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Along The Cape Fear

PEOPLE IN HOUSES - People
who live in glass houses shouldn' t
throw stones.
Conversely, people who live in
stone houses shouldn't throw glass
eS.
On the other hand, however, it
is entirely permissible for people
who live in wooden houses to throw
paperwads-not only permissible
but also, as in our case, productive
of good effects. Maybe.
Last night in our egocentrifugal
rage we threw paperwads all over
our wooden house. They were COM
posed of crumpled letters from
people who wrote, 'Hahaha. Did
you burn your fingers pulling
Chestnuts out of the Mulberry fire?
Hahaha.'
All of them, that is, but one.
ANTI-CLIMAX - Our rage spent,
our tongue hanging out with a
port. list, we slumped back into our
easy-chair. And then we noticed
a paperwad which had lodged it.
self on top of one of the vases we
brought back with us from China.
Just to give ourself an anti-cli-
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Army To Try
Enlistmen
Plan First
General Eisenhower, How
ever, Again Appeals For
Draft Continuation
VARIOUS PROPOSALS
New Plan Would Make Vol
unteering For Services
"More Attractive"

WASHINGTON, April s.
P)- Influential House Mill
tary committee members
Monday reported War de-
partment willingness to COM
promise on a 12-month draft
act extension with q four or
six months ban on inductions.
The Arny's position was disclos-
ed to reporters shortly after Rep
resentative Vinson Cd. Ga.) in
troduced legislation to start a
$4,000 900 enlistment campaign z nd
suspend inductions for six moi. rs
to give it time to be tested.
Eisenhower Appeals
Earlier in the day Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower had appealed once
again to the Senate Military COM
mittee to continue the draft, de-
claring that to end it would be h
gamble with the security Of the
nation and the peace of the world
Both Senate and House Military
committees may vote Tuesday on
various proposals to extend the
law, expiring May Is of this year.
Some members want a straight
away extension, others want in
See DRAFT on Page Two
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mactic liberation, we plucked the
paperwad from the vase, settled
again into the easy-chair, unfolded
the crumpled paper, and, with a
sizeable sheer on our lips, began to
read.
And this is what met our blood
shot eyes!
DEAR CAVALIER Dear Cav
alier Along the Cape Fear 1t was
you, was it not, who wrote of Jenny
Lind receiving roses from old Will
mington SWANS. have an old rare
book catalog which lists the fol-
lowing:
''I'm Weeping Ger My Roses"
by Chester and Mueller. Sung by
Jenny Lind. With lovely full fronts
color-plate of Jenny Lind OH rose
trellissed balcony. 1850. Price 81.
''Now you know Miss Lind must
have been leaning from a rail-
road balcony weeping because she
had to leave Wilmington and the
flower gallants.
"You sound. by the way, like a
young journalist instead of an old
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
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CONSUMER GOODS
CEILINGS LIFTED
OPA Takes Wraps Off
Hundreds OF Items Used
In American Homes

WASHINGTON, April 8-P)tThe
OPA Monday swept price ceilings
from hundreds of consumer items
ranging from dust mops to fly
sWatters. -..--, .-----~
1t also discontinued price cell.
ing on about third of all indus
trial machinery and equipment
h ''most extensive decontrol
action yet taken by OPA," accord
ing to Price Administrator Paul A.
Porter. -.
The OPA described products COW
cred by the consumer order as "of
only minor Importance in living
costs or in the cost of doing bust
ness" 4t
Small Items
These included pocket knives,
curtain rods, garment
bags, coat hangers, clothes drying
racks, ice cream freezers, house
hold WoodenWare, candles, scissors,
brushes, lawn sprinklers. barome-
tiers, thermometers, compasses, de-
nestle jewel watches, billfolds,
compacts, hair pins, soap dispens-
ers, bottle openers and knife sharp
eners.
The OPA said Suspension of cell
lngs on these and scores of other
See CEILINGS on Page Two
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The w leather
WEATHER

North CarolinA-Tuesday, considerable
showers; not much change in tenpera-
ture.
South Carolina-Partly cloudy and
continued warm Tuesday; scattered
showers and thunderstorms north por-
ton in afternoon.
eastern Standard Time)
(By u. 8. Weather BureaD
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1880 am. 80; 1880 am. "a; 1880 pm. 81;
80 pm. 81.
Maximum 10; Minimum SO; Mean "a;
Normal 60.
Humidity
1870 am. 90; 7:3O am. II; / 30 pm.
100; 1880 pm. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30 pm.
-0.96 inches.
Total since The first of the month
0.16 inches.
Tides For Today
(F'rom the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington --- 1852 am. II rs am.
4:25 pm. 1890 pm.
Masonboro inlet = 1:49 am. 8:16 am.
2:26 pm. 1928 pm.
Sunrise SAB; Sunset 6:39; Moonrise
1909 pm; Moonset 2:01 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 8
am. Monday, 9.6 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Two
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And So To Bed

Although he has been IN
Washington, d. c., for several
days, Senior Oswaldo Castro,
whose picture appears on this
page today, ran down Front
street yesterday afternoon with
the speed of the wind.
Accompanied by VILLA m
POurnelle and Henry Capillary,
who also appear in the picture,
and pursued by Star reporter,
Senior Castro started his sprint
at Chestnut street and ended
it a few seconds later in front
Of the Bijou theater.
The original print of the pic
ture, you see, was torn from the
reporters hand by the wind as
he was taking it to the en-
graver.
Now you know why Senior
Castro is sitting down in the
picture. He is smaller than the
other two men-and he Is very
much out of breath.
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AIR AUTHORITY
SICNSC0NTRACT
Group Plans Eventually To
Give Gasoline Service
To Planes Using Field

Another move to make Bluethen-
thai airfield an outstanding COM
mercial airport in the South was
consummated yesterday when the
Wilmington-New Hanover Airport
authority and the local Standard
Oil company signed a gasoline
service contract"
Standard Oil will deliver the gas
oline to the airfield's storage tanks
and the authority will act as whole
sale gasoline dealer to all local
aircraft operators as well as COM
mercial airlines who want to use
the service.
Small Scale
"Of course we're just going to
start out on relatively small
SCALE" Hamilton Hicks, authority
secretary, said yesterday. We'll
begin by selling gasoline to the
Pennington Flying service now at
the field. Eventually, however, we
hope to sell gasoline to all COM
mercial airlines who get leases at
Bluethenthal."
The gasoline storage tanks at the
field hold a total of 257, COO gallons.
There are four Is, OO0-gallon tanks,
four $1,000, one 1880, and one 49,
500. They are complete with pumps
and truckfill stands and are in first
class condition ready to 60 into
operation.
Two Service Tanks
The contract also calls for the
installation of two ''ready-service"
tanks right on the field. Each will
hold 1000 gallons of gasoline-one
for 80 octane and one for 81 octane
fuel.
A small truck will transfer gas
oline from the big storage tanks,
located at the far end of the field
by the railroad tracks, to the
'ready-service" tanks, from which
planes will re-fuel in a minimum of
time.
In addition to the 80 and 81 oc-
tame tanks, Hicks said the authority
plans to install a 100 octane tank
as soon as possible ''to service the
big modern luxury liners" which
are slated to be flying in and out
of Bluethenthal in large numbers
before the year is out.
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nelle, director, Sdlu ySStefua
Eve hope to get finished before
the end of this week." Pournelle
said, and as soon az possible
thereafter We'll disclose the total
population count
To Go To Washington
The mass Of information on
population, labor skills, housing.
etc, will be sent Immediately to
Washington, D. c., for final Off
cial tabulation on electric calcula-
tor machines.
All Wilmington waits eagerly for
those final results-but no more
eagerly than does Senior Oswaldo
Castro.
Senior Castro Is the Ecuadorian
who visited Wilmington last week
10 get IAN enumerator's view OF
the special census In action. He Is
i in Washington now attending a
meeting of the Inter-American
Statistical Institute, of which he Is
member. And he is also there to
be among the first to get the final
results of the census.
Patterned After Wilmington
Ecuador has never had a census,
and Senior Castro wants to give
it one patterned after the census
here.
To this end he has been in Amerl-
ca six months and plans to stay
xix more. He has been studying
census and statistical methods
throughout the nation.
A professor Of statistics at the
University of Quito in Ecuador
benor Castro has also taught the
subject at the University OF Mlchl-
gan.
The census, however, wash t the
only thing about Wilmington which
interested Senior Castro. Like a
true Latin, he fell in love-Wlth
See CENSUS on Page Two
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CHIEF DEBUNKS
SURVEY BY FBI
Casteen Points Out That
Wilmington Has Low
Crime Rating

Chief of Police C. M. Casteen yes
terday .debunked the Federal Blu
reau of Investigation survey which
recently listed Wilmington among
cities with a large total of major
crime activity. He said the fig
ures released were based on the
1910 census,
The surveys per capita rating
gave Wilmington the highest crime
percentage in the nation, reporting
1851 major cases.
Said the chief, sit must be re-
membered since 1910 Wilmington
has increased in population. In
1915 the population of this city had
more than doubled" The increase,
he explained, would place Whining
ton low on the per capita rating.
No Disguise Attempt
Stating that he had never at
tempted to disguise the city's
crime record he added II i.
have always presented a full and
detailed report of every violation,
parking violations.'
Police records for 1915 reveal
that 70 per cent of the major
crimes were committed by Ne
groes. The balance, II per cent,
were charged against the white
of the CITY.
Of six cases of murder in the
community, one was committed by
a white person, and five by Ne
groes.
See CHIEF on Page Two
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BIG FOUR PLANS
TO SPEED FARLEY
Group Expects To Study
Final German Peace Set
Element This Month

WASHINGTON, April 8-P)- A
conference of Big Four foreign
n inisters in Paris late this month
to speed peace settlements with
Germany former European allies
seemed assured Monday light.
Secretary of State Byrnes told a
news conference Monday afternoon
that Russia and Britain already
had agreed to his proposal for
such a meeting, to begin April 25.
France has not yet replied.
French embassy officials assured
a reporter, however, that the de-
lay was mechanical" They said
there was no doubt Foreign
Minister Bidault would fall in line
quickly with Russia's Molotov and
the Byrnes plan.
Doubt About Meeting
There was still plenty Of doubt
Monday night, however, as to when
the 21-Nation European p1ace con-
overwhelmingly scheduled to
start in Paris May 1-could be
convened.
When Byrnes last Thursday dis
PATCHED his proposal for the big
Four meeting April 25, diplomats
internreted il as last minute
move to avert postponement Of the
larger conference, the dead1lne for
which was fixed in the Moscow
Big Three" agreement last Dec
cember.
Monday. however, Byrnes hedged
when asked if he believed the peace
parIev could open on MAY Gay. He
said if the April Is meeting came
See BIG FOUR GU Page Two
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U.S.. WILL OPPOSE RUSSIAN DEMANDS
TO DROP IRAN CASE BEFORE COUNCIL:
: COMPROMISE EXPECTED ON DRAFTPLAN
FOR STATE HOUSE
EDGAR VOW FILES
CANDIDACY HERE

Definite interest was instilled
into the forthcoming Demo-
cratic primary campaign yes
day afternoon when former
Mayor Edgar L. Vow entered
the lists as a candidate for the
House of Representatives from
New Hanover county. Vows
announcement followed close
on the heels of that of Alton
Lennon who filed earlier in the
day for the State Senate race.
Widely Known
A resident of the county for
approximately Is years, Vow
is widely known in business,
legal and political circles and
his announcement came as no
great surprise to his many
friends throughout the county
and southeastern North Caro-
lima. During his residence in
Wilmington, Edgar Vow was in
business from 1925 to 1888 and
for the many years now has
been a practicing attorney.
See VOW ON Page Two
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BUILDING
HITS HIGH MARK
Nearly 100000 In Con-
struction At Carolina
Since September

Carolina Beach construction work
totaling 1894, 408.65 is in a
fair way to doubling the 1915 hous-
ing capacity of the resort town,
a construction survey showed yes
terday.
Permits for the building boom
have all been issued since Sept.
20, 1915 and construction is now
completed or in progress on all
projects.
Increases Capacity
The Royal Palm hotel is in
creasing its capacity by an addi-
ton Of 48 rooms and the installa-
ton of a modern cafeteria on the
ground floor.
Finished product of the boom is
the $50, 600 ice house of the Weeks
and Moss company, Enfield. IN
der construction is another $780,
See BEACH on Page Two
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YMCA OFFICIAL
EXPECTS DRIVE
TO GO OVER TOP

Optimism that the local Y. nj.
C. A. campaign membership
was going over with a bang
was expressed last night on the
eve of its closing.
Clocks now like we're going
to make it," J. B. Huntington,
executive secretary said.
He said that no definite re-
ports have been turned in, but
unofficial figures show that the
top goal of $50 members in
this campaign, is rapidly
nearing, and that the drive will
be an overwhelming success.
There are 1875 workers in the
campaign, initiated several
days ago, and they will make a
complete report of their work
and give the official figures to-
night at the dinner session at
the Y.
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man there were these other devel-
opments in United Nations circles:
l. Iranian Ambassador HusSein
Ala disclosed that he had asked
his home government for further
instructions and awaited its reply,
which may profoundly influence
the Security Council.
Would Accept
2. The Brazilian delegate, DR..
Leao Velloso, declared that while
he opposed the Soviet move sit is
logically up to Iran, and not to
Russia, to ask that 1t be disposed
Of" First to comment, he said
that if Iran requested elimination
of the Russian-Iranian problem
from the agenda 1--WE would have
to accept that petition uncondi-
3. Byrnes, who led the fight
against Russia on the Iranian is
sue, said he would not return to
the Council meetings since he is
for the conference of
the big -Four" foreign ministers
in Paris.
Gromyko's Letter
4. Translated texts of Soviet
Ambassador Gromyko's letter to
Quo Tai-Chi demanding
See IRAN CASE on Page Two
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CITY OFFICIALS
TO CONFER TODAY
ON RATES ISSUE

The city's conference with Of
ficials of the N. C. Utilities
commission concerning Tide
Water Power company's re-
cent rate reduction will take
place in Raleigh today.
Originally scheduled to be held
yesterday, the conference was
postponed till today because
of the funeral of City Council
man Ray Pollock.
City hall closed its doors yes
terday in respect to Pollock,
who died at his home in Sunset
Park after months illness.
The delegation to Raleigh to-
day consists of City Manager
A. C. Nichols, City Attorney
w. b. Campbell, and City
Councilmen Garland S. Cur
rim, Harriss Newman, and w.
e. Yopp.
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eve must lend assistance to
veterans of World War II Who
are now returning from foreign
SOIL" Otis E. Mercer, Chef
de Chemin de Fer, 40 ct eight,
told his radio audience last
night shortly after his arrival
in Wilmington.
Mercer, who is national head
of the 40 ct eight, arrived here
by train at lis yesterday after
noon and was feted at lunch
con at the Cape Fear club, the
guest Of j. Carl Seymour,
Grand Chef de Care. Others in
the party were John Geitner,
Cheminot Rationale, and Ralph
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CROWD MAULS
JAPS' PREMIER
Shidehara Showed Around
By Political Group De-
handing Resignation

TOKYO, April 8 -Ug- Angry
representatives of Japan's popular
front political parties, led by COM
munist. chief Kyaichi Tokuda,
mauled Premier Kijuro Sh;dehara
Monday at the climax of confer
ence in which left wing elements
demanded his resignation.
Cabinet secretaries rushed into
the pushing and showing crowd,
surrounded Shidehara and eased
him from the conference room I'M
harmed. 1t was the second consec-
utive day of political violence
directed against Shidehara and &C.
Cured almost on the eve OF We'd
nesday's historic free election.
Demand Resignation
Sunday, 10000 1eftwing japanese
and Korean demonstrators hurled
rocks at Shidehara's home and de-
manded his resignation in the
sharpest show of political fervor
since the restoration OF free speech
and assembly in Japan. The riot
was quelled only after the arrival
of armed American military police.
After the outbreak a 26-man dele
cation, led by Tokuda, called on
See PREMIER on Pare Two
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WANT A TRIP?

WASHINGTON, April 8.-(R
Better start peering at South
American road maps, you
tourists.
One of these days you'll be
able to drive to Buenos Aires
and other points south.
This promise was made Mon
day by J. l.. Harrison, who
works for the roads division OF
the Federal Works agency.
Ride Down To Buenos Aires
you're going to climb into
your car and drive right to
Buenos Aires" he told
meeting of the American Road
Builders association. land 1t
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WANT A TRIP?
Buenos Aires Auto Ride
Possible In Near Future

won't be any more difficult
than a trip to San Francisco"
Harrison later told a report
er that it's too early to give
tourists an exact date for such
a jaunt. But he figures that
drive to the Panama Canal will
be possible within the next
three or four years.
River Drawback
THE big drawback in the
inter-American highway pro-
gram" he said, ''is the Rio At
ratio, rive, few Americans
ever heard Of"
See TRIP on Page Two
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ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS
10 Et 8 National Head
PAYS Official Visit Here

M. Dowd, Dunn, Guarde de La
Porte Rationale.
"Year of Peace"
Referring to 1916 as 'year
Of peace" Chef de Chemin
de Fer, told his audience, 'the
year will include new adjust
ments and revisions.
'Our country has no more
vital responsibility than its OBJ
legations to the returned vet
Grams. We must restore the sick
and wounded to good health;
we must provide reasonable
security and economic oppor-
See VETERANS on Page Two
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20 PERSONS DIE
in EXPLOSIONS
Ammunition Dumps Go Up
Accidently In French
Indochina City

SAIGON, French Indo-China,
April 8.-P)-An official estimated
that 20 persons were killed and an
equal number were gravely in
jured Monday in a series of trem-
endous, still-uncontrolled explo-
sions in a huge French ammuni-
ton dump en- the northern out
skirts of this city.
The official said the fate Of 100
workmen who were inside the
dump had not been learned. Earli-
er reports indicated that another
so persons suffered lesser injuries
Blasts Continue
The blasts continued into the
night at the rate of one to ten per
throwing the city into a
condition Of near panic. A French
military spokesman said the explo-
sions may not be brought under
full control before two or three
days.
He said casualties might rise
considerably. It was impossible to
check inside the danger area,
which was pelted by shrapnel. The
casualty figure did not include
scores of persons injured by cav
ing roofs and flying glass.
Smashes Doors
The explosions were so great
that the conclusion smashed open
locked doors of the United States
consulate, nearly a mile away. A
number of United States civilians
took refuge aboard the Victory
ship Arthur Penn.
Truckloads of injured, including
See EXPLOSION on Page Two
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VIC DONAHEY DIES
AT HOME IN OHIO

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April s-P)
Vic Donahey, whose political
sagacity and vote-getting wizardry
already had become legend in this
state of turbulent politics, died
Monday at the age of u.
The erstwhile printers devil, who
served Ohio six years as governor
and six as U. S. Senator, sue
cumbed to a rare tropical blood
disease, histoplasmosis capsula-
turn.
DR.. James B. johnson, son-1r-
See DONAHEY on Page Two
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Byrnes Suggests America
May Study Reds Proposal
Dispatches From Tehran Indicate Conflicts
In Official Attitude, But Request To
g." Drop Issue May Be Accepted

NEW YORK, April 8.-(P)-The United States will
oppose Russias demand that the United Nations Security
Council drop the anian case Secretary of State James F.
delegation would be willing to examine the Russian proposal
AS Byrnes stated the American position at con-
ference in Washington after talking with President Trl-
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RAPID PROGRESS
RAPID PROGRESS
Counters Here Nav
Finish Job This Week
Interim Census Work, First Of It's Kind In
World, Studied AS Pattern For
Similar Work In Ecuador

Wimingtons special census the first of it's kind in the
world is running far ahead Of schedule Originally est
mated to run two weeks more it is about 80 per cent
complete after only one weeks operation William B. Pour
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FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity-Much c1o,,s,
ness with scattered showers and th1n
dsrssosans tuesday; not much change
II iaaizni
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See PREMIER on Page Two
Evening star., 1946-03-19
SITUATIONS WOMEN.

AP. NURSE would like work. day or
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iwlt bs or 9ishEEorF Ex 66da pref' Tues Of hrs
an wishes job as personal chamber or
parlor maid or general housework. No
Iaundry md stsy at home In /, NV section, where
Reply, I5os st. NV. between A'usfa. am.
GIRL. colored, wishes Job answering tele-
pnone In ofice or establishment. HO.
GIRL, celored, licensed elevator operator,
Sat. soc hr. .can Me 5sss. 'A. .''
as dental assistant, experieneeda s p0sisifh With
SSnowledge OF bookkeeping; references. Box
GIRL FRIDAY, each day of the week. seeks
responsible and interesting secretarial posi-
ton IN downtown area: uni. grad; short
abe aaa saIsry Ila sah m sypnf 80 dsDend
LEGAL sTENoGRAPHER. native wash
Minstonlan;. ms seeks position in law of1ce.
MEDICAL SECRETARY. experienced. de-
sires part-time position. Box 152-V. Star.
NURSE, colored. trained practical gradu-
ate. desires permanent position, assistant
70 doctor in office: hospital experience.
St San any time Franklin 1907. 20
newspaper, magazine and publishing house
Eork; some radio and teaching. BOX 53-V,
sECRETARY-GEN. OFFICE assistant de-
eires permanent position in small one
girl once where work Is varied; eood
etenofrapher, capable Of taking charge OF
routine work. Box l75-v. Star.