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f WEATHER ’ ' --■ *P| fP* r- m mmtmwIffpi Served ByonIfed Wlrea I mm ■■ m mm ET mmm ET associated press | ||L VV UNITED * PRESS .___ HUB HI IB With Complete Coverage ot ^ '_ r £}T(n)li €11W ©If AMB) B?IUgAgy.jagftft ' |_ UH._UK——•— ______-40 PAGES TODAY WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1947 ' PRICE—TEN CENTS SECTION-A Greece Aid i I Plan Backed By GOP Head Dewey Says Truman’s Pro gram Should Have Full Support HELP NECESSARY Touches On Cultural, Spiri tual Ties Between Two Countries ALBANY, N. Y„ March 22—UP)— Governor Thomas E. Dewey to day endorsed President Truman’s proposal of .U. S. aid to Greece to halt the spread of communism in Europe and said the program should have “the full support of the American people.” Dewey, a possible candidate for the 1943 republican presidential nomination, described the Greeks ts “a brave bulwark against tides 0f oppression which would engulf the world.” He said American help was “necessary” to assist the Greeks in “resisting the forces of armed snd ideological aggression en deavoring to create chaos anu dis ruption among them.” The statement came in a routine proclamation designating Tuesday as “Greek War Relief Day” in New York. Dewey made no mention of Tur key but executive assistant James C. Hagerty said last week “the governor has expressed himself strongly to a number of people that we must do all in our power to prevent the collapse of the free countries of Europe.” The 1944 republican presidential candidate did not mention com munism specifically in his procla mation nor did he refer to the amount of financial assistance. President Truman has proposed $401,000,000 in aid to Greece ar.d Turkey. Dewey touched on “cultural and ipirituai ties” between Greece and the United States, and said: “At a grave hour in world af fairs. the government of the United States has proposed to bring its great strength to the aid >of the itricken people of Greece. This help is necessary in order to help them in their epic struggle to re cover from the desperate ravages of war, meanwhile resisting the forces of armed and ideological ag gression which are at this moment, endeavoring to create chaos and disruption among them. “Once -again the Greek people are standing as a brave, bulwark against tides of oppression . which would engulf, the world and our nation should and. I am sure, will give them the assistance with the full support of the American people.” CSC BILL STAND TAKEN BY KERM0N Representative Declares City Came Back Home To Pick Manager -- i Representative Robert M. Ker- | n on took a definite stand last night favoring picking a police chief from tile Wilmington police de partment to replace Charles H. Casteen who retired a month ago. “After noticing the previous ex perience Wilmington has had in picking city managers, taking final >ction by coming back home to Pick one from the personnel of the city for the job, It shows we have competent and efficient people to handle the jobs pertaining to the city government.” he said. 'It was understood that Ker mon referred to the election by council of J. R, Benson to the city managership last year.) “Therefore it is our belief that 'he police department has suffi cient and competent personnel to handle the position of chief., and if 'here is any shaking up or investi sation in the department, the per son brought into the department ,0 do this should be able to accom (fontinued On Page 2; Column 8) Eisenhower To Visit Forts Bragg, Jackson Washington, March 22.—w— fii. Dvight D. Eisenhower will 'isit Ft, Bragg a-nd Ft. Jackson, -h April on an inspection ! oar’ the war department has an " winced. hie plans to leave Washington ai'eh 30 and will return April * He will make an Army Day *«ress in Atlanta April 7. The Weather 'Eastern Standard Time) ». 1 l . S. Weather Bureau) meteorological data for the 24 hours In8 *:30 p.m. yesterday, i.^. Temperatures Vto0 * TT>- 53; 7:30 a.m. 45; 1:30 p.m. 53; 53. Nw5iXl,mum 56' Minimum 42; Mean 49; 55. Humidity tg JJil- <9; 7:30 a.m. 46; 1:30 p.m. 34; * s m. i4. * , . Precipitation *0(1 * ,!w ** hours ending 7:30 p.m. — " inches. 1.0taI since the first of the month — s >hches. IJ, TIDES for today I r.ora the Tide Tables published by U. ast and Geodetic Survey). Wilmi„ High Low “lmRt°n _10:20 a.m. 5:09 a.B, 10:39 p.m. 5:20 p.m. bor« Inlel 8:05 a.m. 2:03 a.m. g 8:19 p.m. 2:21 p.m. ! r ' 6:11; Sunset 6:26: Moonrise 7:00 rV Moonset 7:37 p.m. Ill v Wage at Fayetteville, N. C. ai • Saturday, 14,6 feet. 1 __Mute Evidence Of Flames Which Swept Grace Methodist Church - ..pw^wwwwwjwwpwpwwwpw^^wpiiwwuiuiyiiiii »juw.w ■ u..— .„v_™ --•—" i The once <raceful lit.es ot Grace Street Methodist church appeared as'a charred shell yesterday as firemen femalnd on duty I to sarch for smouldering embers, and probable causes of Wilmington’s greatest church catastrophe since the First Presbyterian church, | Third and Orange streets, was burned, New Years Ev'e, Dec.'31, 1925. (CAROLINA CAMERA PHOTO). r-—----.- ¥ -:---:- *-- I DR. EVANS DIES AT HOME HERE Death Came Suddenly In Home; Funeral Arrange ments Incomplete Dr. John E. Evans, well known Wilmington physician succumbed :o a he art attack at 7:30 last right at nis home, shortly after at ;ending a reception at th'e home if C. Heide Trask, at Hydrangea Place. Relative* sa -l Dr. Evans died suddenly a few moments after he mitered his home at 202 N. 15th street. Shortly before he left the Trask home, Dr. Evans was apparently in good health, according to Miss Nell Trask, who said she talked to :he physician a few minutes prior :o his departure for home. Born in Abbeville, N. C. 55 /ears ago, Dr. Evans came to Wil mington many years ago, and was me of the city’s leading physicians ind surgeons. He practiced medicine in his iffices at the Murchison building, and surgery at James Walker Memorial hospital. Dr. Evans was m elder in the St. Andrews Jove lant church, and a teacher of a Sunday Bible class there. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Sheppard Evans; two laughters, Miss Mildred Evans, low at Agnes Scott School in (Continued on Page Two, Col. 1) Friends Flock To Aid Of Methodist Church As throngs of WilTningtonians gathered curiously at the intersection of Grace and Fourth streets to view the charred shell that remains of the once proud Grace Street Methodist Episcopal church, Kelly W. Price, chairman of the trustees of the church property told the Star-News last night, no plans were yet laid for rebuilding the ruined cathedral. t ' " 1 Estimated cost of new construc jtion was put at $500,000 by build ling inspectors, but Price said the church had been added to so many times during it’s long service to SERVICES AS USUAL Grace Methodist congregation will worship this morning at 11:15 o’clock in St. Paul’s Lutheran Parish House, Sixth and Princess streets. The con gregation will hold evening services in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Sixth and Market Streets, at eight o’clock. There will he no Sunday School this Sunday. Wilmington, that an .accurate esti mate of the value of the building was impossible to make. Meanwhile J. C. Roe, member of the New Hanover Board of Edu cation, quickly offered the use of the Hemenway school for Sunday church goers who will no longer sit in the hallowed halls of the Grace street building. Discovered by the Boy Scout (Continued On Page 2; Column 7) Carolina Alumni To Meet Tuesday; Will Show Films --- * University of North Carolina! alumni and their guests in Wil-1 mington will see movies of the 1947 Sugar Bowl game at their i smoker meeting Tuesday night at j 8 o’clock in the Community center, at Second and Orange streets. 1. B. Grainger, Jr., vice president of the New Hanover county alumni chapter, " said yesterday. The* pictures present a play-by play account of the game between Carolina and Georgia in New Or leans January 1. Running com mentary of the game will be given with the pictures. Every play is included, including the controversial “forward - lateral” pass and the Carolina touchdown that was disallowed when inter ference was ruled. The Sugar Bowl pictures have been shown widely over North Carolina. Bringing the pictures here will be Luther C. Hodges, field representative of t h e Uni versity Alumni association. Also (Continued on Page Two, Col. 1) Smoker Speaker i LUTHER C. HODGES HIGH WINDS FACE RESERVE MEMBERS Took Off Yesterday On Week-End Cruise To Train Operators With high winds and bad weather in the offing, the PC 776, used in training Naval Reserve personell, departed from the customhouse docks at 2 o’clock yesterday after noon, for a training cruise. According to schedule, the ship will leave Wilmington anh pro ceed to Southport. If the weather permits, the ship will stand out to sea this afternoon. In the event prevailing weather conditions deem it risky to venture out, there will be a lay-over in Southport until morning. “If the seas aren’t too rough, the ship will clear the bar, and anchor directly off the inlet at Southport, to lay there during the night,” said Commander John Wilson, captain of the PC 776. me cruise is ueiug tuuuubicu awa the purpose of training the radio and radar operators in their duties, and giving the "black gang” a check out in the engine room. The cruise will feature an indoctrination period for the men of the Reserve who have seen no previous Naval service. Several city notables will be guests on the cruise, to give them a little of the inside operations of the Navy. The guests are men from the city government, and men instrumental in conducting affairs of the city. Recent Father Killed During $25,000 Fire READING, Pa., March 22.— (i>)—Two firemen were crushed to death and a third injured in the collapse of a wall during a $25,000 fire that destroyed a barn on the Paul Wike farm, two miles north of nearby Rob esonia. The dead, both members of the Robesonia volunteer fire company, were identified as Jacob Sterner, 45, and Merlin Miller, 21, who recently be came a father. t RUBBER STRIKE IS CALLED OFF Four Large Firms Affect ed; Deadline Was Midnight CLEVELAND, March 22.—(IP)— Robert Cruden, public relations di rector of the CIO-United Rubber workers, reported tonight a strike of unionists against the “big four” firms of the rubber industry sched uled at midnight Sunday has been called off. Cruden said representatives of the Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone and U. S. Rubber companies and the international union ‘‘have reached a final agreement” in negotiations on a wage dispute, and that the union’s policy committee was called Into session immediate ly to sanction the settlement. Complete terms of the agree ment, which will forestall the scheduled walkout of some 110,000 unionists at midnight tomorrow, will be announced later tonight by union officials, he said, adding that management representatives had departed from the site of the meeting following completion of negotiations. An informal meeting of top com pany-union delegates was held to night during a recess of a formal negotiations session, and Cruden’s announcement was made at re sumption of the regular meeting. The union official did not disclose any additional terms of the settle ment. Wilmington Red Cross Praised For Efforts Miss Francis P. Simerville, re gional director of the American Red Cross, in a letter to the local co-chairman of the Red Cross drive in Wilmington, J. H. Cars well, congratulated the chairman and' co-workers for their “highly successful and speedy campaign. Approximately $31,301 was rais ed in the drive in this area; ex ceeding the goal by a total of about $10,000, Carswell stated. Miss 'Simerville extended the National organization's congratulations to call ah those who participated in this campaign effort. Star-Newsreel To Visit Sampson In the seventh Sunday radio visit to the counties served by the Star and the News the Sunday Star Newsreel will salute Sampson county today over WMFD at 1:30 p.m. The program is written and directed by Ben McDonald, Star News Round-The-Town-Reporter. TRUMAN ORDERS PURGE; SIGNS OP A DEA THRILL Sugar, Rent Controls Are Being Urged $179,645,668 Appropria tion For Liguidation Is Approved FUNDS REDUCED Act Eliminates Three Once Powerful War Agencies In Capitol WASHINGTON, March 22—(&)— President 'Truman signed a June 30 death warrant for the OPA to day but urged congress to provide for the rent and sugar controls to be carried on by other agencies. A meeting of republican senate leaders, however, failed to settle the differences among them over whether the controls should be continued, and if so how. The president approved the $179. 645, 668 deficiency apropriation bill which liquidate? the catch-all of fice of temporary controls at mid year along with the OPA and the civilian production administration merged into it. Simultaneously, Mr. Truman or dered all the housing controls of the OPA transferred on April 1 to housing expediter Frank R. Creedon and “fully enforced” by him. CPA’s funds are so reduced by the bill as to make it powerless in the construction field beyond March 31. The measure requires various government agencies to return to the treasury $699,000,000. In specifying the. liqudation of OTC, the act eliminates three once power war agencies consolidated in the control office last December— OPA, CPA and the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. The president emphasized that congress has not decided that rent control arid sugar rationing are to end along with the agencies under death sentence. “On the contrary, the eongress is now considering legislation to extend sugar rationing beyond March 31 and rent control beyond June 30. 1947/’ said Mr. Truman’s statement. He said he is mindful of the bill's effect on the rent and sugar programs “which are so impor tant to the welfare of the Ameri can people” and desired to ex plain their status “so that the coun try may be fully aware of the dan (Continued On Page 2; Column 8) f — Loyalty Investigation Hits All Departments' By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, March 22.— (AP)—President Truman tonight ordered a purge of all government employes where there are “reasonable grounds” to doubt their loyalty and set up sweeping new standards to test it. His executive order directed a “loyalty investigation” of everyone who applies for a job in the executive departments and agencies. Late Bulletins MOSCOW. March 22— (JP) — The foreign ministers agreed today to adjourn until Tues day in an effort to try to catch up on what they have accom plished thus far and get a look at the problems ahead. ATHENS, March 22—(JP)—'The Greek cabinet imposed martial law throughout the prefecture of Laconia at the southern tip of the Green mainland tonight as a result of the tense situa tion created by the massacre of 32 communist convicts Fri day in a prison at Ghythion. JERUSALEM, March 22—(.¥) —Five known terrorists, “two of them believed to be big boys,” were arrested by Brit ish authorities in a combined army-police search in the Sy rian orphanage area of Jerusa lem today, an army spokesman announced toniaht. MOSCOW, March 22— (JP> — Russia proposed to the council of foreign ministers tonight that the future German government be based on the defunct Weimar republic which Adolf Hitler used to climb to power and then destroyed. WASHINGTON, March 22 — (JP)—A batch of documents laid before the house foreign affairs committee as “background” on the measure to aid Greece and Turkey proved tonight to be just that — historical back ground, hardly worth the “se cret” label. PARIS, • 'March 22 — (4s) — Premier Paul Ramadier won a 411 to 0 vote of confidence in the French national assembly today on his policy to stamp out the Indochinese revolution, but there were signs his four party government might face even stronger tests, i _ WASHINGTON, March 22 — (JP)—A confident attempt by Republican leaders to end Sen ate-House differences over slashing government costs, re ducing taxes and making pay ments on the debt blew up to day. fwithout^ exception, where now only questionable applicants are tested. And it instructed the agencies to submit the names of all the/t present employes to the federal I--^ WASHINGTON, March 22 — President Truman’s order for disloyal persons from govern ment jobs covers some 2,200, 000 positions, missing only the legislative and judiciary branches of the government. In includes the White House, the nine department of cabinet rank—state, treasury, war, justice, post office, navy, in terior, agriculture, commerce, labor—and the multitude of in dependent agencies. Oil an individual basis, the order conceivably could affect everybody in the executive . branch from the president to the janitor in a small town post office. The order does not apply to congress and its employes, nor to the courts and their em ployes, Mr. Truman acted only as the head ' of the executive branch of the government. bureau of investigation for a check wherever this has not already been done. The attorney general is ordered to make a list, and keep it up to date, of all subversive organiza Itions. A person’s membership in Sr “sympathetic association with” *one of them will be ground for stamping him disloyal. This blacklist is to include all “totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive” groups; all that advocate or approve force to deny persons their constitutional rights; and all that seek to change the form of the government “by un constitutional means.” Moreover, a “central master in dex” was ordered set up of all persons whose loyalty has been investigated since Sept. 3, 1939. It may be referred to by all gov ernment agencies. A white house official said that “this will not be a witch hunt— I can’t imagine that any great number of firings will result.” The order does not apply to the judicial or legislative branchea of the government, he emphasized, nor does it involve changes in prea ent security rules of the armed forces. Supplemental appropriation* for the civil service commission and Fill probably will be asked. They (Continued on Page Two, Col. *) Admiral Pays Brief Visit To Wilmington _-_ X.-* Barely having time to take his hat and coat off, Admiral Joseph F. Farley, commandant of the United States Coast Guard, stop ped over in Wilmington a few hours yesterday afternoon to visit with relatives before returning to Wash ington. Interviewed at the home of a sister-in-law, Mrs. Harlee R. Bel lamy, 612 Princess street, Admiral Farley would not disclose where he had been before coming by the Port City. Puffing on a curved stem pipe, characteristic of his sea captain's background, the former Modoc captain, said that he had left Wil mington in November, 1937. He was made commandant of the U> S. Coast Guard on Jan. 1, 1946. Farley was accompanied by his wife, the former Routh Bridg ers, who was visiting with Mrs. Bellamy and her brother, Burke H. Bridgers, 212 Orange street. The admiral first came to Wil mington in 1915 as an ensign on the Coast Guard cutter, Seminole, and returned again for two tours of duty on the Modoc as executive officer and later as commander. According to a member of the family, Farley was making plans yesterday to purchase a summer home at Wrightsville Sound for his vacations. The Admiral took off in a plane from Pennington airfield at 4 o’ clock. He had landed there earlier in the day accompanied by two Coast Guard airmen. FAIL TO AGREE WASHINGTON, March 22 — (IP)—Wrangling Republican sen ators failed to agree today on whether controls on' rents and sugar should be continued, changed or dropped. They will try again next week. Appointment Rumor Denied By Mayor Mayor W. Ronald Lane said last night that to his knowledge there has been no discussions in official circles regarding the possibility of the appointment of Richard L. Burnett, city councilman, or Willard I. Gat lin, former member of the State Bureau of Investigation, being appointed chief of police of the City of Wilmington. Burnett, he said is entering business in the Fales Whole sale Fish and Oyster Company, and about Gatlin, he said he knew nothing. Admiral Joseph F. Farley snapped as he visited the home ol Dr. and Mrs. Harlee Bellamy late yesterday. (CAJMUWA CAMKBA mnw. -
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