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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-10
By JOHN SKIES

II has never been quite clear to
me why and how the macruran
crustacean happened to become the
genealogical grandpappy Of a word
that has come to be defined as
"a mean or contemplate person
or thing" in our American patter.
The word, of course, is shrimp.
Unless I have come down with
myopia as I scanned the right side
OF menus and have been careless
with the chits as I tried to walk
by the cashiers, I seem to have
the impression there is nothing
whatsoever contemplate a b u t
shrimp. The price you pay for
three or four of them, lathed in
sauce and reposing on. a lettuce
leaf, is very respectable, indeed.
In fact, shrimp have transcribed
mere responsibility. They have
become as patrician in gastronomy
as their hard-shelled kinsman, the
lobster.
Mind you. I'm not complaining
about this. 1t is as it should be.
Shrimping has become a big bust
ness. You no longer can walk
down to Dallas Piggott's or Wiley
Wells shrimp house in South
port and pick yourself up 10 or
IS pounds of shrimp and walk
out, leaving in exchange only a
beaming smile, any more so than
you can walk around to Mr.. Ra-
ney's here in Wilmington, and
leave him a pat on the back for a
Chevrolet.
I hate to be so sordidly CONNER
cial about so luscious an item as
shrimp, but it costs money to
catch the creatures.
For example, Dallas Piggott told
me yesterday that he, and his as
sociates, have about $4,000 in
vested in each of four shrimp
trawlers purchased from the gov
eminent. A little rapid arithme-
tic shows this amounts to a total
of $4,000 just for four boats.
If you follow me, it would require
a fairly large number Of shrimp
cocktails, plus several tables full
of entree orders of Shrimp St.
Augustine and Shrimp a la New.
burgh, even at prevailing prices,
to buy these boats.
Too, you may have wondered,
during these past three or four
years, why shrimp have nudged
alongside the caviar jar as lux
ury item. Wholly aside from the
price Of these boats, the price
paid to fishermen for shrimp
has advanced from rs cents per
bushel for some years back to as
high as $4.75 per bushel as Of the
season just closed before Christ
mas.
There are 50 pounds Of shrimp
in a bushel, which - becoming
Tommy the Lightning Calculator
again-totes up to nine and a half
cents per pound the fisherman re-
ceives for his catch. Consider,
too, the fact that the fisherman
sells his catch to the dealer with
the shrimp's heads on. The heads,
as I recall, amount to about 50 1-3
per cent Of the shrimp. So that's
another third you must add to the
price of the catch. Then you have
to pay for having the shrimp be-
headed, for icing them, and Tor
cooking them - another process
which causes much shrinkage-
until, when you get right down to
it, it's a wonder you can buy a
shrimp cocktail at any price.
Southport, Of course, is North
Cardinals shrimping capital. 1t
is. in fact, headquarters for the
| best shrimping grounds anywhere
| on the Atlantic this side Of st.
Augustine, Florida.
There was time when the
greater portion Of shrimp was ia.
ken from our waters by fishermen
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-10

John L. Sullivan beat Jake Kill
rain in rs rounds at Richburg,
Miss, July 8, 1889, in the last bare
muckle prize fight.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-10
QUOTATIONS

have never found a Nisei who did not
do his full duty right up to the handle.-Gen.
Jonathan NJ Wainwright.
Unlike the attitude that was too stubborn to
see the auto replacing the horse the airplane
today is accepted with enthusiasm by many,
with fear by some, with antagonism by others
but accepted it is by ali. - Ames, Ia, Trib-
une
Unless we can learn how to make every ma
ton in the world forget the word aggression,
we may wake up some morning to find that
somebody got in the first ticks at us - much to
our sorrow. = Gen. Jacob L. Devers, COM
mar,der, Army Ground Forces.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
BY the Assoeio,sd Press

CHICAGO, July l5.-A buyers
strike such as this country has
never known" will result, Presi-
dent Walter P. Reuther of the
CIO United Auto Workers says,
from the Nation wide series of
mass meetings scheduled by the
union for tomorrow,
Mr. Reuther, addressing a meet
ing of union members of suburban n
Cicero yesterday, reported "our OBJ
jective is the organization in every
American city of a Centrol Consum-
ers Committee, with UAW leader
ship, OF religious, civic. community
and other labor groups"
He reiterated plans for 100000
CIO-UAW members walking of the
job at 3 pm. tomorrow to attend
rallies as a protest demonstration
against inflat ton and declared:
This Nation wide demonstrate tion
will herald buyers strike such as
this country has never known. AT
these meetings, the machinery for
the all-out war on imitation will be
set in motion"
Mr.. Reuther said the UAW buyers
strike strategy would be to single
out certain inflationary priced
commodities and strike against
them"
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Gypsy, Problem Monkey,
Now Held on Bitinq CHARGE

Eddie Bernstein's Gypsy today
was causing his owner, the legless
pencil vendor we'll known TO F street
shoppers more headaches.
The monkey, which is the con-
slant companion OF his master, last
night bit Mrs. Blanche English. 30
, The incident occurred in the room
ing house in the 900 block of F street
where they live
Mrs English was trea ted at Emer-
sency Hospital for wound in the
right calf. and was released She
told police MI. Bernsteins monkey
had bitten her.
Eight years ago Mr., Bernstein had
10 face police charges in court thar
the monkey was ohstructine pedes-
trian traffic on F street. The case
was dismissed The following year
a license regulation required Mr.
Bernstein TO pay 81 day TO the Dis
trict as fee for keeping his pet on
the streets. but at the request of the
Commissioners the requirement was
suspended
Today or tomorrow the man and
his monkey will learn whether the
Health Department considers "Gyp-
Sv menace 10 the public safety
because OF the biting incident.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
High Officer AssaiIs Reds
For Holding U. 5. Couple
BY m. Assooioted Pres.

BERLIN. July l5.--A hieh-rank-
ing United States Army officer said
last night that If the Russians
failed by today to release an Ameri-
can warrant officer and his wife.
being held for apparent unauthor-
lied entry into the Soviet occupa-
ton zone. something is likely to
happen because We are getting mad
about this"
The officer. who declined TO be
quoted by name, said the Russians
had broken their promise to re-
lease Warrant Officer Samuel l..
Harrison of San Antonio. Tex, and
his wife Melen, who disappeared
into the Russian zone on July /,
when. without the required written
travel orders, they were reported
to have exceeded zonal limits to
visit pet shop.
There still was no word on the fate
of two other American Army officers
Capt. Harold Goblin Of Newark
N. j., and 1t. George E. Wyatt OF
Oklahoma City-who were last seen
July 4 when they were reported
10 have boarded a train for Oraien-
burg, north of Berlin.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Berwyn Man Is Ninth Victim
OF Polio in Area This Year

Joseph Joeb. IS. of 47O1 Glendale
road, BerWyn, today was listed by
the Health Department as the Dis
trlct areas ninth victim of infantile
paralysis this year.
Mr.. Joeb, cab driver, was ad-
mitted Friday to Gallinger Hospital
where his illness was diagnosed as
the more serious ''budlbar' type
OF infantile paralysis He had been
recovering from a recent attack of
pneumonia when stricken, according
to the Health Department. The
victim is married and has two chill
dren
The Health Department reported
two deaths from the disease this
year. The latest victim was Alex
ander La Marr, 7, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. La Mari. 8710 Fifty-ninth
street. BerWyn. who died at Chill
dren's Hospital Thursday.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
MI. Wilson, Telescope Site
Up for Sale al S425,00O
BY the Assooioted Pr.ss

PASADENA. Calf, July IS
Famed Mount Wilson. site of the
worlds largest telescope and future
television center of the West. goes
on sale today bearing a price tag OF
s425, 900
Albert c. Childs. whose Pasadena
Mount Wilson Toll Road Co. owns
the nearby 6000-foot peak. will be
65 tomorrow and he wants to retire
There will be plenty of bidders. he
figures. because already he has beer
approached by 30 radio stations
newspapers and other interests seek
ing sites on Mount Wilson for tele,
vision transmitters.
Mount Wilson observatory. oper-
ated by the Carnegie Institution Of
Washington, doesn't go with thu
deal. The institution was given z
99-year lease for 81 in 1904 for L;
acres on the summit
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Bark|ey Doubts Action
Today on Rejection Of
Reorganization Plans
BY the Assooio,ed presI

Majority Leader Barkley pre-
dicted today the Senate will let
President Truman's three Gov
eminent reorganization plans 60
into effect at midnight tonight.
The Kentuckian told reporters he
believes his colleagues will follow
the trail they struck out on Satur-
day when they rejected by 81
to-3o vote a House approved reso-
luton TO dlsapprove plan No. g.
The result was to permit the
plan to go into effect. since both
houses must say no" TO stop any
move of this kind by the President
Republicans opposing the other
two plans were expected TO con-
centrate their fire on No / Among
Its provisions would be the merger
OF several bureaus dealing with
housing into a single, permanent
housing agency. Real estate men
have opposed the change.
Plan No. 2. which proposes pre-
llmlnarv steps toward setting ur
a new Federal Department of Wei
tare under cabinent officer
seemed likely to provoke less argu-
ment.
Opponents pitched more of their
unsuccessful fight against plan No
3 on its proposal to combine the
grazing service and general land
Office into a single bureau Of land
management IN the Interior Depart
ment.
In addition. plain No. 3 will put
into effect these changes:
Move the Marine Inspection and
Navigation Bureau from the Com
merce Department to the Coast
Guard and Customs Bureau. in the
Treasury Department.
Put under the Secretary of Agri-
culture programs of the Federal
Crop Insurance and Commodity
Credlt Corporation, but keep then
as separate corporations.
Merge the paymasters' and quar-
termasters departments of the Ma
rine Corps into supply department
Abolish the Labor Relations Board
function Of taking strike ballots
an action already ordered by Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Mayor Faces Recall
Vote in Son Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, July Is tP,.-
The stewardship of Mayor Roger
Lapham will be approved or rejected
by San Francisco voters tomorrow
at special election seeking to recall
him from office.
Mayor Lapham, who during the
apathetlc campaign announced he
would continue TO call my shots as
I see them closes his side of the
controversy with two radio talks
tonight.
The Mayors support of an in
creased streetcar fare drew the
major fire of the recall group. q
leader of which is Henry F. Budde
publisher of group of weekly news
papers in the city. Budde. who
served as a member of the city Park
Commission under former Mayor
Angelo J. Rossi, was not reappointec
by Mr.. Lapham
AS the time for decision neared
members of the Citizens Committee
Against the Recall declared that op-
position to the recall. which has
been voiced by many organizations
and officials, had gained momentum
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Ethiopia Receives Loon
OF $1,000, 900 From Bank

The Export-Import Bank today
announced $1,000 900 loan to Ethi-
opia for purchase of equipment in
TINS country to build back the
African nations economy.
At the same time, the bank re-
leased details Of its $3.50 900 900 loan
10 France as part of a 1870. 900 900
credit agreed on in May. 1t will
help France begin a four-vear re-
construction period.
France has two years to use the
new loan to finance United States
purchases. The money used will
bear interest of 3 per cent a year,
with the principal repayable in
Semiannual installments over 20
Years, beginning January l, 1852.
Some 100000 900 will pay for va
rlous. equipment orders already
placed by France Another sl7O,-
G0o.00O will go into new equipment
orders.
An additional slOO. 100000 will
purchase industrial raw materials.
The remainder of the $3.50 900 900
Will pay for United States services
including engineering and ocean
freight in moving the purchased
equipment.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Philadelphia Unions Open
Drive on Price Boosters

PHILADELPHIA. July Is PA
picketing campaign to keep prices
and rents "at or very close" to
former OPA ceilings begins today.
Herbert Mover, chairman OF the
Price Ceiling Committee of the C1O-
Philadelphia Union Council, an
nounced unionists will picket "any
store against whom we receive COM
plants of food profteering or
chiseling landlords offices and
homes"
And we intend to keep up this
campaign until all of the storekeep-
ers and landlords sell or rent at, OF
very close TO, the former OPA cell
ingS." he added.
The council claims to represent
l55 900 workers.
Across the Delaware River In
nearby Camden, N j.. meantime
approximately 100 independent
meat and grocery retailers inaueu-
rated a three-dav price ceiling
holiday today. They pledged to sell
merchandise only at ceiling prices.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
longchamps Bookkeepers
Are Placed on Probation
by IN. Associated 7r,Sx

NEW YORK, July 15.-Martin
and Wallace Platt, Longchamps
restaurant employees who pleaded
guilty TO part in the Henry Lustig
s2.S72,766 income tax evasion con-
spiracy case. won their freedom
today when Federal Judge Harold
Kennedy placed them on probation
by indefinitely deferring sentencing
The two brothers. employed as
bookkeepers, testified for the Gov
ernment against Lustig. owner OF
the restaurant chain: his nephew
E. Allen Lustls, and Joseph Sobel
chief accountant for the firm.
Under conditions imposed by the
seldom used procedure in the Platt
case the brothers may at any time
be ordered back to court for
sentencing should they violate terms
OF the probation
The elder Lustlg who Was SEN
fenced to four years in prison and
fined sll50 on his conviction OF
income tax evasion appeared ir
court today TO pay the fine in
Treasury bonds.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Marines
Continued From First Page.

deserted the heat OF Nankine and
direct peace negotiations for the
mountain air OF Kuling
A truce conference scheduled for
Sunday between the Nationlist and
Communist Manchurian Army COM
manders was called off.
Communist quarters expressed re-
sentiment that Chang had gone oil
TO Kuling.
Some Chinese sources said Gen
Marshall. special United States
envoy, had declined to accompany
the generalissimo because he was
anxious to speed the peace talks
but had agreed 10 go up on week
ends.
1t was apparent. however, that
the converse tons could not get far
right now because Gen Chou En-
lai. the Communist negotiator, still
is in Shanghai.
Furthermore. Chang conferred
with his top military advisers before
he left for Kuling yesterday, pre-
Sumably on the negotia tions. and
he made arrangements for officials
10 see him when necessary at the
summer capital
Evening star., 1946-07-15

and satisfaction TO you, the people
of Montana To the rest of us in
the United States it will give en-
couragement and hope that our
country moves forward with a de-
termination TO make the ideals for
which We fought such a bitter war
reach final attainment"
In considering Senator Wheeler S
record and in quoting from it have
not been digging up old scandals
that could best be forgotten M,
Roosevelt said. Il think all of us
know that if we are to build an en-
during peace in the world
then the records and the kind of
men we send to the United States
Senate are all important.
Arizona. Arkansas and Wyoming
hold primaries tomorrow that have
attracted little outside interest. I!1
Arizona, indications point to the
denomination Of Senator Mcfarland
Representatives Hairless and Mur-
dock and Governor Sidney P. Os-
born all Democrats.
In Arkansas, Negroes may par
ticipate in a Democratic primary
where war veterans are trying tC
unseat Representatives HAYS, Harris
and CraVens -Four other Demo
cratic Congressman are unopposed
Voters will pick their gubernatorial
nominee in primary July 30 sepa =
rated from the national election in
an attempt to bar Negroes
In Wyoming. chief interest lies in
the choice of a Republican Sena
torlal nominee to run against Sena
tor Mahoney, Democrat. who is
unopposed for denomination. For
mer Gov. NelS H. Smith and State
i Treasurer Earl Wright are trying
/ for the COP nomination.
The white supremacy" issue has
been raised in Georgia. where Dem
ocrats ballot Wednesday on THEN
choice for Governor.
gallussed Gene Talmadge
three-time Governor, is trying for a
comeback on that issue. Former
Gov. Ed Rivers and James V. Car
michael. the latter supported by Gov
Ellis Arnall, are Talmadges chiet
opponents in primary whose Win
ner is sure of election
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Wife lows Man 5 Miles,
Then He browns Off Shore
By the A,sociofed Press

LIVERPOOL. July l5.-Mrs. John
Corlett Of Hoylake was recovering
from exhaustion today after swim
ming for seven hours in high seas
following Yachting accident in
which her husband. whom she had
towed for more than miles.
drowned 100 wards from shore.
Lawrence McAllister Of Bidston.
third crew member OF the yacht
which capsized during regatta late
Saturday. also died in the nlishap.
Other yachts-unawar Of the des-
perate plight OF the trio-passed
less than a quarter Of mile away.
After night-long battle to reach
shore the Corletts reached a fishing
boat 100 yards from land
We held onto ii and felt We vele
safe at last. Then suddenly Re
slipped away Mrs. Corlett said
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Truman Vote -Gettinq
Power Faces Test in
Montana Tomorrow
BY The Associoied Pres.

The vote-pulllng power Of a
friendly letter from President
Truman encounters a test to-
morrow in Montana's Demo
cratic primary, which finds
James Roosevelt, son of the late
President, and at least two labor
organizations bucking Senator
Wheeler's denomination bid.
Lined up on one side are Sena tor
Wheeler and Mi Truman. who pro-
tested against the smear campaign"
he said was being made against his
old Senate colleague
On the other are Lief Erickson
Senator Wheeler's opponent. James
Roosevelt who urged nomination of
Mr.. Erickson in a statewide radio
address because he said Senator
Wheeler went TO "a very dangerous
extreme in opposing policies de-
signed for the protection of our Ma
ton in critical times. the CIO. the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Senator Murray. Democrat. of Mon
! tana. and some members of the Ma
tional Farmers Union.
! The Senate Campaign Investieat-
ing Committee has entered this
criss-cross OF al1gnments 10 dig into
contentious by Senator Wheeler that
he has been subjected TO unfair
/ propaganda and a somewhat similar
counter assertion by Mr. Erickson
Will Hear Smear Charges.
! Senator johnson, Democrat. OF
Colorado, said he probably will call
the committee tomorrow to heal
New York and Montana witnesses
testify about Senator Wheelers
claim that recently published book
attempts to smear him.
The committees investigation
thus far disclosed letter from MI
Truman describing as sheer dis
tortions of the fact assertions that
Senator Wheeler is an enemy OF
railroad labor. and expressing the
hope that the smear campaign
against Burt Wheeler" would stop.
/ The Senate group. without much
success thus far. also has been look
that Senator Wheeler dominates
/ the inquiry committee 1t found
among other things, that the com
mittee's secretary. Mrs. Grace John
son. formerly was employed by the
Senate Small Business Committee
I,,- n,
Wheeler's Montana colleague who
is opposing his denomination.
The campaign committee learned
that Senator Murray donated $1,000
to the campaign of Mr. Erickson
who formerly headed the Missour
Valley Authority which Senator
Murray has been plugging. 1t also
heard that $1,000 had been con-
tributed by the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen and $500 by the
CIO United Auto Workers Of Detroit
Attacks New York Pinks."
Out of this maze Senator Wheeler
seeking his fifth term. singled out
the CIO-PAC for heavy attacks
nc dlSO UldSlCu at NHdt llC SoIiCS
: the New York Pinks." who he
; said were against him because oi
his opposition to many of the late
President Roosevelt's foreign pol
icieS
: The Wheeler letter is the first
political pronouncement of its kinc
President Truman has made. out
side of his own state of Missouri
Politicians are watching its effect
in race that overshadows Other
political contests this week
In a transcribed radio broadcas'
: asking Montana Democrats to vote
for Mr.. Erickson, Mr.. Roosevelt,
said yesterday.
Il am sure your nomination ant
election of Judge Erickson to th'
lSenate will bring the greatest credi
Evening star., 1946-07-15
| Nozi Spy Fund
| Ruses Included
| $4,000 in GirdIe
BY the Assoc ioted Press

The Germans used every trick
including a woman who had $4,000
stuffed in her 2rdle-in attempt;
to smuegle money to their spies
in this country during the war. the
Justice Department said in an
1ouncing that another S130000 in
cash and valuables. headed off be-
tore it got TO the Nazi agents. is
now ready to be turned over to the
alien property custodian.
This brings to S36600O the amount
OF spy money collected by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation ano
deposited in the Treasury general
fund
FBI Director j Edgar Hoover
said most of the money was sent
over in United States currency.
The valuables included a fancy
diamond ring, some rare stamps and
expensive watches.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Peace Talks Slated
Today in West Coast
Ship Union Dispute
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-A
Labor Department troubleshooter
today scheduled meetings with
union and ship operator representa-
tives seeking a basis for settlement
of jurisdictional dispute at Coos
Bay, Greg.
Nathan P. Felnsinger, special rep
resentatlVe of Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach, called the confer
ences after East Coast picketing
by AFL Maritime Unions of CIO-
manned ships over the Coos Bay
issue had been called off.
Mr.. Feinslnger said he had rec
commended and the Secretary Of
Labor had approved plans for ap-
pointment of special panel to
inquire into the Coos Bay dispute
and to make public any recon-
mendations that may be appro-
pirate
Tied Up Ship.
The dispute origina uy tied up In
the Oregon port the Mello Franco,
an American Pacific Shipping Co
vessel manned by crew made up
entirely of members of the AFL
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Backed by the C1O-led Committee
for Maritime Unity. CIO Marine
Cooks and Stewards, the indepen-
dent Marine Firemen's Union and
the CIO American Communications
Associa ton demanded jobs for their
mem bers on the Mello Franco and
other vessels Of the company in
the traditional West Coast distribu-
ton" Most West Coast ships have
AFL deck crews, firemen from the
independent union and CIO cooks
and stewards and communications
men, but the American Pacific Co.
has an exclusive contract with the
AFL union.
MI Feinslnger said Harry Lunde-
berg president Of the AFL Seafarers
International Union and secretary
of Sailors Union. recommended
withdraw Of plckets in New York,
after being advised that the
Secretary of Labor is directing an
immediate and full inquiry into all
aspects of the dispute involving
the ship Mello Franco
Picket Lines Abandoned.
The picketins of East Coast piers
tied up IA ships in New York Har-
Dor and several in Baltimore. The
picket lines were abandoned last
night after meeting of 800 mem
berS Of the Sailors Union of the
Pacific and the Seafarers Interna-
tional Union voted 10 accept M.
Lundberes recommendation
Mr. Felnslnger's conferences to-
day are scheduled for l pm. EST
| with representatives Of the Two CIO
and the firemen's unions and pm
with operators of the Mello Franco.
Harry Bridges. president OF the
CIO International Longshoremen
and Warehousemen's Union. who
was accused by Mr. Lundeberg in
the dispute OF trying to drive the
SUP" off West Coast ships. was e1-
pected IN San Francisco. possibly
today