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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Woman, Fugitive From Honeymoon, Held In Jail;
Alleged Accomplice In $832,000 Theft Arrested
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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
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—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
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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.
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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
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