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I— .-.. WEATHER t_ r North Ocrohna - Considerable eloudi- ® ■ 99* 9 8 £ 9 j 9 """ flk H fBH 9 9 919 and scattered thunderstormj tonight. 9 BbH R R 99 9 9-9^99 ' ^J_99 919 Sunday during cooler preceded by R ^HR P1 9 B B9B 1^1^99' PR Hi B9I P® B9r9B R9 sheers southeast portion Sunday lore- ■ 9 9 B^B B B B ^B ^B ^^9 iiftYiHHg ~ff®KT €HW <§)FIPg?©®0E^9 &Mg) Ig>fUiAgy.{ag)te yOI^lANOM.___WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1946" ~ SECTION-A PRICE 10 CENTS Woodmen Officials Meet At Carolina Beach ----.—& m Pictured above are state and national officers of the Woodmen of the World who are currently attending a meeting of that organiza tion at Carolina Beach to formulate plans for the state convention n Charlotte next spring. Front row, left to right are: Judge Bur ring T. Kill, Wadesboro; D. E. Henderson, Charlotte; T. E. Newton, Omaha, Neb., national director; Charles A. Hines, Greensboro- J. Milton Todd, Charlotte; Clyde G. Simmons, Kinston; Nick T. Newberry, Charlotte; J. Love Davis, Wrightsville Beach; W L. Ross, Salisbury; R. Frank Patterson, Kannapolis; M. H. Morton, Albemarle; A. D. Morgan, Raleigh; I. D. Godwin, Newton Grove; W. E. Dalton, Hendersonville; C. Wallace Jones, Okoskee; steps, reading down, L. G. Woodward, Raleigh; S. O. Johnson, Rose Hill; J. M. Ciinard, Winston-Salem; George W. Hine, Lincolnton; W. B. Wrig’t and A. B. Vick, Moorehead Citv; McClaren Gibson, Sr., Gibson; C. P. Lail, Shelby; George W. Wooten, Wilmington; Dr. W. H. Carter, Goldsboro; H. M. Melvin, WTiite Lake; W. A. Short, Hickory Herman Jones, Henderson and Farrar Newberry, Jr., state manager of South Carolina. Photo by John Kelly, Carolina Beach. ' WOODMEN TO SET CONVENTION DATE Group Of Officers And Di rectors Will End Beach Sessions Today A committee of four members was appointed yesterday by a group of state officers of the Woodmen of the World, meeting at Carolina Beach, to decide on the exact date for the 1947 convention of the organization, which will be held in Charlotte next spring. Appointed to the commitee were Nick T. Newberry, state manager; D. E. Henderson, past head coun sel: J. Milton, state head counsel, all of Charlotte, and T. E. Newton, former state manager and now na tional director with offices in Oma ha, Neb. A group of 35 Woodmen state of ficers and directors will end a four day meeting at the resort today. Plans were also made for the unveiling of a plaque in Hender sonville, later in the year, in mem ory of Joseph Cullen Root, first president i f the organization, who died there in 1913. Root organized the Woodmen 56 years ago and was on a visit to Hendersonville at the time of his death. The plaque will be placed on the courthouse square, it was decided. It is expected the national presi dent will be present for the cere mony. OLD AGE TAX HIKE HALTED BY TRUMAN Bill Signed Yesterday Ef fects Social Security Law Changes WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— (ff) — Legislation forestalling an other wise automatic increase in the old age retirement payroll tax and making several other important changes in the Socialy Security law was signed today by President Tru man. . The bill, which cleared congress just before adjournment, freezes he payroll levy through 1947 at me present rate of one per cent each or employes and employers. Except for the new law, the rate (Continued On Page 3; Col. 1) Marshall Says Peace In China Impossible Declares Battle To The Death In Making Be tween Two Forces SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 10.—OI.P.) —Gen. George C. Marshall declar ed officially today that peace in China was impossible and that a battle to the death was in the makr ing between Central government forces and the Chinese com munists. “The fighting daily grows more widespread and threatens to en gulf the country and pass beyond the control of those responsible,” Marshall said in a joint statement with Dr. John Leighton Stuart, new U. S. ambassador to China. Nanking dispatches said Mar shall, convinced the peace mission on which President Truman had sent him was a failure, would ire turn to the United States about Sept. 15. There was little likelihood he would return to China. Nanking political sources said the Central government of Gen eralissimo Chiang KailShtk, after more than 20 years’ warfare with the Chinese Communists, was de termined to wipe them out by mili tary means and extend its juris diction over all China. Government minister of informa tion Peng Hsuch-Pei said Chiang would issue an important state ment next Wednesday “which will define the government position.” Peiping dispatches reported a second clash between U. S. Ma rines and communists on a north ern rail line and a breakdown in discussions among American, Com munist and Nationalist officers in. vestigating the first clash at Anp ing on July 29. Tientsin dispatches said U. S. Marine force headquarters there held their first city-wide security drill since arriving last October. The Marines threw guards around all headquarters buildings in the city as they would do in the case of a sudden attack. It was announ ced that such security drills would be held weekly from now on. The joint statement by Marshall and Stuart said that together they had explored every possibility for peace without success. “It appears impossible for the two parties to reach a settlement of those issues which would permit a general order to be issued for a complete cessation of hostilities in all China,” me statement said. “Certain of the unsettled issues (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Policemen, Firemen Here Begin Six-Day Work Week personnel of the Wilmington Police and fire departments today *nter upon a six-day work week, the city council having recently au oorized a day off weekly for all numbers of the forces. At the *ame time, the governing body oied an increase in the pay scale ef all the men. Manager J. R. Benson yes i,auy directed a memorandum to ;ic Chief J. Luddie Croom, an nouncing that the 76 members of he fire department would be al ovtett °ne day off per week, in d-nian to the regular vacation period, The city manager advised the fire chief that the schedule for off days for fire department personnel would have to be arranged so that it will meet with the requirements of the National Board of Fire Un derwriters. Police Chief Charles H. Casteen announced a few days ago that the schedule for the six-day week had been arranged for the police per sqnnel, effective today. Members of both departments have expressed themselves as be ing grateful to the council and the manager for effecting the six-day i week schedule and Increase in pay. DECONTROL BOARD SLATES HEARINGS Status Of Food Prices To Be Decided Within Next Eight Day Period WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—(U.B— The new three-man Price Decon trol board starts Monday on its gigantic task of deciding—within eight days—whether a big share of the nation’s food will go into the housewife’s market basket at ceil ing prices or with no controls at all. By Aug. 20, the board must de cide whether meat, grain, milk, grain and livestock products, cot tonseed and ■ soybeans should be under price control. Under the new OPA law, all these products automatically will be returned to control on Aug. 21 unless the board decides otherwise. But poultry, eggs, tobacco and petroleum will remain ceiling-free unless and until the board specifi cally directs that they be control led. The board, working against time, has scheduled hearings Monday through Thursday. Labor and farm groups and industry and con sumer organizations will be allow ed to present their views. Most of them will be limited to 15 minutes each. A very few will get 30 min utes of the board’s time. Board Chairman Roy L. Thomp son, a New Orleans Banker, an nounced that all 82 organizations which asked to be heard have been allotted time for oral presentation. He said no speaker will be allowed (Continued On Page 3; Col. 3) ARMED FUGITIVES FLEE POSSE AFOOT Oklahoma Badmen Holed Up In Hills For Des perate, Last Stand ATOKA, Okla., Aug. 10.—(U.R)— Two heavily-armed bank bandits fled afoot tonight throough the southeast Oklahoma hills, barely ahead of determined possemen who called for reinforcements and bloodhounds. A pack of bloodhounds from the state penitentiary at McAlester and more carloads of officers, carrying all sorts of weapons, were en route to the Kiamichi mountain region where the bandits were making what appeared to be their last stand. The fugitives looted the Walters (Okla.) National bank of $33,000 Thursday morning and at last re ports were carrying the money with them in their wild flight in a gunny sack. Their getaway automobile was found abandoned on a country road six miles southwest of Daisy late today, only a few hours after a filling station operator at that' hill side hamlet informed officers that (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) ALABAMA IS SCENE OF RACIAL STRIFE White Mob Tramples Ne groes After Vets And Negro Fight Starts ATHENS, Ala,, Aug. 10.—(/P)— Several Negroes were knocked down and trampled here today by a mob of white men who assem bled shortly after a fist fight be tween two white war veterans and a Negro, county court Judge D. L. Rosenau reported. Authorities said no one had been seriously hurt but that they were seeking to have the state guard called out as a precautionary measure. Sheriff H. G. Garrett estimated the mob numbered 500 men at one time and said it was still sizable three and a half hours after the trouble started. Some 50 higtnvay patrolmen have been sent here by the state. Judge Rosenau said the gang was chasing Negroes off the streets. And in so doing had “knocked down and trapled” several Negroes, including many old ones and some cripples. Ostensibly, he said, the mob is seeking the Negro who was in volved in the fight with the two white war veterans. The two white participants were arrested. But the Negro escaped. Mayor R. H. Richardson, Jr., said he freed the two white men from jail after members of the mob had promised to disperse. At Montgomery, State Highway Patrol Chief Clyde C. Sellers said 40 or 50 patrolmen were being seni into Athens to aid local officers. Mayor Richardson said he did not believe there would be further trouble, but thought the state guard shou1-’ be brought here as a “precautionary measure.” Judge Rosenau said he knew of several “old' Negroes” being knocked d$wn by the gang, and added that a, Negro man and his wife were prevented from catch ing a train. “They were chased under a house,” the Judge reported. Garrett said the white men were being constantly urged to be order ly. He added that many had “gone home” and he hoped no serious trouble would develop. The town has a population of about 5,000, of whom about one third are Negroes. Sheriff Garrett said his force of four or five depu ties and about the same number of city officers, together with “some (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Gay Parties Probe Topic Under Study Treasury Department Pur chasing Agents Enter tained Lavishly FILE IS HEAVY Contractors Seeking Con tracts Said Free With ‘Gratuities’ BY ANN HICKS WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — (U.R)— Gay week-end parties in New York at which pretty girl stenographers reportedly entertained Treasury department purchasng agents to day claimed the attention of the Senate War Investigating commit tee. Officials revealed that they have compiled a heavy file on activities on certain well-heeled “middle men” — free with lavish gifts and favors — in the Treasury’s multi billion dollar lend-lease purchas ing program. The so-called “contract agents,” a committee source revealed, often had no manufacturing facilities ex cept “a desk and swivel chair,” but drew millions for procurement of war goods. In one case, on which public hear ings may be held later the prime contractor made a 955 percent prof it on a lend-lease order. Commit tee information indicated that the contract placed orders for items costing manufacturers $2,392 each, but was paid by the government at the rate of $22,489. The contractors, according to preliminary committee findings, were openhanded with “gratui ties.” With the aid of their pretty stenographer they entertained min or treasury officals and their girl office workers on New York week end excursions, the committee source said. Still another case, interesting to the committee, involved the Snanufacture of a simple steel machine pin. Contract brokers were paid at the rate of 34 cents a pin. They placed orders for the pin with legitimate manufacturers at 3.6 cents each. Meanwhle, it was made clear that the committee considers its investigation of the role played by Rep. Andrew J. May, D., Ky., in the Garsson munitions “paper em (Continued On Page 3; Col. 2) AIRCADE SLATED TO ARRIVE TODAY 47 CAP Planes, 100 En thusiasts To Converge On City Approximately 100 flying enthusi asts from all sections of North Carolina are scheduled to begin landing their private planes on the runways of Bluethenthal airport to day at 9:30 a. m. as members of the Civil Air Patrol converge on Wilmington and Wrightsville beach for a one-day outing. Col. Frank Dawson, commander of CAP’S state wing, will lead the 47 planes in the flight to Bluethen thal. Practically all of North Caro lina’s major cities will be repre sented in the aircade, the largest mass flight attempted by CAP in more than a year. Sponsored jontly by the Wrights ville Beach chamber of commerce and Pennington Flying service, the aircade will move from Bluethen thal to Wrightsville for six hours of entertainment, including surfing, fishing and boating. A dinner meeting of the CAP will be held in the Ocean Plaza aotel at 12:45 p. m., but no busi ness matters will come up for con sideration during the brief sojourn here, according to Walter Cartier, secretary of the Wrightsville cham ber of commerce. At 4 p. m. the planes are schedul ed to leave Bluethenthal for their respective destinations. Rocky Point Youth Dies In Pender County Wreck One person was instantly killed and three others narrowly escaped death when their speeding auto mobile ran off the highway and overturned at 5:15 o’clock yester day morning on Highway 117 - 421, ten miles north of Wilmington, in Pender county. Julius Linwood Corbett, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Titus Corbett, of Rocky Point, was killed instantly in the accident, which State High way Patrolman W. B. Riddick claimed was caused by excessive speed on a straight stretch of road way. William Mahn, 19, was reported in a satisfactory condition yester day afternoon by attaches in James Walker Memorial hospital where he is undergoing treatment for a fractured right wrist. Joe Hale, Jr., 20, and Forest Harts, 18, the latter of Ivanhoe, Sampson county, escaped with only minor bruises. The accident occurred about a quarter of a mile south of Paul’s Place, on a straight highway. Young Corbett, who resided with his parents about three miles north of the scene of the crash, was (Continued On Page 3; Col. 3) PARIS DELEG A TES TOLD ITALIAN PEACE TREATY PROPOSAL IS PUNITIVE ‘Howlin’ Mad’ Smith Retires Gen. Holland M. “Howlin’ Mad’’ Smith (left) of Montgomery, Ala., hard-bitten Marine Corps commander who led battle forces in the Pacific, speaks to his men at Camp Pendleton, Calif., as he retires with the rank of full general. Beside him is Lt. Gen. Harry Schmidt who succeeds him as commander of the Marines in the San Diego area. Arkansas Vets Start Hot Political Fight Promise To Use “Every Means,” Including Force, In Campaign MALVERN, Ark., Aug. 10—(U.R>— This little county seat, the self styled "Most Sanitary Town In Arkansas,” today watched its po litical dirty linen hung out to pub lic view as a determined group of young veterans sought to break the grip of Sheriff Jack Kight on county politics. Kight’s henchmen scoffed at warnings by the "GI Ticket” that "if there are election irregularities Tuesday the Tennessee (McMinn county) incident will be mild in Comparison.” William Weaver, 27-year-old ex Army captain who made the state ment, said tonight "We don’t want violence, but we’re going to be firm. We’re going to play it ac cording to the law. "We don’t know what might hap pen if the other side doesn’t play it that way.” A rally of veterans scheduled for tonight had not materialized at the scheduled starting hour, but the downtown area buzzed with ex Gi’s and political talk. Weaver is leading a slate of GI candidates against the 18-year-old Hot Spring county political ma chine headed by Sheriff Kight. Kight, running for county treasur er this year against slight, blonde Doyle Collie, has held practically every office in the new WPA-built courthouse. Collie, only 22, was injured badly in the Battle of the Bulge and still carries one arm in a brace. In a third race, verterans can didate Champ C. Walker is oppos ing former deputy sheriff Roy Traywick for tax assessor. One GI candidate has no opposi tion—Edwin Cash for county rep (Continued On Page 3; Col. 4) WAASURPLUS LOG JAM END ORDERED 52 Consultants Making $35 Per Day Fired; Radios Held Up WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-0J.B The war assets administration has ordered a wholesale housecleaning of its electronics division to break a log jam of surplus radio and other communications equipment kept bottled up in storage while thousands of war veterans vainly sought to buy it. Fifty-two industry consultants drawing as high as $35 a day have been discharged. They will be re placed by army and navy techni cians. Other employes have been fired, both here and in field of fices. A spokesman said that while no charges of improper conduct have been made, officials felt there (Continued On Page 3; Col. 1) VARIED ACCIDENTS INJURE FOUR HERE Wave Breaks Woman’s Leg; Man Falls From Window A freakish ocean wave, an auto pedestrian accident and two falls caused ambulances to wail across Wilmington last night and. resulted in the admission of four persons to James Walker Memorial hospital. Mrs. Lacy Hoffner, Salisbury, was bathing in the surf, at Carolina Beach, when an unexpectedly strong wave caused her to lose her balance and resulted in a broken left leg. Her condition was de scribed by hospital attendants as satisfactory. Charles C. Carter, 106 Orchard street, Enka, was injured seriously when he stepped from a bus into the path of an oncoming car at 7 p. m. near the Masonboro loop on the Carolina Beach highway. Hospital attaches said Carter sus tained a compound fracture of his right leg and numerous abrasions about the head and body. Robert M. Price, 41, Goldsboro, fell from a second story window at 20 North Fourth street last night at 10:30, receiving a laceration under his chin and possible internal in juries, according to city police. Price a painter, lived at the ad dress while working in Wilming ton. Mrs. Jettie Hayes, owner of the house, told investigating officers that she heard a thud outside her window and upon investigation dis covered Price. He had fallen onto the porch and rolled off onto the sidewalk. Rushed to the hospital, he was admitted for treatment and observation. The extent of his in juries were not immediately de termined. Dan J. Ward, 61, of Sunset Lodge, was admitted to the hospital for observation and treatment after what police described as a fail in his apartment on the Carolina Beach road. DE GASPERI ASKS FOR YEAR’S DELAY Italian Premier Protest* Many Phases Of Paris Treaty Plan BY JOSEPH DYNAN PARIS, Aug. 10 —(A5)— Italy's premier struck out at the propos ed Italian peace treaty today as “punitive” and beyond his coun try’s capacity to fulfil, and urg ed the peace conference to post pone for a year settlement of the Trieste and other frontier prob lems. The decision to internationalize Trieste, Premier Alcide de Gasperi said, was "a bite into our very flesh.” Pleading Italy’s cause before an afternoon session which received his arguments in cold silence, de Gasperi protested the deep slash in Italy’s armaments, the bills for reparations, and the changes in the Italian frontier, particularly the Big Four decision on Trieste and Venezia Goulia. He buttressed his request for a delay by reference to Italian claims against Germany, asking: “Is this not another proof that no final settlement in Europe can be attained before peace is made with Germany?” There was no applause or other demonstration by the conference after De Gasperi’s 41-minute speech, but as he walked back up the center aisle U. S. Secretary of State leaned out and shook hands j with him. ine conference adjourned until Monday with a decision to defer discussions on the Italian plea until then. It also took no action after a morning's debate on ad mission of Albania as a member. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov again walked from the room while the Greek delegate was speaking, and the Yugoslav delegate charged that it was the policy of Greece, bitter opponent of Albania, "to foment and start war in the Balkans.” De Gasperi, urging delay on Tri este, said: “I am well aware that peace must somehow be made, that the deadlock must be broken. But on the oher hand if you have de ferred by one year the colonial settlement for lack of good solu tion, why can you not do like wise for the Julian (Trieste and Venezia Giulia) problem? “What good will come of cling ing to a solution which only bids for new trouble? Why shut your ears to the cry for help of the Italians in Austria x x x who at this moment are preparing to adandon hearth and home rather than submit to the new (Yugsolav) regime?” De Gasperi described the "French Line” proposed as the frontier between Italy and Yugo slavia as a "line of political ex pediency" which left 180,000 Ital ians in Yugoslavia ai.d 59,000 slavs on Italian soil. He recalled that he had offered to relinquish the natural frontier on the Alps and to fall back on the line traced by President Wilson in 1919. He added that Italy ap proved with certain reservations the Ethnic Line established by an allied committee of experts last Spring. ‘‘But the Yugoslav delegates in sisted, with arguments still based on the idea of punishment, for total possesion of Venezia Giulia,” he said. The premier described the pro posed free state of Trieste as a mixture of Slav elements witnin a predominantly Italian population, dependent upon Italy for some services and upon Yugoslavia for others. He estimated its budgetary (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) New Quake Terror Grips Dominican Inhabitants B MANUEL AMIAMA N CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic, Aug. 10—(fP)-Terror gripped the population of the northern provinces of the Domini can Republic tonight following two new shocks today in the six-day series of earthquakes and tidal waves whicn left 73 persons dead and 20,000 homeless. Hunger threatened the weary inhabitant? when attempts by the government to rush food to the stricken areas were hampered ser iously by washouts of roads and bridges in the paths of swollen streams. Apprehension was at its great est neai Bahia Escocesa (Scotch B.tj)) where the food, short, age was particularly acute and clothing ana medical supplies were reported by authorities to be run ning out. Throughout the week, earth tremors of varying intensity jar red the northern part of the island frequently, false rumors of im minent new quakes and tidal waves intensified the panic. The rumors grew to such an extent that the (Continued on Page 2: Column 6)
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