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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-29
PLAN

City Manager J. r. Benson
yesterday said that he and Fire
Chief ]. Luddie Groom, who
were designated by the city
council to make an inspection
of the water front properties
for the purpose of eliminating
all possible fire hazards, had
been hindered by the inclem-
ency of the weather, but that
with good weather they in
tended to make a thorough in
spection and report their find
ings to the city council at a
later date.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-29

The U. S. federal government
passed laws in 1863. 1877, and 1883
f%orbidding the practice of polyg-
amy il the territory of Utah.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-29

The crow usually does not fly
in a straight line but zigzags.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-29
Briefs
CHURCH

The public is invited to at
tend a program at the St. Luke
A.. M. E. Zion church Thurs
day, Aug. 20, at 1880 p. m.
Elder C. l.. Thomas will be
the guest speaker. The pro-
gram is sponsored by the
Youth council of the church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
STADIUM CRASH
TAKES 8 LIVES
Many Hurt When Barriers
Collapsed During Eng
lish Soccer Match

BOLTON, England, March Up
AT least SO persons were killed
and scores injured today in Brit
aims worst sports disaster wher
two retaining barriers collapsed ir
a soccer stadium grands.and, tum
bling hundreds of screaming spec.
tators forward and piling bodies
four deep.
Police said four persons were in.
jured seriously, % others were
treated at hopsitals and discharg.
ed and 500 were given first aid near
the scene Of the accident.
The barriers collapsed shortly
after the start of the championship
match at Burden Park Stadium at
tended by a record crowd of more
than 10000 persons.
Bolton police said at first there
were 38 dead, but later revised
the total to 80. Two of the dead
were women.
Chest and head injuries killed 80
persons outright. Most of the in
jured suffered similar hurts.
The retaining barriers suddenly
collapsed under the pressure of
the tightly-packed crowd. and spec
tators toppled from their standing
positions on one grandstand tier
Continued on Page 3, Column y
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
DUTCH SOLDIERS
ARRIVE IN JAVA
Three Battalions ASSIGNED
To Replace British
Forces In Batavia

BATAVIA, March 9-P)EThree
battalicns of Dutch troops assign
ed to replace British forces in
Java arrived in Batavia today and
the offic of Indonesian Premier
Sultan Sjahrir Immediately de-
clared that Sjahrir would protest
to the Allied command.
The 2,4oO Dutch troops shave
come with the object of taking
over from the British and Indian
troops when tn ey, eventually
leave" an official communique
said. ,.:-
The official Dutch news agency
Aneta said all British and Indian
troops would be withdrawn from
Java in the next few months and
replaced by Netherlands troops in
accord with a decision made at
the highest, level" of the Allied
command. i
The unheralded arrival of the
Dutch forces, trained in England
and transported on British ships,
caught the Indonesians by sur
prise.
They came when Sjahrir was
preparing to renew negotiations
with the Dutch and Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, special British envoy,
on the demands Of the unrecogniz-
de Indonesian republic for indie
pendence from Dutch colonial rule.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
GLENNON M0URNED
In U. S., IRELAND
Dies 10 Days After His
Elevation To Sacred
College OF Cardinals

DUBLIN, March 9.-P)-Catholic
Ireland mourned tonight for John
Cardinal Glennon of st. Louis and
planned homage to the patriarchal
prince of the church who died this
morning in his native land just Is
days after his elevation to the
sacred college of cardinals.
The body of the s3-year-old
churchman lay in state tonight in
the presidential manson. It will be
borne back by air for burial in a
crypt in the St. Louis cathedral.
Cardinal Glennon died at 1851
am. Psi am; EST. Wearied
from his trip to Rome and weak.
ened by bronchitis, he had develop.
ed congestion of the lungs and had
fallen into a serni-comatose condl.
ton last night. .a..
His body will be removed to-
morrow night to the chapel of Al
Hallows college in Dublin, where
hespent his student days prepair.
ing for the priesthood, and will lie
there in State until Monday.
On Monday afternoon the long
journey home will begin with
the cortege going to Mullingar. the
cardinals natice diocese, wher, a
solemn requiem high mass will be
celebrated Wednesday. On Wed
nesday afternoon the cortege will
continue through his native kin
negad in county Westmeath, and
across Fire to Rineanna and Shan
non airport. The body will be flown
back to the United States in two
constellation plane, the same type
as that in which he made the
journey to Rome to receive his red
hat.
Many of Ireland's great and hum
BILE bowed in tribute at the Car
dinalate bier in the historic State
mansion. American, Irish and Pa
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
Bitter Fi1II 5
In u. S : a
Industry
John L. Lewis And Oper.
ators Square Away For
Contract Negotiations
TO OPEN TUESDAY
No Progress Reported In
Efforts To Settle Gener-
al Motors Strike

WASHINGTON, March 9-H-
A. long and possibly bitter struggle
in the coal industry was indicated
today as John L. Lewis and btu
minous coal operators squared
away for contract negotiations
opening next Tuesday.
Three major demands on behalf
of 100000 soft coal miners appear
likely to be presented to the pro-
ducers when they meet with the
United Mine workers negotiating
committee.
May Demand Royalty
Renewal of Lewis spectacular
demand Of last year for 10-cents-
atom royalty for a Union Welfare
and disqualification fund is freely
predicted by the producers.
In addition to the royalty-which
Lewis may decide to pare down
from the 10-cent demand of last
year-that operators foresee these
two other major demands:
1. A shorter work-week, with a
pay boost to split the loss in take
home pay which now runs to 1858.
for 81 hours underground.
2. Unionization of supervisory
workers. ~
The royalty demand won surpris-
inly strong support in the district
conventions which have voted upon
demands thus far this year. The
issue is accented by Lewis re-
newed friendship with David Dub
insky, president of the ALL In
ternational Ladies' Garment Work
ers union.
Obtain Concession
That organization recently OBJ
tanned, similar concession from
it's employers royalty of three
and a half per cent of the pay
roll. Lewis returned to the ALL
in January and took a seat along
side of Dubinsky on the executive
council.
The UMW'S 250-man policy COM
mittee meets here Monday to
formally draft the demands, which
are expected to be short, simple
and substantial.
The operators guess that Lewis
will ask them to revert to the 80
hour week established under the
Confined on Page II, Column u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
Four-County
.REA Awards
Big Contract
a
| New Power Lines Planned
lnPend err, Bladen,
Duplin, Sampson
FOR 1868 USERS
p,o;ect IF" To Provide
Identification In Wide
Rural District

Award of a 1889, 550.40 contract
4nr the construction Of 364.3 mills
NJ electric power lines in Bladen,
Dublin, Fender and Sampson coun.
ties has been approved by the
Rural Decentralization authority, il
was announced yesterday by S. S.
shubrick, Burgaw, manager Of
the -Four County Electric Mem
bership corporation.
sbubrick said the low bid, based
unon use of aluminium conductors
in the system, approved by REA
was submitted by Brnes OrgaTliza.
ton, Washington, D. c., and that
construction will begin immediate.
" that materials are available.
The new lines will be extensions
rsodiating from existing power
lines, Shubrick said. The main
power lines will be tapped IN W
places, and 1868 new subscribers
will be added to the system.
Half Already Wired
Half Of the new subscribers, he
said, already have their houses
wired for the reception of electri-
cal current and are merely await
ing actual extension of the power
lines. When the new subscribers
are connected to the lines, the -Four
County corporations membership
will total 1868.
Completion of the installation G.
the power lines will be completed
by midsummer, Shubrick estima-
ted.
Five phases of the corporation s
program-known as A, B, C, D,
and E phases-already have beer
completed, Shubrick said, ano
since 1898 has resulted in the addi.
ton Of 72O miles OF power lines
Completion of phase F will NEAR
that 1,084.3 miles of REA lines viii
form network of power patterns
in the four counties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
ACTIVE IN PACIFIC
Identification Classes Re.
sunled In Tightening Up
OF Training Setup

TOKYO, March 9.-H9-Tempor-
arily-ina ctivated planes are being
[rearmed in the Pacific and aerial
target practice and airplane identi-
fication classes have been resumed
in tightening UP of the U. S. Army
air forces on-the-spot training pro
gram, it was learned today.
Classwork includes practice in
identifying Russian, British and
other types of aircraft, and is part
of the normal overall program, "
1t. Gen Gennis c. Whitehead, de-
putty commander of the Pacific air
force, told the United Press.
"Many thousands of trained air
force requirements are on their
way to overseas depots from the
United States, 1t. Gen. Whitehead
revealed. He said they were ex
pected to arrive in Japan and 9TH
er Pacific bases during the next
two months.
1.-THE airforce training program
is being conducted in all theat-
ers,' Whitehead said, "but in the
Pacific we were unusually hard-hit
by demobliziation, as everyone
knows. Therefore, we are tighten
ing up our training program in
earnest"
Whitehead said the training pro
gram will include bombing and
strafing practice and night flying.
Guns are being restored in temper
arily-inactivated planes by Fifth
airforce tactical units at Iruma.
gawa, he added.
Approximately 1900 civilian
flight instructors are expected to
arrive in the Pacific theater soon
for. assignment to squadrons and
groups for con the job training, -
Whitehead said.
Both Whitehead and Maj. Gen.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
SCHOOL BUS NEED
SAID URGENT HERE
County Officials Hopeful
OF Obtaining Share OF
y $4,000 Fund

New Hanover county should ex-
perience no difficulty in obtaining
a rightful share of the sos, 1000 state
appropriation for the repair OF
school buses, if such ALLEGATIONS
are made on the basis of need ,ac.
cording to Wallace West. acting
business manager of New Hanover
county schools.
At the present time, West said,
New Hanover county's q school
buses are making an average OF
two and one-half trips daily with
each bus travelling an average oil
113 miles every day.
During the past two years, West
said, the county's schools have OBJ.
tanned two buses as requirements
for the school fleet. Three old buses
are not in operation at the present
time.
According to the announced plans
Of the State Board of Education,
the sos, 900 will be taken from the
18th grade adjustment fund for
''the repair at once of the states
badly worn school buses, which
must last until automobile manu-.
facturers can deliver new vehicles
now on order.''
Today the state has $2,737, 642 in
it's school bus fund and it plans
eventually to buy 1,400 to 1900 new
vehicles to replace some Of the
present fleet Of 1850.
New Hanover county school
buses also:
Transport 1881 pupils to and
from school every day; make 81
trips per day, and carry an aver
age of so pupils per trip.
The above figures, West said,
were tabulated for the first three
months of the current school year.
twenty-five bus loads of school
children are transported to New
Hanover county schools from the
housing project of Maffitt Village
daily, he said.
OF the q buses currently opeHat.
ing, % are used for white children
and four are used for. Negro chill
dren. Each bus used for the white
children travels an average OF
1912 miles daily, and each bus in
Continued on Page IL, Column AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
BRITISH VESSEL
BLAZES SPREAD
Fire Aboard Aircraft Car.
rier Victorious Is Ninth
In 7 en- Days

LONDON, March 9.-WH-Brit'
aims series of battling ship fires
nine in ten days-spread to the
aircraft carrier Victorious today.
One man was killed and sever
injured seriously when an explo
sion followed by fire scared {
minesWeep off Dover.
Three unidentified aliens were
being hunted by police in connec
ton with yesterdays fire aboard
the worlds largest ship, the inel
Queen Elizabeth at Southampton.
British Admiralty spokesmer
said there were no suspicious cir.
cumstances surrounding the fires
aboard the 23,000-ton Victorious ano
the 1,000-ton minesWeep Steadfast
Naval engineers said the boiler.
room blaze On the Victorious was
purely mechanical"
The London Daily News said ad.
oitional sabotage warnings had
been flashed to the Queen Mary
and the Pacific Steam Navigation
company's Orontes before they
locked today at Southampton.
Chief Constable T. F. larry, at
Southampton, said he might ask
for army troops to supplement
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
PORT COMMISSION !
THANKS SENATOR
Telegram To Bailey Elk.
presses Appreciation For
His Channel Efforts

Gratitude for the work he has
done in exerting his influence tow
ards the deepening of the Cape
Fear River channel was expressed
yesterday in a telegram to Sen.
Josiah w. Bailey by c. D. Hogue,
chairman of the Wilmington Port
Commission.
Sen. Bailey has been active IN
work with Congress on legislation
pertinent to the deepening OF the
channel and at the present time ne
is attempting to have the War de-
partment Civil Functions bill con-
tain a s'rider'' calling for the deep
ening of the channel to 81 feet.
Hogue, through the Wilmington
Port Commission, has been active
in behalf of attempts to have the
channel deepened to IS feet,
In his telegram to the senator,
Hogue said ''if by any possibility
YOU can obtain 35-foot depth,
subject to the approval Of the U. S.
Engineers who are now making a
survey, our gratitude to you will
be unbounded.'
Pointing to the work that has
been done to date by Sen. Bailey,
Hogue telegraphed "this commu-
nifty and state, whose water-borne
commerce can pass through this
port with great economic advant-
ages, owe you an immense debt of
for exerting your powerful influ-
ence for the deepening of the Cape
Fear river, North Cardinals fresh
water land-locked gateway to
world ports"
"For the first time in its histo-
rv.'' Hogue continued, ''due to the
wartime government control this
port stands on an equal footing in
pressing for commerce with the
older and heretofore more aggres-
sive ports.''
Hogue forwarded a copy Of the
telegram to Sen. Clyde Hoey and
pointed out that the deeper draft
of vessels make it imperative for
the Wilmington port to enjoy 35-
foot channel approach if it is to
successfully engage with other
ports in the coming contest for
world commerce,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
SOVIET ARMY LEAVES MLKDEN
BUT SITUATION STILL TENSE;
BIG THREE MAY GATHER SOON
US. Will Stand Firm
In Latest Soviet R01v

WASHINGTON, March 9-W.D
State Department officials
said tonight the United States
will stand firm in its newest
diplomatic wrangle with Soviet
Russia sharp difference Of
opinion over reconstruction of
the government of Bulgaria.
The new dispute found rela-
tions between the two countries
strained as never before since
they became wartime allies.
Differences over situations
arising in Manchuria and Iran
were unresOlved, and Russia
has exhibited a strong lack Of
enthusiasm for this country's
position regarding the Franco
government of Spain.
The Bulgarian incident appear
ed to stem from widely-vary-
ing interpretations placed by
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
US.RearmsAircraH
Pushes Target Drills
Trask To Seek Eighth
Term On County Board

George w. Trask, CONNER
cial produce grower and for %
years a member of the New
Hanover board of county COM
missi0ners, announced yester-
day that he would be a candi-
date for an eighth term, SUBJ
ject to the Democratic party
nominations ON May rs.
Trask, chairman of the
boards Home and Farm COM
mittee and a member of its
Courthouse committee, is TIE
second-oldest member of the
commission from a standpoint
of continuous service. Addison
Hewlett, ST., chairman, is COM
plotting his 30th year on the
board.
A farmer in private life,
Trask has been largely instru-
mental in the widespread
county drainage program which
over a period of years, has re-
claimed hundreds of acres of
farm lands from swamp boys.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10

Placing its Sunday coiored
comic section on a pas with
the hest and largest in the ell
tire South, the Star-News today
announces the addition, begin
ming next Sunday, of IL new
comics.
Six of the new Sunday feat
ures will be combinations OF
strips published daily In either
the Morning Star or Whining
ton News. Six others Will be
newcomers to the star-News
family. ,:
Old friends of the Morning
s,s- will be these new Sunday
features: Capt. Easy, Boots ana
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10

ing in the First Presbyterian
chiirch. Rabbi Samuel "A. Fried
=. ~,
man is scheduled to deliver the
principal address.
A dinner meeting at $3.50 o'clock
will launch the mems division par
ticipation in the drive. Dinner Will
/ be served in St. Johns Episcopal
church, followed by an address by
Marion Barnhill, nf j ne d 10
months in German prison camp:
|Barnhill, an ex-Army. captain, will
speak on his experiences and Will
conduct question and answer dis
Continued on Page 4, Column II
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
BOOST IN BUTTER
PRICES PROPOSED
Increase Is Suggested As
Means OF Attaining
Greater Production

=, WASHINGTON, March 9.-WR-
me House Food Investigating COM
mittee tonight proposed a butter
eellng price increase of 6 to IL
cents a pound as a means of in
efeaslng production.
IN report critical Of the Office
VI Prlce Administration, the COM
mlllee recommended that all price
60 over dairy products be
aAen away from OPA and given
" IN, me Agriculture department.
:, me officials of the OPA have
, suO"n little interest in the prob
lsms Of production, and appear to
W guided only by the now-shatter-
W po1cy of holding the line" the
committee said.
IN addition the committee called
wi gradual reduction of dairy SUBJ
sues oa,, beginning July 1 and their
I 1ol4 let elimination by Jan. 1,
t ba T.: Price ceilings, it said, should
49, ,alSed as subsidies are removed
u a4 taken off the industry entirely
nv w. later than the spring of 1872
.evas e report, made public after
i Se.s; delays following a week of
n roat sided with the Depart
dtsa' OF Agriculture in its long I'm
Si Ua fight with OPA over rails
a s,,s, me price of butter to the con
o secretary Of Agriculture Clinton
anderson has for some time
sn urging butter ceiling price
pound. '' OLA CELLS q
will representatives of both agencies
Hn,.n meet Monday to review the
cid a'e committees report and de.
mio vi recommendations to econo.
1A,,( IL. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
%ed Cross Committees
Set For Annual Drive

pad Ie solicitation phase of the 1916
W., w. Gfoss campaign will get under
n.y. MY locally Tuesday with kickoff
div; e'!AgS Of the womans' and mems
p 1s!onS IN the city and county.
vbi uniting toward a goal of Sal, 900,
n.y.: eh Will be divided between the
soro ,ona! and county organizations,
,o1i e 5oO workers will start their
SOLICITATIONS on that day. r,
,So,cAalrmen of the New Hanover
suali'y drive are F. P. o'Crowley
sno,,- marry Solomon. They will
Tx T at both meetings.
N.Y. e "omen's division will hold a
''e'lhg at II o'clock in the morn
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
SUSPICION CLOUDS
THE WORLD SCENE
Relations At Perhaps Low
est Ebb Since Allie d
Victory Over The Nazis
By ALEX HI. SINGLETON
WASHINGTON, March g

WASHINGTON, March y.
-P)-A dark cloud of suspi-
cion hung depressingly over
international affairs t day
with a strong possibility that
it will bring a new meeting
soon of the Big Three chiefs
Of state to clear the air.
With relations at perhaps their
lowest ebb since victory over the
Axis, immediate interest was foe
used upon whether the allies will
attempt an overall settlement Of
their controversies or continue to
try for piecemeal solutions.
Serious Situation
In some diplomatic quarters
here, the stand has been taken that
the situation now is so serious that
the present policy of tackling the
problem at time will serve only
to aggravate the irritations.
But the question of another Brit
sh-Russian-American conference
to iron out current difficulties APP
peared to hinge Immediately upon
who will take the initiative for
calling the conclave.
President Truman acknowledged
yesterday that he was not discoun-
ting the possibility of such a meet
ing, but indicated strongly his feel
ing that it should be in Washington
when and if it is held.
A number of disputes current at
this time would produce long
agenda for such a meeting, among
them:
1. Ita1y-Here the difficulty CEN
tiers chiefly around what should
be done about the big pre-war
Italian colonies. The United States
and Great Britain took the posi-
ton last fall that they should be
placed under United Nations trust
eeship for limited period. Russia
held out for a system of individual
trusteeships, and Unanswered for
control of Tripolitania.
Lodge Protests
2. Iran-both Iran and the United
States have lodged protests at Mos
Continued on Page 2, Column u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10
Jurisdictional Rows
Among Unions Raped

WASHINGTON March 9-R-
Jurisdictional disputes m n
unions were criticized today by the
national mediation board.
In its annual report to congress
the board said such disputes re-
quired too much of its time and
added:
11Most of these disputes would
never have arisen had the organi'
cations involved exerted the same
efforts to agree among them
selves on interunion matters thai
the act enjoins upon carriers ano
employees in the making ano
maintaining Of labor agreements.