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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
TW0FACET TRIAL
IN JEWEL THEFT
Edward Hagan And Wife
Held After Hearing In
Recorders Court

Waving preliminary hearing be-
fore Judge H. Winfield Smith in
Recorders court yesterday, Ed
ward Hagan and his wife, Irene,
charged with stealing ievelry from
the home of Mrs. j. w. Rose
borough. LOT North Seventh street,
December IA, 1913, were ordered
bound over to Superior court for
trial, probably at the forthcoming
criminal term beginning August 10.
A diamond ring, repeatedly re-
covered from a pawn brokerage
store here, and a wrist watch, said
to have been worn by the woman
when she was arrested this week,
will be used as evidence against
the pair.
The robbery is alleged to have
been perpetrated by Hagan while
he was moving furniture from the
Roseborough home. AT which time
he was working for a transportation
company.
The two prisoners, who are being
held under $1,000 bond each, were
arrested in South Carolina. They
were returned to Wilmington by
City Detective E. B. Murray and
Harry Fales, manager of the Con-
solidated Bureau of Identification,
accompanied by County Solicitor
James C. King,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
CHURCHES SEEKING
HIGH LEVEL UNITY
Protestant Leaders Want
To Act Jointly With
Catholics

LONDON, Aug. 8. -P)E Protes-
tant leaders of eight nations disclos-
ed tsday they favored joint action
on world problems by protestants
and Roman Catholics, based upon
"some kind of satisfactory under
standing at the highest level. pre-
sumably between the world council
of churches and the Vatican"
Replies to a QUESTIONABLE on
policy of the world council pointed
up a protestant plan to seek col
laboration with the Roman Catho-
lie church in putting a world
Christian viewpoint on peace prob
lens before the statesmen OF the
world. The announcement said
that, unless some high level agree
ment was reached, the extent of
cooperation would fluctuate with
changing personalities and you
never know where you are"
The views were released by DR..
Walter w. Van Kirk of New York,
secretary of the federal council of
churches of Christ in America who
came here with a dozen other
American leaders under the spon-
sorship of the world council. The
meeting opens tomorrow at Cam
bridge.
The QUESTIONABLE was answered
by representatives Of protestant
bodies from the United States, Eng
land, Scotland, Canada, Australia.
New Zealand, Denmark and the
Netherlands. In order to encourage
candid replies, names were not dis
closed.
One reply, referring to reflections
with the Vatican, said that Coop
GRAFTON with Roman Catholic bodies
seem difficult" This reply noted
that cooperation with Jewish
bodies has increased
Another said that collaboration
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
FORGOTTEN STRIKE
STILL DRAGGING ON
Companies Manufacturing
Farm Machinery Idle For
Many Months

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug. 3 -
WG- Two of the longest strikes
in the nations history dragged on
M,nday, almost forgotten by
everyone but the strikers, the
companies, the government and
farmers who need new machinery.
Born in the postwar strike wave
last year, the two Walkouts have
disrupted production Of farm
equipment in plants throughout
the middle-west and have made
idle about 20, 400 workers.
The companies affected are
AlIis = Chalmers manufa curing
Co., and J. I. Case Co. The unions
involved are the CIO United Au-
tomobile workers and the CLIO
United Farm Equipment workers.
Both struck to support demands
for 80 per cent wage increases.
The two strikes have cost work
ers more than $40, 600, 900 in wages
and have deprived the nations
farmers thousands of units of
equipment needed to plant and
harvest their crops.
The unions have remained firm
in determination to carry the
strikes through to their objec-
tiVes, AT Detroit next week, Presi-
dent Walter P. Reuther of the
powerful Jaw will present to the
unions executive board a pro-
gram for intensifying the walk
outs and Fastening their end.
Reuther came here this week to
confer with striking locals. He
indicated that his strategy would
include joint action by the auto
workers and the farm equipment
workers.
AT their International convention
this week. the farm equipment
workers voted their leadership
authority to take any steps nee
esSary 10 bring the strike to a
successful conclusion"
Inc governments most recent
settlement attempt was made in
me case walkout early this week.
oecretary of Labor Lewis B.
ScAWellenbach and Secretary of
agriculture Clinton P. Anderson
conferred with President Truman.
Then they asked the company
ana union to join them in a con-
ference designed to break the
S'alemate and reneu negotiations.
broken off almost four months
ago The invitation was accepted
by Lawrence Carlstrom, interna-
Nonai representative of the Jaw.
case president l.. R. Clausen,
however, declined on grounds that
me conference would serve no
purpose. He charged that the sec
'eIary Of labor had interfered with
assumption of negotiations by
threatening government seizure
VI Inc company's plants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
SANTA MARCARITA
DELIVERY SLATED
Scheduled To Be Turned
Over To Grace Line To-
morrow Afternoon

The S. S. Santa Margarita, third
of six Santa ships built or near
ing competitor by the North Car
DINA Shipbuilding company for
the Grace Line, of New York, will
be delivered to the owners to-
morrow afternoon, P. F. Halsey,
vice-pre 5ident and general mana
ger of the shipyard, said yester-
day.
The vessel under went sea trials
Friday. After "a successful trip,
Captain Ted Peters, returned her
to the yard about 5 o'clock and
officials pronounced her ready
for delivery.
Following delivery, the S. S.
Santa Margarita will sail for
New York Tuesday, Halsey said.
Upon arrival there, she will be
placed in drydock to receive a
coat of paint and the Grace Line
colors. This type of work cannot
be done here because the ship
yard does not have drydock faci-
lities.
Keel of the S. S. Santa Margar-
tia was laid October 20, 1945, and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
CHINESE REDSSAY
U. 5. BOMBS USED
Declare Liberator Bomber
Thunderbolt Fighter
In Attack

NANKING, China, Aug. 3.-NH-
The Communists charged today
that six thunderbolt fighter planes
and one liberator bomber dropped
IL Amerlcan-made bombs vester-
day upon their Army headquarters
at Wangchiaping, inside the Com
munist capital Ooyenan.
Twenty minutes after the bombs
fell, the Communists said, the
planes returned and straffed the
city OF 81 $1,000. They claimed that
an examination of fragments of
the bombs showed they we're manu-
featured in the United States.
The Communists did not mention
casualties, or the nationality of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
GREENSBORO CRASH
TAKES THREE LIVES
Car And Trailer Tr1ck Col
Tide, Bus Overturns;
Many Hurt

GREENSBORO, Aug. s. B-
Three persons were killed, one cri-
tically hurt, four seriously injured
and at least IL others sustained in
jury about 2 pm. today in a crash
of a passenger car and trailer truck
and the overturning of a Carolina
railways bus, loaded with 43 pas
sengers, about six miles west of
Greensboro on the High Point road,
State Highway Patrol Sgt. w. W.
Stone reported.
Sergeant Stone listed the dead as
S. Robb Keener, Kingston, Pa,
district manager of Farm Bureau
Mutual Automobile Insurance COM
pany, Roscoe C. Medley, Dalton,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
City, County Tax Rates
Remain At Old Levels


The city's tax rate of $1.35 and
the county's levy of go cents per
hundred dollar property valuation
will be maintained in the respec-
spective 1946-1947 budgets of ST.
851 1000 and 81, O49, 318, it was learn
ed yesterday, the combined $1.95
tax rate having been considered
sufficient to meet the expenditures
tentatively approved by both gov
ernments.
Both the city council and the
board of county commissioners
will meet Monday morning at 10
o'clock, the council converting in
the city hall and the board of COM
missioners in the courthouse. to
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
TRULY RILEY WINS
i'm BEAUTY CONTEST
Mary Jarman, Wilmington,
Ties For Third Place
Al Wilson

WILSON, Aug. 8 LIP Miss
Trudie Riley of Wilson was crown
ed Miss North Carolina here to-
night, winning the right to rep
resent the state in the Atlantic
City national pageant in Septem-
Der.
Betty Brewer, Rocky Mount,
was second in the contest, while
Mary Jarman, Wilmington, and
Avis Warlick, Kings Mountain,
tied for third place in the com
pletion sponsored by the Junior
Chamber Of Commerce chapters
in N. C.
Candidates were chosen, accord
ing to regulations of the national
contest at Atlantic City. During
the afternoon they presented tai
ent showings of singing, recita-
tions, dancing, and piano recitals.
Tonight they appeared in evening
gowns and regulation bathing
contests.
Judges disqualified Suan Uhl of
High Point this afternoon when it
was learned that she was only II
years old. Rules require that all
beauty queens must be 10 years
old.
Highlighting this afternoons
talent show were the son-and-
dance routine of Evelyn Totherow
of Asheville; a Dorothy Parker
rendition by Betty Brewer of
Rocky Mount; a song by Avis War
lick of Kings Mountain, and Ball
room dancing by Trudie Riley of
Wilson, along with the Henry Earl
Tunstall, also of Wilson.
Dorothy johnson of Winston
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
truman tho For Good
New OF Purge'Attempt

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 3 -
W. President Truman came
"olne today to see how the first
purge attempt by a President
SINCE 1898 was making out as
wholesale designations of election
oiIlelals in the contested Fifth
congressional district posed a
UIlical election problem.
lhe president was seeking to
snfnlnate Rep. Roger C. Slaught-
a. The Democratic incumbent in
we fifth district. But The presi-
ven! won't be able to vote for his
.no-ce in the race, Enos A. AK
,el, because the summer White
mouse is in the first district,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
CTS Assume Control
OF Tennessee County
Smash Slot Machines, Rush
For Gun Permits To
Enforce Reign
By WARREN DUFFEE

ATHENS, Tenn. Aug. 3-U.R-
Volunteer law enforcement repre-
sentatives of the victorious CTS
seized and smashed all slot-ma-
chimes in tae county today and
more than 800 ex-servicemen and
local citizens rushed the courthouse
for permits to carry weapons to
enforce their new reign on the
county government.
Men were lined up three deep
registering Tor permits and some
were carrying shotguns and rifles
while waiting in line, following a
rumor late this afternoon that sher-
if Pat Mansfield of McMinn county
was returning to claim his office
from which he was .dethroned in
Thursday lights rioting that left
20 men wounded.
The local voluntary law enforce
ment committee has ruled that
everyone must obtain a permit
to carry a weapon.
Volunteer deputies seized slot
machines and punchboards and
later smashed them against the
iail that was battered from the
hail of bullets after the election
Thursday.
Money from the machines was
impounded in the county vault
until a sheriff. was installed to
handle it.
The Rev. Bernie Hampton, who
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
BORDER BELT LEAF
PRICES STAY HIGH
All-Time Record Averages
Set For Better Flue-
Cured Tobacco
BY The Associated Press

All-time record price average
for the better qualities of flue-
cured tobacco on the border belt
markets was the most significant
news of the first week of sales,
according to the federal-state
marketing news service.
Practically all the better quality
of grades of tobacco was up from
So to $18 per hundred over the first
three days of sale recorded last
year, the marketing service point
ed out.
Most of the inferior leaf showed
losses of from 81 to $23.75. Gains
of the choice leaf ranged from $11
to SIG per hundred, the service
figures showed. Choice orange
Tugs were up $18, but the lower
quality grades dropped from 81
for fair orange to $23.75 for best
thin n~ondescript.
Since there was an unusually
small proportion of the inferior
tobacco offered and since there
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formally adopt their respective
budgets. After adoption, 20-day adj
vertising period is required, but
the budget is retroactive to July 1.
j. R. Benson, city manager, said
yesterday afternoon that the coun-
Gil will give further consideration
to the proposed appropriation for
the Recreation department.
Jesse Reynolds, Recreation sup
erintendent, has asked the council
for a total of $43, 900 for his de-
partment for the current fiscal
year, but the councilmen seemed
Continued on Page 4; Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
ds'
War Profits
Probe Asked
Sen. Taylor Charges Rail
Companies Guilty OF
Overcharges
FREIGHT ISSUE
High Army And Navy Off
GERS Implicated In Let
ter To Mead
FREIGHT ISSUE
BY ROBERT J. MANNING

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. -W.D-
Charges that American railroads
made millions in overcharges for
shipping U. S. war goods while
operating behind an unctuous
facade of self-righteousness' were
handed to the Senate War ~Investi-
eating committee today oy Sen.
Glen H. Taylor, D., Ida.
Taylor claimed that "a stupen-
dous amount of federal funds was
disbursed "heedlessly and reckless
ly' by railroad men who during
the war wore the uniform of the
Army and Navy to negotiate
freighD rates with their former
and future employers"
There is a question whether the
close connection which these men
enjoyed with the carriers limited
their zeal in representing the gov
ernment,' he said in a letter 70
committee chairman James M.
Mead, D., N. Y.
The case also involves thigh of
ficers of the Army and Navy
Taylor said. He urged Mead to
bring the freight rate case into the
Senate war profits inquiry.
At the same time Taylor asked
the Budget bureau to authorize a
Justice department court action to
recover 1.-THE many millions of the
public's dollars -. . squandered in
overpayments."
The farflung wartime enterprises
of Henry j. Kaiser also were sug-
gested as a subject for the Mead
committee by Sen. Styles Bridges,
R., N. H, Bridges said he would
ask the committee to investigate
how Kaiser. whom ne called "lhe
coddled darling of the New Deal, -
spent millions loaned to him by the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton for War Production projects.
The New Hampshire Senator,
said, however, he would defer his
request for the inquiry until later
because of the committee over
loaded agenda.
Mead recessed the public war
profits hearings until Sept. 1 to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
First Surplus Ships
Due Here In DAYS
New Building Permits
Total $4,000 Here

The total cost of construction
involved in permits issued dur
ing July by Gilbert F. Morton,
City building inspector, was
$110, 100, or $500 under the total
construction costs here during
June.
The building inspector said
that the largest single contract
involved in the permits was that
of O'Crowley's Dry Cleaners,
which will erect a modern plant
at Seventeenth and Dawson
streets, costing SAG, 600.
Five condemned buildings
were demolished during the
month, Inspector Morton said.
Two structures were repaired.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04

The Sacred Cow" the presi-
dents plane, landed at the Grand
view airport at 1904 p. m. (CST)
he and the First Lady were met
as the plane stopped by Miss Mar
garet Truman, their daughter;
Fred Canfil, U. S. Marshal, and
Vivian Truman, the Presidents
brother.
The first family stopped brief
ly at Grandview home of Mrs.
Martha Truman. the Presidents
93-old mother, and then moved on
to independence where a reception
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L. S. Says Red Soldiers
Confscated Secret Data

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 5.
U. S. Army announced
tonight that two of the three Rus
sian soldiers recently released by
U. S. authorities in Berlin had
forced German employees of the
Army to deliver secret American
documents and had engaged in
'Clandestine activities" in the u.
S. sector.
At the same time in Berlin, the
three soldiers in question charged
that they were treated like crimi-
nails" during their detention in the
American zone, and that the Ameri-
cans attempted to force one of
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04

them "to betray his country and
become an American citizen"
Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert, chief
OF U. S. intelligence in Europe,
said the two officers, Its. Sedov
and Schulkin, were wearing civil
ian clothing when they and their
driver, Pvt. Kuznetsov, were ar
rested in the American sector of
Berlin. Sibert said these were the
charges:
Engaging in Clandestine activi-
ties in the U. S. sector of Berlin.
Forcing German employees of
the U. S. Army to deliver CLASH
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
LEGION REPORTS
ON AID TO VETS
Advisors Record Shows
Aid Accorded To 2,582
Veterans In Year

A report of the veterans ad-
visor of Wilmington post No. 10,
American Legion, for the 12-month
period extending from July l., 1915,
to June 80, 1916, shows that the
Legion's Veterans center that is
conducted in the American Legion
home at Third and Dock streets,
gave service to 1882 veterans.
The tabulation, which was re-
leased yesterday afternoon by Will
liam K. Stewart, post commander,
shows that the services rendered
Continued on Page 2: Column A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
WEATHER

North Carolina Considerable clo,,di-
ness with scattered showers and th,,n.
dershowers and continued quite warn
sunday. Monday partly cloudy and
slightly warmer, scattered afternoon
thundershowers.
Evening star., 1946-11-03

Without her, the big ships can't
move in Boston Harbor. If you'd
like to hear some tall and salty
tales, step into the wardroom
AWAY out on the fringe of Boston Harbor
IA there is speck of a sailing schooner with
tiny rowboat tied on behind. Three hundred
and sixty-fve days out of the year she bobs
around in the waves her decks baked by the
sun in the summer and sheeted with ice in the
winter
If you sight her from the rail of an incoming
ocean liner she looks far from important
Just another fishing boat" you say to your
self But to your surprise, the liner steams up
close to her. toots its whistle, clangs its bells
and churns to dead stop
Across the water, three men appear on the
deck of the schooner and Chamber into the
rowboat. If there's a heavy sea, it's an excit-
ing thing to watch them row through 2O-foot
waves to the liner.
It's the Pilot
WHEN they finally bobble alongside, rope
ladder is dropped and a man in long over
coat and slouch hat swings onto it like a
monkey. He climbs up to the deck. greets the
captain and straightway gives orders for the
ships engines to start up again.
Now you can proceed into the harbor
You've picked up your pilot, and he'll take
your boat safely through the winding chan
nels to her berth.
The little schooner that soon disappears
behind in the distance IS the Boston Pilot
Boat. In the past 40 years. perhaps 100000
big ships have obedienty stopped at her side.
1t is literally true that for lack of that
Pilot Boat, and the little rowboat tied on
behind, all shipping in this great port
would come to a standstill.
If you boarded the Pilot Boat and squeezed
down the narrow companionway to the ward
room you'd find breed of sailormen differ
ent from any others in the world. They've
been at sea from dozen to 40 years, but some
have never sailed out of Boston Harbor They
don't look much like salts They're dressed in
ordinary business suits, and as they sit
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-10-17
New Platters on Hand
For Teen-Agers Dance

A 1--WE feast will be waiting for
Rainbow and teen-ager jitterbugs
of all types at the Rec hall Satur-
day night, Recreational Director
Ray Fades said today.
Forty-one new recordings have
been added to the Rec Hall library
many of them long sought by the
dancers, he continued. They will
be on hand and ready to play
when the dance opens.
Our teen-age dances are in
creasing in popularity every week.
Fades says, land we look upon
them as one of the most successful
developments of our recreational
program. We are going to contin-
ue our policy of providing enter
talnment for youth between the
hours of 4 and 1870 pm, and we
are going to keep on cooperating
with parents of the city by closing
our dances promptly at 1870 pm"
Strict adherence to the colsing
hour policy, Eads points out,
makes it possible for youth to
avoid unduly late homecomings
from the dancing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-10-17
Business Women
Meet In Richland

In observance of National Bus
mess Women's week, Mrs. Nell
Laws of Seattle, president of the
Washington State Federation of
Business and Professional Women
clubs, was speaker at a meeting
Of the Richland club at the Recrea-
ton Hall on Tuesday evening. The
general theme of the weeks OBJ
Servance is Lets Work Together
For Better Communities" and
Mrs. Laws stressed the import
ance of such club projects as reg
istration of women voters, the eS-
Establishment of a women'S unit of
International Student House at the
University of Washington, and
legislative measures for the bet
terment of women.
Mrs. Pearl E. Pontius, a past
president of the Seattle club, and
Mrs. Eva Barclay Taylor, Seattle
member, accompanied Mrs. Laws
on the trip which includes visits
TO clubs in Wenatchee, Spokane,
Colville, Sunnyside, RitZville, Wal
la Walla and Richland.
Groups from the Prosser and
Pascc clubs attended the Richland
meeting. Those attending from
Kennewicl were Mrs. Emil Behr-
man, Mrs. J. G. Pratt, Miss Marga-
ret Hawkins and Miss Florence
Oliver.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-10-17
Apparel Shop Opening
Planned for Wednesday

Kennewick'S active business
district will be extended by the
length of another store front next
Wednesday, when Helen Hardy
and Edith Houtrouw open their
Pink Cameo at the corner of Ken
newick Avenue and Dayton street.
I'VE are preparing TO offer a
full line of ladies and teen-age
misses wearing apparel" they an
nounce with particular attention
to dresses and sportswear."
Helen Hardy was associated for
8 years with Whipples, an exclu-
sive ladies ready to wear store in
Salt Lake City. Recently she has
been with the Style Center in
Richland. Edith Houtrouw has
been associated with the Style
Center for the past two years.
1--WE have been getting ready
for this opening since spring." they
explain land it is our intention
to present new and distinctive
lines of clothing within the pur-
chasing power of the average GUS
TONER"