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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
Governors Conference Declares
For Peace-Seeking Foreign Policy;
Truman Urges Flood Control Plan
Message Gets
Some Praise
President Urges Ten-Yeal
Program To Save
Mississippi Lands

WASHINGTON. July Is -W.D-
President Truman asked Congress
today to make this a better and
a richer land'' by spending $780,
900, 600 in the NEXT II months as
the first step in a vast l0-year
flood control program of "desper-
ate urgency" for the Mississippi
river basin.
He said that Congress, over a
period OF years, had authorized -
but provided no cash for-Missis
sippi basin flood control and re
lated projects totaling nearly S.
900, 900, 900. OF this amount, he said
from So, 500, 900, 900 to 81, DOC, 900, oOt
is either directly Or closely related
to flood control.
Let us through the next 10
years accelerate. our program and
put this money to work, together
with such additional moneys as
may be required and as our
economy from year to year shall
permit" he said in a long special
message calling attention to "the
recent most destructive floods in
our history" in the Missouri anc
upper Mississippi river valleys.
1.-THE choice is ours" he said.
1--WE can sit idly by-or almost as
bad, resort to the false economy
Of feeble and inadequate measures
while these precious assets waste
away.
Preserve Essentials
"On the other hand, We can, il
We act In time, put into effect a
realistic and practical plan which
will preserve these basic essen
tials Of our national economy and
make This a better and richer
land"
The President did not tell Con.
gress what individual projects he
believed should be given priority
He merely requested that it APP
propriate-for the current fisca.
year which began July 1-$237, 600.
900 for the War departments En-
gineer corps, $40, 600, 900 for the
Interior departments reclamation
bureau, and So, 900, 900 for the
Agriculture departments soil con
servation service.
He said a formal breakdown Of
See MESSAGE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
Officials, Sponsors Look
Back To First Race In
1894 AT Dayton

With the All-American Soap Box
Derby in its tenth-anniversary
year in ie47, officials and spon-
sors of the greatest amateur
racing event in the world" look
back to the summer of the
Derby's first year when "a news
papers sponsored the race
This years Derby, with plans
under way to make it the biggest
and best ever staged, is sponsor
ed by 1873 newspapers in the Unit
ed States and Canada.
Myron E. Scott, national Derby
director, was a newspaper pho
tographer in Dayton, Ohio, when
he originated the idea of the Der
by in 1888. Scott today is assis-
tant advertising manager of the
Chevrolet Motor Division, which
is co-sponsor OF the race with the
1873 newspapers.
While on an assignment for the
Dayton News, Scott came across
a group of small boys scooting
down a Dayton hill in homemade
miniature cars. In the "roving
camerman," tradition. Scott
snapped a few shots of the boys
racing and on his way back to
the office found his imagination
fired bv the lads enthusiasm. He
See TENTH On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
COUNTY TO HAVE
GOOD DELEGATION
New Hanover Farm Men,
Women Ia Attend State
Convention Aug. Is

New Hanover county is expected
to be well-represented by a large
delegation of men and women al
the North Carolina Farmers and
Farm Women's convention which
meets at State College in Raleigh,
August 1929.
With the slogan, Information,
Inspiration and Recreation" farm
men and women from over the
state will gather for the week OF
classes and recreation.
Mrs. Fred Jordan, president Of
the New Hanover county Fedora
ton of Home Demonstration clubs.
and Mrs. E. F. Lennon, president
of the Wrightsboro club, have been
selected as delegates to the con-
ve,tion. The meetings are open to
all rural residents.
Two hour classes for women will
be held on: tricks of the cooking
trade, homestead planning, the art
of living, more livable homes, new
fabrics - new Finishes - their use
% o. rnYIEyrv IN Do ra Tun
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17

WHAT? - Now did the Cape
Fear ever freeze over thick enough
to support a man? What do you
think?
Reports have been varied. Sew.
eral Along the Cape Fear readers
have commended that c. D. Maffitt
shipping agent, did not, as he
said, walk on the ice across the
river during one winter years ago.
And just as many, maybe more,
say they saw Maffitt walk across
and remember the event well.
The most recent person who al
lied with Maffitt in the river cpl
sode is Carl Render.
Render, who also remembers the
time DR.. Silas P. Wright, carpet
Dagger, left town, said the river
froze over along about 1900.
The ice, he said. was thick e.
noueh to support the weight Of a
man.
Other readers have also noted
that the river froze, but MOI
enough to carry any weight. About
several sixteenths OF an inch thick
ness was the result Of the biggest
freeze, these readers pointed out
And this surely wouldn't sustain
a man from shore to shore.
ERROR - Render pointed ou'
that the j. H. Reader mentioned
lin 4 previous ATCF was his broth
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
CaffneyM Mill
Flaunts Clio
Management Informs Union
Strikers Will Not Be
Retired Now

cAFFNEY S. c., July l6-(P)-
,snseement of the Gaffney. Manu-
ns.tnrjng company textile mill to-
told the CLIO United Textile
Walkers union that when union
,,smbers report back tomorrow,
allowing riscontinuance Of a o.
l'nnth strike, their jobs won't be
IMMEDIATELY available, if at all.
n the announcement of Franz
n,niel. state TWUA director, that
'nion members would report on
tbeir regular shift tomorrow. man.
.asment replied in a telegram to-
day:
u are permitted inside the com
nsnv fence. If and when jobs are
1v,ilable, an applicant will be
elected on mis- or her qualifica-
inn, without regard to Qabor)
affiliations"
Daniel replied in a statement to-
d,v. by this telegram the com
nanv tips its hand. 1t was willing
to suffer loss in the long strike
n break the union. The company's
inning is faulty. The. Wagner act
i still the law of the land ano
will be unta Aug. ga long way
off,"
First Victory
Daniel said yesterday "the end
nj Of the strike is the first victory
Of the Taft-Hartley law in South
| Carolina. The new law So stacks
N. cards against the union tina
continuing the strike is impossi
be-"
]. D. Poag of Greenville,' lega.
counsel for the company, said to-
day at is inconceivable and re-
diculous to US that a strike original
BY the union in May, 1915, should
b. blamed on an act that was MOI
passed until July, 1947."
The National Policy committee
Of the CLIO has announced tina
under Ne law it will bypass the
new National Labor Relation!
board provided in the Taft-HartleJ
law and deal with management
directly. Daniel said the uniol
Zee GIFFNEY MILL On Page Tw'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
CITY WATER RATE
BEFORE COUNCIL
Operating Costs Must Come
Down Or Charges In
crease, Members Told

Either city water rates must be
increased or expenses in the op-
Grafton of the department cut
down.
That is what faces Wilmington's
municipal government today. That
was disclosed yesterday in an in
formal discussion at the weekly
council session.
It came about when 1t was
shown there is an approximate
$18, 900 deficit in the water depart
ment. The matter originally came
from inquiries by Council J.. E.. L..
Wade.
City Manager J. R. Benson ex-
planned that the water department
operates on a self-supporting basis.
Spent in the last fiscal year, Ben
son related, was about SIS, 900
while receipts totaled only approx
imately $1,000.
Benson pointed out, however,
that the last IL months were ex-
tremely expensive because of I'M
favorable weather and heavy in
stallation work. The coming II
months, he added, should see much
less expenditures.
Affirmative Reply
Benson replied in the affirma-
tive to the query from Wade that
the solution would be either an in
crease water rate or reduction
of expenses.
The franchise for the operation
Of buses by the Safeway Transit
See CITY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
MEN FINED
ON GAMING COUNT
Paraphernalia, $1,442 In
Cash Seized In Raid,
Ordered Confiscated .

Five men were found guilty, 4f,-
Az in cash and a quantity OF
gambling paraphernalia was Or
dered confiscated and fines total
ing $500 melted out yesterday in
Recorders court as the result OF
a raid a few hours earlier by
deputy sheriffs at the Plantation
Club, Carolina Beach road.
Charges Of violation of the state
liquor laws against some OF the
defendants were continued until
August S.
Deputies brought into court, not
only dice. poker chips, cards and
other gambling equipment but
tables and chairs too large to lug
Up the stairs into the court. Judge
Winfield Smith recessed court mo-
mentarily, to view the furniture
as it rested in a van in the court
house parking space.
But the case was not concluded
before the court handed out a
verbal lashing to private clubs
and organizations that lease prop
critics for such purposes and ear
ry on gambling in rented quar-
tiers.
Premises Leased
ut is a most vicious practice"
declared the court. That declara-
ton came after witnesses had tes-
titled the premises had been 1eas-
ed by the defendants and that the
gambling paraphernalia had been
let in the building.
Found guilty Of keeping gamb-
ling devices and fined $500 each
were M. J. Peach and Cleeve
Lewis. Found guilty of gambling
we're Walter Hecht. Gregory Mo-
Wis and William Lewis. They were
ordered to pay court costs.
The court ordered the furniture
returned to the club upon condi-
tons that the defendants haul it
back.
ABC officers testified that they
discovered a gambling game in
progress late Tuesday when they
arrived at the club on routine
business. They notified deputy
sheritfs who made the arrests and
the seizures.
Cash Returned
The SLAP n cash was being
Used in a gambling game, the Of
f.cers said. However. the defen-
dants admitted gambling but con-
See MEN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
INDUSTRIALISTS
OPEN CONFERENCE
Eight Hundred Southern
Leaders Register For
Blue Ridge Meeting

BLUE RIDGE, July 16-(P>-The
18th annual session of the Southern
Conference On Human Relations In
Industry opened here tonight with
spproximately 300 leading South
err industrialists in attendance.
A. Carl Adkins, pastor Of the
Dauphin Way Memorial church,
Mobile. Ala, was the principal
speaker at the evening session
which was presided over by E. j.
Robson, Jr., vice president Of
II. Newport News, Va, Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock company and
chairman of the Industrial Confer
ence committee.
Tomorrow's session will begin al
$50 a. m. with T. M. Forbes,
executive vice president of the
Cotton Manufacturers association
Of Georgia, presiding. j. Frank
Rushton, president of the Rushton
company of Jacksonville Fla, will
speak on THE Economic and So
cial Responsibility of Industry
Browder To Preside
The second phase Of the morn.
ing's program will be presided
over by Basil D. Browder, vice
president Of the Dan River Mills
u Danville, Va, with N. D. Hub
bell, assistant director Of training
for the Eastman Kodak company,
speaking on Better Understand
ing Of People As A Guide To Man
agement In Dealing With Human
Relations"
Three group meetings will be
neld during the afternoon with the
following topics and leaders:
National Lebor Relations Board
In Transition" Raymond S. Smet-
hurst, general counsel of the Ma
fonal Association of Manufacture
tfs;; Measuring And Showing The
Results OF Good Personnel Ad-
[hmlstration," James o. Rice,
pew York City, editor and assist
mt secretary of the American
a~shagenaent association: "1ndoc'
shation Of New Employees" E. C.
1fehmer, New York City, Assist.
M industrial relations director OF
ne Texas Oil company; and 1.-The
responsibility and relationship o.
supervisors In An Industrial Or
PsAliation," T. o. Moore, vice
Pfesldent of P. H. Hanes Knitting
Company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
RAIL ENGINEERS
ANNOUNCE STRIKE
Southern Pacific Pilots
Will Walk Out Monday.
Brotherhood Says

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16-W.R)
Engineers of the Southern Pa
cific railroad announced tonight
they will strike Monday at 6 pm.
unless the company grants chang
es in 10 of the IA demands served
seven years ago.
The strike would tie up South
ern Pacific lines from Portland,
Ore, South to Los Angeles. East
to Ogden and Tucson and Ell Paso
as well as lines of the Northwest
ern Pacific and the San Diego and
Arizona which also r included
in the strike call.
Harrison C.. Hobart, assistant
grand chief of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers announced
that NEGOTIATIONS had been broken
off.
Company spokesman had no
comment to make other than to
say that word of the strike date
scheduling had not been received
by them.
"All engineers of the three rail
roads have been notified Of our
failure to reach an agreement and
they will, therefore, leave the ser
vice at the stated time" Hobart
said in an official statement re.
leased under the joint signature
of P. o. Peterson, general chair
man of the brotherhood.
Demands Broken Down
The unions "a demands were
broken down into more than 4OC
items and call mostly for changes
in working rules such as cleaning
of engines, providing of seat cush-
ions, equipping Of engines with
r%espirators to be used by engl'
neers in travelling through tunnels
in the coast and Western noun
famous areas
One of the demands is for
guaranteed minimum daily wage
of $12. 95. Presently, engineers carr
$1O.O OF ana up, depending upon type
of engine operated and the area If
which they work.
Peterson's statement said it wa
a illegally authorized strike"
He said the brotherhood had ex
hausted It's efforts to reach a set
Element through the National Me
See RAIL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
Experts To Probe Ways To
Increase Production
In Germany

WASHINGTON, July Is - W.D -
The State department, on the eve
of the tWo-year anniversary of the
Inflated Potsdam conference, an
nounced today plans to begin ne
gotiations with the British here
next week on ways to increase
German coal production.
Before then the United States
and Britain will release a new
level-off-industry plan for Ger
many which will double the pres
ent allowable production of $780,.
600 tons of steel per year.
Secretary of State George C.
Marshall told a press conference
that the Anglo-American coal talks
will begin next week with Assist
ant Secretary of State Willard L,
Thorp and Maj. Gen. William H,
Draper, Jr., deputy military gov
ernor in Germany, heading the
American group.
The announcement came "a hours
after the United States pubt -Shec
its new policy toward Germany -
a policy which brings Western
Germany into. the Marshal plan
for economic rehabilitation Of
Europe and junks whatever signs
were left Of the earlier policy Of
a ''hard" peace for Germany.
The new policy was an official
go-ahead signal to rebuild Ger
many as an industrial nation with
appropriate safeguards against
revival of German militarism.
Marshall said that coal was q
fundamental raw material Of
European recovery and essential
to its rehabilitation. He pointed
out that the Ruhr valley was the
See UNITED On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
Board Will Probe
Status OF Screen Bowl

WASHINGTON, July Is. -WH-
A naval board of inquiry today
sought to determine whether the
Green Bowl" a 40-year-old secret
society at Annapolis, is a harmless
schoolboy organization or a wi
cious'' officers clique dedicated to
promoting the service careers OF
its members.
The inquiry was ordered by Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz, chief of naval
operations, apparently as a re-
suit of written charges submitted
by naval officers to Secretary OF
the Navy James Forrestal and a
verbal blast fired at the society
during a recent Congressional hear
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
WORLD CIRCLINC
FLIGHTS PLANNED
Proposed Trips Will Be
Made In Cub Plane;
Bombshell Ready

NEW YORK, July 16-(P)-Prep-
arations for three world circuling
flights-two Of them in cub planes
were being made today, two will
start from New York, and the
third, an attempt at a solo speed
record, from Chicago.
One flight. a single engine cub
plane, is to be nonstop.
Ted Thompson, IS, of Belle
Glade, Fla, wartime ferry pilot.
and Hunter c. Moody, IS, Decatur,
III, former co-holder of the worlds
flight endurance record, plan to
take off from New York about
August Is.
Thompson ~refueling would be &C
complished in the air by licking
up five gallon plastic sans of fuel.
100 gallons at a time, with a spec
cial device they patented, similar
to that used by mail pickup planes.
Their 20, 1852 mile route will be
via Gander, Newfoundland; Shan
non, Fire; Athens, Karachi. Hong
kong, The Aleutians, and Alaska.
and would take about 10 days.
In Chicago, Capt. William Odom,
Of the Reynolds Bombshell, who
last April piloted the converted
A-26 around the world with Milton
Reynolds, Chicago pen manufac-
turer, as navigator, and Tex Sallee
as flight engineer, prepared for
an August l solo flight.
Franklin Lamb, president Of the
Reynolds Pen CO., said the flight
would be an attempt to cut in
half Wiley Posts 1888 record Of
1877 hours. Lamb announced the
flight plan routed the plane through
Gander. Paris, Cairo, Karachi
Calcutta, Shanghai, Tokyo, An;
chorage. Alaska; and back to Chi
cago.
The second flight planned from
New York involved a pair Of cub
Zee WORLD On Page Two
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YORK CITY BILL
FREEZES ROOM RENTS
JUNE 30 LEVELS

NEW YORK, July (F-
of permanent guests in New YORK
citv hotels, apartment hotels and
rooming and lodging houses were
frozen at their June 80 levels to-
.dav under terms of a bill signed
by Mayor william o'Dwyer.
Besides freezing rents, the new
law also calls for the creation OF
2 three-man temporary city hous-
in. rent commission to administer
its provisions. It provides for pen,
a1ties of a $500 fine or 80 days jail
sentences for violations.
After signing the bill O'Dwyer
said:
II am confident that the vast
majority of property owners al,
fected by the city rent law Will
comply with the provisions
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
"Confidence"
Vote Passed
Marshall Lauded, Military
Training Favored In
Closing Resolutions

SALT LAKE CITY, July Is. -
Up The Governors conference
called tonight for a non-partisan,
peace-seeking foreign policy and
expressed faith and confidence
in Secretary of State Marshall.
In a generalized statement on for
eign policy, the governors of states
avoided any specific endorsement
of Marshall's European rehabili-
tation program.
They adopted, however, a resolu-
ton which said:
ITO the Secretary of State, Hon.
George c. Marshall. we express
faith and confidence and II
deep appreciation for his inspiring
address to the conference"
Marshall had addressed the gov
errors Monday night urging sup
port of proposals to extend eco
nomic aid to European countries.
Before they closed a four-day
session tonight the governors ap-
PAoFSo a 1SooAutiOil ~ S1lS uIlVE4-
sal military training in which the
facilities of the National Guard
would be utilized 'to the greatest
extent possible"
Solidarity Key
The foreign policy resolution not
ed that American strength in the
world today sis largely dependent
upon the solidarity of the citizens
of u sovereign states, particular
ly in their relations with foreign
countries"
1.-THE foreign policy of this coun-
try is intimately related to the sup
port of our historic liberties" the
resolution said, adding:
Therefore, the Governors con-
ference t~ranscends in importance
all partisan, personal or political
consideration and should be al
all times an American foreign pol
icy, representative of the best In
America and representing the
United States to the nations Of the
See CONFIDENCE On Page Tive
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
MACKENZIE KING
SURVIVES CRISIS
Canadian Parliament Gives
His Liberal Government
Confidence Vote

OTTAWA, Canada, July 16-W.D
Prime Minister W. L.. Mackenzie
King and his Liberal government
survived a brief parliamentary
crisis in the House of Commons
today by winning a vote of con-
fidence, "a to 81.
Mackenzie King had Threatened
to resign, and force a general cleo
ton, if defeated on an opposition
motion of no confidence because
of his refusal to increase benefits
to disabled war veterans, war wild
ows and their dependents.
Percy Wright introduced the mo
ton in behalf of the Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation, con-
sisting of Labor, Farmer and So
cialist parties. The Progressive
Conservatives and Social Credit
parties announced support Ct the
motion.
Progressive Conservative John
G. Diefenbaker, hoping to avoid a
possible serious political crisis,
asked that Mackenzie King permit
a free vote on the CCF motion,
accepting IT as purely a pension
proposal.
Promises Vote
He promised that If this were
done the House would vote con-
fidence in the government i'm
mediately afterward.
Mackenzie King refused. He
said that parliamentary rules for
babe such a course.
He challenged the opposition to
call for a vote and, If the gov
eminent lost, to face the conse-
quences of an election. CCF Lead
er M, J. Coldwell accepted the
challenge.
Mackenzie King angrily told
the House that his own supporters
were free, If they liked, to vote
against the government in order
to avoid the embarrassing choice
of opposing more liberal pensions
But he stuck to his assertion that
if defeated the government must
| resign,
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ing on unification Of the armed
forces.
One officer wrote F%orrestal that
the Green Bowl membership list
should be published so the entire
Naval service would know which
officers belong to it.
Another told the secretary that
service opinion generally regards
the society as intended solely to
further the careers of its mem
bers, and he asserted that such
an organization should not be tole-
rated in the Navy.
Capt. John G.. Crommelin, hying
See NAVY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-17
The Weather

49,. FORECAST:
MUM ~ Carolina-Partly cloudy and
Ets ''aed warm Thursday and Friday
bna tered afternoon and evening
r" overs.
NgSsrolina - Considerable cloudi-
I.u, 4, moderate temperatures and
Ha i Showers and thundershowe1s
ftsy..and Friday.
ttastern Standard Time)
NJ, Ny U. 8. Weather Bureau)
|ndins o1ological data for the "a hours
''o p. m. yesterday.
I'm TEMPERATURES
!; 80 M II; 7:3O a. m. n; 1870 pm.
bun, NV w ,. m. 70; Maximum IS; Mini
W Mean 10; Normal 70.
i'm HUMIDITY
s, a. m. 80; 7:so a. m. IS; 1880 p. M.
''"o p. m. 81.
rot,, PRECIPITATION
ln mol "a hours ending 7:3o p. m.
W Inches. "e iifs' OF Ia "0h''
rf,ou TIDES FOR TODAY
{ me Tide Tables published by
coast n Geodetic Survey).
isnin HIGH LOW
-- 1882 9 m. e:53 am.
~a,onho,. 9:3S pm. 1858 pm.
p0 Inlet 6:4G am. 12:51 am
Sunriss TIA pm. 1852 pm
Ia; a;l3; Sunset 1928 Moonrise
Rive, Moonset 7:25p.
N. wsssee at Fayetteville, N. c. at
h.~"eonesday 80 feet:
WEATHER On Page I've
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OPERATORS
TO PASS ON COST
Association Informs Tru-
man, Dealers Unable
To Absorb Hike

WASHINGTON, July 16-PNThe
National Coal association today
told President Truman that com,
mercia1 soft coal operators ARE IN
no position to absorb the costs" OF
the new contract with John l..
Lewis miners.
Mr.. Truman on Monday appeal
ed to coal and steel interests to
keep prices down, at least until
exact costs could be determined,
in the wake Of the new Lewis con.
tract. The agreement increased
the miners average pay to $l3.o5
for an eight-hour day.. 1t had beer
Sill IS for nine hours.
John D. Battle, executive secre-
tary Of the Nationa! Coal assocla'
ton, reminded Mr.. Truman that ne
had advised him April % that the
industry "realized only about for
" million dollars in 1896"
10 Cents Per Ton
"Had your research department
looked at government figures i
! would have discovered that in l94t
the average net operating margin
for the commercial bituminou:
coal mines in the United States
was 10 cents per ton,' Battle
wrote the President.
"As a matter Of fact, there are
a number Of items of cost not ir
cluded in the figures from which
the 13-cent margin is derived;
among the cost not covered are in
terest, bad debts, demurragf
charges, idle mines, and mines de
velopment.
consequently, the actual ne
for the industry is considerably
less than 10 cents per ton, and, o.
course, this figure is before in
| come taxes"