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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
TO PLAN
FOR HEALTH WEEK
Superintendent Ro-
land Says Entire System
To Observe Feb. 20

In cooperation with the observ-
ance of Good Health Week in all
public schools in North Carolina
February %, a program stressing
good health practices will be
carried out in all New Hanover
county schools, H. M. Roland, coun-
ty school superintendent, said last
A health and physical education
program Is stressed in the county
schools all during the year, Roland
stated, but some special program
will be planned and carried out dur
ing good health week. Definite
plans for the week are to be made
at a meeting Of all school
principals, he added.
Announcement that the week Of
February % would be observed
in all North Carolina public schools
was made by Dr.. Clyde A. Erwin,
state superintendent of public in
DR.. Erwin's suggestions for the
of Good Health Week in
clude student assembly programs
on health, gymnasium demonstra-
tons Of intra-mural athletic activi-
ty and other phases of physical edu-
cation, renditions of the Good
Health song, 'It's All Up To You,"
before student assembly programs,
orations on the subject Of
Good Health, showing Of health
films, editorials on health =
school papers, a contest fo- the
best health poster, a health pro-
gram for the PIT. A. and talks on
health by students before Civic
The observance will also include
health service features. An inten-
sive effort will be made by school
officials to have all high school
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
LEWIS, UNIV FACE
COURT TUESDAY
Federal Attorneys Ready
To Battle For Colds
borough Judgment

WASHINGTON, Jan. u. -W.H-
John L. Lewis and his United
Mine workers (AFL) go before the
Supreme court Tuesday for the
final round Of a legal battle that
may determine whether they are
beyond the jurisdiction of the gov.
eminent in Gripping the nation with
coal strikes.
With another strike deadline only
IL weeks away, Lewis and the
UNIV already have asked the
court to cancel their contempt con.
victions and the $3.50, 900 fines
levied when they failed to heed the
governments injunction restrain
ing them from going on strike in
the federally-operated mines last
November.
In briefs filed Saturday, the
union charged that the punishment,
melted out by Federal Judge T.
Alan Goldsborough, resulted from
public hysteria and political ex-
pediency." 1t said the government
like private industry, is prohibited
by the Norris-LaGuardia anti-in.
junction act from obtaining a re-
straininc order.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
Republicans
China
Vandenberg Drags Battle
With Byrnes Over Ar
gentine Into. Open
"STORM WARNINGS"
New Secretary May Be Call.
ed To Capitol Hill For
Dress Review

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-
(UP)-1ncoming Secretary of
State George C. Marshall
Sunday faced a major row
with top-ranking Republicans
unless he is willing to change
U. S. policy toward China and
Argentina.
The Republican chairman
of the Senate Foreign rela-
lions committee, Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Michigan, sent
up that storm signal while
the general, en- route home from
China, still basked in the sunshine
of Waikiki beach in Hawaii.
Vandenberg wants the United
States to abandon its efforts to
bring the Chinese Communists into
a coalition government after Mar
shalIs 13-month futile effort, and
disagrees completely with outgoing
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes on policy toward Argentina.
For the generals benefit also,
Vandenberg advised that he and
his party would have no truck with
anything but a "tough'' policy
toward Russia and would expect
Marshall to make some drastic
changes il the State department
and the U. S. representation at the
United Nations.
observation-disclosures
Great Importance was attached
to Vandenberg's address before the
Cleveland Council on Foreign af-
fairs and completely overshadoWed
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
VOLUNTEER DRIVE
OPENS HERE TODAY
Bureau Will Facilitate
Work OF Social Agencies
In Area

: All Wilmington and New Hanover
county residents, regardless of past
experience, has a job waiting in
volunteer work with any of the Il
"Red Feather" agencies of the Will
mington Community Council, and
other organized groups, Mrs. Will
liam B. Sisson, chairman of the
Volunteer Bureau of the Social
Service League, said last night.
Offices of the Bureau, room 414
Tide Water Building, will be open
every day this week from 10 a.
m. until 5 p. m. for registration.
Any person willing to give part Of
their time to any of the agencies
are asked to sign up with the
Bureau this week.
The need for volunteer workers
over the city is evidenced by the
fact that many of the group work
agency programs are handicapped
by a lack of such workers, Mrs.
Sisson stated.
The work in many of the agencies
is carried on Almost Wholly Dy
volunteers, it was pointed out, and
all types of workers r needed.
Thirty-four jobs are open to mer
in the volunteer work with the Boy
Scout troops here. Among those,
the greatest need at the present is
for scout masters, merit badge
councillors and district committee.
men. The merit badge councillors
aid the scouts along the line Of
their hobbies, in their work for any
of the 100 merit badges which
range all the way from aerial dy-
namics to zoology. The district
committeeman make plans or
policies and scouting activities.
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
POLICEMAN HELD
IN STORE ENTRY
Chief Casteen Dismisses
New Member OF Force
After Arrest

Three counts of breaking and en-
tering today face H. L. Gurley, who
until his dismissal yesterday was a
member of the Wilmington police
force.
He a arrested by city police
early yesterday morning after he
was allegedly caught red-handed
after breaking into the Market
Street Groceteria shortly after 60
ing on duty at midnight Saturday
night.
At the time of Gurley's arrest,
B. A. Mooney, manager of the
Groceteria at 127 Market Street,
told police that he had missed
funds from the cash drawer on two
or three occasions. Unable to gain
any evidence as to who was re-
sponsible, he, together with another
employee, maintained a watch over
the store after closing hours Satur-
day night.
Shortly after midnight someone
forced the front entrance with an
iron bar and came into the store
where, Mooney said, he recognized
police officer Gurley. Then police
headquarters was notified.
Brought before Chief c. H. Cas-
teen and 1t. T. B. Hughes, Gurley
confessed that .'.e had entered the
building on three different occa-
sions and had taken approximately
$4,000 in addition to some Gig
arettes.
He was Immediately dismissed
from the department., officially
charged with the thefts and COM
mitted to the New Hanover county
Jail under 1900 bond.
Chief Casteen made it clear last
night that Gurley would be treated
just as any other defendant and
said absolutely no punches would
be pulled in the prosecution of the
case.
ITO the police department he is
just another defendant" he said.
eve cannot condone any such con
duct by a member of u depart
ment and he will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law"
Chief Casteen said Gurley had
been a member of the police force
for only a short time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
OVER 1000 SEE
PATROL VESSEL
Naval Reserve Craft Holds
Open House Sunday At
Dock Here

Approximately 1000 local resi-
diets and several hundred visiting
servicemen boarded the USS Patrol
Craft IT'S yesterday afternoon for
an inspection of the ship, John H.
Wilson, commanding officer of the
local Naval Reserve Unit, report
ed last night.
Escorts, members of the ships
crew, were provided to show the
visitors over the vessel and answer
any questions that might arise,
Wilson stated.
He also revealed that they were
Every gratified by the reception
given the vessel by the citizens of
Wilmington and southeast North
Carolina"
The commanding officer added
that ''more gun drills were held
aboard the ship by the youth of
Wilmington than were held on any.
ship I've been on"
The USS PC IT'S is the vessel as
signed to the local organized di-
vision of the Naval Reserve for
training purposes.
Approximately 500 invited guests
made a tour of the vessel Saturday
afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
Meat Supply
To Be Ample
Agency Says
1947 Production Expected
To Allow $50 Pounds
For Every Citizen
35-YEAR RECORD
r;oarette Consumption Ex-
nected To urpass 1916
Total By Millions
Jan. r.

WASHINGTON, Jan. r.
R-The Commerce depart
mont said Sunday night
enough meat may be produced
this year to provide every
person in the United States
with $50 pounds-more than
at any time in the last 35
years.
This finding is contained in
broad analysis of industrial
trends and trade prospects for
the year ahead.
Highlights of the analysis,
which the department. said is Sub
iact IN the unsettled conditions OF
reconversion prevailing in all
nhases Of industry and business
include these findings:
There should be more butter,
fish. fresh fruits and canned fruits
and vegetables and juices than last
wear, and prospects are that 1947
food supplies will continue at the
record 1916 levels"
No changes will be observable in
SUPPLIES Of chicken, turkey, con-
densed and evaporated milk,
cheese. ice cream and dried skim
milk. Supplies of eggs, fresh vege-
tables and total milk in all forms
may be somewhat higher than in
1916.
Blended whiskey should be
ample" and brandies, rum and
gin, both domestic and imported,
easily obtainable." But imports OF
Scotch will continue scarce for
three or four years.
Prospects for production of both
whiskey and beer depend upon the
grain supply. If industry can get
it in liberal amounts, whiskey
stocks can be rapidly replaced"
Beer production could exceed the
1945 record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
Is PERSONS BURN TO DEATH
IN EASTERN AIRLINE CRASH:
MARSHALL IA
Cherry To Deliver
Message On Budget
Assembly Set To Hear Gov
ernor And Advisory Re-
ports Tonight

RALEIGH, Jan. 12-P-The 1947
session of the North Carolina Gen
eral assembly prepared to swing
into its second week of action
Monday and was scheduled to hear
Governor Cherry's budget message
at 8 p. m.
The session was also expected
to receive along with Cherry's mes
sage a report of the Advisory Bud
get commission, which is reported
to call for the greatest spending in
the states history.
The Senate is expected to con-
slider Monday night an amend
ment on the teachers and state en-
ployes' pay-increase bill, which will
call for increases ranging from Is
to 80 per cent.
Governor Cherry in his biennial
message Thursday recommended a
20 per cent increase, and the bill
sailed quickly through the Senate
Friday, and was passed virtually
without debate.
However, upon reaching the
House., Rep. Barker of Durham,
Immediately offered an amend
ment to boost the increases to q
and 30 per cent. The amendment
was passed 60 to Al after bitter
extended debate.
Adds S1,460, 900
The amendment, according to AS
sistant Budget Director R. G. Dey'
ton, would add about 81, 460, 900 tc
nearly 200, 900 provided for ir
the Cherry 20 per cent bill. II
would provide a 30 per cent in
crease for employees making S 1,20(
or less annually and Is per cent
for all other brackets except fol
employees making from So, FOL te
S. 800. Employees in the upper brac'
ket would get a flat SIS monthly
increase.
Should the Senate fight the Bark.
err amendment and prevent its pas
sage, as has been reported in ad
ministration circles, joint commit
tee sessions of the House ane
Senate Appropriations committee
will have to work out some sor
of compromise. Such action ma,
delay making the pay increase
available for the January checks
Governor Cherry in his biennia
message had recommended thai
the increases be made available
for the Jan. l, l947 pay checks.
The Senate last week treceivet
three bills calling for restriction
on the sale of fireworks. Senator
Lee Weathers of Cleveland ane
Sheldon Roper of Lincoln introduc
ed measures which would place
statewide ban on the sale of fire
works, and Sen. George Penny O
Guilford presented a bill which
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
TIME OUT FOR MARSHALL

Instead of arguing with MIR.
Gromyko about who is delaying
disarmament, it would be better,
it seems to me, if the President
instructed our delegates to ask that
the whole discussion be adjourned
until General Marshall has had an
opportunity to take charge OF 1t.
No time will be lost. For no real
progress can be made untn the
American position has been recon
sidered, clarified and unified.
For the new Secretary OF state
will hardly wish to go on with
three or four distinct and dlsparate
American policies on ornaments,
each formulated and administered
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
CRIMINAL COURT
TO OPEN TUESDAY
Judge J.. Paul Frizelle OF
Snow Hill To Preside At
Term Here

The January criminal term of
New Hanover county Superior
court, which was tentatively cancel
led Saturday due to the illness of
Judge Clawson j. Williams, will
open Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
with Judge j. Paul Frizelle of Snow
Hill presiding, according to an an.
aouncenent yesterday by Sheriff
I. David Jones.
Coincident with this announce
nent, Sheriff Jones asked that all
Jurors and witnesses who had pre-
vlously been notified to appear to-
DAY to be in court Tuesday morn
ing instead.
Prior to the assignment of Judge
%fflzelle, a special term had been
requested for February II in view
Of the heavy docket.
outstanding among the cases
stated to be heard during the week
one II which Guy Ganey, Sea-
gate filling station operator, is fac
ing charge of murder growing out
lime fatal shooting of Julius Hend'
eISon several weeks ago.:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
Plane Bursts
Into Flames
At Calex,V Va.
Workers Pull Lone
Survivor From Wreck
age Early Sunday
SHIP OFF COURSE
Pilot Had Contacted Win
ston-Salem Airport Soon
Before Mishap

GALAX, Va, Jan. 12.-
(UP)-A twin-engined East
ern Airlines plane, 60 miles
off course and lost in heavy
weather without a radio
range, crashed in the rain on
a mountain highway early
killing 10 of the 10
persons aboard.
The only survivor, William
Ellis Keyes, Jr., of Boynton,
Fla, was pulled from the
burning wreckage by two saw
mill workers and taken to a hos
pital with severe burns.
Airport Manager Wallace G.
Durham at Winston-Salem, N. c.,
go miles south where the Detroit
to-Miami plane had tried to land
and hour earlier, said the radio
range had gone out at 1:55 a. M
about 30 minutes before the big
airliner .roared into the ground
and exploded.
In Miami, Eddie Rickenbacker,
president of Eastern. said the Win
ston-Salem range was still out at
2:30 a. m, about the time the
crash occurred.
Durham said the plane, due at
Winston-Salem at 1923 AM, had
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
CRASH SURVIVORS
RESCUED AT SEA
Thirty-Six Taken From Life
Rats By Crew OF u. S.
Army Transport

MANILA, Philippine Republic,
Jan. IL. -U.H- Thirty-six surviv-
ors, huddled aboard five tiny bob
bling life-rafts since their C-54 trans
port plane crashed into the China
Sea Saturday, were picked up
Sunday by the U. S. Army Trans
port Gen. Collins.
The rescue was announced by
Capt. Thomas R. Taylor, chief OF
operations for Far Eastern Air
Transport, inc, who also report
ed that six other persons had been
"given up for lost" by officers OF
the Collins.
The l~iferafts were sighted -ap-
proximately 80 miles off the coast
Continued On Page 2; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
Today And Tomorrow
Rv WALTER

by a separate group of officials. He
is entitled to a pause during which
our position can be reviewed as a
whole, and a coherent policy laid
down.
For the present situation is, to
say the least, bewildering. On
atomic weapons we have told the
world that we shall never agree to
any plan except the plan we have
proposed. But at the same time
we are in a tremendous hurry to
have our plan adopted. One day
we say that we are offering to give
up our most precious monopoly,
Continued On Page 2, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
OF Ir1sh"Fails
Pretty Belfast Colleen

COLUMBUS, O.. Jan. 12-R-
The "luck Of the Irish" deserted
pretty Jane Orr Shepherd-Johpson
when she left her native Belfast
last month to visit her sailor sweet
heart in America.
Today the blue-eyed, 18-year-old
colleen waited in a .city Jail cell
for immigration authorities to ar
range her deportation to Ireland
This was her story of the mis-
fortune that logged her trip:
In London someone stole her
only coat before she sailed Dec.
7 on the Queen Mary.
Shivering, she arrived in Spring
field, O., to find that Allen Ken
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
PAY SUITS WILL
YIELD LITTLE"
Wage, Hour Law Admins.
traitors Says Unions May
Get Only Small Sums

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-U.D-
Labor unions which have filed
-portal-to-portal pay claims exceed
ing 81. 900, 900, 900 actually will re-
ceive only a "small fraction Of
that amount, L. Metcalfe Walling,
administrator of the Wage and
Hour law, predicted Sunday night.
Issuing a statement to correct
widespread misunderstanding
about the recent Supreme court
decision on which the claims are
based, he said that reports of
billions" Of portal-to-portal liza
bility were grossly exaggerated"
but he made no specific estimate
of final payments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13

nison. q, whom she hopes to mar
ry, had been sent by the Navy
to China and would not get a
leave until March.
She went to live with Kennison's
uncle and aunt and took a job as
a waitress to earn money for an
other coat and gifts for her parents.
Taking a job violated her 90-day
visitors visa, and last Thursday a
federal immigration agent arrested
her.
Next Thursday Jane will leave
for New York and Ellis Island
to sail back to Belfast.
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
SO To Bed

And who said times do not
change In Dixie? Sun!
A Wilmingtonian, returning
to the Port City last night,
reported reading the following
advertisement which appeared
in the Sunday paper Of the
capital Of South Carolina:
"Nice room, nice bath. No
objection to Yankees"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13
Navy Rescues
A. From
,,1farcdc
TX Men Who Miraculously
Survived Plane Crash
Safe On Tender
THREE LOSE LIVES
Weakened Crewmen Hike
10 Miles Through Snow
To Reach Mariner

ABOARD u. S. S. M T..
OLYMPUS, Jan. 12.-P-
The six Navy airmen who
miraculously survived a plane
crash and two weeks of ex-
posture in the icy Antarctic
wastes were brought back
Sunday to the safety Of their
mother ship, the seaplane
tender Pine Island. .
Three companions of the
men were killed when their
plane, a PPM Mariner on a
Photographic survey flight
over icy Ellsworth land, crashed
into an ice barrier Dec. 80.
The survivors were sighted by
a search plane Saturday near the
partially burned Wreckage OF incl
plane. Another Mariner flew out
from the Pine Island Immediately
to bring them back.
The rescue plane landed in open
water some ten miles from the
crash scene. The survivors trudged
there through ice and snow to be
picked up.
Those Surviving
In Washington, the Navy depart
ment released the following names
of survivors: ,
Capt. Henry H. Caldwell, com
mander of the Pine Island, whose
wife, Mrs. Dorothea G.. Caldwell,
lives at Norfolk, Va.
1t. (JG) William H. Kearns, Jr.,
father, William H. Kearns, Sr.,
Boston, Mass.
montinued nm Pare 2. Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-13

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
TODAY and tonight; Tuesday rain with
not much change in temperature.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

Actors are believed to have
been called "hams" because they
used ham fat to remove makeup.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

dustrialist and inventor, who
announces today his proposal to
place on the market by Janu-
ary /, 1913 such a device.
Warren's gadget which he
thinks can be marketed for less
than $40, is designed to take
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

ner cent east of Raleigh.
This condition of economic uh-
balance as affecting eastern
North Carolina is particularly
disturbing when we take lnto
consideration the agrlcul1urai
n;ct,,re. The economy and stand
ard of living of Eastern NORM
Carolina is almost wholly lnVol-
we'd in the production and price
Of tobacco. The decline in the
market price of flue-cured TO-
hacco that has already been ex-
nerienced this year has resulted
in the loss of cash income to tne
fsrmers of North Carolina IN the
amount of approximately ao
million dollars. Acreage reduct-
ions in prospect for next year
and the possibility Of further
price problems may involve
even further reduction OF IN
come and purchasing power
"Not only is there an unnal-
ance in Eastern North Carolina
between agriculture and manu-
featuring; even it's agricultural
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
Community Pastor
Moves To Home
AT Carolina Beach

The Rev. James B. McQuere,
pastor of the Carolina Beach
Community church, with his fam
lily has moved to the Beach and
is occupying as a parsonage, an
apartment in the Merley cottage,
The congregation of that church
feels that this will be a great
help in the progress of the
church. The church and Sunday
school attendance is gaining as
is usual for the winter, and many
social events will be held, and
Bible study as well, it was an
nounced.
A fish fry for some time the
last of the month and services
for Thanksgiving and Christmas
seasons, are being planned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

Authority shortly after the
termination of the war beg n
active negotiations to have the
site and plant of the North Caro-
lima shipbuilding company turn
ed over to the Ports Authority
for port development at Will
mington. Many obstacles were
encountered, but the Ports AL
thority stuck to its task. The
members, with the active coop
GRAFTON of our delegation in Con-
gress. led in this endeavor by
the able Congressman from the
seventh congressional district
Hon. J. Bayard Clark, took their
case directly to the president Of
the United States. 1t was pointed
out that the Port of Wilmington,
as well as other ports OF this
state. suffered during the war
by being virtually a "no-man's-
land" insofar as shipping was
concerned. Conveys during the
war moved only from Norfolk
north and from Charleston
south, leaving the ports of this
state virtually stranded and
completely idle.
"As a result of these activi-
ties, the Maritime Commission
finally has agreed to lease to
the North Carolina State Ports
Authority a very substantial
portion of the shipyard at Will
mington to be used for port ter
minal development and for in
dustrial sites along the water
front. The final details of such
a lease, in which the rental will
be only nominal, r now being
worked out.
"In recognition of the out
standing achievements of the
Ports Authority without even an
appropriation for postage or Of
flee expense, the last session of
the General Assembly appropri-
ated for tn operation OF the
Ports Authority the sum of 80
thousand dollars per year for
the two years beginning July l,
1947. With this appropriation,
the Authority will be able to
proceed Enthusiastically with
much better results. Negotia-
tons are virtually completed for
the employment of an outstand-
ing engineer as director of the
port developments n North
Carolina.
eft is believed that with these
accomplishments it will be pos
sible in the very near future by
means of state appropriations
and federal grants to achieve
something really worth while in
connection with port develop
ments for this state.
mo longer is the devel-
opments of ports in North Caro-
lima a matter of interest only
to the eastern seaboard coun-
ties. Such organizations as the
North Carolina Traffic League,
and many other civic organiZa-
tons in the middle and western
part of the state have gigen
their wholehearted endorsement
to such a program. Leading
manufacturers in piedmont
North Carolina, including such
products as furniture, textiles,
tobacco and many others in
which the state leads the nation
have given assurance that much
of their business will flow
through out ports when port de-
velopment make it possible.
"These manufacturers and
shippers feel that such a pro-
gram VII not only bring about