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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
RAILROAD GROUP
TO CONVENE HERE
ACL Will Be Host To Ad-
visory Committee And
Treasury Division

The Atlantic Coast Line rail,
road, through P. Nichols, its
treasurer, will be host to the ad-
visory committee, treasury divi-
sion, Of the Association of Ameri-
can Railroads when it meets here
Friday and Saturday for its regu-
lar business session.
The two-day meeting will mark
the first time the group has ever
met in the south, according to
ACL officials. And for all but two
members of the committee, it will
be the first trip to Southeastern
North Carolina.
Composed Of treasury officers OF
the various railroads throughout
the nation, and AAR officials, the
groups mission is ''to unite the
officers of railroads charged with
financial and treasury responsible
tiles to the advancement OF the
interests of such departments and
the railroads represented
The delegates to the two-day
meeting will stay at the Cape
Fear hotel and all business ses-
sions will be held in the Cape
Fear club.
To See Area
CT asst Line Treasurer Nichols,
VIII. served as the committees
frs chairman when it was organ
lied some years ago, is respon'
sible FOR the group meeting here
A special itinerary is planned dur
ing the meeting here aimed at ac-
uuainting the visitors with the at
fractions of this section.
Those who will attend the ses-
sions include: E. H. Bunnell. vice.
president, A.A.R., Washington, D.
c.: Harry Hurst, chairman OF the
advisory committee and represea-
tative of the Pennsylvania Rail
road company, Philadelphia. Pa;
J A. Simpson, vice-chairman OF
the committee, Southern Pacific
Railroad, New York, N. Y; F.. r.
Ford, secretary, Treasury Divl-
sion, AIR., Washington; P. A.
Lyon secretary, Treasury Divl-
sion, AIR., Washington; R. 2.
Connolly, vice : president, illinois
Central System, Chicago, Ill; G.
L. Dover, assistant treasurer, Del
aware & Hudson Railroad, New
York N. Y. Also:
Other DELEGATES
J. G. Enderlin, treasurer, Della
ware. Lackawanna & Western
Railroad, New York; G. H. Howe,
tres. surer, New York Central Sys-
tenn, New York; F. H. jeffrey,
CONTINUED On Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
U. 5. Secretary Talk.
Ninety Minutes With
Premier On Meeting

MOSCOW, Wednesday, April 16.
W.D- Secretary of State George
c. Marshall conferred for approx
lmately 80 minutes last night with
Premier Joseph Stain after a bit.
ter Big Four meeting at which he
accused Foreign Minister Via
cheslav Molotov of virtually sabo-
tagging the proposed 40 : year
treaty to enforce German disarm-
ament.
Marshall went to the Kremlin to
see Stain at 10 p. m. and return.
ed to his headquarters at Spasso
House, the American Embassy,
at Has.
1t was believed that he re-
viewed with Stain points of dis
pute which have arisen at the
Big Four Foreign Ministers c o n
ference and discussed the Truman
policy of aid to Greece and
Turkey against communist en-.
croachment - a uestion which
looms large in deteriorating Rus.
slan-American relations.
American Ambassador Wal
ter Bedell Smith and Charles E.
Bohlen, State department Russian
expert and interpreter, accompa.
MED Marshall to the Kremlin for
the long delayed talk with the
Russian, Generalissimo which may
decide both the fate Of the Big
Four Foreign Ministerial confer.
ence and the immediate course Of
relations with the United States.
Clamps On News
Immediately on his return te
the embassy, Marshall clamped &
strict secrecy injunction on h &:
staff. All he would let Press Re
lations Officer Michael J. McDer.
mott announce was that he wen
to the Kremlin at 10 and returned
at 11:45. Everything else, McDer'
Continued On PAGE Two; Col. 4,
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GETSMEDAL
FROM PRESIDENT
Former Secretary OF State
Awarded Merit Badge
With Cluster

WASHINGTON, April IS. -(Pe
President Truman drove to Beth
esda Naval hospital today tc
award the Medal for Merit with
an Oak Leaf Cluster to Cordel
Hull for his distinguished services
as secretary of state.
The award represented two dec
orations - one for Hull's services
in the defense period leading up
to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the
other for his guidance of the State
department during the World Wal
II up to his resignation on Nov.
80, 1914.
One citation, asserting Mr.. Hull
made diplomacy a powerful
weapon in support of u armed
strength" called him also the
Father. Of The United Nations"
TIE Presidents trip was with
out prior notice. The White House
announced it after Mr.. Truman's
return.
White House attaches said Mrs
Hull greeted the President Wher
he arrived at the hospital.
The presentation took place in
a s u room where the veteran
Tennessee diplomat and legislator
awaited the President.
When Mr.. Truman had concfu-
ded reading the two citations
Hull said:
"Thank y o u, Mr.. President,
am overwhelmed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
RIDGE MAN
SECRETARY
John Hudiburg Named At
Board OF Directors
Meeting Last Night

John j. Hudiburg, Holly Ridge
hotel owner and sportsman, was
elected the first full : time Sec
rotary of the 10 months-old South
Eastern North Carolina Beach AS
ISOLATION at a meeting of the or
ganization's board of directors
last night.
Hrdiburg, who has been closely
identified with the development OF
hunting and fishing in this area
for many years, will open perma-
nent offices in the Chamber of
Commerce building Monday, April
81.
SENCBA Board of Directors
also decided last night to meet
with representatives of the
Wrightsville Beach town council
at 7:3O in the Chamber of Com
merce Building here. The purpose
of the meeting will be to draw
up papers to be forwarded to
Rep. j. Bayard Clark, asking him
to introduce a resolution in the
House relating to a review of 3
survey of erosion conditions at
Wrightsville Beach by the U. S.
District Engineers.
Officials of the Association point
out that erosion along t h e south
ern part of the Beach has been
stepped up since 1871, when the
U. S. D. E. refused to advise that
a permanent breakWater be built
there. They explained at that time
that they felt that the cost OF the
project outweighed h e contribu-
tons that such a construction
would bring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
Americas Best Minds Also
Come. Up With Washday
Work Eliminator

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April
is - W.H - The best minds in
American chemistry came up to-
day with a galaxy of new develop
ment in their science.
They included:
1. Discovery OF a cousin Of
Marihuana almost 70 times more
potent than the natural narcotic
weed.
g.. New synthetic chemicals
with extraordinary powers to kill
microbes and fungus growths.
3. A new technique to relieve
the housewife of some OF the
drudgery OF washday.
4. A new process for growing
yeast from wood wastes, such
as sawdust, shavings, slabs Of
wood.
S. Disclosure that migratory in
sects are being sprayed with
radioactive materials in order to
.(Confiuaged- On Pase Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
COALITION AGAIN
SETS TAFT BACK
Democrats, Republicans
Join In Taking Bargain
ing Out OF Labor Bill

WASHINGTON, April is up -
The Senate Labor committee to
day again toned down its general
labor bill regulating strikes and
unions, and wrapped it up to await
expected formal committee ap'
prevail probably Thursday.
A coalition of Democrats and
Republicans once more OVERRIDE
Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) and by a
7 to 6 vote ripped from the bill a
provision limiting industrywide
bargaining. But Taft succeeded by
a :one-vote majority in keeping the
legislation in n piece. The min
GRITTY Sought to split it into three
bills.
Taft said the bill may be called
up for Senate debate Monday and
that efforts will be made. to rein
state the eliminated sections by
amendment then.
Although softened in marked de-
gree. the measure is a broad de-
parture from present federal labor
practices. The House opened de.
bate on another, omnibus labor
bill stronger in many particulars
but similar in others.
.,. Bill OF Rights
Rep. Leo ALE n(R-Ill), chair
Continued On Pare Two: Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
Buddies Stage Knife Fight In Clouds;
Scientists Discover Marihuana's Kin
Along The Cape Fear

MORE DOCK LORE - Last
week Ed G.. Hall of Winter Park
was kind enough to tell us about
Wilmington's first floating cock.
Remembering the facility that
graces the Cape Fear River here
he suggested that we contact
either Louis Skinner of Myrtle
Court or C. c. Chadbourn of 415
South Front street.
Chadbourn as usual came to our
rescue. by outlining the famous
floating dock.
His letter was so full of inter
esting details surrounding the
dock that we were unable to bring
you all of them in one column, SC
we will resume again today.
SHIPYARD. MAYBE = "O1
course 1 could easily be mistaken
after the lapse Of so many years,
but I think what Mr.. Hall has in
mind is the old Cassidy and Ross
shipyard, subsequently. owned by
Capt. S. w. Skinner and later -
non. Mr.. Louis H. Skinner. nor
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
QUEEN ELIZABETH
PULLED OFF SAND
Under secretary Of State
Clayton Leaves Ship;
Suffers No Damage

SOUTHAMPTON, England,
April 15-U.H-The IS, 0O0-ton luxur
liner Queen Elizabeth slipped off
Brambles Shoal at $40 pm. GAO
pm. EST today, more than rs
hours after she a aground at
the entrance to her home harbor.
The mammoth vessel, her pro-
pellers- churning and a dozen tugs
straining at hawsers, slid into
deep water just as the tide was
receding and as authorities were
about to abandon attempts to re-
float her for the second straight
night.
More than 900 first : class pas
sengers, including Under-Secre-
tary Of State William Clayton, Ac-
tress Beatric Lille and Randolph
Churchill, son of Winston Church.
i'll, disembarked across a gangway
to two paddle steamers which car
ried them to Southampton.
Clayton, overdue at the United
Nations Trade and Employment
conference at Geneva, was among
the first to disembark.
A Cunard White Star line Off
cial said preliminary reports indi-
Gated the Elizabeth had not been
damaged. He said divers would
inspect her hull, possibly tomor-
row.
Although the liner pumped thou
sands Of gallons of oil into barges
alongside to tighten her load, 16
tugs failed to bulge her this morn
ing. She had grounded in deep silt
off Calshot Spit, between Calshot
and the Isle of Wight.
A Cunard official said he was
crossing his fingers hoping the
Elizabeth would not have to be
drydockedt for repairs. The King
George v drydock at Southamp-
ton, only British drydock large
enough to handle her, is busy with
her sister, the Queen Mary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
CAROLINA BEACH
MAN BEING HELD
Gurley Whaley Held In
Custody In Connection
With Worrell's Death

Gurley Whaley, Carolina Beach
white man, is being held in the
New Hanover county jail on a
technical charge in connection with
the death of c. A. Borrell, who
died in Bullock's Clinic yesterday
from injuries repeatedly sustained
in a fight at the home Of Bor'
rell's father, between Navassa ane
Leland two weeks ago.
Deputy Sheriff Dillon Ganey Q.
Brunswick county, assisted New
Hanover county officers Ernes'
Priest and Floyd Whitman ane
Carolina Beach officers in the ar
rest of Whaley at Carolina Beacf
last night.
Whaley will be held until aftel
ar autopsy has been performed or
the body of Borrell. DR.. L. c
Fergus Of Southport will conduc'
the autopsy this afternoon a
Suthport to determine the cause
OF Borrell's death.
According to Borrell's wife, hel
husband went to work the day FOL
lowing the alleged fight and aftel
reporting, returned home feeling
Ill.
He was brought to the Bullocl
Clinic yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
Marshall Remains Silent
After Stain Conference
DEAD MAN COMES
BACK TO LIFE

GREENSBORO, April 15-R
Action was brought in Unit
ed States district court TODAY
against Mrs. Naome Hoag.
Guilford county, to whom the
nj arftfm e War Emergency
board allegedly paid 5 5000 life
insurance on her husband when
the husband, Harold Austin
doag, was not in reality dead.
According to the complaint,
the maritime vessel American
Leader, on which Hoag served,
was lost at sea on December
10, 1912, and a certificate Of
death was issued on Hoag. Mrs.
Hoag was paid life and injury
policy which her husband car
. ried.
Later, the complaint continue
ed, 1t was found that Hoag was
living land on October Z, 1913,
a certificate was issued cor
recting his presumed death
certificate. The government is
now attempting to recover the
$1,000 paid Mrs. Hoag.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
DISTRIBUTION
|OF ALCOHOL FAVORED
BY FIVE CLERGYMEN

CHARLOTTE, April IS. - ZAP -
Five Charlotte clergymen issued
a statement today saying they be-
lieved the legal distribution OF al
coholic beverages was to be pre-
ferred to the present bootlegging
system.
Mecklenburg county will vote
June 7 upon the establishment OF
ABC stores, at present the sale
of liquor is unlawful.
Those who signed the statement
were t h Rev. T. w. MacLean,
pastor of Avondale Presby-
terrain church, h Rev. George
Henry, rector of Christ's Episco-
pal church, tn Rev. c. Alfred
Cole, rector of ST.. Martins Epis-
copal church, and the Rev. lveson
B. holland, rector of the Church
of the Holy Comforter. Episcopal.
And the Rev. Robert Crandall,
rector of St. Peters Episcopal.
A vigorous campaign against
legalizing of ABC stores has been
conducted in the country tor the
last several weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
Truman Asks
Act Changes
Revision OF u. S. Neutral.
ity Necessary, President
Tells Congress

WASHINGTON, April 15.-PN
President Truman asked Congress
today for revision of the neutrality
art to empower the government to
han arms shipments destined for
any International 'troublemak-
en-"
He said in a special message
that the government must be free
IA act ''in accordance with our
nosition in the United Nations and
n adapt the export of American
weapons to changes in the in
teriational situation"
In effect, he was asking continu-
ance Of authority the government
already has power to permit or
DENY arms exports is contained in
the 1910 export control act, which
il due to expire June 80.
Mr.. Truman proposed that sec.
lion II of the neutrality act, an
older statute, be rewritten to in
corporate the expiring authority
and also to set up a more flexi-
Bile and efficient" administration
bv the existing Nations Munitions
Control board.
Unless the neutrality act is re-
vised, the President said, the Sec
rotary of State will again as be-
fore 1910 be required to treat ag-
gressor and aggrieved, peacemak-
er and troublemaker equally by
granting all requests for arms ex-
ports except where such ship
ments would violate a treaty.
This principle of impartiality
was written by Congress into the
neutrality act during the heated
pre-Pearl Harbor controversy over
means of keeping the United States
out Of war. The act was rewritten
in 1885, 1887 and 1889.
Such a provision of law is no
longer consistent with this coun-
try's commitments and require
ments," Mr.. Truman said.
1--WE have committed ourselves
TO international coop e o n
through the United Nations. Il
this participation is to be fully ef-
tective this government must have
control over traffic in weapons
which will permit US to act in &C
cordance with our position in the
United Nations and will be adapt
able to changes in the internation-
al situation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
BALTIMORE & OHIO
RAILROAD REJECTS
DEFERMEN BID

WASHINGTON, April 15-W.D-
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad to-
night rejected a request that 1t
delay carrying out a court-approv'
ed reorganization plan now being
investigated by the senate bank
ing committee.
It said company attorneys ad'
yised that it had no alternative tc
carrying out the reorganization De,
cause "any other course :. would
be in contempt of court and beyond
the legal right of the company.
The request originated with
ch.irman Charles w. Tobey, r.,
N. H., of the Senate committee
who commended the reorganization
should be deferred until his group
Completes hearing into an $780, ooo.'
COO loan granted BIO by the Re
construction Finance Corp
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
COMPANY, UNION TURNS DOWN
SCHWELLENBACH PEACE PLAN:
BOMBSHELL SETS NEW RECORD
Plane Lowers
Hughes Mark:
Big Reynolds Ship Roars
To Landing AT LaGuard-
ia Airport
BY JAMES

BY JAMES McGLINCY
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Wednesday, april
16-WD-The Reynolds Bombshell
whipped across LaGuardia field to-
day at 12:06:30 a. M. EST, to SET
a new round the-world flying rec
ord Of 70 hours and SIS IL minutes.
Millionaire pen = maker Milton
Reynolds, a 54-year-old grand
father; Capt. William Odom, vet.
eran war flier; and T. Carroll Sal
lee, a lanky Texan, had made fly.
ing history by racing the circum.
ference of the earth in a little more
than three days.
They bettered by u hours and
10 and IL minutes the existing
globe-girdling mark of 81 hours and
IA minutes set by Howard Hughes
in July, 1888.
The Bombshell, a stripped-down
AIS twin-engined attack bomber
owned by Reynolds, had cracked
speed records On almost every leg
of its 20, 600 mile flight.
Reynolds, Odom and Sallee were
tired but grinning when they climb
ed out here after touching down
on runway four. They swung up
on the wing of the silver, blue
trimmed plane to pose for pic
lures. Reynolds clutched a lucky
piece-a doll patterned after a
leprechaun, an Irish elf.
Reynolds and Odoms' wives
were waiting eagerly for them.
Also waiting was, Sanee's fiancee,
19-year-cla Patricia Houlihan, a
blue-eyed, brown-haired miss he
met in Cody, Wyo., last June.
They plan to be married tomor-
row.
Sallee's girl loaned him $500
when he took off so he wouldn't
have to fly around the world broke.
The gremlins rode the tail of
the Bombshell all around the
Notwithstanding her radio in mid
Atlantic, loosening her tail wheel
in Cairo, buring out her heater and
emptying her oxygen supply half
way across North America.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
Off-Duty Policeman Halt.
Melee High Above Fam
ed Nevada Desert

LAS VEGAS, New, April 15-WD
Two of 50 passengers aboard a
huge transcontinental airliner
fought with dinner knives high
above the Nevada desert, it was
revealed today.
An off : duty policeman among
the passengers quelled the fight
ers and quoted the other passen-
gers who were displaying a
mounting alarm as the battlers
lunged about in the planes cabin.
But the shakespeare battle real
" didn't end until the landing here
Of a Western Airliner last night
and the arrest of two ex Navy
,buddies, William E. Barrett, Pas
adena, Cal, and Franklin F. Muir
ply, Oklahoma City, on charges
of misconduct in a public convey
ance. y
AS Clark county deputy sheriffs
hustled them off to jail, the re-
| lcoatinued On Rage wo; -CoA-@
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
CONFERENCE NAMES
BUILDING COMMITTEE

The quarterly conference of the
Methodist church meeting last
night in the Lutheran parish house
named the building committee for
the Grace Street Methodist
church, which was burned March
81.
The following compose the COM
mittee:
Mrs. A. c. Craft, Harry Dozier,
Mrs. W. E. Hand, j. Utley King,
M. H. Lander, J. E. Mccarthy,
Roger Moore and E. l.. White. A.
S. Trundle, Jr., was named treas.
urer. Chairman of the building
committee has not yet been Sc
lected.
The fund now has grown to ap-
prOXimately $l10. 600, it was said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
SEAMEN NEEDED

Norfolk, Va, April 15-(P)-
The men who go down to the
sea in ships apparently are not
available in the port of Hamp-
ton roads.
n attonal Maritime Union
headquarters found itself facing
the problem today of filling $50
billets on IS ships now readying
to sail from the roads-and with
no available manpower supply
on which to draw. A hurried
call to North Atlantic ports, In
cluding New York, proved to no
avail.
Wallace Walker, NMU port
agent, issued a call for qualified
men in both deck and engineer
ing d e p m e n t S, but with
meager results.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
NO TIPPING

CLEVELAND, April 16-W.H-
No tipping Is the order today on
all Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road passenger trains.
The innovation was put into
effect quietly on Monday follow
ing the lead set last August by
the sister line, Pere Marquette,
which experimentally did away
with tipping.
So successful was the Mar
quette test that Robert r.
Young, board chairman Of the
C & O, ordered the rule into
effect. The no tip edict has long
been q favorite of railroad in
novator Young, and is the latest
step In his policy of more and
better passenger comfort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
Phone Strike
End Far Away
Labor Department Formula
Unsatisfactory To
Both Sides

WASHINGTON, April Is -LP)-
The cross-country telephone strike
rolled on unchanged tonight, with
outright rejection by the union OF
Secretary of Labor Schwellen-
bach's peace plan and company
proposals to modify it in Is ways.
SchWellenbach told reporters
that neither side is showing ANY
recognition of the public response.
bllity they have"
The secretary had come up with
an idea by which the strike might
be ended late Thursday. Under
his plan, both sides would agree
to Cd arbitration of basic money
issues by a five man board, and
CD intensive negotiations to settle
other issues so that telephone
service could be resumed Or a
normal basis.
Tonight, as Scnwellenbach put
it:
l. The American Telephone &
Telegraph company declined ma
tion-wide arbitration on the
grounds that it is regulated in
each state, but failed 'to recog-
aize that the reason it is regulated
is that it has a monopoly"
2. THE union on the other side
takes the position that the propo-
sal it made in the beginning has
to be accepted, or else the strike
will go on"
Major Proposal
The major modification propos-
ed by the Bell System companies
was that 10 regional arbitration
boards be substituted for the single
boar6 Schwellenbach asked.
c. F. Craig, vice president of
the AT. & T.. wrote Schwellen-
bach that "in the companies view
it would be impossible for a single
arbitration board to hear, proper
ly consider and decide al! these
cases (45) within any period less
than six to II months
The union, in a letter to SchWel-
lenbach from j. A. Beirne, presi-
dent of the National Federation Of
Telephone workers, asked "a gen.
eral wage increase as a down pay
ment in recognition of the ~ircreas-
es in the cost of living"
"Any proposal TO terminate the
strike must include a general
wage offer and retroactivity," 1t
said.
Schwellenbach said his program
was a fair one, worked out are
fully" He added:
81 don't think either side has
any business to come back by let
ter and telegram and try to nego-
tate on that proposal"
Whether the government might
now seize the industry, try further
to bring the two sides together, or
Continued On Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
The Weather
FORECAST:


North Carolina-Cloudy with showers
by partly cloudy and cooler Thursday
and over west portion Wednesday night.
South Carolina-Cloudy with showers
and thunderstorms Wednesday followed
ny partly cloudy and cooler THURSDAY
and thunderstorms Wednesday followed
and over northwest portion wednesday
night.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
~lning 1880 p. m yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1870 a. m. So; 1880 a. m. Sc; 1:S0 p. m
VI; 1880 p. NJ. 60; Maximum 81; Mini
mum SIS; Mean 81; Normal 81.
HUMIDITY
1870 a. m. 90; 1880 a. m. 90; l:3o p. IN.
10; 1880 p. m. SO.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending 1870 p m
VIZ inches.
Total since the first of the month
S76 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
From the Tide Tables published by u
y. Coast n Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington -- $3.50 am 1916 an
Masonboro - BAT am 10:16 am
4:10 pm 1924 pm
Sunrise $40; Sunset 6:44; Moonrist
S:2Sa. Moonset 2:i4p.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. G. q I
d. m. Tuesday PIP feet.
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