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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
TWA PILOT SEEK
$4,000 YEAR PAY
IN STRIKE THREAT

WASHINGTON, April 21.-(P)-
The nations airlines waited Sunday
to see if pilots seeking pay boosts
will carry out their strike sched-
uled on TWAS domestic and over
seas routes sometime this week.
Only transcontinental and West
ern Airs 28,000-mile system-ex-
tending eastward from the Pacific
coast all the way around the globe
to Indiar-is involved in the strike
call of the Airline Pilots associa-
ton (AFL).
TWAS 1000 pilots have demand
ed maximum wage rates increased
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year for
drivers of new four-engined planes.
This issue concerns a dozen other
carriers now using or intending to
use the big ships with whom the
union has been negotiating. Shorter
hours and other claims also are
involved in the TWA case.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
DEAF MUTE LEARNS
TO FLY IN SHORT
LESSON COURSE

Pennington Flying Service YES.
.erday felt they had conclusive
proof that anyone can learn to fly.
After Is hours of Instruction. a
Pennington student, who can
neither hear nor speak, took one
of their Piper Cruisers into the
air for his initial solo flight.
The fledgling airman, John w.
Millnor, SIG Wooster street, is a IS
year old shoe repairman. Under the
coaching OF pilot-instructor Al
Wooten. flying school employee, he
learned to operate the Piper ma.
chine in a period that, considering
his handicap is remarkably brief
Wooten explained that he took his
pupil through the preliminary
phases with 10 other means OF
communication than written notes
and hand signals.
Average pre-solo flying time, said
the instructor, is to 10 hours.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
MARINE WINS HAT
FOR EGG-ROLLING
AT GREENFIELD

Cpl. w. W Ure, Marine from
Camp Lejeune, won an Easter
straw hat at an egg-rolling contest
yesterday.
He says he plans to be separated
from the Corps in about five days
and in an effort to feel really out
of the Marine Corps" he will don
his full dress sui and the straw
hat, for a lengthy and what he
hopes to be. a convincing parade.
The egg-rolling contest was held
on the green around Greenfield
Lake, in the presence of about ESQ
servicemen, and their hosts, guests
of the Second and Orange USO
club.
The Marines "co-Winner" was
Miss Vashti Gornto, president of
the Junior hostess groups at the
club.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
MACARTHUR NAMES
ATCHESON TO HEAD
FOUR-POWER BOARD

TOKYO, April 21.-(P)-Supreme
announced Sunday
the appointment of George Atche-
son, Jr., career diplomat, as
American member and chairman OF
the Allied Four-Fower Council for
Japan.
The move was presented as rou-
tine but qualified observers. who
could not be named, interpreted it
as an effort by General Macarthur
to soothe the obviously-ruffled
feelings of Russian, British and
Chinese members after laxative
but lndeclsive sessions on Mac
Arthur occupation policies Wed.
nesday and Friday.
Atcheson, political adviser to
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
UPSET STOMACHS
YIELD INCHES OF
GAS AND BLOAT

81 was so full Of gas I was
afaid I'd burst. Sour, bitter sub
stance rose up in my throat from
nv upset stomach after meals.
rot 1NNER-AID, and it worked
inches of gas and bloat from me.
Naistline is way down now. Meals
ire a pleasure. 1 praise Inner
Aid to the sky. This is an actual
testimonial from a man living
right here in Wilmington
INNER-AID is the new formula
containing medicinal juices from
IL Great Herbs; these herbs
cleanse bowels, clear gas from
stomach, act on sluggish liver and
kidneys. Miserable people soon
feel different all over. So don't
90 on suffering-Get Inner-Aid.
Sold by all drug stores here in
Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
HAROLD A. ROBE

HAMPSTEAD, N. Y, April 21-
P)-Harold A. Robe, IS, song
writer who contributed the words
for Dear Old Pal of Nine" died
Saturday night.
The song was written in England
during the first World War and
Lieut. Gietz Rice composed the mu-
sic. Robe also wrote show,
Follow The Flag while in Eng
land and it became popular there
and in this country.
Among Robes other songs were
Tennessee, I Hear You Calling
Me-" Call Me Sweetheart Once
More" and Honolulu LOU
u.1o+o a.; p;rv,o oaro .~to ,,,.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
MCCORMICK SEEKS
TO HAVE ALL NEWS
SERVICES EXEMPT

NEW YORK, April 21.-P-A
meeting Of all newspaper publish
ers interested in legislation to ex-
empt press services from the pro.
visions of antitrust laws, has been
called by Col. R. R. Mccormick,
publisher of the Chicago Tribune,
ana other newspapermen.
The session, at which resolution
proposing petition to congress
will be introduced for considera-
ton, will be held in the Starlight
room of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
Immediately after ADJOURNMENT of
the Monday afternoon meeting of
the Associated Press, expected at
p.n
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

Quick thinking ON the part
of Capt. Joe Kelley, rs, pilot Of
an Eastern Air liner, averted a
collision between a military
type plane and his craft over
a Philadelphia, Pa, suburb. A
crash almost certainly would
have resulted in rs deaths-21
passengers and the crew of
three aboard the liner, and the
pilot of the mysterious aerial
road hog.
international SOundphotO)
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suits produced by various uses of
the bomb, said:
The effectiveness depends en-
1lrely On what you are trying to
do, what you are after. If you're
after one spot on the ground, you
can destroy that spot
He then explained that this was
not the ideal use of the bomb
crushing city with blast, heat
and radioactivity spread over a
VIDE area when exploded several
hundred feet in the air.
BY Direct Hit
The general used as an example
the thoroughly modern, reinforced
concrete Pentagon building, which
ne had hand in designing as an
Army engineer. There would be
two ways to render the Pentagon
unusable as a military headquar-
tiers, he said: by literally destroy
ing the building; by killing the
people in it and wrecking its facili-
ties to the point where it couldn't
be used.
The first could be accomplished
by direct hit. That would ''pul-
verize the Pentagon, Groves said.
Wiping it off the map in a cloud OF
dust.
Efficient Way
The other method, equally effec-
tive in Gripping the operation OF
the military command, would be
to explode a bomb in the air at
point over the cluster of Federal
buildings in Washington, across the
Potomac river from the Pentagon
Such an explosion would devastate
the nations military CHG and at
the same time do an equal amount
of damage to other important Fed
eral offices over wide area.
That would be the efficient use of
the bomb.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Fire Levels Plant
At Philadelphia, Pa

PHILADELPHIA, April 21.-P)-
Embers smouldered at the Allied
Chemical and Dye corporation
plant here Sunday after a general
alarm fire accented by a dozen ex-
blossoms turned the plant into an
inferno hurting tongues Of flame
hundreds of feet into the air.
Fire fighters battled the blaze
for eight hours before flames were
brought under control at about $50
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

Vegetarianism came into use
bout 1847.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
COUNSEL TO ORGANIZE

TOKYO, April Ill up The
Kydoo news agency reported Sun
day that Japanese lawyers who
will defend war crimes suspects
before the Interna tional Military
Tribunal will meet Wednesday to
form defense counsers asso-
citation"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
VA Leases Additional
Space AT Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, April al P) -
Additional space has been leased
by the Veterans Administrator for
expansion of its subregional office
in Charlotte, it has been learned
nere.
The new space. comprising 49,
coo to 1900 square feet in the
former Charlotte Santorium, will
be used by the VA in addition to
the present offices here in the vii.
son building.
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international Soundphoto).

graveside, Meadowbrook cemetery.
Past Master B. F. Mcmillan, St.
Adams lodge, ia A. F. and A. M.
will have charge.
Surviving are his mother, his
wife, and one son, Paul Wishart.
Three brothers, CPO, Ward, USN,
Charleston, S. c.; Jennings, Char
lotte, and Henry, Bennettsville, S.
c.; two sisters, Mrs. Yates Floyd,
Lumberton; Mrs. Taft Wright, Chi
cago, Ill, also survive.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
POISON IVY

A U. S. GOVERNMENT Report announces the dis
covery of fannie acid treatment for ivy poison
ing. The treatment has been found excellent; it is
gentle and SAFE dries up the bisters in surprisingly
short time-often within "a hours. These govern
ment findings are Incorporated in the product
Ask for it at your drug store. sec. IVY>DRY
Manufactured ST.. 4"Ox\1
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
AlongThe Fear

BROKEN RECORDS Records,
some sage once said, r made to
be broken.
We have indisputable proof for
the truth of this maxim this morn
ing.
In Saturdays column we told of
the record-breaking tomato plant
grown by Mr.. Neal Holder of
Woodlawn. This titanic tomato-tree,
we revealed, bore the staggering
sum of 81 tomatoes.
This, we challenged, constituted
an all-time record not only for the
Cape Fear country but for the ma
ton and the universe as well.
NEW CHAMPEEN- Well, the
old sage, whoever he was, knew
what he was talking about.
We have discovered a tomato
plant which goes Mr.. Holders four
better.
Yes, the new champeen, which
wrested the tomato crown over the
weekend from Mr.. Holders old
champeen, bears Al of the ripe orbs
on its giant branches.
Going back for a moment to our
vaudeville days, we calculate, with
somewhat of a shudder as we duck
our head behind our left shoulder,
that this one tomato plant could
put an entire troupe of o~ne-DAAat-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
"Tokyo Calling"

Deputy Sheriff S. v. Sneed-
en- was surprised Sunday night
when he was called 70 the
telephone to hear the opera
tor say, "Tokyo calling"
PFC Emory M. Sneeden, a
member of the 18th AirbOrne
division and presently station
ed near Tokyo was calling his
father and his wife at their
home, 512 Nun Street.
PFC Sneeden talked with his
parents and informed his wife,
Majorie, that he was getting
along fine and expected to be
sent home in about six months.
The call, received about $3.50
Sunday night, was arranged
through the Red Cross after
Young Sneeden had received
a letter from his wife telling
him about the death of his
grandfather a few days ago.
He has been stationed in
Japan for the past three
months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
ICE CREAM PRICE
SLATED FOR RISE
Milk Cost Hike Predicted
Locally In Autumn,
Dealers Say

A price hike on ice cream is eX-
pected within the next few weeks,
but sweet milk will probably re-
main at present prices until this
fall, dairy officials said yesterday.
Declaring that without subsidies
formerly furnished by the federal
government, the price of ice cream
will rise from about Is to 20 cents
per gallon within the next few
weeks, E. L. White, president Of the
White Ice Cream and Milk CON-
pany, said this will make little diff
ference in the price to the consum-
err; "about five cents per pint"
he estimated.
Rise Certain
Present supplies of raw mate
rails are expected to last for sew
eral days, White said, and although
his estimate was not final as to
the exact amount of price hike
expected on ice cream, he made
it clear that rises in price are GER
tain under existing conditions.
producers are expecting more
money for their ice cream raw
materials, now that the govern
ment has taken away subsidies,
and we are just standing by and
using our supplies on hand until it
is definitely decided just what
amount the price will have to be
raised" he said.
Milk Price
Price Of milk which was allowed
a one cent per quart raise over
two weeks ago, and has advanced
two more cents since the death OF
OPA, but is not expected to ad-
vance further until this fall, White
said.
He mentioned the fall as possible
date for more demands from farm
ers, because at that time they will
start "dry-feeding" their dairy
herds, causing heavier expenses IN
production.
He made no prediction as to the
amount of possible price hikes pre-
dicted for this fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
HUGHES ENJOYS
RESTFUL SLEEP
Shows Interest In Talking
With His Doctor
About Condition

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, July
IA. - W.H - Millionaire Howard
Hughes showed interest in talking
with his doctors about his condi-
tion as he rallied today in his stub
born fight to survive critical in
juries he suffered in the crash of
an experimental plane he was test
ing July 7.
The fabulous airplane and movie
producer last night enjoyed his
most restful sleep since the XIII
Photographic plane he designed
and built for the army smacked
into a house while he sought to
land the craft on a narby golf
course.
Stitches were removed from
Hughes face and scalp, according
to a bulletin issued last night by
his physicians, Verne R. Mason,
Lawrence Chaffin and John Jones.
While renal ling critical, his
condition had improved since his
relapse of Thursday, the bulletin
revealed.
Hughes spokesman reported that
the famous flyer had shown more
interest in his condition on a run
ming conversation with the ply
sicians as they examined him.
His stubborn fight to live
brought thousands of kilograms OF
good wishes, including one from
President Truman.
A jack rabbit foot was sent to
the Good Samaritan hospital to be
tied on Hughes bed for good luck.
, far the only luck piece that has
reached the stricken man was his
old battered hat, which was dug
from the wrecked plane at his re-
quest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15

ISLANDERS out of commission in one
fell blow.
LAW OF AVERAGES - A n d
there's something else amazing
about this tremendous tomato-pro-
Queer, too.
Since the original record OF 81
tomatoes for one plant was set
right here along the Cape Fear, you
might suppose that the law OF
averages, one of the strongest
laws of this or any other planet,
would be SO per cent against the
record getting broken by a plant
in the same vicinity as the other
plant.
You wouldn't be too surprised to
hear that a plant in, say, Tibet
had produced the 41-tomato re-
cord.
But the plants out in Woodlawn
don't apparently, believe in the
law of averages, nor do the folks
who grow those plants.
MONOPOLY 1t is Mr.. G.. H.
Warth who grew the plant with
the Il tomatoes. He not only lives
in Woodlawn - ne lives right
across the street from M
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
ARE FADING
FOR TRUMAN PLAN
Presidents 27-Point Pro-
gram Hit By Congress
Vacations

WASHINGTON, July 14.-U.P-
With adjournment of the 10Th Con-
gress drawing near, only seven
phases of President Humans q
point legislative program have
beer finally enacted.
Two of the President strongest
recommendations - extension Of
price control and atomic energy
control are in a home stretch race
with congressional vacation time.
Of the remainder, only five have
a fair chance or better Of becom-
ing law before adjournment. The
rest, barring a legislative miracle
have prospects which are slim or
non-existent.
The seven laws passed at the
Presidents request dealt primar-
lily with the least controversial
planks in the program. The most
important was extension of draft
legislation which was enacted in
a form differing greatly from his
recommendation.
The others included the SO, 750,
900, 900 British loan, a diluted full
employment bill and extension OF
the second War Powers Act con-
tinuing the Presidents authority
to ration scarce commodities such
as sugar. Other bills approved
boosted salaries of Federal work
ers, permits sale of U. S. mari
time ships, federal aid for a ma
tionwide network of airports and
provides for stockpiling of strate-
gic material.
The fate of the rest of Mr.. Tru-
mans program in brief:
1. Fact finding boards to handle
labor disputes-this proposal was
killed when the President himself
vetoed the Case bill for perma-
nent labor controls. The Hobbs
Anti-Rackteering bill and the
"Anti-Petrillo" bill are the only
labor controls to emerge from this
session.
2. Supplements to unemployment
insurance benefits-some action
may be taken this month.
3. A permanent fair employment
practices committee-this bill has
been tabled in the Senate and eff
forts to revive it in the house
have been blocked.
4. Increase in minimum wages
this was approved in the Senate
but similar legislation has been
blocked in the House Rules COM
mittee. The House pro-labor bloc
is attempting to discharge the COM
See PROGRAM on Page Two
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new DEVELOPMENT
IN HEBREWS CASE
Possibility OF A Defense
Prosecution Agree
ment In Case

CHICAGO, July a. -W.D- Pos
sibility developed Sunday night of
a defense-prosecution agreement
for disposition of the states charges
against William Heirens, II, under
indictment for 20 burglaries and as
saults and a suspect in the kidnap-
Staying of six-year-old Suzanne De-
gnan and two women.
This development came as Heir
ems, already linked through finger
prints with the kidnap-slaying of
the Degnan girl and the 'lipstick"
Staying of former Wave Frances
Brown, Vas under Investigation in
the strangulation and knitting of
Mrs. Josephine Ross, 43, last sum-
mer.
The burly, university of Chicago
sophomore was indicted Friday on
Is burglary counts and four counts
of assault, including one with in
tent to murder. He is not under in
dictment in any of the slayings but
the possibility of important de-
velopments came when his at
torneys conferred privately today
for two hours and 40 minutes with
states atty. William Tuohy and
asst. states atty. Wilbur F. Crow
ley.
The prosecutors and defense at
torneys, John and Me- Coghlan, de-
clined to discuss the conference
but we're smiling when it ended.
Asked if further conferences we're
scheduled, Tuohy replied: mo
comment"
Police Capt. Timothy O'Connor,
head Of the ~so-called Degnan in
vestigating squad, commented that
the conference must have been
See HEIRENS On Page Two
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TRUMAN HINTS HE WILL VETO SENATES OPA
BHI%F PRESENTED IN PRESENT FORM,
v$zz&i4NES RETURNS FROM PARIS CONFERENCE
CHANCES SLIGHT
CHANCES SLIGHT
Clark Says Outlook For Sugar Ship
Being Sent Here Appears Very Dim

The chances that a ship carrying
a full cargo of Cuban-refined
sugar will be diverted into the
port of Wilmington look very
DIM, Congressman j. Bayard
Clark informed the Star from
Washington last night.
The ~sugar-ship was virtually
promised to Wilmington about
three weeks ago after local Off
Gals and merchants appealed to
Washington for immediate relief
from the sugar shortage.
Congressman Clark was told by
the Commodity Credit corporation
that a shipload of Cuban-refined
sugar would, Elm all probability"
be sent direct to Wilmington.
Still Trying
"The U. S. Department of Agri-
and some United States
sugar importers are still trying
to get it dona," Congressman
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15

Clark said last night, but the
chances begin to look very dim.
LAS far as l am able to make
out, the importers are willing to
send a ship to Wilmington, but the
Cuban refiners themselves are ad-
verse to the proposal.
Il understand that almost all
of the sugar refined in Cuba is
going to Europe and other foreign
continents. Only a very small per-
centage is coming to the United
States.
Reason Unknown
For some reason unknown to
me, the Cuban refiners want to
send this small amount only to
those ports which have handled
refined sugar in the past, such
as New York and Baltimore.
"Whether the Cuban -efiners
might be persuaded to change
their minds l cannot say, but I
am inclined to doubt it,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
BIKIN[ ANIMALS
REPORTED DYING
Report From Animal Ship
Says Animals dying
Like Flies"

KWAJALEIN, Monday, July Is.
report that Bikini test ami
mails have begun dying like flies
came Monday from the U. S. S.
Burleson, highly-secret animal ship
from which reporters have been
barred.
An officer who visited the Bur
Lesson said animals that appear
healthy and have a normal blood
count one day drop off the next
day"
Asked whether any animals
would be taken to the United
States for further study, as orig
inally planned, the officer exclaim-
ed:
What animals?"
The inference was that at the
rate the animals were dying re-
Gently there Soon would be few if
any left.
On July 10 Navy Capt. Shields
Warren, Harvard pathologist, said
the survivors would be taken to
the Universities of Chicago. Cali
fornia, Cornell, Harvard, Roches-
ter and Stanford and the Navy
Laboratory at Bethesda, Md, for
a long-term study of radiation eff
fects.
See BIKINI On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
OF TRAFFIC
COUNTED TO BEACH
Tabulation For Eight Hour
Period Notes 1000
Vehicles

Well over Is, 900 people visited
Wrightsville Beach yesterday, II
the figures taken by the draw
bridge attendants are any lndlca-
ton.
Steady Stream
While the official tabulation ex-
tended only between the PERIOD
from 8 a. m. to 4 p. M, over 4,0oO
cars, buses and trucks passed
over the bridge with the traffic
increasing all the time until II
reached the proportions of a steady
stream in the late afternoon.
On the basis of previous figures,
if was estimated that around TO-
600 vehicles crossed the bridge
during a 24-hour period Sunday.
Out Of-State Cars
Some $50 of the autos were out
-of-state cars in the eight hour
period for which records were kept
with 3,949 in-state vehicles beng
c. nted. Not included in the fig
ures were approximately 300 trucks
and buses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-15
TWO ARE INJURED
WHEN BOAT BURNS
Backfire Ignites Gasoline
In Fishing Craft
Sunday

Ed Clemmons, Jr., %, and his
brother-in-law, Richard Smith,
were reported to be 'resting very
Well' in James Walker Memorial
hospital last night following their
escape from the blazing engine
room of a small fishing boat.
The two men suffered serious
burns from an explosion in the
engine room of their small fishing
craft, on which they were about to
start for a fishing trip early yes
terday morning.
Backfire
Young Clemmons' father Ed
Clemmons, Sr., said the two men
had started out fishing at four
o'clock Sunday morning, and had
started to crank their motor when
a backfire from the engine ignited
gasoline, causing an explosion.
He said that the men fled the
engine room, escaping with what
were termed SERIOUS burns"
which medical attaches described
as similar to severe sunburn.'
See FIRE On Page Two