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FORECAST Wilmington and vicinity — Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm to day and Friday. _V0L: - ESTABLISHED 1867 LeadersHere Press Plans or College Citizens Meeting Scheduled Tonight At 8 o’Clock In High School CLARK TC^SPEAK Need For Institution To Be Outlined During Speci al Program Proposals for the establishment of a Junior college here embrac j,._ a cariculae both academic and industrial, is expected to be given further impetus tonight at a Citi zen's meeting scheduled for 8 o'clock at New Hanover High • rkool auditorium. Representatives of educational, veterans, service a, ; business organizations have been invited to attend in an effort 1,, secure county-wide support of the movement. y'.:.al plans for the meeting to ri,ent. as announced late yesterday by Dr. John T. Hoggard, chair rui n of the City-County Board of Education who will preside, cal! for a pre-meeting concert by the ,\u a Hanover High school hand at 7:1.7 p. m., witn the meeting scheduled promptly at 8 o’clock. The band will set the business ses s;mi underway with one verse of •■The Star Spangled Banner.” F. u speaker of the evening will be T T. Hamilton, Jr., principal : . . N'HHS, who will outline brief ]v. the needs and benefits which v. . ! be derived by the establish :: of a Junior college in Wil Mr. Hamilton will be fol 1,7. . : y Alton Lennon, Democrat ic r; . :.cc for the State Senate who will speak on the general theme of ‘'Education.” Following Mr. Lennon’s talk the chairman will present R. M. Ker mon. Democratic nominee for the North Carolina House of Repre sentatives, who is slated to address the citizens present on the subject of ‘Higher Education in Voca tional Training.” During a short intermission period, the New Hanover High school band will present one or more selections and then Dr. Hog See COLLEGE On Page Two CITY ASKS DATE FOR RATE TALKS Mayor Lane Seeks Parley With Utilities Group In Raleigh Mayor W. Ronald Lane will to day ask Stanley Winbourne, chair man o£ the State Utilities commis sion. to set aside some time next week when a city delegation, in consultation with the commission, can survey the latest financial re ports of the Tide Water Power, company to determine whether to re-open the City Council’s winter effort to reduce Tide W7ater’s rates. The city delegation’s meeting with the utilities commission in Haleigh, planned since the coun ; September 19 meeting, has n repeatedly postponed because conflicting city business, the Mayor declared. ■atest cause for delay was last ? trip to Washington by May ■' Lane. City attorney William B. lampbeil, and two counciimen to rapport the Garver Manufacturing company’s successful appeal for fM'.ran Production administration aPProval for immediate construc tor CITY on Page Two MBONE’S meditations By Alley pah son sa^ us °L)6HT£R WU'K FUH Some en'but mos' uv U5 J£5/ WU'KS ^ |Nr uv yJoKt 1-1 -j. a i?""""1 »>r The Ben 8nk <0-31 H-L a'i" ,nc 1 Trade Mirk • Ret V 8. Bat Office) _Readying For Saturday p Seen (above is the YMCA tumbling team at a practice session yesterday afternoon under the direction of Adam Smith, physical director. The group will give an exhibition Saturday morning in Legion stad m as one of the highlights of the Kiwanis Club-sponsor ed Junior Traffic Safety program. Members of the team are, left to right: Bottom row—Bobby Ellers, John George, Dave Padrick and Bobby Clark. Second row—Carl O'Sullivan, Frank George, Jim Jef fords and Pete Dannenbanm. Third row—Percey O’Sullivan and Jimmy Merritt. (STAFF PHOTO) U. S. Will Not Make Disarmament Error TRUMAN TO SEEK AID FOR COTTON President Discloses Action As Major Exchanges Of Nation Stop Business WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — (U.R) — The nation’s cotton exchanges sus pended trading for the second time within two weeks Wednesday as President Truman disclosed that he is conferring with government officials on means of bolstering sagging cotton prices. Confronted with another $10-a-bale market drog Tuesday which raised the overall recent plunge to about $50 a bale, President Frank J. Knell of the New York exchange announced that a routine check was being made of 20 to 30 member firms known to have been active in cotton trading. Coincidentally, Mr. Truman dis cussed the situation with an Ala bama delegation which warned that the collapse of the market threatens the South’s economy. The Alabamans included Rep. John J. Sparkman, Democratic candidate for the Senate; James E. Folsom, Democratic gubernatorial nominee, and Robert Jones, Democratic nominee to succeed Sparkman in the House. Exchanges Suspended They called at the White House See TRUMAN On Page Two Strike Notice DETROIT, Oct. 30.—OJ.R)—The United Auto Workers (CIO) said Wednesday it would file a 30-day strike notice with the ford Motor company in behalf of the 68,000 employes at the River Rouge plant. Thomas Thompson, president of Ford Local 600, largest locai in the world, said the notice would be filed because of a dispute with the company over alleged health hazards in open hearth department. Thompson said that pending ex piration of the 30-day notice, '"‘Ford workers will.live up to their responsibilities under the contract.” The 30-day notice dated from Wed nesday, he said. Chief Delegate Assures Assembly Nation Will Aid Soviet Plan NEW YORK, Oct. 30. — (/P)— The United States supported to the fullest Wednesday night Rus sia's call for world-wide arms limi tation but simultaneously served notice on the world that this coun try would not repeat its old mis take of disarming alone. It also insisted sharply on effec tive inspections and other safe guards against states which might try to arm secretly. Loud applause rang through the hall of the United Nations assemb ly as Warren R. Austin, Vermont born chief of the United States delegation, said with great em phasis that “after the last war we made the mistake of disarming unilaterally. We shall not repeat that mistake.’’ Then, looking directly at Vyaches lav Molotov, Russian foreign min ister, who sprang a proposal for world arms limitation on the as sembly late Tuesday, Austin said slowly and clearly. Wants Safeguards “The United States is prepared tc cooperate fully with all other mem bers of the United Nations on dis armament. It advocates effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect com plying states against the hazards of violation and evasion.” Austin was cheered by the dele gates and a chamber virtually fill ed with spectators as he thus pick ed up the Soviet challenge. Molo tov had been given a Russian language copy of Austin’s text be fore the American began his speech. The Russian foreign min ister sat quietly paying close at tention as Austin spoke. Applause burst out when Austin, wearing a blue suit and a reddish tie, was announced. He strode to the rostrum with a determined air. There were hand-clasps as he pledged once more the United States support of the United Na tions: as he dismissed Molotov’s charges against United States for eign and atomic policies with the hope that the allies can ‘fight’’ for peace side by side without recrimi nation: as he urged that the Molo tov disarmament proposal he dis cussed by the assembly; and as See DISARMAMENT On Page 2 NEW FLIM - FLAM Phony Tips On Surplus Fleece Unsuspecting GTs WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —{/P)— Ex-convicts and phony tipsters are “flim-flamming a small fortune” from veterans and others by claiming to have an inside track to the government’s huge stocks of surplus property, the War As sets administration charged Wed nesday. Warning against “advertising of sharpsters,” the agency said ten unidentified publications were un der investigation after advertising “undercover access to non-existent or reserved surplus war property at low cost.” The cases it has investigated at ter complaints, WAA said, showed the publications offering informa tion that the government would give without charge. “The offers are couched in fancy come-ons designed to coax the subscriber into believing that priority regulations are a neces sary’ nuisance not to be taken Seriously and that smart buyers are short-cutting the .authorized channels of trade,’’ a WAA state ment said. Former convicts were found to have conceived and circulated one See TIPS On Page Two mZEMIST BOMBS WRECK CENTRAL Nailway station in Jerusalem; BRITISH LOAN VIOLATION HINTED / Snyder Scans Terms Of New Pact On Meat Sections Of Argentine Eco nomic Agreement Basis Of U. S. Objections DEPARTMENTS ACT Ban On Spending Of Block ed Sterling Causes Ire Of Treasury Officials WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — (IP) — The United States has objected to Britain over sections of the British-Argen t i n e economic agreement which, in the view of offici als here, appear to violate promises Britain made in ob t a i n i n g a $3,750,000,000 American loan. The objections have al ready been expressed orally, of ficials said, and Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder plans to follow up with a letter to London asking for an explanation o' one of the financial provisions in the accord. Under Secretary of State Wil liam L. Clayton discussed certain objections tc trade provisions of the pact in talks with Hugh Dal See SNYDER on-Page Two DONATIONS MOUNT IN CHEST DRIVE Two More Firms Get Red Feather Awards For Topping Quota The Wilmington Community chest is today just $4,000 short of its $106,204 goal. Chest leaders, driving hard to wind up their campaign by its new Saturday night deadline, reported pledges totaling $102,195 at six o’clock last night. The new figure represents a gain of $1,043 over Tuesday’s total. So 50 major firms are still un reported, Louie E. Woodbury, cam paign chairman, said yesterday afternoon. Should the chest maintain the $100-a-firm average it established yesterday its chances of going over its goal by Saturday are excellent, chest leaders said. Yesterday’s returns featured a goal-toppling report of $1,630 filed by J. B. McCumber, captain of the chest’s auto, gas and oil firm group, a unit of the commercial division. Red Feather awards were pre sented to employees of two more firms which exceeded their quota. They were John B. Hinnant, con tractor, and E. S. Fiver and Sons. Along The Cape F ear WEIRD SOUNDS — Don’t be alarmed at that strange sound you should be hearing now. It is mere ly Along The Cape Fear eating crow. As a matter or fact, if it was only crow it would not be so bad, or at least so noisy. You see, the unpleasant task of digesting a typewriter is now this column’s un happy lot. What should arrive in the mail yesterday but a letter from Mr. and Mrs. Taft McCall, of Route 1, Box 237, Clarkton. Along The Cape Fear is always happy to receive mail, but often times we would be even more happy if our readers did not have such good memories. GRANDMOTHERS AGAIN — It all happened because Along The Cape Fear went overboard a week or so ago and mincing no words awarded the record to Mrs. Jane Best of Columbia county as she is the grandmother of 38. We even went so far to say, and this you must admit looks like a mistake on our part, that if that was not a “Southeastern North Carolina record we’ll eat our typewriter starting with the keys and finishing off with the carriage.” We thought that the old type writer was safe, but sad to say we were wrong. RECORD TOPPED — Mr. and Mrs. McCall point out in their let ter that they can top what we considered to be a Southeastern North Carolina record. They were even kind enough to send along a photograph of the new winner. If you will turn to Page 5 you can find the picture of the new cham pion. And now to introduce Along The Cape Fear readers to the new record holder. But rest assured we will not be brash enough to make any such statement about eating typewriters any time in the near future. MRS. MCCALL — Mrs. Naomah McCall, widow of Randolph Mc Call, who now lives near Clark ton in Bladen County, will cele brate the 80th anniversary of her birthday next December 11. Mrs. McCall was the mother of 20 children, ten of whom are now alive .She has 56 grandchildren and if that were not enough to crown her the new champion, she can also boast of 20 great grandchil dren, all of whom are alive. See CAPE FEAR On Page Two N. C. Ship’s Swan Song The S. S. Santa Isabel, last of the 243 vessels to be built at the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany, left port yesterday afternoon with a Grace Line crew. The Isabel, delivered October 8, was delayed in sailing by the maritime strike. Her departure put the cap on a North Carolina wartime shipbuilding record that began May 22, 1941, when the keel of the first Liberty ship was laid at the local yard. (STAFF PHOTO) PRICE CONTROLS ON HIDES, SHOES Administration Announce ment Expected To Add Millions To Boot Bills WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—(U.R)— The administration killed all price controls on shoes, leather, hides and skins Wednesday night in a surprise order that promised to add millions of dollars to the na tion's $2,000,000,000 annual shoe bill. Reconversion Director John R. Steelman announced the move form the White House, linking it with President Truman's recent directive decontroling livestock prices. Steelman said his order would become effective immediately, but OPA Chief Paul Porter announced that it would be operative at 12:01 a. m. EST, Thursday. The surprise nature oi the Steel man order was indicated by the fact that the shoe and leather in dustries have made no. application for decontrol. OPA itself grante '. nine per cent price increase in domesti cally tanned calfskins only Tues day night, suggesting that the agency was unaware of the im pending decontrol order. Goverment and industry sources were unable to make any immedi ate estimate on how much the lid lifting directive would cost the consuming public, but they indi cated it would run into millions of dollars. Approximately 500,000,000 pairs of shoes are sold annually in the See CONTROLS On Page Two The Weather FORECAST South Carolina 2nd North Carolina — Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm Thursday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. &1. 7:30 a.m. 38; 1:30 p.m. 80; 7:30 p.m. 68. Maximum 81; Minimum 58; Mean 73; Normal 61. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 96; 7:30 a.m. 100; 1:30 p.m. 50; 7:30 p.m. 95. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. —0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — -1.51 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington _ 1:42 a.m. 9:01 a.m. 2:23 p.m. 9:43 p.m. Wasonboro Inlet 11:44 a.m. 5:13 a.m. 11:59 p.m. 6 :15 p.m. Sunrise 6:31; Sunset 5:20; Moonrise 12:24 p.m.; Moonset 10:16 p.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Wednesday, (missing) feet. BARNHART SPEAKS TO AUTO DEALERS Production, Baring Labor Troubles, Wifi Double In 1947, He Says Worn-out, used automobiles are going off the highways of America at a daily rate approximately equal to the daily production of new cars, D, C. Barnhart, of the National Association of Automo bile Dealer’s told members of the North Carolina Automobile Deal ers at a district meeting here last night. Automobilemen from seven counties, New Hanover, Duplin, Sampson, Bladen, Columbus Brunswick and Pender were guests of the Wilmington new car dealers at a banquet following a business session. The banquet was presided over by R. H. Holland, Wilmington Buick dealer. Barnhart also told the dealers that production in 1947, barring serious labor disturbances, can approximate only about double See BARNHART On Page Two GOVERNMENT SET FOR LEWIS TALK New Agreement May Pro I long Control; Labor Pic ture Continues Dark By The Associated Press The government arranged last, night to talk over wages and work ing conditions with John L. Lewis despite a warning from the coal industry that any new agreement reached might prolong government control of the mines. A high govern r.. . official in Washington told a repor er the ad ministration was willing to discuss Lewis’ demands a; a s 'r '■duled con ference in the capita’. F ay. Lewis had demanded he m. ting with an implied threa l r 1 out his 400,000 United IV nkers in a pre-election s <r niess his contract with the J> rnment was reopened. "i The reopemn, ■ contract the government clea, with Lewis when it sc. , ihe mines during a strike las; fay would clear the way fer sibly sub stantial new gains fo ve nation’s soft coal miners. . JK See GOVERNMF^T| Page Two day Up to * Chief C| official 't approach seen fit walk wa | (ight Police teen — an lined to the ;s — hadn’t • populace to might. This t I chief beiri tented hjj to advi.jp themsejr; from w en, and the : naan, he con ning parents on to enjoy their hands e. we^ll - tors ofa days bet ed thei, recall v! j w”>t to heed any K ne police, so B* hat the city promiscuous ? le witch dic n, and, in the aesar padlock aioween, you’ll xavorlte holiday. | CAMPAIGN FIRE Hannegan Repudf Support By Corg iAll mists WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— (/P) — Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan Wednesday night re pudiated all Communist support for his party in next Tuesday’s elections and blasted at Republican leadership of Senator Taft (0!>io) and Rep. Martin (Mass.) “To the Communists, I say, this administration neither wants nor deserves your support,” Hannegan said in an address prepared for radio (MBS; delivery as the Con gressional campaigns drew near the finish. “You should give it to the Rep ublican party. In that pariv1 are your h ' champ, your vO' crats h ' c ■ the proven p. Give them not the Demo t." A vv fir %-'ublican candi date, -a vie. , declared, "is a vote f * 1 \f‘ id lartin and for the pal/ tiia 1’•'rmined Amer ica’s s •' die orogram in the last co -gre "It is a "Gv, the parly tnat sabotaged housing -for veterans. “It is a vote for the party that wanted to give the secret of atomic defense into the hands of those See HANNEGAN on Page Two Many Missing After Blasts Rock District Gun-Toting Girl, Two Men Plant Explosives, Shoot Way To Clear Escape OFFICIALS~WARNED Burning Arab Truck Falls Through Bridge Into Village Injuring Six JERUSALEM, Palestine, Oct. 30. — (UP) — Three young Extremists, including a gun-toting girl, blew7 up Jerusalem’s central railway station Wednesday. A British sergeant was killed and at least 12 persons, listed as missing, were presumed buried in the debris. The three shot their w'ay 'nit and escaped in a taxicab as the first of five bombs shattered the station, rocking nearby build ings. The bombs exploded 40 minutes after a man who identified him self as "an Irgun Zvai Leum (Jewish underground organi/"t inn) private’’ notified police her ters by telephone that the s.-iion was doomed. Police ordered the building evacuated, but the 12 "missing” persons evidently were inside when the bombs went off. A few hours before, two British soldiers were killed, a third was said to be dying and 15 others See MISSING On Page Two METTS TO PUSH NATIONAL GUARD State Adjutant To Seek | Called Meeting Here For Recruits State Adjutant General J. Van Buren Metts plans to ask Mayor W. Ronald Lane to call an early meeting of local civic and military leaders to lay plans for recruiting the 24 officers and 539 enlisted men needed to man the city’s proposed National Guard anti-aircraft batta lion and infantry company, he an nounced from Raleigh last night. Details of General Mett’s request are now being mailed to Mayor Lane, be said. The Mayor, who has already an nounced that they will give every city facility to aid the drive for re cruits, said last night that he would await details of General Metts’ re quest before taking action. The state adjutant general also reported that he is still awaiting word from the War Surplus Admin istration disposal board on his re quest that 20 buildings at Bluethen thal Field be set aside as an anti aircraft battalion training site. The proposed site would include 113.3 acres of the airport, which General Metts described as “an ideal training ground for our pur poses”. A WSA board is expected to dis pose of the airport within a few days. Some 500 acres have been earmarked for direct transfer to New Han-over county. And So To Bed No, gentle reader, it was NOT Police Chief Charles H. Casteen who stopped the driv er and could not make the ar rest because he had lost his badge. The chief has his badge . . . The incident re ferred to in “So to Bed” sev eral days ago happened in Robeson county. The Chief says he has been taking quite a “ribbing” about th3 loss of his shield. The Chief didn’t lose his badge, but, at the high school football game last Friday night a local private lost his badge, at least the announcer on the public address system said he did
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