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fug si ijffijPAB iieuie •••~~“ 1 lit SUNUAtL: d’IAn"NEna _ ^STMH P>@KT @QW ©(? PMdSBESS AM® [?>IU?AS8Miai2»j» Vdl IS—NO. 45. " ---— - - *Z____ 1- — __WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1946 SECTION-A Repeal Candidate . irs. Jlfckey Harrell (above), zn ;<ul pendent, is Oklahoma’s );r. 1 v man candidate for gov ern-.*. She advocates repeal of S‘;-p prohibition, an issue us rsaliy side-stepped in dry Okla homa. (AP Wi rephoto). (ECfAL SILENT ON POLICE ISSUE Ar-'rn.ev General Declares F-'/ar.’s Law Enforce ment Group Tco Small : eve no comment to make,” hy Manager J. R. Benson v; ked yesterday if the city c : planned on increasing the rel of the Wilmington Police dcp. r.nsent. T -rrustion was posed by Attor ney tk-neral Tom Clark's recent ck ' -r.iion in Raleigh, to the ef-1 t. i there are ”6,000,000 crimi-; r, : . some of them armed with; u1 : odern weapons and devices, v. 1 ; re warring against a meag e: ' e of 150.-000 ill-equipped po- i licev.-cn." Tr. iiiy manager, after reading; a oner story on the Attorney C i s speech, said he was in ch : . ;o believe that there may be sere exaggeration in the six-mil lion criminal figure. Clerk has said: "We now have an army of 6.000,000 criminals, larger than the armies which were or. actual field of combat against G many and Japan. Arrayed them are some 150.000 enforcement officers. That they r. 1 ihe help of everyone against t’-- " heavy odds as never before is evident.-” Trie attorney general said ‘‘the 1-. 7.1 Bureau of Investigation is c tie of handling its job, but the country needs is ad ck ' y paid, well-manned police dspaitments. "•“SO needed,-’ Clark said, “are ‘•replacement of dilapidated and back managed jails; reforms in 1 rial laws to make it impossible inscrupulous lawyers to effect until the question of guilt iccence is lost in a maze of technicalities.” SMALLER NATIONS FLAY UN COUNCIL Protest Denial Of Mem bcrsliJD To Ireland And Other Countries :;b SUCCESS, N. Y„ Nov. 2. c Cospite strenuous efforts of ■ Russia to block criticism ' -e United Nations Security 'f1-; Egypt and Argentina to :,;d a small-nations attack on oil for rejecting the ap ~ ':i:;ons of Ireland, Portugal, ‘;5~sjoraar., Albania and Outer oo.ia for UN membership. 'pest attack came from ;-c - ir.e Delegate Jose Arce, protested particularly against 11 ,;ie veto on membership ■ ns and declared that if . procedure is to be followed ; ■ better if the other 46 na ;mply folded up our papers L' ■ -ntied on P3ge 2: Column 4) Both Parties Confident On Election Eve Hannegan, Reece Aver Own Party Will Win Con trol In Congress ISSUES DEFINED Oratory Diminishes As Campaign Moves Into The Home Stretch By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—iA’)— The 1946 Battle of the Ballots pro duced for the first time tonight an unqualified claim from the Democratic command that Tues day’s election will tighten their grip on Senate and House. Re publicans voiced confidence that control of both branches of Con gress surely will shift to the l. * With the issues sharply defined and minds of a multitude of voters made up during weeks of heavy campaigning, Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan re vised upward previous forecasts that his party would hang on to majorit’es in senate and - house. He predicted: “A- tue result of the election on Tuesday, the Democratic party not only will be returned to its ma jority status in both houses ol Congress, but its membership will be increased over that in the 79th Congress.” Republican Chairman Carroll Reece declared as confidently in another statement: “The congress to be elected on Tuesday will be a Republican con gress.” He said there will be a "sub stantial” GOP majority in the House, perhaps an "overivhelm ing” one. In the Senate, Reece predicted simply a majority. Reece figured the Republicans will add 40 to 49 members to their ranks in the House. Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, chairman oi the Republican congressional com mittee, put the total at 46 if. a separate statement. As the campaign started brisk ly down the stretch, efforts dimin (Continued on Page 2; Column 7) WYATT FORECASTS HOUSING VICTORY Expediter Expects To Se cure RFC Okeh For Building Loan Aid WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— UP) — Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt tonight forecast victory in his fight for loans of $65,000,000 to create a mass-production housing industry, despite resistance from the Recon struction Finance Corporation, and reported to first big monthly in crease in new homes completed. September brought a “particu larly encouraging” gain of 25 per cent over August in getting houses ready for occupancy, Wyatt said in a monthly report. The number was 79,500, of which 49,800 were new permanent dwellings. In the first nine months of the year, the housing drive was two thirds of the way toward its goal of 1,200.000 dwellings started this year. Up to October. 808,700 had been begun, 430,200 finished. At a news conference, Wyatt talked optimistically of his prob lem of getting big loans for a dozen companies to start making assem bly-line houses. He has served no tice that he will issue a directive to RFC. forcing favorable action under the powers granted hirn by the Veterans Emergency Housing 3 ct. “I feel optimistic of the author ity I have in this question,’ he said. About 106,000 new homes in 1947 are at stake. The RFC has granted only two (Continued on Page 2; Column 3) War Bride Murder Trial years End In Las Vegas T B JAMES LINDSLEY ^;;'e ' EGAS, Nev., Nov. 2.—(VP) |j.‘"e c‘ iense tore savagely into v ‘ ' ecution’s case against V'; E .dget Waters today, tell ,jp. “-y trying her for the mur ' 1 ner husband, that portions state’s testimony was ‘actured” and other parts J. fantastic.” f osecutor earlier had term killing “deliberate and t.: Aed” and had demand j rs‘ degree murder verdict d defendant, but not the Penalty. ' Attorney Marion Earl was particularly bitter as he at tacked prosecution testimony giv en by two private detectives, Har ry Oatman and H. G. McClure, who had alleged that Mrs. Waters employed them to shadow her husband and that she said if you find him at Boulder Dam you might shove him off.” “That testimony,” Earl shout ed, “ was manufactured by a couple of cheap publicity seekers who have been reading too many (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 4) - .--- - Surpass Goal Ranald Stewart, left, president of the Community Chest, is shown presenting the Red Feather to Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., Campaign chairman, and Richard S. Rogers, right, oo-chiarman, as he congratulates them on successful completion of the Chest’s 1947 drive. A total of $107,068.71 was collected or pledged during the financial effort to place it “over the top’’ by more than $800. PHOTO BY BOB HODGKIN. -. W___ CHEST CAMPAIGN SURPASSES GOAL Total Of $107,068 Co! lecied Or Pledged Dur ing Annual Drive The Wilmington Community Chest’s 1947 campaign, headed by Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., chair man, and Richard S. Rogers, co chairmEv, surpassed its goal yes terday by more than $800 with a total of $107,068.71 collected and pledged, according to an an nouncement from Chest headquar ters last night. During the past week, which opened with over 100 firms of the Chest’s major divisions not report ed. a group of top campaign lead ers reduced the total to 15 firms unreported, most of which are ex pected to turn in their reports early this week. Some of these have been held up awaiting home office confirmation, campaign workers said. Woodbury expressed h i s appre ciation to these workers, without whose aid the campaign might not have fared so well. Ranald Stewart, president of the (Continued on Page 2: Column i) DOCTORSNEEDED FOR VA OFFICES Wilmington's New Unit De pends On Procurement 01 Medical Personnel Opening of the Sub-regional of fices of the Veterans’ Administra tion in Wilmington depends solely now’on procurement of sufficient qualified medical personnel, Col. J. D. DeRamus, of Winston-Salem, regional manager, told the Star News yesterday. Commenting on the VA’s request to Public Bmildings administration for use of the customhouse space, he said that his office had made the request, but had not been noti fied of the reservation having been made. He continued, by stating that the (Continued on Page 10, Column 7) Mississippi Governor Dies After Operation JACKSON, Miss, Nov. 2— (U.R)—Gov. Thomas L. Bailey of Mississippi died tonight at the executive mansion here. His physician, Br. H. F. Ma gee, said the 58-year-old chief executive died at 6:30 p.m. of “complications arising from an operation for malignancy of the spine.” The governor’s body will lie in state at the new capitol here Sunday. Funeral services are scheduled to be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Central Metho dist church in Meridian, Miss., with the Rev. IV. A. Tyson, pastor, officiating. RENEWED VIOLENCE SWEEPS HOLY ND i - Jeep Hits Road mine, Wounding Soldier; Blast Occurs Near Bridge JERUSALEM, Nov. 2—(JP)—A Jeep hit a roadmine tonight near Petah Tikva and a bomb exploded near a bridge over the Kishon river in the vicir\ty of Haifa as New violence erupted in the Holy Land at the end of a one-day strike of Palestine’s Arabs against the Bal four Declaration. One soldier in the jeep was wounded seriously and another was cut and bruised, military sources said. The bridge was un damaged. Petah Tikva is about six miles east of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv. The jeep was the fourth to be blasted by roadmines this week, during which five Brit ti;h soldiers have been killed and 28 injured. The traditional one-day Arab strike, coupled with the Jewish Sabbath, had placed the Holy Land in a virtual stage of paralysis. Only violence reported in con nection with the Arab strike was the stoning of British military ve hicles by groups of Arab children at Ramleh, Arab city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. No. damage was done other than that by a few rocks which missed the vehicles and sailed into Arab ((Continued on Pago 10; Column 2) Yets Prepare Bid For Huge VA Hospital Legion And VFW Commit tees WiJ Present Plans To Two Groups BRIEFS READIED Free Offer Of 100-Acre Tract Of Land Made To VA Officials Wilmington’s two major veteran groups—the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion yesterday took concrete steps to wards the procurement of a $15, COO.OCI Veterans Administration hospital for New Kanover county. Committees of the two veteran units met late yesterday afternoon in the American Legion home and drafted plans pertinent to the pre sentation of the proposal to VA officials. During the meeting, the mem bers of the representative groups were in accord with the fact that the project is and would continue to be a joint project. They agreed they would return to the members of the respective organizations and lay plan before the membership and ask for ap proval to purchase land for a hos pital site and turn the title over to the VA. The committees also agreed that two briefs—one a brochure con taining written facts and the second a pictorial review—should be com piled for presentation to VA of ficials. A meeting has already been scheduled with Brigadier General Kress, regional director of the southern district of VA, with of (Continued on Page 2; Column 5) GERMAN PEACE PUT ON BIG FOUR LIST Low Countries May Get Voice In Drafting Treaty, Bevin Declares NEW YORK, Nov. 2.— (U.R)—Brit ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin disclosed tonight that the request of the Belgian, Netherlands and Luxembourg governments to help draft the German peace treaty was raised in Paris last month and would be discussed by the Big Four foreign ministers at tjieir meeting here beginning next week. Arriving here aboard the S. S. Aquitania, Bevin told a press con ference that the question of the low countries was raised in Paris by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and had been placed on the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of the Big Four, wnat s to be done with Ger many is absolutely of vital con cern to those three countries,” Bevin said. Bevin said he hoped that the United Nations would develop as intended but "it takes a long time to build the constitution of a world organization,” just as it took a long time to develop the constitu tions of the United States and the United Kingdom. “We cannot expect to sail on all smooth waters ip the first year of the United Nations.” he said. “It’s probably better that we should have our ups and downs early in United Nations life—our conflicts and problems—and try to under stand each other’s point of view.” He said that one of the chief difficulties of the present situation was that “we must write peace treaties as well as build up the United Nations. The conflicts of one extend to and complicat^the other.” Miners Walk Out While Coal Parley Continues Youth Held In Anti-Negro Outbreak James R. Childers (left), 17. arrested on assault and battery charges in connection with an attack on a Negro in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27, confers in court with Homer L. Loomis, Jr., secretary of a secret order known as the Columbians. Police describe the Columbians as a “Negro-Hating” group, and are investigating charges that members seek to usurp police prerogatives by patrol ling streets and doing “guard” duty in white residential sections adjoining Negro districts in Atlanta. On Loomis’ shoulder is the insignia of the Columbians. (AP Photo). Secret Order Raided: i I Reporter Hears Plans Four Columbians Arrested In Atlanta On Riot-In citing Charges ATLANTA, Nov. 2.— (fP) —Four members of Columbians, Inc., an anti-Negro secret order accused by police of trying to upset their powers and by civic group spokes men of being “hate-preaching” and “Hitler-like,” landed in jail today on charges of “inciting a riot. Police swooped down on a dem onstration against a Negro family moving into a house formerly oc cupied by white tenants and jailed the four on verbal, on-the-scene orders of Chief M. A. Hornsby: "Captain, do your duty—lock them up.” The order was addressed to Capt. W. M. Weaver, who with other high ranking officers had jumped into a police car with the chief and accompanied him to a dirt road residential area where about 50 persons were carrying on the demonstration. iney were oocKetea as Homer j... Loomis. Jr., 32; James M. Akins. 18; Jack Price, 27, and R. L. Whit man, 33. All except Whitman, the police said, gave local headquarters of the order as their address. Chief Hornsby wasted no words at the demonstration scene. En countering the Columbians leaders one after another, he flatly accus ed them of “trying to stir up trou ble’’ and ordered them jailed. Loomis, local secretary of the order, arrived in the midst of the police activity. Hornsby turned to him and demanded: “What are you doing out-here?” “I came to help the people,” Loomis said. “Lock him up,” the chief or dered. As Negroes and whites faced each other across the street, the police chief raised his voice and declared: “I want to tell you once and for for all, you Columbians, the At (Continued on Page 2; Column 6) Woman, Fugitive From Honeymoon, Held In Jail; Alleged Accomplice In $832,000 Theft Arrested -w___ . _. 26-Year-O’d Bride Want ed In Connection With Mobile Holdup DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 2. — (U.R) — With tears streaming down from behind her plastic-rimmed glasses, 26-year-old Mrs. Evelyn Cornish Globaker—a fugitive from her own honeymoon—sat in a Dallas jail cell today and assured reporters she doesn’t want her husband or anyone to help her face charges of a $700 cafe holdup at Mobile, Ala. “I just want everyone to let me alone because I‘m not worth saving,” said the girl who walked in red cowboy boots into Dallas police headquarters to announce (Continued on Page 2; Column 1) —Top Football Scores— Tennessee 20; North Carolina 14. Georgia Tech 14; Duke 0. North Carolina State 49; V.M.I. 7. , Army 19; West Virginia 0. Washington and Lee 25; Davidson 6. Georgia 14; Alabama 7. Notre Dame 28; Navy 0. Richmond 19; Virginia 7. Illinois 7; Iowa 0. Princeton 17; Penn 14. Ohio State 39; North western 27. Texas 19; S.M.U. 3. Oklahoma 14; T.C.U. 12. Missouri 21; Nebraska Syracuse 28,‘^Temple 7. Rutgers 13, Harvard 0. Rice 41, Texas Tech 6. Wisconsin 24, Purdue 20. William & Mary 41, Mary land 7. Kentucky State 13, - Florida A & M 6. C 1 e m s o n 14, Virginia Tech 7. (Continued on Page 9; column 4) Executive United With Huge Swindle Accom plished In N. Y. NEW YORK, Nov. 2—OP)—Kings county Assistant District Attorney Julius Helfand tonight announced the arrest of Isadore Rappaport, 55. New York optical company official, on charges in connection with the alleged embezzlement of some $832,000 from the Mergen thaler Linotype company. Rappaport was taken from the district attorney’s office to a Brook lyn police station where he was booked on charges of grand larceny and forgery and con (Continuejl on Page 2; Column 2) r Atlanta Journal Reportei Watches Khaki-Clad Order In Action ATLANTA, Nov. 2. — (/P) —In a copyright article, Tom Ham, At lanta Journal reporter, today de scribed how he sat two hours in the headquarters of Columbians Inc., and watched the “khaki-shirt ed order click’’ while its leader traced ambitious goals, to be cli maxed by “control of the govern ment.” After two hours, Ham reported he left. The leader of the order Homer L- Loomis, Jr., he added must have left also, for "by the time I had walked to the office he was in jail.” All the time he talked, the re porter said, Loomis was directing by telephone an anti-Negro demon stration that landed Loomis and three of his lieutenants in jail on charges of “inciting a riot.” The demonstration was against a Negro family moving into a house formerly tenanted by Whites—a key point in an anti-Negro, anti-Jew, anti-Communist, anti-“Rich who op press the masses” program Loomis outlined to the reporter. “Just stand around,” Ham quot ed Loomis as telling his aides. “Don't budge, if the Negro tries to move in, just stand there on the doorstep and don’t give ground. But if the police order you directly to let them move in, let them. That will put the burden on the police.” The police put the four Colum bians in jail. Ham described the Columbians using good English and displaying “oratorical talent ” He sat, the re porter said, at a desk in a dingy, office, A purple curtain behind him emblazoned with the “red flash” emblem of the order. “We’re political,” Ham quoted Loomis as saying. “We’re going to (Continued on Page 2; Column 3) BITUMINOUS AREAS HIT BY STOPPAGES Unions, Operators Believe Mines May Reopen To* morrow Morning WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— (JP)—More bituminous miners quit work by the hundreds to day in connection w'ith John L. Lewis’ new contract nego tiations while the operators protested that any further wage concessions would price coal right out of the fuel market. William Blizzard, President of the United Mine Workers district 17 in West Virginia. said the walkout “is spreading, but we are doing all we can to prevent it.” Reports from management and union sources indicated some 10, 000 miners were idle in West Vir ginia and Pike County, Kentucky, with others idle in Tennessee. Scores of mines were shut down and absenteeism hampered some still operating. With the wage talks between the administration and Lewis in recess until Monday, a National Coal as sociation statement said “our whole national economy trembles in jeopardy” while the government arid the “Big Boss of the United Mine Workers play a game of checkers with a three-billion-dol lar industry.” Both the union and the govern ment said they expect the closed mines to reopen Monday. But John D. Battle, executive secre tary of the coal association, de clared there may be an epidemic of stoppages to block any accumu lation of coal reserves. Aides of Lewis said there will be no general mine strike for the time being. Lewis seeks new pay and other concessions for his 400,000 miners from the Interior depart ment, which has been operating the mines since last May under a White House seizure order. So far, Coal Mines Administrator N. H. Collisson has merely listened (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 5) WEST"MAST SHIP STRIKE CONTINUES Preferential Hiring Clause Principal Point Of Disagreement SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 Tire Pacific American Shipowners association today acknowledged the U. S. Maritime Commission’s "authorization” to put East coast contract terms into effect on the Pacific coast but stuck to its posi tion on the preferential hiring clause. The Maritime Commission yes terday authorized its West coast agents to pay ship officers tn* wage increases won by the CIO Marine Engineers and the AFL Master, Mates and Pilots on the East and Gulf coasts and asked the agents to telegraph what ac tion they take. | PASAS replied that during collec tive bargaining negotiations with the MMP here it already has of fered that union “the wage, over time,, night relief and subsistence rates agreed upon by the Atlantic and Gulf general agents.” “We are prepared to take the g (Continued on Page Ten; Col 6) Reports Insist Bormann Still Lives In Germany FRANKFURT, Nov. 2.—(JP)— New reports that Martin Bormann, Hitler’s missing deputy, had been seen alive in the American zone of Germany were said tonight to be under investigation by U. S. Army agents. German police of Wuerttemberg Baden said they had turned over to the army a Nazi SS officer who claimed to have been personally promoted by Bormann, who was condemned to death in Absentia by the international military tribunal at Nuernberg. The police said the man had been arrested near Stuttgart last night. « J The officer, seized dressed in full Nazi uniform with an imitation gun, also was said to have been question ed in connection with recent bombings in the Stuttgart area. The German, who gave his name as Hans Joashim Von Burgsdorf, but who had no identification, as serter he had been personally promoted from Major to Lieuten ant Colonel by Bordmann. He said he had seen Bordmann in an unspecified German city in late May, 1945, three weeks after Bordmann was supposedly (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 4) % » % WL
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