRITUALS COME TO
 SALVADOR

On the streets of San Salvador
 and La Libertad, our dark-skinned
 brothers like to sing and hum not
 only Spanish cantas and Indian
 folk melodies and also "Go Down
 Moses" and Jesus Sitting By The Waterside."
 The Negro spirituals of the dark-skinned brother people in these United States have been taken up and translated into
 Spanish by the musicians of Fl Salvador, rocky little mountain re- public of Central America. Salva- koreans fortunate enough to own short wave radios tune in for the latest broadcasts of Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson, pick up the tune of a spiritual and then give it their own peculiar twist, maybe changing the melody a little but not the meaning of these great old songs which originated as hymns of revolt back in the cot ton and cane patches of the Dixie shareholders.
 We sing the pirituals-those supreme artistic creations of our fathers in bondage - generally without accompaniment. But Sal vadorean musicians will very often sing our spirituals with the help Of the marimba - that nice little musical instrument, somewhat re- sembling a xylophone, which the first African slaves transported to Central America brought with them.
 And, maybe, sometime we'll be able to persuade a ;Salvadorean orchestra to come to these shores and show us how they play our music. Maybe, too, they will leave some of their music as Cuban Ne groes have given us the rhumba and as Mexican Negroes, from those surviving settlements of Afro-Latins in the states of Guer- rerro, Oaxaca, and Vera Cruz, have recently given us the bamba. Music Vs. Language
 For the music of the Negro throughout our hemisphere also proves the kinship of the Negro n every country of the Ameri- ,as. Negroes may speak English | in the United States and the Brit 'sh West Indies, French in Mar Unique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti; Dutch in Surinam, Portuguese in | Brazil, Spanish in practically ev- cry other nation of what Colum- bus and other discoverers called l 'the new world"
 But the ear, trained to music. | can find the same ancestral strains, l expressed through rhythm and ar of notes in every coun- try where Negroes live and work and sing and suffer.
 Now, there is no recognizable Negro group, outside of some inn migrant English-speaking West Indians, in the little country of Fl Salvador. The Negroes, first as slaves by the conquer ng Spaniards, finally became as- with the Indians who 62 percent of the na- ,ion's approximately 100000 pop llation.
 But the Negro must have left distinctive in the soul ,f Fl Salvador, something which with a deep ancestral onging toward the spirituals whose tunes were sung long ago n Dahomey and Ghana before they were given new words in Alaba- ma and Maryland.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
DEFEAT IN VICTORY

New York It was amusing
 some months ago to watch the
 advance organization of the UNC
 in it's all but frenzied search fol
 a site for the present home of the
 world organization. One of the
 stipulations in determining the
 suitability of the chosen location
 was that it was an area free oi racial prejudice so that all of the
 delegates representing the differ
 ent world nationalities, could move
 about without restricted freedom
 At the time, many of us, I feel
 certain, had the impulse to write
 the UNO and suggest that the
 organization look for site ir
 some other country-any other
 country but the good old LISA, the reason being, we just don't have a place in the nation that can honestly qualify.
 Recently, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell of New York sought to outlaw racial prejudice
 in Washington, D. C., by tacking an amendment on the District of Columbia appropriations bill pro- vided that none of the money made available in the appropriation could be used by "any agency or department which segregates the citizens of the District in employ ment, facilities afforded, services performed, accommodations fur nished, or instructions or aid granted" The amendment was de- feated by a vote of 49 to 122, an overwhelming affirmation by the best minds of the greatest citadel of democracy in this troubled world, that for all of the lip-service given by our statesmen to the ideal, there will be no peace, in or anywhere else, if one of the conditions of peace is to be racial equality.
 Washington, D. C., is as fragrant 8 hate hovel as was Berlin, Ger many in the heyyday of the Nazi The master minds who make it so are from almost every state in the union. They converge periodically upon the place com missioned to make laws for all the people, but primarily they are guardians of the fear principle of white supremacy. Hold a law granting protection for the right ,f minority group before an av- ,rage Congressman or Senator, md he reacts like a mad bull that sees red, though with somewhat nore dignity and greater artieula- ion.
 The capital of the United States, .s a experimentation community ,f equality-frightened lawmakers, ! s a greater threat to world peace han any other condition in the world today. How can we sell rusting belief in the United States dominated JUNO to the mil ions of dark-skinned people and he small nations of the world when our lawmakers don't have nough confidence in the simple principle that can make it work, o apply that principle to our own ,eople? This nation can no longer tide behind the old deceits in ex- ,laining away the race problem. The world has bled too freely, md the evidence of stark human whether on the part of he fascists, or the proclaimed sa- tours of democracy, has been wit essed by too many people for the elief that a white skin is the
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20

Although Gillem Report does not tackle the basic problem total integration of Negro m the Army reforms the direction of enarg the oP- portunities military service of Negro Americans
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
SENATOR BLASTS
BUDGET BUREAU
,e- Glen H. TAYLOR. Jr.:
Charg;- Bureau With
Tenderness"

WASHINGTON, Aug. .-WD-
Sen. Glen H. Taylor, L., Ida
charged Sunday that the bu'set
bureau is showing maternal ten
derness'' towards the railroads by
failure to seek repayment OF what
he called Excessive profits paid
by the government during the war.
Taylor, who three weeks ago
asked the Senate War Investigating
Committee to investigate alleged
o~vercharges b. the railroads, Sun
day called on the Committee to
find out whether any railroad men
had influenced budget bureau
policy on rail rates.
He released an exchange of let
tiers with the bureau in which the
agency said that before acting on
the alleged overcharges it wanted
to EXPOSE fully all the relevant
factors"
These, it said, were ID whether
the amount of money received by
suing the railroads would be more
than would have to be refunded to
them in taxes in event of repay
ment; and 90 the met effect OF
such ~reparations and tax adjust
See SENATOR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
See ACCIDENT on Page Two
AlongThe Cape Fear

to build up as complete a collection
of pictures as possible.
so far, 1 have oh, views
of the Thelma, the Wilmington,
and the City OF Southport. If you
have pictures of the Hunt, or any
others, and would be willing to
loan them to me for copying.
should be most grateful. I would,
of course, take care to see that
they were well handled and return
ed in the same condition in which
you loaned them.
Very truly yours, C. Bradford
Mitchell"
FIRST METAL HULL = Well,
Mr.. Storm wasn't able to find a
picture of the Hurt. So he appealed
to us in the following message:
perhaps some of your readers
might be able to supply a picture
of the old steamer A. P. Hurt.
Il cannot state upon authority
but I have been told that she was
one of the first metal hulls built
in this country. She was built by
Pusey & Jones, Of Wilmington,
Delaware, and the hull was made
of iron. A friend of mine said that
the date was about 1858. At any
rate, it was prior to the Civil War.
During the Civil War the Yank-
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina and South Carolina =
Considerable %cloudiness with scattered
showers Monday and Tuesdays; little
change in temperature.
North and South .Carolina-Consider
able cloudiness and moderate tempera-
turts with scattered showers. and thlin-
derstorms this afternoon, tonight and
Monday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By u. S. Weather Bureau) b
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. rs; 1880 am. So; 1:30 pm. 6s;
7:30 pm. SIS.
Maximum IS; Minimum "a; Mean 81;
Normal n.
Humidity .-
1870 am. SO; 7:30 am. 3d. 1880 pm. 70;
7:3o pm. 81.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm. -
FOL inches.
Total since the first of tht month -
10.06 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Ccast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington - 9:18 am. 4:03 am.
9:4s pm. Ala pm.
Masonboro Inlet 100 am. 1:04 am.
7:34 pm. 1:13 pm.
Sunrise 5:51: Sunset GAS, Moonrise Sill
In; MoonSet 7:06 pm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
AMERICAN LEGION
WILL BUILD HOME
State Department Plans
Headquarters Building
To Cost $4,000

RALEIGH, Aug. 28.-P-Plans
for the construction "in or near
Raleigh of a permanent state
headquarters for the North Caro-
lima department of the American
Legion were made here Sunday at
a meeting of the Departments ex-
ecutive committee.
The committee voted unanimous
" to 60 ahead with plans for the
construction Of a building to cost
$3.50, 900 or more. In addition to
the Legion, the building would
serve as state headquarters for the
Legion auxiliary and he 40 and O.
State Commander William M.
Yorke, who presided at the meet
ing, said he would announce soon
membership of a building commit
tee which would be charged with
raising funds for the building by
popular subscription.
Budget Approved
The committee also approved
1946-47 department budget OF $685.
464. so.
Paul R. Younts of Charlotte. ex-
ecutive vice commander of the
State deartment, outlined plans fol
a membership drive this fall.
See LEGION on Page .wO
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
MCREYNOLDS DIES
AT WALTER REED
Former Supreme Court JUS
tice Had Been In Ill
Health One Year

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-WIH-
Former Supreme Court Justice
James c. McReynolds, 84-yea--old
bachelor and the most unyielding
conservative among the mine old
men," died Saturday night at Wat
er Reed hospital.
He had been in Ill health for the
past year and entered the hospital
early this month fo- observation
and treatment. Death came at 9:45
p. m. EST, and was attributed to a
breakdown of the castro intestinal
system, complicated by bronchial
pneumonia and "a failing heart"
The late Justices brother, DR..
Robert P. McReynolds, of Los An
geles, flew here from Chicago Sun
day morning to take charge of
funeral arrangements. He was en-
route to his home when notified of
his brothers. death.
McReynolds' body, accompanied.
by Supreme Court Marshal Thomas
E. Waggaman, will be taken by
train Tuesday night to Cincinnati,
thence to Russelville, KY, where it
is scheduled to arrive Wednesday
afternoon. 1t will then be taken by
automobile to E1kton, KY, site of
the old McReynolds' family home,
where it will lie in state overnight.
Funeral Thursday
Funeral services will be held
some time Thursday in the Chris
tan church in Elkton. Burial will
be in the Elkton cemetery.
McReynolds died a little more
than a decade after he Numbered
from the Supreme Court bench:
"The constitution is dead"
That blast, concluding his famous
dissent in the gold clause cases,
summed up the Associate Justices
view of the Interpretation OF the
constitution drawn by his judicial
colleagues during tn elast few
of his 26 years on the court.
He retired Feb. l, 194l, shortiy
after President Roosevelt was IN
augurated for a third term. The
See MCREYNOLDS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
EXPLOSION
DAMAGES BAKERY
Blast Raises Ceiling, Shat
tiers Windows AT Green
field Street Plant

An oven explosion that raised
the one-story structures ceiling
and blew store-front glass across
Greenfield Street wrecked the in
terror of the Tasty Bakery, at 5th
and Greenfield Streets, early Sum
day morning.
There yer no occupants of the
building at the time of the blast.
Damage, estimated at $4,000 by
Fire Chief Ludie J.. Groom last
night, was confined to the bakery
itself.
The explosions force raised the
buildings roof a few inches, and
bakery products covered the CELL
ing after it settled back into place,
the fire chief said.
Police Sound Alarm
Firemen from the departments
Number Two and Six companies
quelled small blazes at the blast
scene a few minutes after 1:19 a.
m. yesterday when they we're call
ed by occupants of a police cal
which passed the building a feS
seconds before the explosion.
Chief Groom would assign n
cause for the explosion. Value q
the wrecked oven in which it cen
tered was around So, 500, he declai
ed.
See OVEN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
DREDCE DAMAGES
SET AT $4,000
Pennsylvania May Be Laid
Up Three Months AS
Result Oh Blast.

The Pennsylvania, the steam
dredge upon which rests the bur-
den of deepening the Brunswick
River ship lay-up basin, will be
laid up close to three months as a
result of the steam turbine ex-
plosion that mangled it early Sat-
urday, an official of the company
which will undertake It's repair,
estimated last night.
H. L. Mercer, engineer of the
Elliott Turbine company. reported
after an inspection of the shatter-
ed vessel yesterday that parts
shortages made indefinite any esti-
mate of the time needed to rehabil-
itate her.
The Pennsylvania's steam tur-
bine exploded at 6:35 a. m. Satur-
day while the dredge was engaged
in her task of pumping out the ba-
sins bottom. Mercer could assign
no cause for the breakdown. There
were no casualties.
In Poor Shape
In the meantime, F. R. Warner,
vice president of the American
Dredging company, which is deep
ening the 50O-ship capacity basin
under contract with the U. S. Mari
time commission, would not be
quoted last night on the time which
See DREDGE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
HELPING HAND-ALONG THE

HELPING HAND-ALONG THE
CAPE FEAR, despite the occasion
al tomfoolery it dispenses, always
stands ready to extend a helping
hand to folks who are willing to
accept the risk.
This morning we are going to ex-
tend what we hope will prove to
be that sort of hand for two gentle
men who evidently are desperate
enough to take that sort of risk -
Mr.. W. w. Storm, president of the
Wilmington Iron Works, and Mr.. C..
Bradford Mitchell, of 3 Phoenix
street, Fairhaven. Mass.
In case you are wondering how
a gentleman in North Carolina and
another in Massachusetts and this
column got tied together in a three
way knot, suppose we show you
the letter Mr.. Mitchell wrote Mr..
Storm recently.
THE A. p. HURT Dear Sir:
At the suggestion of MI. Louis L.
Moore, of Wilmington, I am writ
ing to inquire whether you have
in your files a picture of the
steamer A. P. Hurt. He said he
thought you might have.
Il am trying to get together as
much information as I can on the
passenger steamboats, which form
erly piled the Cape Fear river and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
FISHERMEN JUMP
AS BOMBS CRASH
Lake Erie Party Innocent
Target OF Accidental
Navy Dive-B Bombing

DETROIT, Aug. Is. -(P- Seven
men aboard a cabin cruiser under
went an accidental dive-bombing
by three Navy Corsairs in Lake
Erie Sunday and escaped with only
minor injuries.
Pilots of the planes from the
Crosse lie Naval Air station ap-
parently mistook the 32-foot cruiser
for their floating target, Navy Of
flclals explained. They said both
the boat, named the Albatross and
owned by Adolph Reisig of Toledo,
w., and the target we're white and
would appear similar from several
thousand feet in the air.
Names of the pilots - reserve
ol1lcers on a weekend training
MISSION were withheld by the
Navy pending completion of an in
Vestlgatlon. Only miniature bombs
were dropped.
In Danger Area
Inc mishap occurred near West
oSler island, about 20 miles east
Oh Toledo and about 10 miles from
me Ohio shoreline. Comm. F. A.
BfoSsy' executive offiver of the
crosse lie base, said the cruiser
was IN an authorized danger area,
where practice bombing and firing
are carried out.
Charles Desmond, secretary of
me Ottawa River Yacht club, in
leFVleWed the seven men when they
tame ashore. He said they told
INN they were in an area where
,ee passage is afforded and that
me dive bombers were more than
seEeh miles from their mark.
yomm. Brossy said he under
s,ood' the planes were two miles
nom their target.
RelSlg was taken to Riverside
soSpltal in Toledo suffering from
00FhS and shock. Other occupants
See FISHERMEN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
STUNT BACKFIRES
Fake Drowning Puts Man
At Bar On Serious Count

~ - ~ = Vrwta - f = = r srEtP. -
STAMFORD, Conn, Aug. 25 :
W.H- Abraham Kohn, 45-year-old
accountant who mysteriously dis
appeared with his four sons from
a rowboat in Long Island sound
as a publicity stunt" to get his
wife back, Sunday was charged
with wilfully endangering the life
of a minor - his three-year-old
Chinese adopted son.
Kohn, taken into custody by Pen
nsylvania State police at Milford,
Pa, Saturday night, said he and
his four sons and a three-year-
old Chinese boy swan to shore
from their rowboat to create the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Matter Of Fact

or divide the PROSTATE body of a
nation.
Berlin is a harsh summary of
the state of Germany n year
later-and a grim lesson in the
meaning of defeat in the second
World War. In outward appear
ance, as someone has said, it is a
city of the moon. The rubble has
been neatly stacked. A years rains
have washed off the stains of
battle. The endless streets of ruins,
which once composed the busting
center of one of the richest cities
in the world, now have a sort of
cold, impersonal lifelessness which
is beyond description.
Yet behind this dead facade a
kind of life goes on. The people
of the city shelter themselves
See MATER OF FACT On Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
By JOSEPH ALSOP
Amid These Ruins

BERLIN, August 26. Amid
these ruins the long black motors
almost insolently rich and power
full. carry the generals and diplo-
mats who rule Germany to their
appointed place Of meeting Az
the old Berlin high court, an oooly
surviving monument OF the ger,
man Empires taste for orutal
pomp, the garden is tended Dy
shabby men and women glad to
get an extra meal for a day S work.
The gardeners, uncaring' rake
gravel with a dispirited motion.
But the Allied sentries. big men
chosen to impress each other and
the Germans, salute smartly. And
the generals and diplomats hurry
through the doors, to struggle over
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
Kinston Man Killed

KINSTON, Aug. Is -U.R- Will
liam Randolph Thompson, Al,
farmer of the Hillcrest section
near here. was instantly killed
early Sunday when his a got
out of control. overturned three
times and crashed into a house
at the western edge of the city,
it was reported by local police.
Officers quoted an eyewitness
as saying that the vehicle appear
ed to be going about so or so miles
an hour when it turned over. 1t
nicked a post on the porch of
Jack Laughinghouse and then
crashed into the home of H. C..
Raymore, about 100 feet from the
point where it left the highway,
is was said.
Funeral arrangements we're be-
ing relayed pending the arrival Of
relatives and friends of the family.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
City's Fight
For Airlines
To BePushed
govd, Parker Representing
Wilmington Before CAB
This Morning
ORAL ARGUMENTS
Delegation Will Present
Need For Direct Atlanta,
Washington Lines

Wilmington's long-standing
demand for a sharp increase
IN interstate air S ervic e
through Bluethenthal airport
will come to a head early this
week when a two-man delega-
tion stresses the city's air
rppds before the Civil Aero
rautics board in Washington
during the course of oral
arguments in the celebrated
southeastern S t a t e S case,
which starts at 10 o'clock this
morning.
The delegation, composed of
Mai. Henry E. Boyd, traffic man.
ager of the Wilmington Port Traf-
fc association, and Jesse c. Park
er, Jr.. airport manager, left Will
nington last night on the Wash
ington mission.
The Southeastern States case in
wolves proposed air routes in the
Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, and Georgia with Whining
ten as a focal point. About a dozen
airines are competing for the pro-
posed routes. which, if granted to
one or more lines by the CAB,
See AIRLINES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
New Violence
Breaking Out
In New Delhi
Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan
Victim OF Attack By
Simla Youths
ALL TRAINS HALTED
British Mass New Troops In
Calcutta Al Tension
Mounts

NEW DELHI, India, Aug.
rs. -(UP)- Britain's plans
for a new interim government
of India were launched on a
wave of violence Sunday high
lighted by the stabbing of Sir
Shafaai Ahmad Khan, only
Moslem member of the newly
approved government.
Dispatches from Simla said Sir
Shafaat, who is not recognized by
the Moslem league, was stabbed
seven times in the face and neck
on a street in Simla by a group of
youths, presumably Moslems, who
fled after he fell unconscious. Hos
pital attendants said his condition
was not serious.
Other reports said Hindu-M oslem
rioting was continuing in Alfalfa
bad, with more than 100 killed in
the past few days, and that rail-
way workers in the area of Mad
ras, in the south, had called a
strike that halted almost all train
service.
Troops Massed
Other reports said the British
have massed thousands of new
troops in Calcutta, where an esti-
mated 1000 were killed in week.
long communal riots last week, to
meet expected new violence when
Moslems celebrate their tradition
al lid festival on the occasion of
See VIOLENCE on Page Two