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I'MCA teams play
ten cage games
The usual heavy slate of basket
ball games was played yesterday
the YMCA with 10 contests be
t played during the day.
^The “Y" Junior Varsity nosed
. newes Building Junior five,
S'to 26. Padrick with eight points
*8, thc winners while Burnptt’s
ire P°in:s was the best total for
the losers. .
, t»n margin of victory was ac
cumulated by the “Y” Cadet Var
c, jn defeating the Brigade
lvS' cagers, 47 to 37. Leading
?' ,<y” team was Nivem with
?ne and Hinsoij with eight mar
, s Batson was the Brigade
nacemaker with eight points.
in “Y” junior Sunday school
notion, the Temple Maptists booted
L First Baptists out of first place
, t0 i6 as the victors’ Phelps
notched 13 points. Leading scorer
jor the losers was Glover with
five points.
The Trinity Methodists defeated.
^ Tabernacle Baptists 35 "to 28
in the same league. Leading scor
ers for the winners were Watkins
with nine points and Walters and,
N.ven with eight each. Murphy led
the Baptists with seven points.
In' Junior league action Sears
Roebuck topped the City Optical
five to hold on to their first place
spot. S:x points by Caudill was
the best total made by a member
0f the winners while Alford of the
wrs was good for five points.
Goodrich Store m the same lea
gue was too much for a game,
Tom's Drug quint winning 22 to
9 Nivens was high man with
eight points.
Also in Junior play, the Sports
Center notched a win over the
Pixie Candy five, 9 to 6. Hinson
with five points led the winners.
In a close match in Cadet play
the People's Bank laced the Merit
Shoe Star five 8 to 6. Game’s
high scorer was Huston with four
points.
Closest game of the day was
played by the Causey Service and
Davis Wholesale Co. five meeting.
Causey won 7 to 8. .
I DUKE FIVE MEETS
TEMPLE SATURDAY
IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.—One
of the oldest college basketball
series in the record hooks, in
volving Pennsylvania and Prince
ton, and an intersectional battle
will bring together Temple and
Duke, will make up the double
header program at Convention Hall
next Saturday night.
Duke's rugged band of courtmen
played one of the most aggressive
contests of the 1944*45 campaign
at Convention Hall in 51-46, a
hard-fought battle that went to the
Blue Devils in the final two min
utes of the tilt.
The Southern Conference’s top
team has nearly every member of
that will bring together Temple and
plus several other top-notch bas
keteers, including Dick Whiting,
the erstwhile Lower Merion High
star who played regularly at Muh
lenberg last winter. Whiting was
an outstanding player for the
Mules in their victory over Penn,
and was also the higher scorer
against Temple.
The power that Duke generates
on the basketball court was dis
played in its recent triumph over
the University of North Carolina,
its chief rival for the Southern
Conference championship. That
same North Carolina aggregation
easily took St. Joseph’s into camp
at Convention Hall on Saturday,
December 29, the Tar Heels win
ning by a 47-36 margin.
Catlett Five Upsets
Lake Forest Cagers
Hobb's 12 points helped the
Washington Catlett cagers to a sur
prise win over the Lake Forest
team yesterday. The Lake Fo»est
oagers had beaten the Catlett
Quint earlier in the week.
Box score:
Washington Catlett FG TG TP
Boswell, f .. 10 2
Gay, f__ 2 0 4
Bobbs, c__6 0 12
Moore, g ... 10 2
Bridges, g ... 10 2
Jarmon. g . 0 0 0
TOTAL. ..11 "o 22
Take Forest FG TG TP
Simmons_.........0 1 1
Bason__ 10 2
Gower_ 2 0 4
Williamson. 1 O' 2
Sinclair ___ 10 2
TOTAL-- 5*1 11
baseball bonus
deals curbed by
MAJORS’ ACTION
(Continued from Page Ten)
Magues voted to establish a de
partment to stimulate and encour
“Se baseball as part of the com
‘ssioner’s office. Chandler was
Powered to submit a plan for
s organization and operation to
., aPProved by the Major League
vlsory council. Funds were
v e“ subject to favorable action
Ay the council.
nl-v point of major disagree
Dea ,between the two circuits ap
tionrear-'to be on 1116 f°°thsl). ques
• ■ the American League in
ed on the rule that would keep
lin,;fro cl,ubs out ol the ball parks
.he end of the season. The
a. ,10i!a^ wanted to drop the rule
them *ndl.er said he agfeed with
• No final decision was made.
THE GREAT HENIE
Sonja Henie removes skates after skating for 50 minutes in
Hollywood Ice Revue at Madison Square Garden. Little Miss Iron
_.egs is aptly named.
BRADLEY SCORES
WIN OVER STELE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—CU.PJ —
Gen. Omar N. Bradley; veterans
administrator, appeared tonight to
have won as decisive a victory in
his tilt with American Legion
Commander John Stelle as he
ever achieved on a World War II
battlefield.
Stelle charged Bradley with re
sponsibility for a “tragic break
down” in the Veterans’ Administra
tion and demanded his replace
ment.
Bradley countered by inferential
ly tracing the accusation to an ar
gument over location of a hospital
in which Stelle was interested per
sonally.
The veterans’ chief won imme
diate support from other veterans’
organizations, from Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, army chief of
staff, and from President Truman.
The White House volunteered a
statement that Bradley had the
“complete and unqualified sup
port” of Mr. Truman.
“The President does not feel
that Mr. Stelle is speaking for the
American Legion,” the statement
said. “He considers that General
Bradley has done a fine job under
extremely difficult conditions. In
other words, he is backing General
Bradley to the hilt.”
The Veterans of Foreign Wars,
the Disabled Americans, Veterans,
Amvets, the Veterans League of
America, and the U. S. War Veter
ans all issued statements support
ing Bradley. Several of them
charged that Stelle’s complaint
stemmed from waning Legion in
fluence within VA, a development
they applauded.
Stelle’s attack first was made
in a letter to all members of Con
gress on Thursday. He demanded
a congressional investigation of
VA and Bradley on grounds that
Inefficiency was keeping veterans
from getting the benefits to which
they were entitled.
Tenth Man Eliminated
By Softball Committee
NEW YORK, Feb. 2 —(U.R)— The
joint rules committee of the na
tion’s various softball associations
announced tonight four rule
changes designed to take the em
phasis off pitching and placing it
on scoring.
The changes to open up the run
scoring department are:
1— Eliminate the 16th player—the
short fielder.
2— Shorten the base lines from
00 to 55 feet.
3— Put a batter hit by a pitched
ball- on base, rather than having
it- jftierely called a ball.
4— Move the batter’s box a foot
closer to the pitching mound.
Netter Talbert Wins
Miami Tourney Match
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 2-(#—Top
seeded Billy Talbert, of Wilming
ton, Del., eliminated Gardner Mul
loy, of Miami, 8-6, 6-1, in the semi
finals of the University of Miami
invitational tennis tournament to
day.
Pancho Segura, of Ecuador, trim
med Alejo Russell, of Argentine,
6-3, 11-9, and will face Talbert in
the finals tomorrow.
In the women’s division, Helen
Penderson Rihbony of Stamford.
Conn., won from Baba Lewis of
Los Angeles, 0-3; 6-3, and Doris
Hart of Miami, defeated heien
Cushingham, Los Angelas* 6-1, o-l.
BOWL GAME OFF
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 2—
(U.R)—Proposals for a post-season
bowl football game to be played
here apparently fell through today
when the Louisiana State univer
sity board of supervisors refused
to lease the LSU stadium for the
contest.
BASKETBALL SCORES
_
North Carolina 61; Wake Forest
32.
Duke 56, N. C. State 33.
Georgia Tech 55, South Carolina
45.
Clemson 56, Presbyterian 46.
Milligan 47, Appalachian 46.
Catawba 43, Elon 29.
Hampton Institute 51, Howard
44.
Kentucky 33, Wilberforce 24,
(first game).
Kentucky 35, Wilberforce 29,
(second game.)
Dartmouth 49, Princeton 33.
Oberlin 62, Wooster 41.
Philadelphia Naval Base 83,
Moravian 42.
Navy 62, Columbia 41.
Cornell 70, Pennsyvania 58.
Temple University 48, West Vir
ginia 42.
Wesleyan 54, Coast Guard 37.
Florida A & M 62, Knoxville 36.
Citadel 41, Davidson 39.
Medical College of Virginia 60,'
Randolph-Macon 48.
Georgia Tech 55, South Carolina
45.
Western Reserve 47, Penn Col
lege 36.
Ohio University 64, Ohio Wesle
yan 48.
Purdue 65, Minnesota 40.
Bainbridge NTC 77, Villanova
55.
Marshall 66, Fairmont Teachers
51.
Rockhurst 31, Kansas State 28.
Muhlenberg 45, Bucknell 39.
Florida 67, Georgia 57.
Baldwin Wallace 61, Case 41.
Iowa 68, University of Chicago
36.
Yale 67, Army 45.’
Penn State 48, Pittsburgh. 37.
Maryland 48, George Washington
35.
Murray ; State 46 Girardeau
Teachers 42.
Vermont 62, Middlebury College
30.
Loyala Baltimore 58, Mt. St.
Mary’s 25.
Wisconsin 58, Michigan 57.
DePaul 52, Indiana State Teach
ers 42.
Arkansas 74, Southern Methodist
46.
Tar Heel swimmers Led
In AAU Win By Twining
CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 2—(U.R)—Led
by Hichard Twining, who won three
firsts, set three new AAU records
and two pool marks for 15 points,
the University of North Carolina
retained top laurels in the annual
Carolinas AAU swim champion
ships here today.
Although the Blue Dolphins were
without the services of Capt. Ben
Ward and Ed Shumate, they were
still able to ring up 40 points, ten
more than Cherry Point, second
place winner.
Pensacola Naval Air station was
third with 26 points. Other scores:
Atlanta Boys’ High, 5; Georgia
Tech, 4; Duke, 2.
PROPPS GETS POST
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Feb. 2
—(U.R)—Dr. Leonard Riggleman,
president of Morris Harvey col
lege, announced tonight that Alder
son (Stretch) Propps has been
chosen at the successor to C, B.
(Cebe) Ross, Who resigned as the
school’s athletic director. The 33
year-bld former Emory and Henry
star athlete will report Monday.
INVITE ENGLISH STAR
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 2—(ff)—Henry
Cotton, of London, England’s top*
ranking professional golfer, today
was invited to take part in the 21st
annual international four-ball cham
pionships here March 7-10.
WINS $10,000 RACE \
MIAMI, Fla,, Feb. 2—</P)—Dar
;by Dan farm’s-Darby Dunedin won
the $10,000 Columbian handicap at
Hialeah race course today befor'
a crowd of approximately 23,000
persons.
_':•# ;
An estimated 6.500,000 tons of
sugar will be availablel?dr tl. ~S.‘
civilians this year.
MW*w*** '•'»**** W| TTlJjiUmUXVll, Jk'l •
City Steps Into Drive
To Get New Industries
(Continued from Page One-)
indicating to be within the com
munity’s grasp.
Council Aid Sougnt
Thus it was, after countless dis
cussions, that the Planning bo-ard
went before the City council in the
late summer of 1945 and induced
the city fathers to authorize a com
mittee who members—to be chosen
by the Planning board with council
approval—would be charged with
translating the Simons industrial
survey into dollars and cents.
Given City council authorization
to recommend membership of the
committee, the Planning board met
and prescribed a formula by which
it would select a group of men to
serve, without pay, as the Eco
nomic Development committee.
Four rules, it was agreed, would
guide the selections:
1— Members must be men of un
questioned leadership in the com
munity.
2— Individually, by their primary
and secondary interests, they musl
be predominant in their respective
fields.
3— They must be accustomed to
dealing in large-scale affairs and
individually be acutely conscious of
the public interest without thought
of pei*sohal gain.
4— The committee’s membership
must not be too large.
men fitted one or more of the
qualifications. A period of screen
ing begah, and finally, in mid
September the Planning board pre
sented its recommendations to
Mayor W. Ronald Lane. Under date
of Sept. 17, 1945, Mayor Lane ad
dressed the following letter to the
seven men chosen by the Planning
board for the task of putting the
Simons report into action—action
that would bring pay-roll dollars to
Wilmington and the whole of
Southeastern North Carolina.
The Mayor’* Letter
The Mayor’s letter, identical to
each of the seven nominees, read:
“For the past several months
Mr. George W. Simons, Jr., plan
ning consultant of Jacksonville,
Fla., has been engaged in prepar
ing an industrial and economic
survey of Wilmington and its tribu
tary area. He has done this work
under contract with the City Plan
ning board, which proceeded by
authorization and direction of the
Mayor and Council of the City of
Wilmington in engaging his serv
ices. The survey has now been sub
stantially completed, and Mr.
Simons is also under contract to
prepar* a complete physical plan
ning and zoning program for the
City, a task which he will begin
at once.
“For the past several months
the Planning board has been con
sidering the formation of a small
committee of leading citizens to
whom it might refer the economic
material gathered by Mr. Simons,
and whom it might request to un
dertake to activate and effectuate
his recommendations. After the
most careful study, we have con
cluded to reauest the following men
to serve as members of this com
mittee:
"Mr. Warren W. Bell, president,
Tide Water Power company.
"Mr. J. Holmes Davis, Sr., chair
man of the board, Spofford Mills,
Incorporated.
"Mr. H. A. Marks, Marks Ma
chinery Company.
"Mr. Harriss Newman, Attorney.
"Mr. R. B. Page, publisher,
Star-News, and member, State
Ports Authority.
"Mr. J. G. Thornton, president,
Wilmington Savings and Trust
Company, and president, Industrial
Properties, Incorporated.
"Mr. E. L. White, president,
White Ice Cream and Milk Com
pany, and chairman, Industrial
Committee, Chamber of Commerce.
"It seems to us that these men
represent, through their primary
and secondary connections, most of
the interests concerned with the
cushioning of the postwar shock in
Wilmington and encouraging estab
lishment of new enterprises to af
ford employment and investment
opportunity. The great importance
cy* a dUAAncali.l A
toward these objectives need not
be emphasized.
“The name suggested for the
committee is the Economic De
velopment Committee of Wilming
ton, North Carolina. The function
of the committee, as we envision
it, would be not only to receive the
materials and activate the recom
mendations of Mr. Simons, but also
to act as an economic clearing
house for the community and do
in general all things within its
power to establish a stable and
prosperous economy.
“We take pleasure in inviting you
to serve as a member of the Eco
nomic Development committee,
and look forward to your accept
ance . .
Signing the letter with Mayor
Lane was H. R. Emory, Planning
board chairman.
No Bandwagon Rush
It may, or may not, be a'sur
prise to know that there was no
enthusiastic rush for acceptance of
membership on the Economic De
velopment committee. The bidden
members weighed the whole affair
carefully. To begin with, each was
a busy man, and each, as most Wil
mingtonians will appreciate, was
already giving pretty generously
of his time.
Unknown to the Mayor or to the
Planning board, the proposed EDC
members met, quite informally and
off-the-record, soon after receiving
their bids. One question was para,
mount In their minds: Was this to
be just another committee to have
its name embossed on letterheads?
or was it to be a down-to-earth,
shirt-sleeves sort of group with full
power to act? Too, it Was obvious
that no member of the group could
afford any considerable time to the
job as outlined in their invitations.
Would it be possible to retain an
executive agent to coordinate and
execute the committee’s decisions?
And if so, how and from where
would he be paid?
Naming E. L. White as its
spokesmen, the committee called
upon the Planning Board and May
or Lane, a member of the Plan
ning board himself.
“We’ll accept this assignment,
Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the
Planning board, providing some
concrete things are understood at
the outset,” White declared.
He then proceeded to tell' the
Planners what the proposed com
mitteemen envisioned as their pur
pose.
”We will serve as a group to
analyze the Simons economic-in
dustrial survey for its immediate
adaptability, locally. If the re
port shows Wilmington to have
undeveloped resources, or prac
tical potentials, we want to em
ploy a full-time industrial agent
to put these resources and poten
tials to work. We shall accept
on that basis and none other,”
The Planning board agreed—
within its limits. After all, the
Planning board operates on ex
tremely limited funds allocated by
the city council, and it would be
the City council, to decide wheth
er or not a city-paid industrial
agent could be provided for in the
municipal budget.
The Planners knew, too, that
no matter how good the Simons
survey might turn out to be—and
at that stage of development the
survey was still incomplete—little
good would come of it if its find
ings were not exercised. They
figured, too, that members of the
City council, to whom the Planners
had gone initially for the money
to finance the Simons survey,
would see it the same way.
And so, after some quiet fact
finding, the Planning board in
formed its proposed Economic
Development committee that it
was “a deal.”
‘‘We’H go to bat to secure the
funds if you gentlemen accept
your appointments and tell us ex
actly what sort of a program you
propose to inaugurate,” the Plan
ning board said.
Organize Formally
On that, the Economic Develop
ment committee was formally ush
ered into existence by City council
action and on Oct. 11, 1945, its
members held their, organization
meeting. E. J. White was named
cnairman.<i,
No. 1 on the EDC agenda was
the question of a labor survey.
Industrial Properties, and others
who up to then had contacted
prospective industries for the com
munity, had frequently encount
ered the question “How’s your
labor situation? What percent
age of your labor is skilled? Un
skilled? Trained? Untrained?’’
The Economic Development com
mittee proceeded to conduct the
first comprehensive labor survey
the community had known. Its
findings, still in process of com
pilation, are expected to show that
Wilmington and immediate en
virons has a large pool of skilled,
semi-skilled and un-skilled labor
in more than a score of trades.
Of worth, toe, was the discovery
that the New Hanover public
schools, thanks to war-inspired
necessity, were well-equipped to
produce a variety of skilled tech
nicians and craftsmen, men and
women alike. These are facts a
wise manufacturer, considering
Wilmington for future expansion
would count heavily in his fav
or.
It was decided, at a subsequent
meeting of the EDC, that no action
j would be taken on the matter of
or At least on
the selection of one, until the Si
mons economic-industrial survey
was completed and in the com
mittee’s hands. Preliminary, frag
mentary reports of the survey
looked good. But wait for the
finished product, the EDC decid
ed.
In late December Simons pre
sented copies of his report to the
city, and immediately they were
placed under the practical eyes
of the EDC’s members. The re
action was favorable. Wilmington
did possess the resources—the po
tentials—to make it a real econo
mic and industrial center.
Translate To Action
Now to translate the Simons
survey into action—action that will
add thousands of dollars a day to
the community’s economy. No
man, nor any small group, can
alone accomplish a task of that
magnitude. But one man—an in
dustrial agent—could direct and
coordinate the effort.
And so it was that a sub-com
mittee of the EDC appeared be
fore the City council the other day
with a request that the city im
mediately create the post of In
dustrial Agent and allocate suf
ficient funds to permit an imme
diate beginning of the work.
The council, in special session,
agreed with enthusiasm and by
action dated Feb. 1, the post of
Industrial Agent was created. It
will be filled in the near future
by a man recommended by the
EDC, with concurrence of the City
Planning board and the City coun
cil.
Thus; for the first time in its
history of more than two cen
turies, Wilmington is to have a
full-time specialist on the city’s
payroll whose job will be to get
new industries here so that post
war Wilmington will go ahead—
and' not backward as it did after
World War 1.
The next article in this series
will discuss the Simons indust
rial-economic survey, reporting
for the first time in detail Hs
more saliant aspects, and
some of the resources waiting
only to be tapped to make a
bigger and better Wilmington.
It will appear in Wednesday’s
News and Thursday’s Morn
ing Star.—Editor.
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Naval Captain Hints
Conspiracy To Blot
Out Jap War Tip-Off
(Continued from Page One)
of staff, directed destruction ot the
message.
He said he had had a third-hand
report to that effect and “reluct
antly” told about it in a naval in
quiry made last year by Admiral
H. K. Hewitt.
Richardson said flatly he didn’t
believe there was any such mes
sage.
The counsel suggested that if
there had been any destruction of
copies of the message, the White
House, and the Army and Navy
high. command would have been
involved. They were among the few
receiving copies of the intercepted
secret Japanese messages. Safford
said he had never "indicated” the
White House in his testimony.
Shown To Aide
Richardson referred to his testi
mony that a copy of the "winds
code executes” message had been
shown to Admiral Beardall, Presi
dent Roosevelt’s naval aide.
"The President would have been
very interested in it, wouldn’t he?”
Richardson asked.
"I think he was,” Safford re
-a
i r
Richardson followed up: "Then
you think there was a conspiracy
in the Army and Navy depart
ments?”
"There is the appearance of it.”
"But you have no first hand
knowledge. You have only rumors
of it?”
"I have more than that.”
"Well, let’s have it in words of
one syllable.”
Thereupon Safford related that
Captain E. E. Stone, now chief of
Naval intelligence, had directed a
search of records of east coast mon
itoring stations and this disclosed
that records for December, 1941,
were missing.
No Authority
Safford said the men in charge
of the files had never received any
authority to destroy them, had no
record of their destruction and
“didnt know they were missing.”
Safford, 53, testified tensely, of
ten taking a drink of water as long
statements dried his throat.
He startled the committee earl
ier with a statement that last year
a representative of Secretary of
the Navy Forrestal tried to get
him to change his testimony at
previous inquiries on tne winds
code.
Safford identified this man as Lt.
Cmdr. John Sonnett, legal aide in
the inquiry conducted by Admiral
Hewitt and “a special representa
tive of Secretary Forrestal.”
Safford said Sonnett “attempted
to make me believe I was suffer
ing from hallucinations” and told
him that “I ought to change my
testimony so that all of the state
ments about this matter would
coincide and the whole thing would
be cleaned up.”
Describing the actions of Sonnett
as “irregular or unusual and prob
ably illegal,” Safford .old the com
mittee:
“It was apparent to me on my
first meeting with Lt. Cmdr. Son
nett that he was acting as coun
sel for the defense of the late
Secretary Knox and Admiral Stark
rather than as the legal assistant
to the investigating officer.
“His purpose seemed to be to
refute testimony (before earlier
investigations) that was unfavor
able to anyone in Washington, to
beguile ‘hostile’ witnesses into
____ELEVEN-A
Wherever the groundhog popped up in New Hanover county
yesterday he saw his shadow. And you know what that means,
don’t you? Yep, six more weeks of winter. It was such a nice day,
and spring didn’t seem far away at all. But the groundhog saw
his shadow, so that settles it!
changing their testimony, and to
introduce an element of doubt when
he could not effect a reversal of
testimony.”
Sonnett, now an assistant at
torney general, denied in a state
ment tonight that he had tried to
get any witness to change his re
collection or testimony. The text
of the statement:
"There was no effort at any time
on the part of myself or anyone
else concerned with the Pearl Har
bor invettgiation, which was con
ducted at the orders of the secre
tary of the Navy, to get Capt. Saf
ford or any other witness to
change his testimony at any time.
“I was instructed by the Secre
tary of the Navy to secure all of
the facts concerning the ‘winds
message’ in order to clear up the
apparent mystery as to that mes
sage about which there had been
so much rumor.
"I discovered that Capt. Safford
was the source of the erroneous
rumors concerning the existence
of such a messase.
"There was no constraint or
pressure put upon him at any time
to do other than to state accurate
ly his best recollection of the facts.
“At no time did the Secretary of
the Navy instruct me in any way,
shape or fashion to get any witness
to modify his recollection of the
fact. Nor did I at any time
endeavor to do so.
‘‘If Capt. Safford has presuaded
himself that any of my conversa
tions with him indicated such an
attitude on my part, or that I made
any such suggestion. He is stating
the exact opposite of the truth.
“It should be borne In mind that
of the many people named by Capt.
Safford in previous testimony as
having knowledge of the ‘winds’
message not a single one recalled
the existence of such a message. If
is impossible to believe that all
those witnesses could be wrong.”
Frank Knox was secretary of the
Navy at the time of Pearl Harbor.
Admiral Harold R. Stark was chief
of Naval operations, later to be held
unfit by Forrestal for any Navy
post requiring the exercise of su
perior judgment. Forrestal mad*
the same finding in the case of
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 1941
commander of the Pacific fleet.
8afford named General Marshall;
Lt. Gen. L. T. Gerow, 1941 head
of the War Plans division; Maj.
Gen. Sherman Miles, then head of
Army intelligence; Admiral* Stark;
Royall Ingarsoll, Stark’s assistants
T. S. Wilkinson, chief of Naval in
telligence; Leigh Noyes, head of
Naval communications and J. B.
Beardell, President Roosevelt’s Na
val aide, and some 15 others rang
ing down to yeoman.
Committee counsel Seth Richard
son questioned whether these of
ficers actually had seen an ex
ecuting message and Safford said
that to the best of his knowledge
they “knew it had been broad
cast, they had seen or had been
told about it at the time.”
STEAMSHIP LINES
PUNNING FLEETS-.
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tons of cargo, they will steam to
Europe, Scandinavia, the Mediter
ranean, the near East, Africa, the
West Indies, Latin America, the
Orient, and around-the-globe.
Largest of the ships—two luxury
liners larger and 25 per cent fast
er than hte America—will be char
tered to American President lines
for Orient and around-the-world
service, NFAS sources said.
Automatic telephone service will
be installed on many ships, and
some will boast classed-in pro
menades. New lightweight metal
alloys will be used in construction
and interior design. Ships used in
warm weather trades will bo air
conditioned. Some will have in
door swimming pools.
The ships will range from 16
knot passenger-cargo types carry
ing 12 passengers to 950-foot ex
press liners carrying 1,000 passen
gers at 30-knot speed. The 16 to
30 knot speeds Will compare with
the prewar range of 12 to 22 knots,
NFAS said.
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