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FORECAST: + ^ ^ ^ Served Bv Leased Wires ~i-;v=.rts== umiMtnti Mnrmttn jyt&j* i^gyr --——- " State and National News vOL. 80—NO. 121. WILMINGTON. N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947 ~ ------- -— f~" -•"■■ ■ ■ ■ -'i— -------- ESTABLISHED 186f Soviets Get Thousands Of U.S. Patents Representative Thomas Exposes “Raids” In Verbal Report METHODS ARE CITED Chairman Demands End To ‘Coddling Policy” To ward Moscow WASHINGTON. March 4 — (£•)— Tne’House committee on UnAmeri activities reported today that Russia has obtained hundreds of thousands of American patents by "legal espionage” system and may well be on the way to obtain ing" the atom bomb secrets. The report was made verbally to the House by Chairman Thomas (R-NJ) who demanded an end to what he called “our coddling po key" under which Russia was able to obtain from the Patent of fice copies of industrial, chemi cal and military patents. Thomas suggested that since the patent office is under the Com merce department, Former Secre tary of Commerce Henry A. Wal lace ‘‘should answer to the prop er committee as to why” Russian representatives were permitted to obtain copies of patents. Through our coddling policy ot giving Russia our patented knowledge,” he said, “she may wel be on her way to the discov ery of many, if not all, of the thousands of industrial processes and secrets which constitute the great secret of the atom bomb.” 60,000 Order The Russians, Thomas told the house, ordered as many as 60,000 patents at a time in their program cl “tapping the inventive genius of America's industrial and mili tary development for the benefit of the Soviet government.” Yet. since 1927, he asserted, “Russia has refused to give us a •ingle patent.” Thomas said the Russians ob tained the patents by having ‘‘their front agencies’’ in the United States order them. On January 2, 1945, ne said, a ‘‘dummy agency” Book corporation. 253 Fifth Ave nue. New York city, called for all patents for 1342 and part of 1943. ‘They did it by having the Am torg Trading corporation, of 210 (Continued On Page Two; Col. 6) BIBLECOMMITTEE ELECTS OFFJC RS Dr. William Crowe, Jr., To Serve As Chairman Of Group Here Officers for the coming year of the Committee on Teaching the Bible in Public Schools were elect ed last night at a supper meeting in the high school cafeteria at which time about 150 persons were present. The newly elected officers in clude: Dr. William Crowe, Jr., chairman: Rev. W. J. Stephenson, vice chairman; Mrs. M. H. Shep herd. secretary; and Robert Strange, treasurer. According to T. T. Hamilton Ji'.. principal of New Hanovei High school, this is the eight year in which the Bible has been taught in the public schools here. The program is sponsored by a num ber of Protestant denominations. Two teachers are employed by the Protestant group to teach the subject, he said. Last night’s program consisted °i group singing led by Arthur John: devotional by the Rev. W. J- Stevenson. The message from the teachers wore given by Miss Harriet Coch rsi11 and Miss Maude Weber. ''Character Education in the el ementary Schools” was the sub ject of Miss Helen Wooten, Sunset 1 3rk first grade teacher. Three high school Bible stu, aents. David Bullard.’Bobby Me Aenzie and Ann Jordan, rep 'esent.ed the students in a talk on the Bible. hambohe s meditations By Alley f —--T ^an sat det's a li'l <*0OD IN EV'TTHlNG Eb'N IN LlKKUH-BUT Trouble is,det ain' ^ant sticks To de tilt paht uv it !!! _Leaders Of North Carolina’s Young Democrats Leaders of North Carolina’s Young Demc/ rats talk things over with their guest speaker at the state convention in Greensboro. Left to right: Basil Whitener of Gastonia, state president; Tom Broughton of Lenoir, national committeeman; Senator John L. McClellan, democrat of Arkansas, principal speaker at the convention, and Miss Marion Frink of Wilmington, National committee wo man. <AP Photo) _ _ HOUSE APPROVES FARM LABOR BILL Despite Economy Pleas, Congressmen Add $10, 000,000 To Figure WASHINGTON, March 4— UP)— The House, temporarily side tracking a GOP drive to slash President Truman’s $37,500,000,000 budget, today approved a $10,000, 000 expenditure which had not been requested by the President himself. Overriding pleas by Rep. Dirk sen (R-I11) that the economy line be held, the House voted 243 to 110 to authorize the expenditure ol the new millions for importing for eign farm laborers. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would extend until Dec. 31 the Agriculture department’s existing authority to bring in such labor ers. Some members said they voted for it because otherwise the pro gram would expire June 30 in the middle of the crop year. Most of the foreign workers come from Mexico and the Bahamas. There were some 80,000 last year. Rep. Hope (R-Kans), chairman of the House Agriculture commit tee, said farmers are unable to get American workers to do •‘stoop labor" i-j the fields. Dirksen reminded the House that it has already approved a $6, 000,000,000 cut in Mr. Truman’s budget and declared that approval of the labor-importation bill would be a springboard for further ex penditures. AIR GROUP CALLS SPECIAL MEETING Naming Of Representative To Washington Sched uled At Session The lack of a quorum at a meet ing of the Wilmington-New Han over Airport authority yesterday blocked plans to name a repre sentative from this city to confer with Civilian Aeronautics adminis tration -authorities in Washington March -11 on the proposed VHF range for this area. A special meeting will be held later this week in order to name a member of the authority to ac company representatives from New Bern. Elizabeth City and Myrtle Beach, in C. to Washing ton for the conference. An informal session was con ducted by members present yes terday, with Jesse Parker, Blue thenthal airport manager, report ing that new flood lights had been installed in order to facilitate night landings. Pleasure over progress of the field was expressed by members of the group, with attention being called to the fact that Southeast Airlines and National Airlines have four flights daily. With the addition of the very high frequen cy radio range, present NAL plans call for the addition of three more flights to local air service. Present at yesterday’s session were Albert Perry. Hamilton Hicks. Addison Hewlett and Jes se Parker. Absent from the session were Harry Gardner, who Monday sub mitted his resignation as a mem ber of the air'board. Lenox Cooper and Hargrove Bellamy. GEORGIA TUNE TURNS UP AT HISTORIC MEET OF BRITISH - FRENCH DUNKERQUE, France March 4—(iP)—When Foreign Minister Georges Bidault ar rived for the signing of the 50 year British-French treaty to day, the Republican guard band played the French nation al anthem. When British Fore ign Secretary Ernest Bevin ar rived, the band played the British national anthem. When the official party marched into the building to gether, the band swung into “Marching Through Georgia.” Nobody explained why. LOCAL GROUP TO ATTEND HEARING Delegations Scheduled To Appear At Liquor Ref erendum Parley A delegation of city officials headed by Mayor W. Ronald Lane and City Manger J. R. Benson is scheduled to leave today for Ra, leigh where they will appear at a public hearing to be conducted on the proposed liquor referendum for the state by a special senate finance committee of the legisla ture. The local party, which is expect ed to be composed of members of the city council and other local officials, will join other similar groups from throughout the state in protest against an election which has been sought by North Carolina dr'- fo—ps to determine (he sentiments of the people of the state on the sale ol intoxicating beverages. Three measures relative to a state-wide referendum have been offered in the ho- e and senate, but hearings have not been sched uled on but one. which was of fered by Senator George Penn?/ ol Guilford county. Under Penny’s measure, the referendum would concern the sale of liquor and wines, with all light domestic wines and beer exempted. Opponents of the measure con tend that municipal and county governments would suffer heavy losses from the lack of revenue derived from the sale of the bev erages. Benson said yesterday that the city would face a heavy deficit in the budget should the revenues from liquor sales be denied as a source of revenue. In addition to the local group. Wrightsville Beach will send about a dozen representatives to Raleigh for the hearing, Town Clerk R. L. Benson said last night that Dr. Sidney V. Allen, Mayor of the town, would head the dele gation from Wrightsville. Also expected to be present at the session today are representa tives of Carolina Beach. The hearings have been sched uled for two thirty this afternoon in the Utilities hearing room. WEATHERMAN SAYS CITY CAN EXPECT SAME AS YESTERDAY The we at., •?' .-i Wilmington to day will be “just like yesterday’’ according to the local weather bu reau with a high of 54 degrees expected during the day. The winds will be gentle to mod erate. Low temperature in the early morning hours was predict ed for 35 degrees in the city anc 33 degrees on the outskirts. Today And Tomorrow By WALTER L1PPMANN _—— - Though it has long been evident that Great Britain was reducing her commitments and that the United States would have to re dress the balance, the timing oi the British notice about Greece is very awkward indeed. The Ameri can people are asked to make r very grave decision before the end of this month, in the very weeks the President and the Sec retary o f State are to be away from' Washington, out of touch with Congress, separated from their military and financial advi sers, and deeply preoccupied with other matters. It will not be easy under these conditions to form a con. re, American policy or to explain it responsibly to our people. There is no apparent reason fo; forcing so abrupt a decision be fore March 31 except that this date happens to mark the end o' the British fiscal year. The Bri tish government, though it must cut drastically its foreign expendi tures, has not suddenly run ou; of funds as of March 31. The fix ing of that most inconvenient time limit is an accident of the pro (Continued On Page Two; Col. 4) LAWMAKERS HEAR PLEA FOR PORTS Authority Chairman, Prom inent Industrialists Ask Cash Appropriation RALEIGH, March 4. —iVP)— The State Ports authority at a dinner meeting here tonight asked North Carolina legislators to appropriate money for developing North Caro lina ports, especially Wilmington, and added that if it did not, “this state will fall behind her sister southern states in industry.” A. G. Myers, Gastonia textile manufacturer and Ports authority member said: “I know the legis lature has a tremendously large surplus, xxx you may find it not only necessary but desirable to help the port situation.” He said that North Carolina was the only coastal state in the United States that does not have at least one great port. Myers told legislators that “North Carolina won’t prosper as .she should without port facilities, xxx the state cannot afford to pass up this opportunity, but you've got to advance some money. If you don’t North Carolina will fall be hind her sister southern states.” Chairman R. B. Page, Wilming ton publisher, reported that $882, 612 had been released by Presi dent Truman for dredging of a 32 foot channel in the Cape Fear river at Wilmington. He added that bids and specifications already have been issued by the Wilming gton District Corps of Army En gineers and that bids would be opened March 20. Page said the dredging would (Continued On Page Two; Col. 6) OLD MAN WINTER TAKES 16 LIVES Upper New York State Cities Isolated By Heav iest Snowfall Of Year Snowbound Northeastern states struggled with effects of one of the worst storms of the winter yesterday, seeking to dig out iso lated communities and open clogged transportation arteries. At least 16 deaths were attribu ted to the early March wintry blast —seven in New York state, six in Pennsylvania and three in New England. Bitter gales piled the record snowfalls high on highways and rail lines, threatening food deliv eries in many sections. Schools were closed and air transportation crippled. Upstate New' York had 40 inches of snow in some areas after a three-day storm, worst of the win ter in the state. More than a doz en trains were snowbound and state police said some main high ways and all secondary roads were blocked. Along The Cape Fear ON THE TRACK — Along The Cape Fear can point with pride to real progress toward tracking down t he Naval Reserve unit which functioned here during the 1880's and 1890’s. And thanks to a kind reader, Mr. C. C. Chad bourn, of 415 South Front street, we will be able to bring you a few pertinent facts concerning same. Yesterday we ran an appeal from Mr. James Hinton, who is anxious to learn if any former members of the old reserve group s' -asides in the Port City. Well, to date we have not loca te. a former member, but as we said before we are on the track. * * * OFFICERS LISTED — Accord ing to Mr. CLiarbourn. who recalls the old naval unit, well, the com mander of the group was George L. Morton. Mr. Morton later became post master of the Port City. Officers in company of Naval Reserves were, in addition to Mr. Merton, H. H. Mcllhenny as lieu tenant and Hugh L. Miller. Henry Nutt Parsley was a yeo man in the unit, according to Mr. Chadbourn. But what would a naval unit be without a ship? On that score, the lormer organization here could boast quite a vessel. f.t * * MONITOR, THAT IS — Serving as a training ship for the former Naval unit was the old U. S. iron clad monitor Nantucket, with ar. imposing turret. The old ship had seen service in the War between the states. Then when peace re turned to the land, the federal government assigned the boat here to be used as a practice vessel. Everything went well with the former Naval Reserves, we ve been informed. As a matter of fact, so well known was the organization that when Congress declared war on Soain in 1898. the local unit re ceived its sailing orders. * * * OFF TO BATTLE — The Naval Reserves here' were ordered te board the Nantucket and sail for Pariss Island. South Carolina, where they would complete their (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) British Army Launches Full Scale Drive Against Hadera Underground Agents; $882,612 Released For Channel Work PORT INTERESTS HAIL GOOD NEWS Resumption Of Dredging On 32-Foot Channel Marks Start In announcing the release of $882,612 for the continuation ol dredging operations on the 32-foot Cape Fear river project, the Wil mington District Corps of Engi neers declared last night that ad ditional allocations of $1,565,000 are needed to complete the neces sary work on the channel. Work on the near-million-dollar 32-foot project is to start at the upper end of the Brunswick chan nel and proceed downstream to the lower end of Lilliput channel, about half-way to the sea. Local U. S. engineers declare that an additional allocation of $1,460,000 is needed for the work on the remainder of the river, from lower Lilliput channel to the ocean bar; and for work in the north east river and in the cut off channel from the river to the inland waterway. Also needed, they said, is $105, 000 to be used for the operation of government dredges to widen and deepen the ocean bar. Bids and specifications for the 32-foot Cape Fear project have al ready been issued by the Wilming ton engineers and bids submitted by private contractors will be opened on March 20. Work is to begin 30 days after official notice to proceed and output must be 450,000 cubic yards per month. The project entails deepening the channel to 33 feet actually, one foot being allowed for over-depth, and widening of the Brunswick River anchorage basin from 300 to 450 feet at the lower end, and from 300 to 1,175 at the upper end. Engineers esti mated the job would not be com pleted for at least a year, and declared at least two large dredges would have to be put to full time use in the work. Local port interests hailed the news as the first step toward (Continued On Page Two; Col. 1) MARSHALL, BYRNES SPEAK FOR PACTS Secretary Of State, Prede cessor Plead For Treaty Ratifications WASHINGTON, March 4.— (UR) — Secretary of State George C. Marshall and his predecessor, James F. Byrnes, asked the Sen ate Foreign Relations committee today to approve the satellite peace treaties for Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria as major signposts on the road to world peace. Marshall, who leaves for Mos cow tomorrow to open negotiations on treaties for Germany and Aus tria, won warm assurances of sup port from Chairman Arthhr H. Vandenberg, chief Republican for eign policy spokesman in Con gress. Vandenberg told him that his mission was “fraught with des tiny,” and that the country's “hearts, hopes and prayers” were with him “in this restless, trem bling world at this critical hour.” He said that Marshall would be speaking at the Moscow Big Four Foreign Ministers’ conference “for a great people who want nothing for themselves except the right to live honorably in a free world of free men.” First Test The Moscow conference will put Marshall in his first test of deal ing directly with the top foreign affairs chiefs of Britain, France and Russia since he succeeded Byrnes in January. And he could only reply modestly that he would do his best. Then he hastened back to the State Department for last-minute preparations for his departure in one of four Army (Continued On Page Two; Col. 8) | Explosion Levels Building, Kills 4 Firemen pour water into the smouldering rnins of a three-story building wrecked by an explosion that killed four persons and in jured more than SO at the corner of Wells and Van Burean streets in the Chicago Loop district. The blast shattered hundreds of win dows in bnildings within the block. (AP Wirephofo) Grissett Named In New Theft Charges The Weather FORECAST* North and South * Ctthttimr — Pavtfy cloudy and warmer Wednesday and Wednesday night. Showers followed by colder Thursday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) J Meteorological data for the 24 hours j ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 a. m. 32. 7:30 a. m. 28; 1:30 p. m. 49: 7:30 p. m. 45; Maximum 55; Mini mum 27; Mean 41; Normal 50. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 51; 7:30 a. m. 66; 1:30 p. m. 25; 7:30 p. m. 57. PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hcurs ending 7:30 p. m. 0 inches. Total since the first of the month 0.17 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW Wilmington 8:33 a. m. 3:00 a. m. 8:54 p. m. 3:34 p. m. Masonboro Inlet 6:20 a. m. 12:01 a. m. 6:45 p. m. 12:40 p. m. Sunrise 6:36; Sunset 6:11; Moonrise 4:43p; Moonset 5:57a. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. Tuesday 12.2 feet. RED CROSS DRIVE ! MAKING PROCRESS Five ACL Departments And Two Firms Ex ceed Quotas The first reports to come into the Red Cross headquarters on the progress of the fund campaign now underway reveal that five de partments of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad are well over their quotas and that two business es tablishments in the Commercial division are also over the top. C. L. Morse, chairman of the Railroad division, reported that the departments of Auditor and Passenger Receipts had donated 110 per cent of its goal; Freight Claim Agent, 100 per cent: Freight Claim department, 172 per cent; Mail and Express, 210 per cent:' and the Superintendent Car Service, 110 per cent. Morse also stated that the ACL expected to complete its part of the campaign by Friday. Robert Dannenbaum. chairman of the Commercial division, re ported that the Wilmington Furni ture company had donated 210 per cent of its goal and the Wonder Dress shop, 123 per cent. Churchill Oratory Saves Ju Ju Killers From Rope LONDON, March 4—(UA—A pac sionate appeal for justice by war time Premier Winston Churchill today won indefinite postpone ment of the hanging of five mem bers of African “royalty” who were to be executed for the Ju-Ju ritual murder of a Gold Coast chieftain. Sir Alan Burns, governor of the African O dd Coast, granted a last minute reprieve to the men who were convicted of slaying a village chief so he could accompa ny the lonesome spirit of the;'.- late paramount chief on the journey into the hereafter. It was reported without confir mation that Burns had resigned. Churchill’s oratory yesterday rallied all parties of Commons to his side and sparked a reluctant colonial secretary, Arthur Creech Jones, into action. The Colonial of fice was visibly embarrassed. H was the first time a conviction had been obtained in a Ju-Ju mur der and the men were to be hung as examples in the hope that the custom of murder by ritual would end on the Gold Coast. A dispatch from Accra said the men were awakened in their death cells only a short time be fore they were to hang at 8 a.m and notified that the British House of Commons had intervened for them. Their sentences probably will be commuted to life imprison ment. The men who were saved were .Kwaku Amoako Atta. Kwasi Pip ,m. Kwame Kagya. Opoku Afwe nee, and Aaron Eugene Bo«ke Dankwa, Alias Yaw’ Boakye. ",Tew Hanover Grand Jury May Act On Bills . Next Week Two new charges of larceny and receiving against Roy Grisseit. former Wilmington policeman, will be presented to the New Han over County grand jury for action next week, a source close to the case revealed last night. Grissett. who stood trial and was acquitted in February on a charge of larceny and receiving an outboard motor from the Anchor Hardware Company here while a member of the police force, must yet be indicted by the grand jury on the three charges now on the court calendar before being placed on trial. While the court calendar has his trial set for Monday, no actual date can be named until after grand j«ry action because a true bill of indictment must be return ed before any trial can be called. The source who for obvious rea. sons asked to remain anonymous, said the two additional charges woul(j be given the grand jury when it considers the three pend ing cases. He would reveal no further in formation except that the charges would parallel those now pending. A second former policeman. H. G. Gurley, who likewise stood trial at the February term of court on storebreaking and lar ceny charges, will also face trial (Continued On Page Two; Col. 1) Loses Ship BATAVIA. Java. March 4 —(.V) — The Netherlands East Indies government confiscated today the multimillion dollar cargo of the U. S. Liberty ship Martin Behr man, which was loaded at the Na tionalist port of Cheribon. The ves sel is under the command of Captain Rudy Gray of Southport, N. C. , The ship was brought into Ba tavia harbor Sunday with ten Dutch marines aboard and the Dutcn destroyer Kortenaer in es cort. She had entered Cheribon without a Dutch permit, but with the sanction of the unrecognized Indonesian republic. Rubber, sugar and cinchona (quinine-bear ing bark) were in her cargo. “COME-OUT” TASK FOLLOWS BOMBING Troops In Sattle Array Search Famous Orange Groves JERUSALEM, Palestine. March 4—OJ.R'—British troops in battle ar ray and carrying sub-machine guns took over the Hadera Orange grove district today fo • what au thorities called a full scale “'comb-out” in search of under ground agents who attacked a Royal Air force quartermaster depot during the night. Two soldiers were wounded in the attack. For one hour Jewish underground operatives fired and threw hand grenades at the depot from the surrounding orange groves. So thorough was the search to day that Jew's believed it might presage a declaration of martial law in the Hadera district, mid way between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Defying the British Army au thorities. who already had de creed martial law in the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and in a group of coastal towns, un derground agents blew up two military trucks this morning, wounding three British soldiefs and five Arab civilians. Trucks Blown lip One truck w’as blu,vn up by a mine one mile south of Rishon Le Zion, south of Tel Aviv. The other was mined near the Tel Aviv sub urb of Ramie. ihe Irgun Zvai Leumi? under ground organization started a new war of nerves. A score of anony mous telephone calls were receiv ed j in government department* that the buildings would be blown up. Authorities took no chance* snd the buildings were hastily emptied while a search was made for lime borpbs Army chieftains further strengthened their defenses in Je rusalem’s Zone C. security are*, containing the criminal investiga tion department headquarter*, j hospitals and the law courts. New double-strength barbed wire entanglements were set up I (Continued On Page Two: Col. 4) . ? ROGRAMAT USO ENDING MARCH 31 Head Of Recreation De partment Cites Need For Continuation Jesse Reynolds, superintendent of the city recreation department, said last night that indication* now were that a substitute for th* I USO program which is to b* abandoned March 31, would be in augurated here. According to an announcement from USO regional headquarter* in Atlanta yesterday, the USO at Second and Orange streets, will terminate the last of this month due to the shortage of funds. Ralph W. Richards is director, and David H. Howes is chairman of the operating committee. Reynolds said he was sorry lhat it was necessary to close the cen Iter at this time because Camp Le Ijeune has not yet reached its full peace-time capacity. “We have establishes good re lationship with the camp,” he | said, “and there is a real need I for the service. And this need will be increased when the camp reaches its full peace-time capac ity.” He said that many organizations I had indicated their desire to keep the program going, but added that' it would have to be restricted to military personnel on the week end, “because civilians and mili tary persons don't mix too well.” In this connection he said it had been suggested that the city rec reation department take over the operation of the center since it now maintains the building. This could easily be done, he said, by the addition of only one or two persons to supervise its operation. And he added, it could be done with little expense because the project could be made self - sup porting. bu". not a profit-making enterprise. The proper.'" belongs to the city, he said, and as been operated under the recreation department. The USO has had the use of the building during the week-ends so long as USO funds were available. (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) And So To Bed Evidently he didn't posses a penny to his name. Hut it was apparent that he was hungry. And what he didn’t have in money, he did have in nerve. He told the waitress at the counter to fetch him a bowl of hot water and a spoon. She looked questioningly at him for a fleeting instant, but dutifully filled the order, then went her way. He reached for a bottle of ketchup and poured freely from it into the bowl, stirring with the spoon. T’.'.e result was tomato soup —of a sort — which he gulped ■ • with relish. And then walked l calmly out of the place.
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