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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
Navy
Shrinking Fleet

OS ''SS'
Two years after the end of World
War II, the us. Navy reported this
week that its fleet of combatant ships
had shrunk to 285 in full operation
and 81 in reduced status.
On VI Day, the fleet included not
only 1900 combatant ships but enough
auxiliaries, not counting small land
ing craft, to total 1000 vessels. The
Navy lineup now, besides the 306 COM
bat ships in full and reduced status,
consists of 1913 auxiliaries, SIS mine
vessels, "A patrol boats and 152 land
ing craft.
The Navy air arm is down from
41,272 planes at the end of the war to
1899 of all types, with $500 of them
fleet combatant aircraft.
In manpower, the Navy has gone
from 3,966,758 men and 1926, 074 officers
to 425, 900 men and 46, 1000 officers. It
will shrink a bit more during the cur
rent fiscal year.
While the Navy is dwindling in
numerical strength, it is pushing re-
search on new planes, ships and
weapons. Many innovations, some past
the experimental stage, are being
readied for service with the fleet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17
CAPITAL: Planes & Politics

The decision to declare a recess
until fall in the inquiry into Howard
Hughes wartime plane contracts
touched off volleys of charges and
countercharges more explosive than
any before in the superheated two
week investigation.
Hughes, millionaire film producer
and plane designer, said he believed
the hearings were called off because
Senate Committee Chairman Owen
Brewster (R-Me) was 'too ~cowardly"
to go or. Hughes said he doubted the
hearings would be reopened.
Former Col. James G.. Hall, who
succeeded Elliott Roosevelt as chief of
Army Air Corps photo reconnaissance,
branded the inquiry "a skunk circus
which has been sinking up the entire
nation" Hall, now an aviation con-
sultant, said the committee refused to
let him reply to testimony that John
W. Meyer, Hughes free-spending pub
licity man, spent almost $4,000 enter
tanning him and his associates over
approximately three years.
Brewster, vacationing in Maine, said
the future of the inquiry was up to
Chairman Homer Ferguson (R-Mich)
of the subcommittee actually conduct
ing the investigation.
Recessed-Not Ended
Ferguson, who announced the unex-
pected postponement after a closed
door meeting of his subcommittee,
said the hearings would be resumed
November II with Hughes as a wit
ness.
Sen. Ferguson explained there were
two reasons for the recess: demands
of other matters on Senators time,
and inability of the subcommittee to
locate Hughes publicity man, Meyer,
who disappeared after his subpoena
expired.
Democratic senators leaped to the
attack. Sen. James E. Murray (Mont)
called for a Senate investigation of
Investigations which depend on sensa-
tionalism instead of facts. He said the
Hughes probe was "just another ex-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17

ample of efforts to smear every wit
ness who takes the stand"
"The Republicans got a political
black eye," said Sen. A. Willis Rob-
ertson (D-Va), land I don't think the
circus they put on helped Congress
any"
Meanwhile Russell Birdwell, Holly
wood publicity man who once worked
for Hughes, said he would file a
81, 000,0 900 libel suit against Noah Diet
rich, a Hughes vice president, who
testified that Birdwell had admitted
classifying an expense account to make
it appear that he had entertained
Jesse Jones, then RFC chairman, in
Washington in 1912.
In Chicago, Attorney General Tom
C. Clark indicated the Justice Depart
ment would 60 ahead with an investi-
cation of the crossfire charges by
Brewster and Hughes while the hear
ings are in recess.
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Miniature


IN THE age Of atomic war, there
still may be room for super
bombs of non-atomic explosives.
Ths U. S. Army Air Forces now
Il exploring the possibility of
miriature manmade earthquakes
.uar weapon in tests at the Fargo
Tr.boat pens near Bremen, Germany.
rbs of non-atomic explosives
.ashine their way deep into the
urtb before detonation was demon
enstpd bv the British late in World
n', IT. Deep penetration bombs set
shock waves that smashed a tun-
W, 135 feet below the surface, far
hslov the point of the blast.
Three B-29 Superforts are dropping
Ok oo0-pound amazon" bombs (flled
18TH non-explosive powder) to test
sanetration power. The bombs are
gsonned from heights of $4,000 and
IooO0 feet and attain supersonic
~
speeds. -
T~mpregnable Target
The target is one of the staunchest
,tr1ctures in the world. The U-boat
t,ctorv is 1850 feet long, $50 feet
wide and so feet high, with a steel
reinforced concrete roof "a feet thick.
Three test bombs have been dropped
and two were direct hits. The third
landed some yards off the target.
The bombs indicated effectiveness
is of course, an official secret but
there is no Disgusting the phenomenal
accuracy with which they have been
dropped from shakespeare heights.
Despite the lack of explosives, the
bombs kick up to 1000 feet dust which
hangs in the air for almost half an
hour.
The AAF also has revealed that it
is developing and probably will test a
42OOO-pound bomb this fall. This is
reported to be the largest standard
explosive weapon ever developed but
the AAF recently had an even bigger
one-a 100000 FOUNDER in the blue
print stage. The project was said to
have been shelved, however, in a cur
taiIment of research.
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El7l'22Izslz2S 4 7dEZ1 Eek: 5:3
U.N.: Stymied on the Balkans

PEPORTS of renewed fighting
N in 1ndonesia between Neither
lands troops and Republican forces
indicated widespread violations of
the %cease-fire order of the United
Nations. Indonesians charged the
Dutch with conducting a large scale
military drive in west Java to gain
control of key mountain passes and
rich rubber and tea plantations.
The United States sped Walter A.
Foote, us. consul-general from. Ba-
tavia to the Indonesian capital at jog
jakarta in connection with the Ameri-
can proffer of sits good offices" in set
ting the conflict.
The Tangled Balkans
Meanwhile the Security Council
tangled again with the thorny problem
of the Balkans. Hershel Johnson, dep
uty us. delegate, formally charged
that Communist groups supported by
Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
hoped to set up a totalitarian regime
in Greece. He warned bluntly that if
the council failed to solve the Balkan
problem the US. was prepared to join
other countries in protecting Greece
within the provisions of the charter"
"We do not consider" he said, "that
our obligations Or the obligations of
the United Nations are ended, merely
because the Soviet Union sees fit to
use her veto to block constructive pro-
posals desired by nine of II council
members"
At another point he declared: "We
are no longer under the necessity of
attempting to appease further a threat
ening veto. Let us now record our
honest opinions"
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Britain
Dark Duys Ahead

The British House of Commons
after all-night debate voted authorize
ton this week to the Labor govern
ment to muster the full resources of
Britain, including manpower and in
dustry, for national recovery.
Prime Minister Attlee's "crisis bill"
brought charges of "too little and too
late" from left wing Parliament mem
bers and cries of dictatorship" from
the right. Winston Churchill called it
a blank check for totalitarianism."
Attlee went to the people in a radio
address last Sunday. He called for a
national effort comparable to that we
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17

The Justice Department probe fol-
lows a three months study of the
present price situation by Assistant
Attorney General John F. Sonnet,
who took charge of the antitrust divi-
sion in May.
New, Vigorous Approach
Attorney General Tom c. Clark
ordered the inquiry in the belief that
soaring prices in the food, clothing
and housing fields require a new and
more vigorous approach"
Earlier the CLIO Full Employment
Committee issued a call for a special
session of Congress to restore price
controls and roll back prices to some-
where nea OPA levels.
The CLIO group predicted there
would be another round of wage de-
mands if living costs continued to rise.
Before Congress adjourned last
month, it authorized a national survey
of rising living costs. That joint Sem
ate-House committee, headed by Sen.
Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), this week
named three subcommittee to study
conditions in the east, midwest and
west. They are headed respectively by
Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Ver), Rep.
George H. Bender (R-Ohio) and Sen.
Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah).
Probe or Whitewash
Emil REEVE, chairman of the CLIO
committee, called the projected Con-
gressional studies ian investigation ia
forestall action"
"The facts are already known"
REEVE declared. I'VE are up to our
necks in imitation"
In his announcement of the federal
inquiry, Clark recalled President Tru-
mans repeated warnings of the danger
of rising prices.
Clark's statement said:
"In his State of the Union message
in January, the President pointed out
that, despite half a century of anti
trust law enforcement, one of the
gravest threats to our welfare lay in
the increasing concentration of power
in the hands of a small number of
giant organizations, and that today we
find that to a greater extent than ever
before whole industries are dominated
by one or a few large organizations
which can restrict production in the
interest of higher profits and thus re-
duce employment and purchasing
power"
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SCIENCE: Shrinking G|oba| Contours

lHE march of science is steadi-
- ly shrinking the globe. Where
once pioneers blazed transcon-
Inental trails with blood and
sweat, passengers now zip from
coast to coast in streamlined
rams Every time a new record is set
oy a globe-girdling fier, the world
grows a little smaller and safer.
Eliot William Odom, who flew solo
eiound the world to set a new record
VI Is hours and 5 minutes last Sunday,
gave science full credit for making his
feat possible.
For the first half of his 19,600-mile
N!p, ne depended on his automatic
pilot and ground control systems at
slrports to bring him down through
toe and overcast. A Burma monsoon
pu' MS automatic pilot out of commits
SION, however, and after that he
.oulont let up an instant.
Alaskan Crisis
over the Yukon, Odom dozed at the
controls. He awoke after an hour and
~ minutes to find his plane headed
eltectly for a snowy 19,O00-foot noun
am peak. Apparently he had been
aylng in circles.
thirteen years of aeronautical de-
velopment, given a terrific squirt by
uie war, enabled Odom to more than
nave the record for the previous
,oond-the-world solo record of nearly
1o' hours set by the late Wiley Post.
noSt flew a much shorter route over
nou1Ssla, which refused permission to
odom will compete in the National
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In Short -.

Convicted: BY an American Mill
tary Tribunal, Frau Use Koch, red
haired widow of a former conn
mandant of B~uchenwald Concentra-
ton Camp, and 80 other defendants,
of war crimes.
Planned: BY Hiroshima residents, a
REPLICA of the Statue of Liberty on the
site of obliterated Hiroshima Castle.
Donated: By Howard Gambler, o
of the founder of Coca Cola, to Emory
University in Atlanta, Ca, securities
valued at 100000 with an annual
income of 100000.
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Dates
Monday, August 18


American Veterinary Medical
Association to meet in Cincinnati.
World Sunday School Associa-
ton opens conference in Biz
mingham, Eng.
Tuesday, August 10
National Aviation Day.
Thursday, August Fl
Anniversary (third), Dunbar
ton Oaks conference.
Anniversary (second), end of
Lend-Lease.
Sunday, August "a
American Pharmaceutical AS
ISOLATION meets in Milwaukee.
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Air Races at Cleveland on August 30.
His plane will be a special speed job,
whose specifications still are secret.
In October Odom plans another
global aight-this time the hard way
over both poles. Backed by Milton
Reynolds, who sponsored his other
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developed during the war" to meet
the or IS. He told Britons they must
light alone for economic survival as
once they had fought alone against
All Britain will be listening this
Sunday to a radio address by Church.
i'll, leader of the opposition.
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global flights, Odom will fly a con-
verted B-36 bomber and take along
10 scientists and newspapermen.
The route probably will be via
Greenland, the North Pole, Alaska,
Tokyo, New Zealand, South Pole and
South America.
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to Probe
Soaring Food Prices

ME- government became aware this week of something the house
- we on a budget realized long ago-that prices had risen alarm
Department of Justice to determine whether "conspiracies" exist to
MAINTAIN n to increase prices in the food, clothing and housing fields
Jail sentences, rather than mere fines. will be SOUGHT for uiolators
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johnson spoke after Yugoslavia had
accused the United States of deliber-
ately misrepresenting conditions in
the Balkans to justify the Truman
doctrine of aid to Greece.
He said the Balkan problem would
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AfIonfa Constitution

inevitably 60 before the 55-nation
General Assembly-which meets in
New York on September 16-if the
council failed to break the deadlock
between Russia and the western pow
ers.
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fAl Rights Reserued. AP Ne~ysfeatures)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12
1900 Superforts
To Be Held Ready

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-R-The
Army Air forces will have about
1880 superfortresses in ready stor-
age, available for quick use to
bulwark its fleet of operating bomb
ers, during the years Immediately
ahead.
This was disclosed tonight in an
AAF announcement which said the
Z 500 B-29's are being given the
"cocooniag" process to protect
them against rust, corrosion and
other damage from the weather
while parked in open storage areas.
The special plastic used to coat
the airplanes can be removed
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Dial 1881 For Newspaper Service
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12
BABIES HOSPITAL
RESIDENT NAMED
Two New Doctors Assume
Duties In Wrightsville
Sound Institution

The announcement of the ap-
pointment of DR.. James Taylor
Rhyme, OF Arkansas, as resident
pediatrician, at Babies hospital on
Wrightsville Sound, was made yes
terday by hospital officials.
At the same time, DR.. J. B. Sid
bury, and DR.. J. c. Knox reported
DR.. Lewis Gray, of Virginia had
arrived to be associated with the
hospitals pediatric division.
DR.. Rhyme, now living at
Wrightsville beach, received his
degree in medicine at the Univer-
sity of Arkansas School of Medi-
cine in 1871. He held a rotating in
ternship in the Lima Memorial
hospital Lima, Ohio, in 1912, fol
lowed by a residency in pediatrics
at the University hospital. Little
Rock. Ark. in 1943. DR.. Rhyme serv.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12
TAX HICHLIGHTS
DURING THE WEEK
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jan. 5 Chairman Knutson Or
Mimi of House Ways and Means
committee says move to cut
excise taxes Immediately may
be put ahead of bill for 20 per
cent income tax slash.
Jan. 6-Bill for immediate cut IN
excise taxes introduced in House.
President in message to Con-
gress urges retention OF present
excise rates until July, 1948.
Jan. 8-President, in economic re-
port to Congress, opposes income
tax reduction now.
Jan. - Senator Taft R-Ohio)
favors 20 per cent cut in income
taxes, slash in budget and tenn
porary retention OF excise taxes
Jan. 1O-President's budget e
sage renews opposition to tax
cuts. favors debt reduction first.
The recently established repub-
lie of Viet-Nam includes the old
states of AMMAN and Tonkln II
French Indo-Chia.
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IOOF Lodge Set
For Installation

Officers of Cape Fear lodge No.
2, Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows will be installed Tuesday night
at 7:30 O'clock it was announced
last night by E. C. Marlowe, Sec
rotary.
The following elective officers
will serve another term by virtue
Of unanimous reelection; Graham
Burkheimer, Noble Grand, R. S.
Hyman, Vice Grand, E. C. Mar.
lowe, secretary and A. B. Stern
berger, treasurer.
Appointive officers for the new
term are c. B. Case, David jacob,
Major Dukes, Herman Dukes. J.
v. Durham, Chas. DeVane, Johr
Maizarick Simpson, R. H. Orrel
and Nathan jacob.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12
Chairman Has Corps OF
Volunteers Working On
Project

w. K. Rhodes. Jr., local attorney
and chairman of the 1947 March
of Dimes in New Hanover county,
last night announced blank checks
for mailing to contributors had been
readied and would be mailed dur
ing the coming week.
The chairman has kept a corps
Of volunteers busy in his office
during the last week addressing
the envelopes.
Thousands Of envelopes have
been prepared by the four girls
who have been performing the task
and as one worker put it 1--WE have
worked hard because I know what
it will mean to the persons suffer
ing from the dreaded disease"
The dreaded disease is infantile
paralysis commonly known as
polio" and it is to aid sufferers
of that malady' that Rhodes and
his helpers have been kept busy.
Mailing Of blank checks to pa
irons is not an Innovation to March
O. Dimes collections but the sys-
tenn is one of the "best ways to
raise money" according to Rhodes.
Persons receiving the checks
have been asked to sign the name
of the banking firm with which
they do business together with the
amount of the donation. The checks
will be honored by the banking in
situations on which they have beer
drawn.
The actual solicitation of funds
will get underway Jan. Is and rur
through the Both according te
Rhodes who will be handling the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12

ed in the Medical Corps Of the
army, with a first lieutenant's rat
ing during the war era.
DR.. Gray, a graduate OF Mar
shall college, in Huntington. ".
Va, and Medical College of Vir-
ginia, interned in the Charity hos
pital Of Louisiana, in New Orleans.
He served in the Pacific theatre
of operations in the Navy during
the war and is now living in Will
mington. DR.. Gray returned to the
Charity hospital in New Orleans
after his discharge from the Navy
to study under the late DR.. Chester
Stewart, nationally known for his
work in childhood tuberculosis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12
Navy Plane Sets
kew Coast Record

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 11.-R-The
Nays new twin-jet carrier-based
phantom completed a 365-mile
flight from Jacksonville, Fla, tc
Miami today in .one-hour flat.
The plane, piloted by 1t. Comdr.
William Wright Kelley of New
castle. Pa, came here. to partici-
pate in the all-American air
maneuvers. 1t left Jacksonville al
3:O1 %. m. tEST).
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Three Prisoners
Escape In Virginia

FAIRFAX, Va, Jan. 11.-UH-
Three prisoners burned their way
through a plank ceiling and then
climbed down a blanket rope to
escape from the Fairfax county
Jail last night, police reported to-
day.
The trio stepped ipto a patrol
mans parked automobile and fled,
the report said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12
Polio Fund Checks
Reddied For Mailing

campaign FOR the second consecu-
tive year.
Cans will be placed in stores
and offices, the chairman said, for
the collection of dimes, and other
pieces of money.
Rhodes said yesterday he felt the
goal Of $4,000 would be met with
little trouble as he indicated he
would like to see the fund income
reach five figures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12

quickly and the plane made Rad.
for combat. '
The ratio of ''cocooning'' BOO.
to the number kept in operatio'
was not disclosed. However wi
AAF is understood to possess c' ae
rently about 5000 very 6eaan
bombers. The great majoritv :. :,
which are B-29's. VI
The AAF plans to operate in ~.
year beginning July l a force 1 ~.
70 groups totalling around NM NJ
airplanes of all types. ''V'
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Haywood Treasurer
Dies Al Robbinsuillt

BROWNSVILLE, Jan. II, III
Princess V. Massey, 70, who had
been treasurer of his native Hay
wood county for three terms, died
here yesterday.
He moved to Robinsville, Graham
county, in 1886 to make his home
with his son Dennis, where he
died.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-12

Marine hospitals, in almost .n
principal Great Lakes ports. ar ,.
operated by the U. S. Health soru
ice. Since 1874, Great Lakes 81,
ors have received medical csn.
and disqualification without cost 4.
themselves. "
Evening star., 1947-12-11

on four counts Of forgery and two
Of false pretenses.
Police said Mrs. Allen, the mother
Of two children, will face hearings
In the District, December 23, on IL
charges Of false pretense. Five SIM
liar charges also are pending against
her In Prince Georges County, police
reported.
John A. Mullen, IS, Of the 1000
block Of D street NE. was acquitted
on an armed robbery charge in con-
nection with the holdup Of q
Bethesda couple last June 20 after
States Attorney Walter w. Dawson
agreed to accept not-guilty plea
on grounds there was insufficient
evidence. Mullen was charged with
participating in the robbery. OF
nearly $4,000 in money and jewelry
Evening star., 1947-12-11
|Psychiatric Treatment
Ordered for Engineer
In Morals Conviction

Hunter Scott Bandy. 32-year-old
former Navy aeronautical engineer,
Of the 4500 block of Gladwyn drive,
Bethesda, was ordered to take psy-
chiatric treatment and was given a
generally suspended" Jail sentence
in Montgomery County Circuit
Court at Rockville yesterday on
three sex charges.
Bandy had been convicted In Sill
yer Spring Police Court October IA
on two counts Of assault against
minor children and one Of inde-
cent exposure.
Judge Stedman Prescott, who
heard testimony on an appeal fled
by Bandy's attorney, Bernard +.
Welsh, declared the suspended SEN
tence would be for an indefinite
duration"
Warned to Leave Neighborhood.
Judge Prescott also warned the
former engineer against returning
to his own neighborhood. You
should dispose of your property
there and make a clean start" the
jurist stated.
DR.. Benjamin Karpman, psychia-
trist at st. Elizabeths Hospital, said
Bandy could be cured.
In other cases, Mrs. Edith s. Al
len, IS. Of the District, pleaded
guilty when arraigned on a charge
Of forgery and false pretense. She
will be sentenced later.
Faces Other Hearings.
Mrs. Allen testified she forged the
checks because she was tired Of
seeing her mother support her chill
dren." The court heard evidence on
only one charge yesterday, although
she was indicted by the grand jury
Evening star., 1947-12-11
A, 900 DoIlurs for One

United States bank notes sold on
China's black market at one Amer
ican dollar for $500 to $4,000
Chinese dollars, at recent quotations.
Evening star., 1947-12-11

and an automobile from Mr.. and
Mrs. Nathan Cosman, Of 1912 Brad.
lev boulevard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
T0RZA LEADING
Ms GOLF MEET
--.
Hartford Linksman Leads
Way Into Quarter Finals
AT Pinehurst

PINEHURST, April % up -
Medalist Felice Torza Of Hartford,
Conn.,, led the way into the quar-
terminals of the 47th orth and
South amateur golf championship
with a second round victory over
DR.. J. P. Kendrick, Bethesda, Md,
at the goth hole here today after
being three down at the ninth.
c. B. Dudley of Greenville, s. c.,
runnerup to Torza for medal hon
ors, scored a comparatively easy
6 and S victory over F. T. Sutton,
III, of Richmond, Va.
Walter Hagen, Jr., who turned
in a mild upset by eliminating
long-hitting Frank Souchak of
Pittsburgh in this mornings first
round today, bowed out to his own
clubmate and club champion, Dave
Ewell, Jr., of the Hermitage club,
Richmond, Va, by 4 and 3.
M. M. Nolan of Birmingham.
member of the University OF North
Carolina team, eliminated D. F..
Seaman, Bayshore, L. L., 1 up
while another close match saw
Frank Strafaci of Roosevelt, L. l.,
come from behind to snare a 2 and
1 victory over R. M. Torgerson
of Long Islands Cherry Valley
club.