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WEATHER __ TUI IT GK KMW4lraB-« kll?IAfG pimmor | fit 9UWUPl’^terg? HEaVVy "________ ^TiKHl ^©ffiT (gflw ©jp lPla?®®iag©S A MB) (^flaliAgy V0LJ8.—NO-46.__WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1946 ~~ SECTION-A America Will Seek Lowered Tariff Scale Spring Conference Plan ned With 18 Key Coun tries To Talk Trade gopretTcent Republican Leader Says party Wants To Study Tariff Reductions By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(#)— T!ie United States announced its intention tonight of seeking speci fic tariff-reducing agreements with 18 key countries at a conference next Spring. In an apparent post-election meve to reassure foreign countries cf the administration’s determina tion to keep its trade pledges, Un dersecretary of State William L. Clayton announced the move at a neves conference. Clayton simultaneously expressed firm conviction that the Repub th» Democratic administration’s Keans formerly considered expon ents of high tariffs, will support foreign trade program. Senator Wherry (Rep-Neb.) said however Senate Republicans prob ably will want to study any pro posed tariff reductions before they pass judgement. Wherry, who voted against ex tension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, said he knew of no present intention on the part of Republicans to attempt to scut tle the act. But he added that if arbitrary reductions are made by the state department without what Republicans consider is sufficient justification, some action might be taken in congress to check these. "I'm pretty strong on protecting American labor and the farmer,” he told reporters. The negotiations will be the most extensive ever carried out under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 which former Secretary of State Hull pioneered. Tariff cuts on thousands of items ranging from feathers to machinery will be considered, Countries to be represented at the conference account for two thirds of the world’s trade. Only Russia has not accepted an Ameri can invitation. President Truman released a statement terming the projected trade discussions “necessary to (Continued on Page 5; Column 2) REDS MAY LEAD FRENCH VOTING Communist Expected To Get 26 Per Cent Of Votes For 619 Offices PARIS. Nov. 9.—(U.R)—France Wl11 elect tomorrow the 619 depu ties who will gover* the Fourth Republic for the next five years, anti unofficial forecasts tonight "ere that the Communists would P°.i the largest vote. These forecasts predicted that the vote would be divided among tee main parties as follows: Com mu ists, 26 per cent; Popular Re publican Movement tMRP), 24 per eeht: Socialists. 22 per cent; Righ ' hig parties, 16 per cent; and the Leit Republican Union 12 per cent. ^ T cjc predictions represent con Rcc-afcle modifications of the vote i *"’e Tone 2 constituent assem elections, when the results ''ere: Communists, 26.2 per cent; -ocraHsts, 21.1 per cent; MRP Pe-" cent; Left Republican ,110n. 11-5 per cent, and right ,g‘ 13.1 per cent. 25.380,000 voters in metro F’wan France and overseas areas n, -j1 have the status of depart eds—Algiers, Oran, Constantine, ^Continued on Page 5; Column 1) Pc rts Authority To Ask Release Of River Funds 0< Resolution requesting release ' ^ frozen” rivers and harbors ,nts for maintenance dredging , e Cape Fear river to restore k keeP its standard depth of 30 W.JS beinS prepared by the tv. 1 CTarolina State Ports au -P‘i;y for presentation to Presi Truman and the state’s dele sa i«n in Congress. ®Pp."oval of the spirit of the Solution was voted at a dinner ■eetmg 0f the Authority here Fri day night. Appointed to draft the plea were “uam B. Campbell, city attor eyy Cyrus D-. Hogue, of the Wil rnington Port commission, ana W. O. Huske of Fayetteville, a member of the Authority. Campbell said yesterday that the resolution, which is expected to set forth that the commerce of the Port of Wilmington is greatly ! retarded by the reduced depth of Jthe river channel, will be prepar ed early this week in order to get it into Washington’s official chan nels as soon as possible. Campbell reported that the chan nel from Wilmington to the sea. has shoaled up in several places (Continued on Page 10, Column 5) Columbia Held For Grand Jury J. Ralph Childers, 17, member of Columbians, Inc., anti-Negro organization, holds hands with Betty Penland, Columbia head quarters worker, in Recorder’s court at Atlanta, Ga., during his hearing on a charge of beating a Negro. He was bound over to the grand jury. He wears a “Medal of Honor’’ given him by Columbians. , First Post-Election GOP Probe Started Ssn. Wherry Going Over seas To Scrutinise Food Shipments To Reds BY JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — (£■)— Senator Wherry of Nebraska fired the Republicans’ first post-election investigation at the Democrats to day with the announcement that he will go to Europe to scrutinize food shipments to Russia and other countries. Wherry told a news conference he intends to find out whether part of 1,100.000,000 pounds of American meat he said was sent to Europe in the first six months of this year had been used to feed Russian and Yugoslav troops. As he announced his inquiry, first of the many Republican-con trolled congress is expected to launch, there were these other political developments: 1. The White House announced that President Truman will issue a general policy statement at his first post-election news conference Monday morning. Intimates re ported he will pledge himself to place the nation’s welfare above personal or party interest in work ing with the Republican congress and express his hope particulary (Continued on Page 10, Column 7) GERMANTREATY’S GROUNDWORK LAID Hopes Rise That Touchy Trieste Problem Is Now Near Settlement NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—(£>)—'The groundwork for Big Four talks on a German peace treaty late this month was being prepared tonight as hopes rose that the long dead locked Trieste dispute might be near a solution. American military government officials from Germany arrived in Washington this afternoon to begin British-American negotiations on the further merging their two zones. Secretary of State James F. (Continued on Page 10, Column 4) — Stolen Windsor Gems Said Stored In U. S. NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—(U.R)— The director of a private detec tive agency said tonight that he had “every reason to be lieve’’ that the $83,000 worth of jewels stolen from the Dutchess of Winsor in England last month now are in New York. Irving Shumford, director of the New York bureau of investi gation, and aid agency which specializes in tracing stolen jewels for insurance compan ies,, said a group of London underwriters had placed with him SIC,000 reward money which may be given to an American merchant seaman who reported knows where the jewels are. GEORGIA RUSHES ANTI-KLAN SUIT A r n a 11 Administration Fights Time Before Tal madge Takes Over ATLANTA, Nov. 9. — (JP)— The outgoing administration of Gov. Elis Arnall raced against time to day to smash the corporate entity of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia before inauguration of Gov.-elect Eugene Talmadge. Assistant Attorney General Daniel Duke, who successful pros ecuted Klan floggings three years ago, filed new charges in Fulton (Atlanta) Superior court. In them the state alleges the Klan sought to merge with the German-Ameri can bund in 1940 in one racially supreme “All Aryan’’ organization, and charges the Klan even now of (Continued on Rage 10, Column 3) British Hear Rush bi..<sh Blockade Circling Palestine GUARDS POSTED lewish Resistence Move ment Apparently Mov ing To “All-Out” War LONDON, Nov. 9.— (&) —The Colonial office acknowledged to Jay that it was acquainted with re sorts a Jewish armada was pre saring to rush the British block ade of Palestine, and Scotland yard announced that special guards had seen placed at government bulld ogs in London as a precaution against an expanded campaign by Jewish “Terrorists.” These developments coincided with incidents in Palestine which a British officer said were signifi cant because they meant the Jew ish resistance movement had “de clared all-out war.” The incidents included a broad cast from the “Voice of Fighting secret transmitter of Irgun Zvai fceumi, underground Jewish or ganization, which accepted the romnncihilitv for the recent oombing of the British embassy in Rome and threatened to “extend our activities’’ to countries beyond the Holy Land. Earlier, three British policemen were killed when they walked into a Jerusalem booby trap, the first instance of violence of the Jewish sabbath, and a British officer said this meant “These Jewish Terror ists are pulling out all the stops.” The policemen were killed when they answered a mysterious “tip” on a supposed arms cache. They opened a door and there was a heavy explosion which injured an other and slightly hurt five Jews sleeping nearby. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the special precautions of placing extra guards inside and outs.'de some government buildings in Downing and Charles streets and (Continued on Page 10, Column 3) SHRINERS READY FOR CEREMONIAL Trio Of Bands To Feature Parade; 200 Novices To Be Initiated A trio of bands will participate in the Shrine parade, during the Sudan Temple fall ceremonial in Wilmington Nov. 20-21, J. E. L. Wade, program chairman, announ ced yesterday. The procession, scheduled to start at noon Nov. 21, will include the New Hanover High school band, the New Bern High school band, and the Shrine band among the marchers, Wade said. The parade will start on Market street, proceede east on third, and move north on Red Cross street, thence west to Front and south to the City market, where a barbecue will be served, he reported. The New Hanover High school band will play a concert in front of the city hall Nov. 20, at 7:30 p. m. The Sudan Shrine band will play on the 21st, at 8 o’clock, Wade reported, also at the city hall. The ceremonial starts at 2:30 o’clock, Nov. 21, when 200 novices will be initiated by crossing “the hot sands of the desert.” Later ,a Potentate’s dance will be held in the Cape Fear armory, (Continued on Page 10, Column 2) Prime Minister Attlee Flays UN Proceedings; All Of U. S. Scanned For Final UN Home Site - 1 British Government Head Stresses Importance Of German Peace LONDON, Nov. 9—(IP)—Prime Minister Attlee declared tonight that “obstruction” and “propagan da attacks” have marked the pro ceedings of the United Nations and predicted that the U. N. would fail if it is used as a forum for “ideologicial differences.” His sharp criticism of the world peace organization was accompan ied by the assertion that the key to European prosperity and peace lies in reaching settlement on the future of Germany—a subject being considered by the Big Four foreign ministers in New York. In a speech prepared for delivery at the annual Lord Mayor's Ban quet which climaxed a day of pomp (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) -Top Football Scores Army 0, Notre Dame 0 (tie) j. North Carolina 21, Wil liam and Mary 7. V Duke 13, Wake Forest 0.|| Richmond 27, Davidson 6. ■' Georgia Tech 28, Navy 2°. Presbyterian 33, Wofford 14. South Carolina 21, Mary land 7. Georgia 33, Florida 14. Vanderbilt 7, North Caro lina State 0. ■* Arkansas 7, Rice 0. Tennessee 18, Mississippi 14. Louisiana State 31, Ala bama 21. VMI 26, Furman 7. George Washington 18, Citadel 0. , Penn 41, Columbia 6. Minnesota 13, Purdue 7. Virginia Tech 13, Wash ington and Lee 7. Yale 49, Brown 0. Holy Cross: 21, Colgate 6. Harvard 21, Dartmouth 7. Texas A M 14, Southern Methodist 0. Kentucky 35, Marquette 7. (Continued on Page 9, Column 4) Soviets Withdraw Idea Of Having UN Headquar ters In Europe By LARRY HAL’CK NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—(£’)—'The United Nations today threw wide open the question of permanent headquarters site to take in tne entire United States after the Soviets withdrew a request that Europe also be considered. The Assembly approved the pro posal over vigorous United States opposition but left hanging a de mand by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and the Soviet Ukraine that the next Assembly session be held in Europe. The site question went to de bate after delegates unanimously approved the admission of Sweden, Iceland and Afghanistan to mem bership. This unopposed decision (Continued on Page 5; Column 3) Sweeping Truman Order Lifts Ceilings On Goods And Wages --- ■ -- ■ -— a. __ Production Burden Is Placed Upon Labor And Management WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(£>)— President ‘Truman said tonight his wage decontrol order means that labor and management have the responsibility alone now for “the adjustment of their differences without in terruption of production.” The President’s decontrol statement lifting all govern ment wage checks said the ac tion means a return of “free collective bargaining.” In an appeal for labor-man agement peace, with govern ment wage price regulations ended, Mr. Truman said “good wages, full employment and sound business profits must de pend upon management and workers cooperating to produce the maximum volume of goods at the lowest possible price.” The preliminary reaction of labor leaders was that the de control action would not tend to increase strikes. Both the AFL and CIO had called for elimination of the Wage Stabili zation board and its regulations on wages. The wage decontrol order ap plies to all industries and firms, with the single exception of those which are still under fed eral seizure, such as the soft coal mines and several Great Lakes towing concerns. All along during the past few months, as more and more price controls have been drop ped, wage controls disappeared just as fast. Whenever an item was released from price control government wage controls on workers making that item van ished too. This is the history of the wage control program, how it de (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) Nation’s Hard Coal Miners Pat In Bid For Pay Boost I Thieves Butcher Hog, Load It Into Waiting Auto, And Speed Away G. D. Brock, who lives near the Cape Fear river bridge, will go along with the idea that the meat shortage has eased, but he will not agree that it is over. Here’s why: Yesterday, he reported to the sheriff’s office, a 150-pound belonging to him was killed by some thieves loaded into a wait ing automobile on the highway and spirited away. HOSPITAL GROUP ITTtq be made Wilmingtonians Return From Washington With Advice On Procedure The “fact-finding” mission to Washington seeking data on the possible location of a Veterans' Administration hospital in New Hanover county was completed with the return yesterday of two of the three members of the group. Members of the group, John Bright Hill, of the American Le gion; Ken R. Noble, Veterans of Foreign Wars; and John H. Far rell, city industrial agent, who re mained in Washington, conferred with Col. C. R. McDonald, execu tive assistant to General Omar Bradley, administrator of veterans’ .affairs, and other top VA officials on the far-reaching hospital plan being adopted by the administra tion. According to Colonel McDonald, the VA seeks a location in east ern North Carolina to serve the eastern portion of the Carolinas, on a site of not less than 250 acres, of which 100 acres must be farm land. The VA has'‘found in the treat ment of neuro-psychiatric disorders that the therapeutic effect of sim ple farming and gardening can not be over estimated, Noble said the officials indicated. Noble reported the officials he talked with had appeared “quite (Continued on Page 2; Column 5) John L. Lewis Ashed To Ren pen Anthracite Coal Contract By Miners By The Associated Press The nation’s hard coal miners put in their bid for pay boosts Saturday. The Shenandoah, Pa., general mine board of the AFL United Mine Workers asked John L. Lewis to reopen the anthracite coal con tract and demand a wage increase and shorter work week. The request was made amid indi cations the government was seek ing a dual-purpose formula for solving Lewis’ demands for his 400,000 soft coal miners and for returning the bituminous mines to private ownership. The showdown in the soft coal dispute will come Monday when the UMW chief meets with Secretary of Interior Krug to talk terms. Preliminary negotiations, seeking to avert a possible walkout of the soft coal miners, have been con ducted by Lewis’ aides and Capt. N. H. Collisson, Federal Coal Mines administrator. Lewis has notified the government the current con tract will be terminated Nov. 20. Lewis is believed to have asked the government for wage increases and shorter work week for his miners. Meanwhile, the CIO Transport Workers union threw a picket line around the New York board of transportation headquarters and the government renewed efforts to end the 18 day old strike of AFL pilots on Trans World Airlines. Leaders of the New York Trans port workers union said the mem bers would be polled Wednesday and Thursday on the question of striking against New York's unified transit system. The strike threat was raised aft er the three man board of trans portation voted two to one to re ject a recommendation of Mayor William O’Dwyer’s advisory com mittee that the board engage in collective bargaining with the dominant transit union, which is the TW group. Also at issue is the question of retroatctivity of 20 cents an hour pay boost granted recently. Chairman Frank P. Douglass of the National Mediation Board sought to end the TWA pilot’s strike stalemate by bringing together in I (Continued on Page 2; Column 2) Kilgore Group May Investigate Bilbo WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—i/P) —Senator Kilgroe (D-W. Va.) said today his War Investiga ting committee will inquire whether Senator Bilb'j (D-Mlss) received money from a war contractor if committee investi gations “uncover any record evidence.” Kilgore also told reporters at the White House “as far as the committee is concerned” its In vestigation of the Garsson munitions companies and Rep. Andrew J. May (D-Ky.) la closed. Kilgore said he bad no Inten tion of calling May to testify, but would hear him if he had anything more to volunteer. “There is no evidence that May ever got a cent,” Kilgore added. METHODISTS NAME THREE FROM CITY M’Girt Leads Rocky Mount District; Marks, Coop er Also Named HENDERSON, Nov. 9.—(TP)—1The North Carolina Methodist confer ence accepted an invitation from Elizabeth City and voted to hold its 1947 session there. Three Wilmington Methodists were named as lay leaders for the Rocky Mount district. A report from the committee on Evangelism made today showed that the confernceship gained 13, 778 members during the past year and that 375 revivals and 271 evangelistic campaigns were con ducted during the year Reporting on the Methodist col lege advance, the Rev. W. A. Cade, of Raleigh, director, announced that $700,000 of the $830,000 being raised for Methodist colleges of the state was “in sight” and that $67, 000 in cash had been received. The conference sermon will be preached tomorrow morning by Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe of the Duke University divinity school, to be followed by ordination of deacons and elders. A memorial service will be held tomorrow afternoon with the Rev. H. I. Glass of Kinston de livering the memorial address. Reading of appointments of min isters for next year will conclude the meeting. District and associate district lay (Continued on Page 10, Column 3) RENTS AND SUGAR STIU CONTROLLED Presidential Action Pre sages Swift End For All OPA Functions WASHINGTON. Nov, 9— VP\ — Price ceilings on everything ex cept dwellings, sugar and rice were wiped away completely by Presi dent Truman tonight in one sweep ing order which spelled the speedy end of OPA. All government controls on wages and salaries, too, were abolished except in cases of government seiz ure, like the soft coal mines. Thus the Wage Stabilization Board goes out of business. While the OPA ceilings will be continued, Mr. Truman indicated that they may be increased—"it may be that some adjustment of rents will be required,” he said. But Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt announced that the scales and rental ceilings on new homes built under the veterans emergency housing program will stay as is. The presidential order removed price ceilings from clothing, auto mobiles, building materials, furni ture, metals, paper, caol, laundry —everything, in fact, that still re mained under ceilings after the avalanche of recent decontrol ac tions except the scarce items of housing, sugar and rice. The order was effective as of 12.01 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Sunday, but price law violations before that time still may be prose cuted and businessmen are required to keep their records for another vear. Mr. Truman acted four days aft er the election which saw Republi cans capture control of the senate and house in a campaign which swirled around the slogan “had enough?” (of control and short ages). The action was in the works before election day, however, and was delayed only because of the extensive consultations necessary among the officials concerned. Its principal impact was on these three agencies: OPA Price Administrator Paul Porter, now expected to resign shortly, announced tha the much criticized agency “is proceeding immediately with liquidation’’ of its price functions. Tire local boards throughout the nation already are closed. A special liquidation agency probably will be set up to polish off the work. WSB — Chairman W. Willard Wirtz announced that the Wage Stabilization Board’s functions will (Continue^! on Page 2; Column 3) LUMBERTONWRECK FATAL TO AUTOIST Charlotte Man Burned To Death When Car Over turns And Burns LUMBERTON, Nov. 9. — John Leo Bryant, Charlotte city em ploye, was burned to death and three other persons were hospita lized as the result of an automobile accident near the Lumber river bridge here tonight at 7 o’clock. Police said the fatal accident oc curred when the car in which Bryant was riding with R. A. Gantt and Major Knight, both of Char lotte, was struck from the rear by another auto near the bridge and overturned down an embankment. The car, according to police, caught on fire wher. the gas tank (Continued on Page 2; Column 1) Eure’s Talk To Feature Armistice Day Program Armistice Day will be observed in Wilmington tomorrow morning in exercises starting at 10:30 o'clock in front of the American Legion Home where Thad Eure, secretary of State, will make the principal address following a concert to be presented'by the New Hanover High school ROTC band. A city, county, state and federal offices will be closed and the post office will be open only from 10 o'clock until noon. The banks and building and loan associations also will be closed for the day, as will the United States Employment Service and th* U<* employment Compensation mission. Most members of the Wilmington Retail Merchants association hav* announced that retail stores in th* city will be open. City Manager J. R. Bensor. said, that there will be no garbage col lection today and he requested resi dents not to put out trash cans un til Tuesday morning. Garbage will be collected in the down town sec (Continued on Page 2; Column 7)
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