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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
new YORK STATE
STILL SNOWBOUND
Shortage OF Milk Reported
As Result Oh Worst
Storm OF Winter
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Steady progress in digging out
Of the winters worst snowstorm
was made in the Northeast yester-
day although some small com
munities remained isolated and
transportation moved haltingly.
Upper New York state, seeking
to shake off effects of a five-day
storm which deposited As inches
Of snow in some places, was
threatened with another fall Of
to 3 inches expected by tonight.
Serious food shortages plagued
q few New York communities but
state police reported most main
highways had been opened. Sec
ondary roads remained clogged
and rural schools still we're closed
in much of the upstate area.
Fail, bus and air travel remain
ed crippled, although many lines
expected to resume some service
today. Schools reopened yester-
day in many of the large upper
New York state cities.
A 80 percent shortage in milk
supply developed in the New York
city metropolitan area, but major
distributors said they were ra-
t0nlng supplies to meet needs of
most families.
New York states Cortland coun-
" farmers, unable to deliver their
milk, were reported dumping it.
In C~attaraugus county, however,
producers lei said to be storing
mix in everything from sap
buckets to washing machines
waiting for roads to be opened.
A rotary pillow attacked 15-foot
of'fts on the highway from SYRIA
suse to Oswego, Lake Ontario
city of $4,000 cut off for three
Gays. oswego was reported short
OIL milk and bread.
Kissing temperatures aided trac-
TORS and bulldozers in opening
roads to snowbound Pennsylvania
communities, and rural schools in
mat state were reopening.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
STUDY OF coming
LAW TO Be MADE
City Council May Vote
Amendments To Pre-
sent Ordinance

The possibility Of the enactment
OF amendments to the city zonine
ordinance doomed at a meeting Of
the city council yesterday after
two requests for building permits
were submitted by local firms
Figuring also in the discussion
was the need for four Wilmington
residents to serve ON an adjust
ment board to effect the settle
ment of problems arising from
present zoning regulations.
Harriss Newman, council mem:
Der, introduced the matter Of the
adjustment board following the re
quest of the Gillette Miller con
struction firm for permission te
erect a building at 10Th and Queer
streets and a similar request by
J. G.. Crimson for a building or
Dawson street.
A motion calling for a study
of the zoning ordinances as
whole was introduced by Council
man James E. l.. Wade, with 9
possible view Of enactment by the
council Of amendments. to the
present regulations.
Earlier in the meeting DR.
Charles P. Graham had asked per
CONTINUED On Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
ADMIRAL HALSEY
RETIRED BY NAVY
Physical Disabilities Ends
Active Career OF Not
ed Five-Star Officer

WASHINGTON, March 5.-tP-
Fleet Admiral William F. Bull
Halsey, whose carrier fleets deal
smashing blows to the japanese
has been retired for physical dis
ability.
The Navy, announcing the order
today, said it was approved BY
President Truman Feb. %, effec'
tive March /, and official notice
had been sent to the five-star ad
miral.
In Charlottesville, Va, Halsey
said he could not comment be-
cause II don't know a damned
thing about it,"
tits good news, though. and
I'm glad to hear it," he told a re
porter.
The Navy blamed a mail mix
up for his apparent failure to gel
the notice.
On Inactive List
Halsey, GA years old last Octo'
Der, has been on inactive status
since the first of 1947. He ap'
peared last month before a Navy
board which decided he should
be retired because of "physica
disability incident to naval serv'
ice" A number of other officers
were retired at the same time.
The nature of the disability was
not made public. Halsey under
went an operation in New York
last December and suffered 9
respiratory infection" a veal
ago.
Halsey is the first five-star Of
ficer to retire for physical rea
sons. He will continue to draw
full pay and allowances, totallinl
! S15. THO a wear
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
Sixteen Cage Teams
Advance In Tourney
STAR-NEWS YMCA
TOURNEY RESULTS

Southport 80; Junior Varsity
81 (Boys).
Penderlea Z; Tabor City 0
Forfeit) (Boys).
Shallotte 2; Warsaw 0 (For-
feit) Boys.
Acme-Delco II; New Han
over 10 Girls.
Clarkton 80; Leland "A
Girls. 5...-,..
Delco 81; Dixon Is
Boys).
Leland 40; Richlands %
Boys.
Richards u; Long Creek
Grady II Girls.
E.izabefatown so; Clarkton
10, tBeys9- ~
Long Creek-Grady 9; Bolivia
SO; (Boys).
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
Senate Votes
OPA Death AS
Of June 30th
BANKING Subcommittee
Authorizes General. In
crease In Rents
DEMOCRATS BEATEN
Approved Appropriation
Bill Now Goes Back
For Occurrences

WASHINGTON, March 5 -P)-
The Rcpublican-dominated Senate
over~iding Democratic protests,
voted 1929 today to end OPA and
o+her wartime control agencies by
June 30.
A little earlier, a Senate Bank.
inc subcommittee voted 80
,aainst Democratic opposition to
authorize a general 10 per cent
boost in rents. Under this bill rent
controls would be taken from OPA
and left to the courts to enforce.
The decision to send OPA to
the graveyard Of governmental
wartime agencies took the form OF
? stipulation in a $50, DOC, 900 de.
ficiency appropriation for various
government bureaus.
The stipulation marked for death
tie Office Of Temporary controls
and it's constituent agencies.
These include the remaining rem
asnts, not only Of OPA, but the
Civilian Production administration
which welded enormous priority
powers during the war, and the OF.
flee of War Mobilization and re-
conversion.
The appropriation bill, passed
by the Senate today. goes back to
the House for action on amend.
ments.
1t contains about SIT, 900, 900 to
enable OPA to wind up its duties,
which now consist mainly of en-.
forcing controls over rents, sugar
and rice.
Senator Lucas D-Ill.) said the
money was not enough, that the
bill would spell the end of rent
control by April 30. But Senator
Taft R-Ohio) told the Senate that
Congress would be able to set up
rev control machinery well ahead
Of April 30.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
LOCAL RECRUlTER
TESTlFlES TODAY
Sergeant Creston Rowland
To Take Stand In Lit
tie Cruelty Case
Morning Star Washington
Bureau
Bv FRANK VAN DER LINDEN

BY FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
WASHINGTON, March S. - A
Naval officer decorated for BRAY
cry in the Battle Of Bataan is on
trial before a court martial here
on charges covering the mistreat'
ment of American felloW-prison-
ers in japanese prison camps
and the witnesses against him are
forty-six of those men who lived
through hell.
Among them are two North
Carolinians, Army sergeant Ores
ton Rowland of Raleigh, now as
| signed to recruiting duty at VIII
mington; and his cousin, former
Army corporal Cohen T. Rowland
of Route One, Virginia.
Cohen Rowland survived the
death March" Of Bataan. All Of
the veterans called to testify in
the case say they were starved
and abused while held captive,
first in the Philippines and later
in Japan.
Denies Charges
Lieutenant Commander Edward
N. Little, USN, the defendant, who
was in charge OF feeding the pri-
soners, denies the accusations. His
counsel has sought to quash the
case on the ground that the Navy
court martial here lacks jurisdic-
ton. But the Judge Advocate,
Lieutenant Commander. HOWARD
Bergman, has decided otherwise.
The first group of five witnesses
will take the stand Thursday.
Sergeant Creston Rowland is num-
Der five. His cousin is scheduled
to appear March 10.
Lieutenant Commander Little
a. =
fNnn&s.raJ np po 90 Txun. FOL A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
And So To Bed

A WilmingtOnian was COM
planning = couple Of weeks
ago that an unknown party
was stealing his coal from
the bin, but remarked siee-
fully that it would soon end.
"I'm installing q large oil
burning heater in my home"
Yesterday he had more
trouble. The borrower" Of
fuel was now concentrating ON
oil. -
81 have done my best To-
catch him." the victim ex-
plains, "but despite my losing
several hours sleep each
week, he still manages to get
away with at least ten Saasas
each week. s..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06
FORECAST:

wilmington and vicinity: Cloudy and
not so warm today, followed by partly
cloudy and much colder tonight with
scattered thunderstorms; Friday much
colder and cloudy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-06

Continued On Page Two; Col. A.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
|Deyers Announces Plan
For R0TC Summer CAMPS

Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of the
Army Ground Forces, today an.
nounced tentative plans for the re.
sumption of ROTC summer encamp-
ments, suspended since 1941.
The AGF tentatively has sched.
uled at least six weeks of training
in the advanced ROTC courses
which will be conducted at selected
camps throughout the country. The
advanced course Is for third and
fourth year college students who
will be required to attend at least
one summer encampment before
completion of their final year in
school.
Students will receive the SIS q
month pay of an Army private while
attending camp, as well. as travel
allowance of S cents a mile from
school to camp and return. Half OF
the training period will be devoted
to instruction in subjects common to
all branches of the service, the re-
mainder to tactics and techniques
Of the individual branches to which
the students belong.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Surp|uses Near End,
Gov. Lane Warns in
Inaugural Address
BY the Assecioied Press

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 8.-Foreseeing
the end of fat State surpluses, Gov.
Lane put up to the General Assem-
bly, today what to do about a budget
containing approximately $4,000, 900
more in requests than was in the
Appropriation Act of 1945. ,
The 56th Governor in his inau-
gural address made no specific rec
concentrations for raising revenue
but declared firmly that if certain
things are to be done, the money
must be found.
To the House and Senate, meeting
jointly to hear the message, Gov
Lane said: -...
1.-The period of State surpluses,
which were accumulated during the
war period, is coming to an end.
Anticipated surpluses for the next
biennium will be absorbed in the
next budget, and the problem we
face is where to reduce budget re-
quests and where to get additional
income needed to submit a balanced
budget. z. ...
Requests Up ls Million.
1.-THE budget requests total ap-
proximately $1s,O0o.oOO more an
nuany than under the existing
budget" (The 1945 act totaled
around $66,000,00 for two years)
The Governor also pointed out
that the commission on distribution
of State revenues, headed by Judge
Joseph Sherbow of Baltimore, had
made various recommendations on
distribution, but had not yet "sug-
gested how the State can do this
and continue to function at any
where near existing or proposed
standards"
He added, cit will be the task OF
the Governor and the General AS
sembly, if the proposed distribution
is to be made, to determine how
Evening star., 1947-01-08
3-Doy-WeekIy Senate Schedule
Expected to Raise Attendance
By J. A. oLeory

The decision of Republican lead
ers to have the Senate meet only
three days a week is expected to in
crease attendance, both on the floor
and in committee meetings. The
in-between days will be primarily
for committee hearings.
Chairman Taft of the Senate Re-
publican Policy Committee an
nounced that, until March /, the
Senate will meet on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, leaving
Tuesdays and Thursdays for COM
mittee sessions. It is an experiment
recommended in the LaFollette-
Monroney Reorganization Act, to in
crease efficiency. Committees may
continue to meet on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, but only in
the morning.
On the House side it always has
been the rule that committees, with
one or two exceptions. cannot meet
while the House is in session unless
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Mr.. and Mrs. Byrnes Welcome
Their Return to Private Life

James F. ByrneS was headed back
to private life today, after public
career of 46 years-and he welcomed
the change.
There are only two happy days
in the life of a man in public Office
the day he is elected, and the day
he steps out" the retiring Secretary
of State last night told friends at
the diplomatic reception at the
White House, as the news spread
that he was giving way to Gen.
George C. Marshall.
The reception was due to start at
70 o'clock. but got under way 20
minutes late, and it was few
minutes after the President and
Mrs. Truman had made their en-
trance that the Secretary of State
and Mrs. Byrnes arrived.
Mrs. Byrnes Explains.
Other members of the cabinet
gathered around them. Mrs. Byrnes
explained:
'"The Secretary had been late get
ting home. We had to dress. There
were phone calls-and phone calls. "
She was radiant, vivacious.
I'm glad he has resigned" she
said. Nov we'l have little time
together. / can talk things over
with him and not have to write him
notes." she laughed.
Il don't know what We'll do. We've
made no plans. Probably rest. Yes,
probably go home to Spartansburg,
is. c."
At that moment Senator Vanden-
berg, one of Mr.. Byrnes' advisers in
recent international parleys, came
along the line with Mrs. Vanden-
berg. Mrs. Byrnes rushed up to her.
The two women embraced. Mr..
Byrnes warmly greeted Senator
Vandenberg. The two men patted
each other on the back. Senator
Connally, the other American dele
gate to the U. N, came up and there
was handshaking.
What am I going to do?" Secre-
tary Byrnes joked. II want to walk
in the park. Maybe I'll file my
papers I've got a storeroom
jammed full in the Supreme Court,
a storeroom in the Senate and a
storeroom in the White House."
Lord Inverchapel, the British Am
.bassador, came up and linked arms
with Mr.. Byrnes. II protest" he
said obviously referring to the Sec
retary's resignation.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
SABBATH Plans Bill 10 Permit
Use Of CAPITOL Park Hotel

Despite opposition by a new men,
ber who believes members of Con-
gress should try first to solve the
general public's housing problem,
Representative SABBATH, Democrat,
of Illinois, went ahead today with
drafting bill for operation of the
old Capitol Park Hotel building and
for construction of two apartment
houses for congressional families.
Representative SABBATH said intro
duction of this bill will be one of his
first projects" in the 80th Congress
He had invited comment by other
members. The first to reply was
Representative Nixon, newly elected
Republican from California, who
occupies one-room apartmentEwi
his wife and baby. . a..
"It's the most ridiculous thing I
ever heard of" he declared. Before
congressman take care Of them
selves they should take care of the
rest of the country in this housing
problem"
The bill being prepared by Repre-
sentative SABBATH, his Office ex-
planned, is in two parts. It would
authorize the Public Building Ad-
ministration to acquire and operate
the Capitol Park building as living
quarters for Congressman and their
families. The building near Union
Station was bought by the Govern
ment for 100000 early in the war
and until last week was the United
Nations Service Center
The other part of the bill would
provide for two buildings or a COM
bined structure with apartments
near the Capitol for families of Con-
gressmen and their employees. The
bill as yet does not include an esti-
mated cost Of the project.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Gen. Marshall Leaves
Guam, Silent on His
Course in New Post
BY the Associoted Press

GUAM, Jan. 8.-Gen. Marshall
sped toward Washington tonight
in his special plane in high spirits
but silent as to his course of ac-
ton when he assumes his new
responsibilities as Secretary OF
State.
During a refueling stop here, he
was asked, will you follow the
same policies which Secretary
Byrnes has supported"
The general smiled and said, Il
would be foolish to answer a ques-
tion like that at this time"
Can you say anything of your
plans at this time?"
II am sorry. 1 have to be silent
for the present." Gen. Marshall re-
piled.
The general did not know of his
appointment to the cabinet until
he heard the news on the radio en-
route here from Nanking, said his
executive officer, Col j. H. Caughey,
Parkfairfax, Alexandria. Va.
Gen. Marshall, however, knew his
appointment was pending: 7 had
discussed it with the President"
He had asked that his arrival
here be kept secret, so he was met
with a minimum of ceremony by
high-ranking Army and Navy Off
GERS. There were no photographers.
Gen. Marshall left for Honolulu
about 20-hour trip, at 10 pm. q
am. EST after an hour and 40
minutes stop. He will pick up Mrs.
Marshall in Honolulu and she will
accompany him to Washington.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Veterans Offered Free Trip
To Site Of LoW-Cost Homes

Free transportation for veterans
who made down payments on houses
with George H. Williams, real estate
man who failed to produce the
promised homes. will be furnished
Saturday afternoon to sites of dwell
ings being offered them at reduced
cost by Washington builders.
Additional details of the reduced
cost program, sponsored by the
Home Builders Association of the
Metropolitan Area, are expected te
be announced tonight when the
group hold its annual banquet al
the Hotel Statler.
Waldron E. Leonard, director OF
the Veterans Service Center, saio
the transportation, furnished by the
American Women's Voluntary Serv-
ices, will be available at the center's
E street entrance between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets NV.
at l pm. Saturday.
Builders who have projects already
under way also have promised tc
have agents at sites on Saturday tc
conduct the veterans through homes
he added.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Pope Fights License
OF Press, Films 10
Undermine Religion
By the Assoeioted p-css

VATICAN CITY, Jan. s.-Pope
Plus XII said today that "uncon-
ditional liberty of the press and
films" could not be permitted if it
operated ito undermine the religious
and moral foundations of the life
of the people"
The Vatican has been under at
tack recently by anticlerical weeklies
of Italy. The pontif told members
of the Roman nobility paying him
their annual New Year visit that
granting full liberty under such
conditions would be "1egalizing Ii
cense."
The Pope told the formally dressed
gathering that uncertainty contin-
ued to mark the times, despite some
notable progress we hope may prove
lasting" and urged the necessity
of participation by all in the shaping
Of new world for the good of all.
Abstention, either because of dis
like of the course of affairs or in
difference, did not befit them, the
pointiff said, adding:
I'm vain may one try to hide be-
hand the mask of neutrality; such a
one is not at all neutral: He is.
whether he wills it or not, an ac-
complice."
A strong and just man" who is
Christian will mot be content to
stand rigid, impassive in the midst
Of ruin," he declared, adding: HE
will feel it his duty to resist and to
prevent the cataclysm, or at least to
limit its harm. 3"
After the horrors Of the war,
after the indescribable miseries
which followed it and the anguish
deriving from a suspension of hos
tiities which could not be called,
and was not peace. The charac-
teristic note was complete uncer-
tainty," he said.
"One walked in full darkness: The
deliberations, the manifestation of
tn popular will were necessarily
formed and transformed.
Meanwhile, on the world scene,
the year lately ended has presented
to our gaze spectacle in which GER
tainly it could not be said that
activity, commotion, surprise were
lacking"
Evening star., 1947-01-08

and where it is to obtain the funds
to distribute.
"It is easy to make suggestions to
give funds away, but it is much more
difficult to accumulate the funds to
distribute. The hard task will be
ours"
Program Outlined.
Besides revenues, Gov. Lane dwelt
at length upon a program which in
cluded such things as integration of
the University of Maryland into the
State educational system, a Chesa-
peake Bay bridge, construction OF
big highways to be paid for by
tolls, greater representation in the
Legislature for counties and the city
of Baltimore, and more home rule
for Baltimore.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Capper to Speak Tonight
Al Forum on SUFFRAGE

Senator Capper, Republican, OF
Kansas, will speak at public forum
on suffrange at 8:15 O'Clock tonight
at the Interior Department audi
torium under the sponsorship of
Chapter I of the American Vet
erans Committee.
Another speaker will be Kenneth
p Armstrong, chairman of the Lo-
cal Suffrage Committee of the Gen.
tral Suffrage Conference.
Senator Capper's participation in
the forum will mark the 26th ami
versary of the first District suffrage
legislation he sponsored in the
Senate. He recently introduced a
joint resolution in the Senate which
would empower Congress to grant
the District representation in the
Senate and House and the vote for
president and vice president.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Navy Places Storm Loss
In AIeutiuns at $3.50, 900
By the Associuted Press

SEATTLE, Jan. 8.-The terrific
storm that swept the Western Aleu-.
tians last Thursday caused damage
estimated at $250,0O to Navy prop.
erty, Rear Admiral F. A. Daubin
comandant of the 17th Naval Dis.
trict, said in a message yesterday.
The heaviest loss was at the Nava
Air Facility at Attu, where severa
hundred men are stationed. Winds
reached an average of ITO miles ar
hour, with gusts up to 135 miles
according to belated reports to the
admiral's Kodiak headuarters.
All power and communications
failed when piles and lines snapped
more than half the stations lines
were torn down and one warehouse
and SO quorlset huts were destroyed
Attu officers reported.
Evening star., 1947-01-08

permission is obtained. In the SEN
ate, however, it has been customary
for committees to meet all day, even
while major issue was being de-
bated in the Senate. Some Sena-
tors had to make an arbitrary
choice and pass up one session or
the other.
The Senate Republicans also are
considering adopting another House
practice Of ringing quorum bells Is
minutes before the daily session is
scheduled to begin. Now, Senators
engrossed in a committee hearing,
are given no reminder that the SEN
ate has convened, unless member
suggests the absence of quorum
1t is hoped this change will save
time in getting the days proceed
ings started.
Senator Taft said the Policy Com
mittee hopes to have a program of
major legislative issues ready for
submission to the entire Republican
membership next week.