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isiiss Wxlmxn#tm \’0\j. 79.—NO. 229. WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 8, 1946. ESTABLISHED 1867 London Jews By Thousands Protest Rule Children Join In Huge Pa rade Through Streets Of City ADOPT RESOLUTION Marchers Demand Entry Of 100,000 Refugees Into Palestine LONDON, July 7.—(U.R)—Thous inds of Jews, including children rescued from concentration camps 4nd a holder of the Victoria Cross, marched through London Sunday jn protest against British policy in Palestine and demanded immediate jdmission of 100,000 Jews to the Holy Land. At the head of a long, singing, chanting, banner-carrying column „f servicemen and civilians strode two members of the Jewish Agency executive, or high council, of Palestine. First Since 1933 It was the first large Jewish demonstration in the British capi. tal since the 1933 procession of protest against Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany. Sunday’s parade ended in a dem onstration in Trafalgar Square, where a crowd estimated from 5,000 to 10,000 adopted by acclamation a resolution demanding a halt in the British anti-terrorist campaign in Palestine, release of interned Jew ish Agency executive members and opening the gates of the Holy Land to 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe. Go To Attlee From Trafalgar Square, dele gates took copies of the resolution ,o Prime Minister Clement Att lee's office at 10 Downing street and handed them to a uniform mes senger. The reolution deplored what it said was a British attempt to blame fishuv—the Jewish community jf Palestine—for “acts of terror perpetrated by small groups un. der stress of frustration and des pair created by the continuation See LONDON on Page Two GRADE A MILK TO BE 21 CENTS NOW Price Increase In Wilming ton Goes Into Effect Today That prices locally are “gradu ally’’ increasing to meet first prices caused by manufacturers, and producers, and those caused by cancellation of federal subsidies, was indicated by an increase in the price of milk and a few other commodities, which go in effect today. Prediction also was made that within the week, some local dair ies, especially those which pro duce and distribute the bulk of their milk, will place even higher Prices on the vital product. Consumer Absorbs These price hikes which E. L. White, president of White’s Ice Cream and Milk company said the "consumer will have to shoulder with removal of government subsi dies,” are expected to range from one to three cents per quart on various types of milk. Hiking the price on grade A Milk from 19 to 21 cents, and that of butter milk an additional cent See MILK on Page Two HAMBONE’S MEDIATIONS By Alley I Sno' INJ<W£D PE. Fun'au 'ftstipiW PAKSON PREACH DAT MAN CWAR INTER M£B'N ! I _ — _ - • <Uleasa4 Vr Tkt Ball «»► jLa* C lac.) Tra4# Mart »«* c ft Bml Offlea) 7*«- 7» Vets Picket House (V6i $m'mx o'm%i ' gob $ OP A couple of members of the American Veterans Committee in Dallas, Tex., picket the apartment house owned by Mike O’Daniel, son of Sen. W. Lee O’Daniel (D.-Tex.) They were protesting young O’Dan iel’s action in serving an evic tion notice on ex-GI Wesley Brient, shortly after the OPA had expired. Senator O’Daniel made headlines with his fili buster against continuation of the act. (Internationa!). HUGHES INJURED IN PLANE CRASH Millionaire Sportsman Builder Badly Burned . During Test CULVER CITY, Calif., July 7.— (A5) — Millionaire sportsman-plane builder Howard Hughes was criti cally hurt Sunday as his XF-11 photographic plane crashed on its maiden test flight. The airplane developed trou ble after it had been in the air about 45 minutes. Witnesses said the motor seemed to be missing and that the plane was flying at very low altitude when it crashed into the roof of a house, bounded into another rooftop, and smashed down a garage, setting one house and garage afire. Hughes stumbled dazely out of the wreckage. In Oxygen Tent He was rushed to the Beverly Hills emergency hospital where See HUGHES on Page Two DEATH TOLL NEAR 400 MARK SUNDAY _ 4 Autos Take 155 Lives Dur ing Long July Fourth Holiday CHICAGO, July 7—(U.R)—'The na tion’s violent death toll was climb ing steadily toward the 400-mark Sunday night as the long Fourth of July week-end came to a close. Traffic accidents were far ahead as the cause of deaths. Generally fair weather, which brought addi tional thousands of motorists swarming onto the highways, was expected to cause a sharp increase in the Sunday total. Auto Toll High At least 324 persons had died in accidents directly attributable to holiday celebrations since Wednes day midnight. A total of 155 died in auto accidents, 85 drowned, eight died in fireworks mishaps and 76 died from miscellaneous accidents. See DEATH TOLL on Page Two WELL HEELED—. Wilmington People Have Buyin/£f jiver Wilmington, the 302nd largest city in the United States, has a pent-up “spending money” poten tial equal to almost any city in the nation, according to a survey jus completed by Sales Management magazine of New York City. The Port City had a gross in come of $73,601,000 in 1945, the sur vey shows. After payment of taxes, the city was left with an effective buying power of $969 per capita, a sum of $275 over the total North Carolina per capita figure of $694 and $112 over the total South At lantic States per capita figure of $857. Less Than Half But only about 47 per cent of this amount was actually spent on last year’s retail market because of merchandise shortages. The re. mainder, still held largely as sav ings, will likely be turned loose whr ^ ^ ses, automobiles, re' ^ & & and all the other v ".t?* items appear ff war-time restrictions, ^ Wilmington spent $27, 7i-. jn the retail market dur ing j. 45, a jump of $2,411,000 above the $25,301,000 handed over the retail counter during 1944. Above Population The 1945 amount represents 2.34 per cent of the entire State's re tail spending, although Wilming ton has only 2.09 per cent of the entire State’s population. With a large amount of the city’s 1945 income still to be spent, not to mention this year’s income, W’il mington has promise of becoming one of the strongest trading cen. ters in the nation when new mer chandise finally reaches the retail market in pre-war quantities. CHEERING NEWS—. • Butchers Should Have More Meat Any Day Now, — STASSEN STAKING POUTICAL FUTURE Former Governor Of Min nesota On Spot In Elections Today WASHINGTON, July 7.—(U.R)— Harold E. Stassen, former Navy captain and three times governor of Minnesota, puts his political fu ture on the line in his state’s pri mary Monday. If he wins, he will be a formid. able candidate for the 1948 Repub lican presidential nomination. If he loses, his friends say, his hopes will be shattered. Stassen, long-time advocate of a liberal Republican platform bas ed on international cooperation, is staking nis future on the outcome of the senatorial primary contest between veteran Sen. Henrik Ship stead and Minnesota’s popular Gov. Edward J. Thye. Stassen Candidate Thye is Stassen’s hand-picked candidate in the attempt to un seat Shipstead, who has been in the senate 24 years. Thye preach es Stassen’s doctrine of interna tionalism. Shipstead is an isolation ist, and one of two senators who voted against ratification of the United Nations charter. The race undoubtedly will be close. Thye has a well-organized state machine behind him, and a strong following among the state’s Swedish and Norwegian popula tions. Shipstead. with a long re cord favoring farm legislation, will draw strong support from the large German-speaking bloc and from old-line labor groups. Stassen The Issue Throughout the campaign, Ship stead has made Stassen the issue. He has characterized Thye as a “blank check’’ candidate. He also is making a strong appeal to la bor on the basis of his past record and his vote against the Case bill. •He has made no bones about his isolationist record. In fact, he has said he is proud of it. Political observers here are watching to see if the recent re sults in the Nebraska primary, in which Stassen lost heavily, will af fect the Minnesota contest. Stassen backed Nebraska’s Governor Dwight Griswold in the Republican senatorial primary against Sen. Hugh Butler, who voted against the British loan and who generally is regarded as an opponent of all-out internationalism. Griswold was de feated by better than two-to-one. Aid Isolationism Re-nomination of Shipstead, in addition to wrecking Stassen's 1948 hopes, would give great impetus to mid-western isolationist forces, and might affect results in other states, such as Wisconsin where See STASSEN On Page Two Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN I As we sweat out the conflicts ol our time, we are learning that however much the nations disagree and are divided, they are in fact compelled to collaborate more in timately and to unite more close ly. The outcome of the negotiations over Trieste is a concrete illustra tion of this governing principle in our affairs. It was impossible to draw a single frontier which Italy and Yugoslavia and the four great powers would accept. The Italians and the Yugoslavs are so inter mingled in the province of Venezia Giulia that no boundary could be marked out which separated them. We have been compelled therefore to unite them under an interna tional government. The Italians and the Yugoslavs who could not be separated will have to try to live together as citi zens of the same territory. The great powers which could not agree to award the territory to an in ternational state have had to agree to work together as guardians and governors of an international state. Instead of a sharp dividing line between the Soviet Union and the western powers at the head of the Adriatic, there is to be a more complicated form of co-operation than any of the powers desired or believed in, * • • The same principle—that the only cure for disunity is more See LIPPMANN On Page Three Institute Spokesman Says Supplies To Increase; Prices Also CHICAGO, July 7—[IP)—Your butcher is going to have more meat to sell this week, packing industry spokesmen declared aft er studying the first week of mar keting without OPA. Probably it will be mostly fresh pork, because that can reach the consumer’s table in the relative ly short time of four or five days after the pig is slaughtered. Beef Due Soon Beef, with a period of aging re quired, will take a little longer, they say. Roasts and steaks may be available in greater quantities in another week. Hams and bacons, because of the processing involved, will fol low in increasing numbers in two to three weeks. There are several reasons, pack ers say, why increased livestock receipts resulting from expiration of OPA price controls is not im mediately reflected in butcher’s showcases. For one thing, the time required for processing. Pipelines Empty Packers say the industry’s “meat pipeline’’ was almost completely empty until OPA controls went off. As a result, heavier marketing of meat animals must first fill these pipelines. They liken it to a water main, which first must be filled before the water reaches the consumer. Further, when supplies do not equal the demand, available meat is voluntarily rationed by the pack ers to their customers. Thus all share alike. Until all can have all they want, none will. See BUTCHERS On Page Two OFFICERS TO GET ADA REHAN STORY Global Adventures Of Ship To Be Aired At Coast Guard Hearing NEW YORK, July 7. -(£>)— The Coast Guard will open an official hearing Monday into the global ad ventures of the Ada Rehan—the Liberty ship which sailed from San Francisco August 16, 1945, for a two - week voyage that finally stretched into 11 months. Three women stowaways, a ba boon which drank beer and vodka, an unruly crew, a captain who left the vessel in a nervous state — these were ingredients of the saga which preceded the Ada Rehan in to port here last Friday. Ship Diverted The ship originally was scheduled to go to New Orleans, but Capt. Frank H. Hass of Mobile, Ala., its second master on the voyage, ex plained that the vessel was diverted to Iquique, Chile, by the War Ship See OFFICERS On Page Two BIG FOUR MINISTERS FACING SERIOUS CONFERENCE CRISIS; INDIANS PASS BRITISH PLAN --------I _ Gandhi Pleas Win Approval Of Assembly Over whelming Majority Recorded In Favor Of Mission’s Offer TEN-HOUR DEBATE Socialist Party Demands Rejection Of All Cabi net Proposals BOMBAY July 7—<A>)— Overrid. ing Socialist opposition and heed ing the pleas of Mohandas K. Ghandi and olher leaders, the del. egate assembly of the All-Indian : Congress approved Sunday by a 204 to 51 vote the British Cabinet Mission’s long-term plan for In dian independcr ce. The plan already had been endor. dorsed by the Congress party’s working committee, which submit ted it to the Assembly by an emer gency two-day meeting nere. The assembly approval came on ly after 10 hours’ debate in which Ghandi and others supported the committee’s recommendation. The British Cabinet Mission’s proposals include the creation of a Federated Union of India and the election of a Constituent Assem bly to draw a charter for Indian in. dependence. Socialists demanded rejectiontions of all the proposals. One Socialist speaker, Mrs. Ar addressed Ghandi, declaring “we have frollowed you for the last 25 years and it is time now for you to follow us.’’ See GHANDI On PageTwo SOVIETSTOEVICT 54,000 AUSTRIANS Deportation From Russian Zone Effective This Morning VIENNA, Austria, July 7—(U.R)— Russian authorities have ordered the eviction of 54,000 Austrians from the Soviet-occupation zone by 6 a. m., Monday, Austrian 'official sources said Sunday. It was understood that Red Army trucks were waiting in front of homes to load the furniture of those to be evicted and drive them to the zones of the other Allies in Austria. Of German Origin Reports said that the Russians were evicting the Austrians on the ground that they were of German origin and it was believed here that their order was in line with the seizure of German property in the Russian zone. The three Western Allies have protested against this form of evic tion. Austrians contend that the new order is a violation of agree ments Russia subscribed to in London and Moscow. Hits Manpower Chancellor Leopold Figl said in a press statement Sunday night that the Russian eviction order probably would result in removal of the last man power reserves for the forthcoming harvest and would mean 18 hours work a day for farmers left in the Russian zone. He suggested that the order was part of pressure being exerted to force the Austrian government to sign “agreements” in connection with Russia’s penetration into Aus trian industry. _ Along The Cape Fear BIOLOGICAL TREASON — Our fears of a month or so ago have come to pass. In fact, we are nursing a new fear that, having come, they will not pass. It was a month or so ago, in case you have forgotten, that we took an ominous view of the potato plants which were producing to matoes. Such biological treason, we feared, might spread from the flora to the fauna. Well, it has. And it started on, of all days, the eve of Independence Day, the one day treason should be farthest from the mind of all living things in the U. S. A., in cluding chickens. * * * MOST UNNATURAL — On the evening of July 3 three youngsters who live on the Castle Hayne road came into our office with some thing to show us. It was a newly laid egg. But there was something un natural about it. It had no shell. There was only a thin membrane holding it together. But most unnatural of all, it had a minature biddy head, complete With beak and eyes, protruding from one end. The Monstrosity excited our curiosity. We promptly told about it in the “And So To Bed” column of the next morning, July 4. * * * ARNOLD’S EYE — It wasn’t un til last night that we realized we had taken part in treason against See CAPE FEAR On Page Two Figures In War Profits Probe nflHHB:v.vo:v:iK»-#'»^vv:v. ■ ... Former Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, ex-Maj. Gen. WiKiam N. Porter (right) is shown in Washington as he testi fied before the Senate War Investigating Committee against Rep. Andrew May (left) during the current war profits inquiry. Porter testified that May advised him to “step on” Col. R. E. Tetlow, of the Army Services of Supplies when the latter asked that a contract with Batavia Metal Products, Inc., be voided. The hearing will be continued. (InternatiQJal Soundphoto). HELD CHECKBOOK—. Representative May Testimony Released The Weather forecast South Carolina and North Carolina:— Partly cloudy arid rather hot Monday land Tuesday, widely scattered afternoon 'and early evening thundershowers. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:20a 75: 7:30a 77; l:30p 89: 7:30p 80. Maximum 92; Minimum 73; Mean 83: Normal 79. Humidity 1:30a 93; 7:30a 86; l:30p 53; 7:30p 91. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. 0.00 inch. Total since the first of the month 8.28 inches. Tides for Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. High Lew Wilmington - 5:01a -a 5:44p 12:13p Masonboro Inlet _ 2:56a 9:12a 3:42p 9:55p Sunrise 5:08a; Sunset 7:26p; Moonrise 2:38p; Moon set 1:07a. TRUMANRETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE President Greatly Refresh ed After Four-Day Holiday WASHINGTON, July 7-(£>) — President Truman returned to the White House Sunday, refreshed and relaxed after a long week end in the Catoctin mountains. The Chief Executive and Mrs. Truman drove from "Shangri-La,” the Presidential retreat near Thur mont, Md., immediately after lunch in their lodge there, reach ing the White House at 3:20 p. m., (EST.) Has Final Swim The President, home to consider many domestic and international problems, wound up his four-day holiday with a long walk through See TRUMAN on Page Two Senate Committee Make Public Evidence On “Empire” Deals WASHINGTON, July 7—(U.R)— Secret testimony of Rep. Andrew J. May, (D.-Ky.) who figures week long in the Senate War Investigat ing committee's inquiry into a so called “paper empire” of Illinois munitions firms, was made public Sunday night by the committee. It revealed that May. chairman of the important House Military Affairs committee, testified in secret session on June 4, that he was the only person authorized to draw on the bank account of a Ken tucky Lumber company, one of the “Empire's” many subsidiaries. Pointed to May Testimony all last week centered on May as the person who put pressure on Army Ordnance offi cers at Washington and Chicago to Channel War contracts to the munitions firms. The committee made public May’s testimony Sunday after he demanded that it do so to counter act what he termed "so many mis leading reports and insinuations.” May’s testimony was not made un der oath and the committee will decide this week whether to call him before its open hearings. It is in recess until Monday. Tells of Connection Under questioning by committee counsel George Meader, May de scribed his connection with Henry Garsion, Murray Garsson and Joe Freeman, top officials of the Erie Basin Metals Products company. Batavia Metals Products, Inc., and other firms in the "Empire.” He explained that he was instru mental in the Garssons purchase of Kentucky timberland and acted as process agent for the Cumberland Lumber company after its incor poration in 1943. This, he said, was his only connection with the men. Asked by Meader whether any See REPRESENTATIVE on Page 2 CLEMENCY—. --: Advisory Board Reduces Sentences On Soldiers WASHINGTON, July 7—(JP) — Former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts reported Sunday that a special War department clemency advisory board which he heads has reduced the sentences of almost 20,000 soldiers convicted of serious offenses, mostly in war time. He also advised Under Secretary Kenneth C. Royall of the War de partment: 1. Almost a third of 22,d00 pri soners whose cases were reviewed up to June 30 already have been freed. More in Year 2. Another third is scheduled to be released within the next year. 3. In addition more than 32,000 prisoners have been restored to duty before expiration of their sentences, and thus given the op portunity to earn honorable dis charges. Roberts said that judgment on the Army’s system of justice, which has been criticized in Con gress, should be based on sen tences as finally fixed, rather than upon punishment imposed by courts martial, and added: Capstone of System “Clemency is and always has been the capstone of the whole system of military justice.” The report was made public by Royall, who had acknowledged earlier that many court martial sentences were too severe, “if you See SENTENCES on Page Two \ J Molotov Plan Threatens To Wreck Parley Little Hope Seen That Eith er Side Will Yield On Issues PROCEDURE DEMANDS Russians Would Exclude U. S. From Finnish Peace Conference PARIS, July 7—(U.R)— The Big Four Foreign Ministers, complete ly deadlocked as the result of Rus sian demands on precedure for a July 29 peace conference, meet at 11:30 a. m., Monday to face the most serious crisis in three weeks of negotiation. There was no indication that Russia on one side or the United States, Great Britain and France on the other would yield on the new issue. The issue is whether th« Big Four, as Russian Foreign Min ister Viacheslav Molotov demands, shall dictate to the other 17 United Nations who are to take part in the July 29 conference on Axis Satellite treaties. Wants to Dictate Molotov wants the big four to tell the conference how it shall operate when — and if — it meets here in full dress session to discuss treaties for Italy, Hungary, Rom ania. Bulgaria, and Finland So serious was the situation Sun day night, after a deadlock since Friday, that there was still no guarantee that the progress made since June 15 would not go by the boards and that it would not be necessary to abandon plans for the peace conference. Molotov’s Plans Molotov’s plans would hand over the individual treaties to spe cial committees of nations which were actually at war with the countries concerned. The full con ference of 21 nations would not be authorized to revise the treaties as drafted by committees but only to accept them or send them back for revision. Presumably Molotov felt he would have a better chance to put over his ideas if the treaties were considered by separate commit tees, as he can depend on only live votes out of the total of 21 — Rus sia, White Russia, the Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Member Nations The 21 nations to attend the con ference, as agreed at the Big Three meeting in Moscow last December, are: United States, Great Britain, See MOLOTOV on Page Two 40,000 WITNESS SAINTHOOD RITES Blessed Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini Elevat At Rome i VATICAN CITY, July 7—VP)—The bells of Rome's churches rang Sunday proclaiming the sainthood of the Blessed Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, and Pope Pius XII saw in her life an admonition tl the world against “stormy rival ry.” “The nations and peoples will learn from her — who ardently loved her fatherland and scattered the treasures of her charity and labors even to other countries — that they are called to constitute a single family, a family that must not be divided in stormy rivalry,’’ the Pope declared. See SAINTHOOD on Page Two And So To Bed A Wrightsville Beach resi dent swears up, down, and side ways that this actually hap pened. The other day he went into a Wilmington cafeteria for lunch. When he got around the count er to the beverage dispenser the girl asked him whether he wanted milk, tea, or coffee. “Coffee,” he said. “How do you want it?” the girl asked. “Black,” he answered. “Just black coffee.” “With cream and sugar?” she asked. “Change that to iced tea without ice,” he exploded. \ u
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