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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
COAST Line WILL
WITHDRAW TRAINS
Sixteen Passenger Units
Serving Branch Lines
To Be Taken Off

Sixteen passenger trains will be
withdrawn from operation by the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in
accordance with General Order so,
issued by the Office of Defense
Transportation. in order to on
serve coal on account of the de-
clining supply incident to the coal
strike, according to an announce
ment issued here late yesterday
afternoon by James B. Sharpton,
Assistant Passenger Traffic Manag-
er of the road.
The trains to be discontinued
provide branch line passenger
service. l. is not contemplated
that there will be any service in
terruption to mainline through
passenger trains.
Diesel's Employed
The relatively small number Of
trains to be discontinued by the
Coast Line, and consequent minor
inconvenience to its patrons, is due
solely to the fact that the elastic
ity of its fleet of oil-burHing die
sci electric locomotives should be
See COAST LINE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Along The Cape Fear

RARE EVENT-It's always a
source of great joy to us to write
about something along the Cape
Fear of y%esteryear, and then have
somebody tell us that we told the
story correctly.
Because it happens so seldom.
One of these rare events happen
ed this week, and we are jumping
up and down with joy hard enough
to bust through that sturdy old
Cape Fear wooden sidewalk on
Red Cross street.
Of course if we were standing on
that venerable thoroughfare right
now we would tread lightly and
politely and do our jumping out
in the sand-and-sawdust street.
But even if we were standing on
it now we probably really couldn't
bust through it anyway, not even
with soccer shoes on our feet.
STUB A SAMPLE-No, we prob
ably couldn't even make a small
dent in it, because it was made OF
long-leaf hard pine planks, Il
inches wide and 2 inches thick.
If YOU don't know how hard hat
snecies of wood is, you just stub
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
|SEAF0OD BY AIR
SLATED BY SEA
$500 Pound Cargo OF Iced
Fish To Be Flown To
Charlotte Today

Two thousand five hundred
pounds of fish, freshly caught from
North Carolina ocean waters, will
be flown from Wilmington to Char
lotte this morning in Wilmington's
first reach into the "fresh fish by
air" commercial market.
The shipment, consisting OF
founder, trout, and mullet packed
with ice in 20-pound metal contain
ers, is being sent to Charlotte At
lantic and Pacific Tea company
stores by R. c. Fergus and Sons.
local fish merchants.
Short Trip
A giant Douglas South East Air.
lines plane will pick up the ship
ment at Bluethenthal airport a
$50 this morning and land it il
Charlotte only two hours and ter
minutes later.
This inaugural commercial ship
ment occurs a scant two weeks ane
one day after another South Eas
Airlines plane flew the first fresf
fish ever to take to the air to Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry in Raleigh
on April "A.
On that day, E. w. Clemmons
commercial fisherman of Wrights
vile Beach, and representatives O.
The Star presented Governor
Cherry with about 10 pounds of fish
newly netted from the ocean.
Speaks for Cherry
Speaking for Governor Cherry
absent from Raleigh yesterday
John Hardin, his secretary, sale
that today's shipment bears ou'
the predictions made by the COVER
nor that a new, important, ane
valuable industry is being added tt
North Cardinals already long lis
of commercial enterprises"
Eldridge Fergus, the man respon'
sible for today's shipment, saic
See SEAFOOD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
COMMITTEE URGES
uSO CONTINUANCE
Civic Leaders, Camp LIE.
jeune Authorities Speak
Before Group

A resolution urging the City
council to appropriate approx
nately $40, 900 in additional funds
to the City Recreation depart
ment for the continuance of USO
facilities here for servicemen was
yesterday passed by the Recrea-
ton Committee of the Community
council.
The appropriation to the Recrea-
ton department for the current
city fiscal year is $23, 900. 1t was
supplemented up until December
81 by approximately $780, 900 from
the federal government.
To Be Closed
Miss Doris Marsolais and
Charles E. Robertson, USO dire
tors, said that the building would
be closed on June 16 by the
National USO organization be-
cause Wilmington is now a "leave
area"
It was explained that a USO
door count showed that 10000
servicemen were using the build
See USO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

your big toe against a.. sample
some time. Or ask Mr.. J. N. Bry-
ant about it.
Mr.. Bryant is the owner Of the
Bryant Lumber company at Hill
ton, and he is the man who in
spected those huge, hard planks
of which the sidewalk was built.
Yes, it is Mr.. Bryant who makes
us jump with joy today, because
he is also the man who told us that
everything we said about the old
wooden. sidewalk was right.
PRIME PINE-Mr. Bryant al
So added a few chapters to the
sideWalk-story that we didn't know.
For example:
The sidewalk was built in 1894
or 1895-Mr. Bryant isn't quite
sure which. But we won't dispute
about one year one way 0 r the
other. No doubt the project Tapped
both years anyway.
Another thing: The planks were
bought from a lumber company in
Cerro Gordo by the Fore and Fost-
er Lumber company, located in
See CAPE FEAR IN Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
CITY SUMMONSED
CITY SUMMONSED
Suburban Residents
Secure Court OrdN
Contract For HOrni Boxes Hit In Pr,
Papers Are Served; Citizens Join '
we'll Company In Court Az

Three residents of Sunset Park
yesterday Joined the Gamewell
company in its order of Intervention
against the city's contract with the
Wilmington Electric Supply COM
pany for Ill Horni fire-alarm
boxes.
They were: Richard H. Davis, S
Central boulevard, manager of
the Coastal Service station; David
H. Craig, 306 Central boulevard,
tlmekeerer with the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad; Leona Col
well James, 604 Central boulevard,
former teacher at Bradley's
Creek school.
Burney Approves
The petition for intervention,
bearing the name of the Gamewell
company as well as the names OF
the three citizens, was approved
by Judge John j. Burney, Su-
perior court, about noon yester-
day.
The summons for the city to
appear in court here for the case
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
MILLS AT ROANOKE
RAPIDS MAY CLOSE
OVER COAL STRIKE

ROANOKE RAPIDS, May 8-(P
Eight textile mills here, employ
ing more than 5000 persons are
making plans to close within three
weeks unless the coal crisis is ale
waited, Mill officials said Wednes-
day.
L. S. Neal, purchasing agent for
mills, reported that the coal supply
now on hand is sufficient for only
slightly more than two weeks op-
Grafton. He said that the coal strike
was also affecting operation of the
mills because he had been notified
that several commodities used in
textile manufa curing would not be
obtainable because of curtailed
railroad operations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
COMMANDERS ARE
TO TELL PUBLIC
Cooperation Crossroads"
Date To Be Placed
Face Up On Tabs

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May 8-(P)-
Orders to Bikini atomic bomb COM
manders "are to lay our cards on
the table" for the American people,
Rear Adm. R. A. F. Sprague told a
news conference aboard his flag
ship carrier the USS Shanghai,
here Wednesday.
The commander of Navy Air IA
cilities assigned to Cooperation
Crossroads added: For the sake
of public safety, hte people must be
fully informed"
Press on Board
Some of the means to be employ
ed in gathering data for evaluatior
of the bombing will be demonstrate
ed Thursday when the Shangri-Ls
makes a test run off the coast from
here with press and radio represen
tatives aboard.
The operation will include the
first public launching from any
carrier of pilotless "Hellcat' figh.
ter planes, controlled entirely by
radio.
Army Drones
These planes and Army "drone'
BIZ bombers will be sent through
See COMMANDERS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Box Derby Rules
To Be Available Soon
Information Booths Will
Be Opened Tomorrow
AT Three Places

Preliminary organization plans
were mapped out late yesterday
afternoon at a meeting at the Will
mington Star-News office for the
1916 Soap Box Derby races which
will be staged here during tae lat
ter part of July under joint spon-
sorship of the Raney Chevrolet
company and the Star-News.
Rules of the Derby competition,
entry blanks and other information
will be available early Friday to
all prospective race pilots at the
Raney shewroozns ON Princess
street, the Brigade Boys club and
the Star-News Office. Owing to the
drastic paper shortage, National
Soap Box Derby headquarters at
Akron, Ohio informed the CO.
sponsors this week that the supply
of books containing rules and regu-
lations governing conduct of the
race, a construction, ETC., will
be inadequate to meet the demand
See SOAP BOX on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
MARITIME GROUP
SELECTS OFFICER
Capt. A. G. Ford Appointed
Chief For Brunswick
River Lay-Up Basin

The U. S. Maritime commission
in Washington yesterday disclosed
retiring commander of the emo
the selection of Capt. A. G. Ford,
missions New London, Conn.,,
training station, as chief officer Of
the Brunswick river lay-up basin
for surplus merchant ships.
Capt. Ford, officials said, will
arrive in Wilmington to assume
active control of the 500-ship pro
ject about June 20, by which time
ships are expected to be routed
into the basin.
Heaquarters at NCSC
The basin chiefs headquarters
may be located in the northern end
of the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company yards, said officials.
Dredging operations in the basin,
it was said, will continue to be
carried on the U. S. engineers, but
Capt. Ford will have charge of the
basin, the storing of ships in it
and operations concerned there
with.
See OFFICER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

Ports authority Tor development
into a port terminal.
The proposal was submitted te
the commission by Congressman
j. Bayard Clark; Governor r.
Gregg Cherry; J.. Melville Brough-
ton, the SPAS counsel; R. B.
Page, SPA chairman; J. T. HERS,
executive general agent of the Will
mington Port commission; and w.
C.. Park, the shipbuilding COM
pany's production superintendent.
Show Interest
"The commission showed a great
deal of interest in the proposal, "
Broughton said, land we feel very
much encouraged about the pros
pect of its fulfillment."
Under the proposal the commits
sion would turn the shipyard over
to the State of North Carolina upon
completion of present Maritime
contracts this fall. The SPA would
then act as agent for developing
See SHIPYARD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

Dy Lne railroads nave DeeL ldlQ OIL
as a result of the strike.
The Civilian Production admin
istration. seeking to prevent "col-
lapse of essential services urged
utility companies to ration electri.
city drasticaIly in states east OF
the Mississippi river and in Mime
sofa. Iowa and Missouri.
In Two Stages
CPA proposed that the rationing
system be put into effect In two
stages:
1. Prohibition of electricity for
advertising, display lighting, al
heating, air conditioning, places
of amusement and progressive cur
tailment of commercial and indus
trial usage on a percentage or
hours-of-use basis.
2. Prohibition against all uses
except for public health and safety,
hospitals, food processing and
other essential community serv-
ices.
Break Now Due
With the paralyzing effects of
the fuel shortage spreading rapidly
throughout the economic system,
it became apparent that some sort
Of break would have to come
soon.
But there was yet no change in
the stalemate negotiations between
John l.. Lewis and mine operators.
mo progress" was the report on
the days talks.
Senators Busy
A group OF Congress members
moved for quick action or strike
control legislation. Senator East
land O-Miss) announced to the
Senate that he and others would
See COAL On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
GOVERNMENT PUTS
GRAIN CEILING UP
Raise On Corn Amounts To
Is Cents; Effective AT
Midnight, May Is

WASHINGTON, May 8. m
The government announced Wed
nesday increases of Is cents a
bushel in the ceiling price OF corn.
Is cents for wheat, 5 cents for oats,
9 cents for barley, 10 cents for rye,
and 10 cents per hundred pounds FOR
grain sorghums.
The increases become effective
at 1901 a. m, May Is and will ap-
ply to grain now in the hands OF
producers and grain to be har-
vested this year.
Joint Statement
The increases were announced
in a joint statement by the offlce
of Economic Sterilization, the Agrl-
culture department and the once
of Price Administration.
The purposes of the price mixes
we're listed as:
See GRAIN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
YOUTH WHIRLS
YOUTH WHIRLS
Writer Complains
About Men, Dancing Craze

MOSCOW, May 8. IRA letter
complaining that a dancing craze
from hot fox trots to gliding
waltzes-is sweeping Kazan was
published prominently today in the
Soviet youth newspaper, Komsomol-
skaya Pravda.
The writer, Y. Timofeyev, de-
clared that sometimes the dancers
did not even wait to take off their
overcoats, and also smoked ciga-
rettes while whirling about tightly
packed dance floors.
Posters Galore
He said he was not against dane
ing. but asserted he could find
so posters daily in Kazan announc-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Peace Treaty
Task May Go
To Nations
Secretary OF State Pro
poses Conference For
June IS Or Earlier
MOLOTOV OPPOSED
American Delegation Re.
calls Peace Pledges
Made AT Moscow

PARIS, May 8.-R-U. S. Sec
rotary of State James r. Byrnes
proposed abruptly Wednesday
night that the conference Of
Foreign Ministers recognize its
failure to agree on terms for Eu'
ropes peace treaties and refer
their differences to a 21-natior
peace conference June Is.
The ministers conference ap.
peared to be breaking up in dis
cord between the Soviet Union and
the western powers, and 4 member
Of the American delegation said
that while it probably would last
into next week, there seemed little
hope Of resolving the major diff
ferenees.
Molotov Demurs
Byrnes' proposal won prompt
support from both Foreign Secre-
tary Ernest Bevin Of Britain and
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
of France. But Soviet Foreign
minister yyaeheslav M. hseaetoy
demurred.
cat Moscow" Byrnes was quot
ed by an American source as say
ing, "There was a promise TO the
world that we will have a peace
conference. We must carry out
that promise. That will be the
best celebration the world can
have on We Day"
Pledges Made
American sources said Byrnes
cited as the American position a
pledge by the Moscow conference
last December by the Big Three to
the French - that the European
peace conference would be no
rubber stamp but would have
the real purpose of advising the
major powers. Thus, Byrnes was
said to have pointed out, there was
no real need for the Foreign
Ministers to achieve complete &C
cord. Listing the points of dis
See PEACE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
And So To Bed

Two elderly, well-dressed citi-
Zens stood in front Of a Front
Street haberdashery the other
afternoon.
"I'Il bet you," said the first.
"that / can"
"Two-to-one says you can't"
replied the second.
"TwO-tO-one?" said the first.
every well, sir. I'll take that"
They sealed the bet by shak-
ing hands.
Then the first elderly man
took a pitchers stance, reared
back in his sober blue serge
suit, and threw the cardboard
ring from a hat box across
Front street. 1t missed ringing
the radiator ornament on a
parked car by inches.
"Pshaw," said the first man.
"Pay me, SIR" said the sec
Ond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Meat SLAUGHTER
CONTROL WIDENS
0PA Extends Order To
Dressed Lambs, Sheep,
Yearlings

WASHINGTON, May 8.-P)-
OPA Wednesday ordered an ex-
tension Of meat slaughter con-
trolls in another effort to curb
black markets.
The new order, effective May
10, applies to live and dressed
lambs, yearlings and sheep.
It is not as broad as the regu-
lation effective April %, which
restricts the slaughter of virtually
all cattle, calves and hogs in or
der to divert livestock to larger
packing houses.
Custom Slaughtering
The new measure covers only
the custom slaughtering of lamb,
yearlingS and sheep. Custom
slaughterers butcher fer a fee ami
mails owned by another person.
See MEAT On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
COAL STRIKE MAPS
GIVE THIS READING
AS OF WEDNESDAY

By The Associated Press
The 39-day-old bituminous
coal strike chart gave these
readings Thursday:
Idle: Unemployment figures
soar past 500, 900 with work.
ers in related. industries join
ing AS, 900 idle soft coal min
ers at accelerated pace.
Settlement: None in sight.
Miners: Quiet returns to
strike front after flare = up
which killed one and wounded
six Tuesday in Harlan County,
Ky.
Automobiles: Chrysler and
General Motors watch situation
See MAPS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
DOING WELL
Siamese 7wins, Mother
Now In Good Condition

mortality rate in such cases is
high.
Their combined weight at birth
was 8 pounds 4 ounces.
Twins were expected, the ply
sician said, but until delivery he
had no intimation of any unusual
circumstances.
Two Brothers
The father, A. Nurse, is a logger
at Deep River, a small community
near the mouth of the Columbia
river. There are two other chill
dren, boys of about 3 and 2, DR.
Springer said.
See SIAMESE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

hearing OH Monday, M !as
se~ved on Mayor W. Roma lane
shortly after five o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
Prevent Damage"
In joining the Gamewell COM
pany in its Intervention order,
the three citizens say that, as
city taxpayers, they believe the
city's contract for the Horni boxes
should be declared null and void
''to prevent irreparable damage"
to the taxpayers of Wilmington
and "to protect public funds, "
and because it is contrary to the
provisions of state law" and "con-
trary to the specifications" drawn
up by the city.
The petition was drawn up by
Rountree and Rountree, Whining
ton attorneys.
No Comment
Col. Royce McClelland and
Vaughn Allen. GameweI attorneys,
See COTlRT ORDER m Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

ing dances and not M announcing
lectures, literary or musical eve
nings. Kazan is by the Volga, $50
miles east of Moscow.
C%riticizing the youth organization
for not turning attention to the
dancing craze, Timofeyev gave
this report:
Until They Drop
At every step there are posters
advertising dances-in movie house
foyers, in halls. in theaters and
in the circus a~rena-with notations
that dancing will continue until 2
or 4 a. m. or until you drop"
See CRAZE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
DOING WELL

PORTLAND, Ore, May 8.-Pe
siamese twins, joined near the
base of their spines, were porn
here Tuesday and are I'm no I'M
mediate danger" DR.. Joseph V.
Springer, who delivered them' re-
vealed Wednesday.
He said the mother, Mrs. Mary
Nurse. 26, Deep River, Wash, is
in good condition and the twins
both girls. are taking nourlsn-
ment.
Reserves Comment
DR.. Springer would not com
vival, saying only that their pres
ment on the twins chance Tor sur
emit condition is good but that tne
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
The w Gather

FORECASTS
South Carolina and North Cardinal
Thursday, fair and slightly warmer.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Burear)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p.m., yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1870 am, So; 1880 am, 81; 1870 pm, s.
1880 pm, "a.
Maximum II: Minimum 81; Mean 66
Normal SO.
HUMIDITY
1870 am, 80; 1880 am, 81; 1870 pm, 81
1870 pm, 81.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3o pm
o.00 inches.
See WEATHER on Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
GOVERNMENT EMERGENCYCOALS STOCK
DWZNDLES TO MERE l2-HOUR SUPPLY:
<BYRNES RECOGNIZES MEETING FALL Rl
Over 400, 900 Idled
Bv Miner Walkouts
CPA Urges Utility Companies To Ration
Electricity; Congressional Group
Moves To Control Strikes

WASHINGTON, May 8*-AP)-The coal strike crisis
moved rapidly Wednesday night toward perhaps the most
momentous showdown in the country's peacetime history
as the government warned that its emergency coal stocks
available for public distribution are less than the nation
normally would consume in IL hours.
simultaneously, the Association of American Railroads
announced that 400, 900 men employed in industries served
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
CITY MAKES BID
CITY MAKES BID
Shipyard Transfer
Viewed F~auorably'
Cherry Says State Prepared To Spend ST.,
O00,O 0O On Project; Drydock Con-
struction Also Proposed
Star Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. C, May S.-(SPECIAL TO THE
STAR)-Wilmingtons bid to become one of the outstand-
ing seaports of he Atlantic Seaboard was considerably
strengthened on Wednesday when the U. S. Maritime COM
mission reacted every favorably" to a proposal that the
commission transfer the North Carolina Shipbuiding COM
panv's nroperty and facilities to the North Carolina State
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

See WEATHER on Page Two
Evening star., 1946-10-01
Meat Situation Seen
||ntensifying hardships
I'm Shoe Manufacturing

Besides being red-hot political
issue throughout the Middle West,
the meat tussle between the Gov
ernment and the cattlemen may
prove a greater hardship on the
manufacturers Of by-products, such
as shoes, than on butchers and meat
hungry shoppers, Frank Hawkins,
secretary of the Retailers Associa-
ton of Oklahoma, told delegates at
the American Retail Federation
Conference yesterday at the Hotel
Statler.
Later in the day, at a meeting of
the Women's National Press Club,
Roy l.. Thompson Of the Price De-
control Board told the Women's Ma
tional Press Club that the Meat Ad-
visory Commission will petition the
Secretary of Agriculture next week
for decont-ol of meat.
We've got plenty Of meat in our
stores in Oklahoma" Mr.. Hawkins
said in questioning Mr.. Thompson
who also appeared at the retailers
conference. "The law lets the farm
ers handle 5000 pounds for the
market every six months. The
trouble is that the meat isn't going
through channels and the waste is
tremendous.
Mr.. Thompson said he believed
there would be a sufficient leKeline
off of feed prices to permit cattle
men to sell their beef and other
meat animals at usual profits. He
said the record for cattle was about
50 600, 900 head and that there are
now about 10000, 900.
Mr.. Thompson defended the Au-
gust 20 decision to return livestock
and products to ceilings by saying
that given the same facts upon
which to come to a decision, we
should make the same decision
again."
He said the board took a seasonal
view in its picture of the livestock
industry and that on such a basis
there was short supply" Of beef
animals at that time.
The frames were out there on
the land, but the meat wasn't on
them" he said.
Subjects for discussion this after
noon include an address by Ray
Henle, political analyst and radio
commentator of Mutual Broadcast
ing System on Business Stake in
the 80th Congress.
Evening star., 1946-10-01
Talk by Toledo Editor
Opens News Seminar
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. with a key
note Of greater understanding and
informed selectivity" Of news articles
for the Nations newspapers, rs
managing editors and news editors
opened the first seminar Of the
American Press Institute at Co
lumbia University yesterday.
The editors are the first of several
groups selected from newspapers
from coast to coast who are meeting
to exchange ideas on covering news
and to discuss social, economic
and political trends Of the day
Grove Patterson, editor of the
Toledo Blade, directed the first
days dicussion among the editors on
the subject, 'The Newspapers rela-
| ton to Civic Planning and to the
Future of the Community"
He said he saw newspapers mis-
sion as being divided into four Inn
portant phases: Cd Editorial opin-
ions; % objective news; 90 other
news and entertainment; "a service
to the community where the news
paper Is published.
Mr.. Patterson urged editors to do
more about public relations for their
newspapers, saying:
The success Of public relations
! lies In building up confidence to the
point where the readers, even when
I! they do not agree with the news
papers, will have confidence in the
editor for his sincerity"
The institute will meet In closed
session for the remaining seminars.