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FORECAST: Served By Leased Wires of the Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy ASSOCIATED PRESS windy and becoming cooler today and ’ and the tonight; ^Wednesday fair and continued UNITED PRESS W'ith Complete Coverage of —_ State and National News _ _ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1867 legion Ask Ouster Of Communist Party '^niericanism Committee Chairman Urges Congress To Outlaw Group Lest Soviet Inspired Orders Come WASHINGTON. March 24.—(U.fi) j]le American Legion today urged Congress to outlaw the American Communist party lest its 100,000 ^embers and fellow travelers ejrrv out “Russian - inspired’’ plans for overthrow by violence of jhe U. S. Government. Vne plea was presented to the House committee _ investigating jnamerican activities as it open ed public hearings or. legislation jha: would erercise the party as unfit to participate in a democra «r At the earlier executive session the committee unanimously op proved a contempt citation against Leon Josephson, New Jer-! ,cy attorney and alleged key figure in an international ring that faked passports te get com ' .-' I rnunist agents into this country, i The citation must be approved by the House before it can be turned over to the Justice department for prosecution. Josephson said in an interview with the Dayton (O.) Herald that he was being ‘'smeared’’ by the committee. He admitted past membership in the Communist party and said he still is a “con firmed Marxist,” but said the committee’s charge that he is a secret Russian agent is “Too ri diculous to answer.” Two Speakers The American Legion’s position was outlined by James F. Green of Omaha, N e b., national chair man of the Americanism commit (Continued On Page Two; Col. 6) Assault On United States Soviet Aim, Bullitt Says SENATOR BRIDGES i FLAYS LILIENTHALj New Hampshire Man Says Nominee Not Busi nessman Or Scientist WASHINGTON. March 24 —(#)— Eavid E. Lilienthal’s nomina - tion as chairman of the Atomic Energy commission encountered outspoken objections today as iooii as Senator Hickenlooper (R Iowa) called it up for action in the Senate. Senator Bridges (R-NH) jump ■ td in first with a declaration that Lilienthal is “neither a great busi nessman nor a good scientist” md quickly picked up support from Senator Wherry (R-Neb) , the Republican whip; Senator Overton (D-LA), Senator Bricker (R-Ohio) and Senator McKellar (D-Tenn). Hickenlooper voted for Lilien thal’s confirmation in the Atomic Energy committee which he heads and is manager of the con firmation drive on the floor. In i the opening hour of debate late today he got assistance from Senators McMahon D-Conn), Morse (R-Ore), Hatch (D-Nm) «nd Democratic leader Barkley. Has Majority Although the debate may itretch out several days, there ap pears to be little doubt that the Senate eventually will confirm Li to Atomic Energy Commission posts. Forty-nine Senators — a tlear majority—already have told the Associated Press they plan to rote for Lilienthal. Hickenlooper told the Senate m his opening statement that evi dence taken in five weeks of hearings had failed to disclose that Lilienthal is either a Com munist or a fellow-traveler. On the contrary, the Senator said, Li llentha] is a man of high intelli gence and great administrative ability, as demonstrated by his years of service on the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley authority. The nominee has serv ed since 1941 as TVA chairman. Lilienthal’s nomination emerged from that committee bearing an 8 to 1 vote of approval. Only Sena tor Bricker voted against him. Chairman In Doubt Amplifying on his prepared itatement, Hickenlooper said he was not sure in his own mind Just what kind of man wras need ed as chairman of an organization pioneering in such problems as atomic eergy. "I htwe come to the con clusion,” he said, “that we pro bably need more intelligent busi ness administration than meticu - lous scientific direction.” It was then that Bridges broke fr to say that the nominee is "neither a great businessman nor * good scientist;’’ "He can probably spend the tax payers’ money faster than any ether man. without accounting to Congress for it,” the New Eng - lander added. MBONE’S meditations By Alley Dome quit KTTIM' PE t?Ac£S - HE^AY HE KIM PO |HE Wi5HtM* FUH FREE/ J II f I r by Tb. Bell flm Inc.) Trade Mark ^ *' v. 8. Pat. OBce) WASHINGTON, March 24—(U.R)— William C. Bullitt, former U. S. Ambassador to Russia, said today that the American Communist party is completely dominated by Moscow and seeks to weaken the United States for an “ultimate as sault” planned by the Soviet Union. Testifying before the House com mittee on Unamerican activities at its first day of hearings on legis lation to outlaw the Communist party, Bullitt said that Russia al- i ready has “closed its iron fist” on more than 100,000,000 people in Eastern Europe in its “grandoise scheme” to “conquer the entire world.” He said the Communist party was its most effective fifth column; ■ that it is subject to orders from ' Moscow and "follows the party line laid down by Moscow with great care.” Bullitt, who served as Ambassa dor in the Russian capital from 1933 to 1936, appeared after spokes men for the American Legion urg ed that Congress outlaw the party’s 100,000 American members and fellow travelers. They said they were "willing instruments” of a foreign power—Russia—and were seeking to overthrow the U. S. government by violence. Effective Group Bullitt said the American Com munist party and its counterparty in other nations is used by Russia as a fifth column "just In the way Hitler used them—only much more effectively.” He cited at length from writings of Nikolai Lenin to show'that world revolution is a basic tenant of the party. "The doctrine that war is inevit able between Russia and what it calls ‘bourgeois neighbors' rose from what they intend ais a con quest of the entire world,” he said. He said that Premier Josef Stalin, by using party organizations in the old world, “is now threaten ing the independence of Europe” and that there was a “good (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) INTERFERENCE BY ARMY, NAVY HIT South Carolina Congress man Terms Present Policy Stupid WASHINGTON, March 24 — L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina representative, yesterday termed the army and navy’s interference of the coastal airways between Norfolk and Charleston as "stupid ■and nonsensical”. He declared that the men re sponsible for the placing of bomb ing and strafing ranges across the coastal airways “will be investi gated before the armed services committee.” Rivers is a member of the armed services committee. Rivers told Chairman James E. Landis, of the civil aeronautics board, that the army and navy have a tndency to forget that it is the people in civilian clothes who create them and nurture them. v His criticism of the army and navy was in connection with the very high frequency range pro gram which is under considera - tion in Washington. The area to be covered by VHF includes Nor folk Elizabeth City, New Bern, Wilmington and Myrtle Beach. MOUNTBATTEN TAKES OATH OF OFFICE AS NEW INDIA VICEROY NEW DELHI March 24—(yP) —Adm. Lord p • "’as sworn in toi 6' C? India and, 5 j-J breaking Si'S. © 2. India’s poll S' f* their hous<2? t" time the 3 g to country. o> -j ^ A short ^ § ferred w.! biggest p. £r were the © chancello. s Princes: ^Jawahariai Nehru, leader of the all-Indian Con gress party; Liaquat Ali Khan of the Moslem league. Nehru and Ali Khan are members of the interim Indian government. The swearing in and con ference took place against a background of communal vio lence &hich has accompa nied the inability of the dissi dent factions to get together on a plan for Indian inde pendence. A government communique from the Punjab tonight said eight persons were killed, two of them burned to death, in rioting at Hodai, near the bor der of Delhi province. WORLD NOT READY TO QUIT ARMING British, United States Del egates So Tell United Nations Meeting LAKE SUCCESS, N. V., March 24. —(IP)—The United States and Britain told the United Nations almost in unison today that the world is not yet ready for disarm ament and won’t be until inter national security is established. Russia, which presented the original arms - slashing proposals in a speech by Foreign Minister Molotov to the U. N. General as sembly last September, remained silent on the momentous issue as the two Western powers opened debate at the first meeting of the 11-nation commission on conven tional armaments. “When peace is concluded and security is organized, reduction of armaments then will be politi cally feasible,” American dele gate Herschel V. Johnson told the initial arms session on the eve of the U. N.’s first anniversary in the United States. Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate, declared that the U. N. must establish international con fidence with a global police force as its bulwark before “any con crete measures to regulate or re duce armaments can be put into effect.” Both the speakers emphasized they were ready to go ahead with a study of arms reduction im mediately, but held little hopes for early results. As • the discussions got under way delegates kept a sharp eye on Moscow and Washington dis patches for trends such as might be indicated by the conference be tween Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Generalissimo Stalin in the Soviet capital and Undersec retary of State Acheson’s state ment that Russia is a "potential aggressor” against Turkey. “The regulation of armaments is not itself the ultimate object ive,” Johnson said. “The ultimate objective is a world in which free men can live in peace and se curity.” He then laid down four condi tions which must be met: 1- Safeguards as an inseparable part of any system of regulation. 2- Completion of the peace treat ies with Germany and Japan. 3- Conclusion of special agree ments setting up an international military force. 4- Establishment of strict inter (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) TEEN-AGERS SITTING WITH BABIES TO GET CASH FOR OWN BABY BETHESDA, Md„ March 24— (JP)—Local teen-agers have taken up baby-sitting on a ’ large scale —so they can help finance the full-time job of caring for a six year-old Belgian war orphan. Ann Daly, president of the Be thesda-Chevy Chase High School Pepper club, said its 35 members have “adopted” little Juliette Jansen'through a national relief organization. "Members agreed to contribute $180 a year to her sup port. To earn money for their “inter national relations project” they turned the group into a baby-sit ters’ club, ran and ad in a com munity paper and now, have all the jobs they can handle. Writer Of Mystery Yams Burglar By Day, FBI Says LOS ANGELES, March 24—UPl —The FBI disclosed the arrest to day of Ernest G. Booth, 48, on a robbery charge, identifying him as a mystery story writer who wrote the movie script for Ladies of The Big House.’' Booth was taken in custody »ast night as he left a Hollywood res taurant with his wife — Special Agent R. B. Hood, in charge of the local office, announced—on an indictment last July charging concealment of securities valued at nearly $250,000, stolen in a burglary in Seattle early in 1943. flood added that Booth also had been identified as the gunman who robbed a series of loan com panies in Los Angeles, HoLywood, Glendale, Pasadena and Beverly Hills, and had been sought since last December. A month ago today, Hood charg ed, Booth entered the Atlas F-ed ral Savings and Loan company, Pasadena, ordered employes to a rest room, locked them in and removed $2,000 from the bank vault. The FBI said two of Booth’s novels, “Sirens Screaming’’ and “Stealing Through Life” had been sold to movie studios for picture production, reporting that “he started his writing career in 1926 while serving time in Folsom prison.” . _ TELEPHONE WORKERS VOTE TO CALL NATION-WIDE STRIKE ON APRIL 7; MARSHALL DEMANDS TROOPS SLASH U.S. Delegate Asks Freedom For Germans -Secretary Of State Pro poses Six-Point Bill Of Rights Preambles WANTS SPOILS CHECK July 1 Set As Deadline For. Reduction of Big Four Occupation Forces MOSCOW, March 24.—(UP)— Secretary of State George C. Marshall demanded today that the Big Four reduce their occupation troops in Germany to a minimum by July 1 and proposed a six point bill of rights, defining basic human freedoms, for all German constitutions. He asked also that deputies of the Big Four Foreign ministers prepare a report on compensation of citizens of the United Nations for property removed from Ger many as war spoils. Marshall submitted his proposals in three memorando today, which was the deadline for introduction of such material. His demand for troop reduction, opening a new American drive, urged immediate lowering of oc cupation costs in Germany so the country can be put on a self-sup porting basis. Under the Marshall proposal the Foreign ministers would instruct the Allied Control' council in Ber lin to report on the minimum num ber of troops needed in each of the four occupation zones. The report would be made June 1 and it would specify the num (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) BENSON CAUTIONS AGAINST FACTIONS Members Of Police De partment Warned Of Detrimental Effects A warning to members of the police department that a split in the force would be detrimental to the force itself was sounded yesterday by City Manager J. R. Benson. He spoke to members of the department at a 15 minute *es sion at police headquarters. His warning came following re ported bickerings among mem bers of the force over who should be the choice of .the department for the position of police chief. There have reportedly been sev eral attempts made recently to align sufficient power behind one or more members to force a vote as to the department's choice for the chief’s position. Benson explained during the course of his talk that he was not attempting to advise against a discussion of matters pertaining to the department but expressed the opinion that it would be to the best interests of the force if its members would “keep their feet on the ground.” He said that it would be a wise course if the members of the de partment would avoid splitting in to different factions, thereby bringing upon the department un favorable publicity. A split of the force into fac (Continued On Page Two; Col. 7) Sun Queen Derailed; 20 Injured The Seaboard Airline Railway’s Miami-to-Neiv York Sun Queen was derailed near Camden, S. C., causing injuries to 20 persons. Seaboard employes said the train ran through an open switch. Three Diesel engine units and seven cars jumped the tracks, which were torn up for a distance of several hundred feet. (AP Photo). BOARD OPPOSED TO TESTING BILL __ I County Commissioners Go On Record Against State Supported Measure The board of county commis sioners went on record yesterday in opposition to a milk testing bill now before the state legislature. The bill, a state department of health sponsored measure, would set up certain specified methods of inspecting milk to be sold in North Carolina. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, state health officer, said that the health of North Carolina depended upon the passage of the measure. He called upon the citizens of the state to demand passage of the bill. New Hanover county commis (Continued on Page Two, Col. 8) DATESFOR COURT TERMS SET HERE Two - Week Civil Session To Be Followed By Special Criminal Term A totalof 74 cases, 36 of which are divorce actions, are dockete for the two week term of civil superior court opening here April 7. Following the civil term, a one week special term of criminal court has been set for April 21 with approximately 50 cases on that docket. The special criminal term was requested yesterday by District Solicitor Clifton Moore and the county commissioners approved the request. Governor Cherry has been requested to assign a special judge for the criminal session. Moore said that the special term was made necessary due to the illness last week of Judge Clawson Williams, of Sanford , who was forced to close court in the middle of the week. A number of important cases were scheduled for trial, but were carried over to the special term. Along The Cape Fear READY REPLY _ Last Thurs day’s column relative to the old Library Association has brought forth a reply from the Wilmington Public library staff. The former unknown newspaper scribe who wrote in a Port City journal during the 1880’s that "the records of the Library Association have been lost, or at least a ma jor portion of them, hence little is known of its early history” ap parently was slightly “off the ball” in that pre-atomic age. Facts and' figure literally ooze from the printed book mark dis tributed by the public library. * * * RATHER OLD — According to the information printed on the book mark, the Cape Fear ■ Li brary was organized in 1760 in the City of Wilmington when the Port City* was a thriving community of less than 800 souls. ■‘From this small beginning the present Wilmington Public Li - brary has developed,” the article states. “After the Revolutionary War the Library continued, and in 1833 was operating under the direction of the Wilmington Mercantile and Library Association. “Soon after, this association transferred all books to the Wil mington Library Association which in 1858 moved into 'fine rooms in the new Town Hall’ the present City Hall,” informa tion received via mail from the present library staff states. * * * TAKES OVER — “The Freed man’s bureau took over the Li brary rooms in 1865 and all books were removed. “In 1874 the Wilmington Li brary Association again organized the Library and were in charge for over twenty years,” the article continues. You may recall that last Thurs day Along The Cape Fear told how the organization of the Li brary Association was affected, in all probability, in 1852 by Dr. T. C. Worth, Mr. George N. More house, Mr. William Utley and others. After a precarious exist ence for several years it suspend ed only to be reorganized again near the end of the 1850’s with Mr. George Davis, Dr. James H. Dickson, Mr. Donald MacRae and several' others as the moving spirits. * * * SOROSIS CLUB ERA — In 1901 the N. C. Sorosis Club started (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Co liege-Sanatorium Vote Set For Today The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina — Clear to partly cloudy, windy and cooler Tuesday. Colder Tuesday night. Wednesday fair and not so cool. North Carolina — Partly cloudy, windy and becoming cooler Tuesday. Colder Tuesday night. Wednesday fair and con tinued rather cool. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. nv 52: 7:30 a-m. 97? 1:30 p. m. 77; 7:30 p. m. 79. TEMPERATURES 1:30 a. m. 58; 7:30 a. m. 60; 1:30 p. m. 64; 7:30 p. m. 62; Maximum 67; Mini mum 56; Mean 61; Normal 55. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW Wilmington ___11:42a 6:39a -p 6:36p Mas.nboro__- 9:27a 3:30a 9:49p 3:42p Sunrise 6:09; Sunset 6:27; Moonrise 8:02a; Moonspt 9:50p. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a .m. Monday 13.0 feet; Sunday 13.6 feet. NEW YARD PARLEY EXPECTED TODAY Ports Authority Chairman, Clark To Confer With Presidential Aide WASHINGTON, March 24 —W— Rep. Clark (D-NC) said today further White House con - ferences will be held Tuesday or Wednesday concerning the North Carolina Ship Building company’s yards at Wilmington. Clark told a reporter that R. B. Page, Wilmington newspaper pub lisher and North Carolina Ports Authority chairman, will arrive tonight to help iron out differences between the Authority’s plan to buy the yards and the Maritime commission’s program to keep them “in standby” posiion. The State authority offered $1# 200,000 for the yards. The com - mission rejected the proposal and suggested a lease. North Carolina members of Congress repeated the state offer 16 President Truman who asked Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman to look into ihe matter. Frequent White House con ferences between Steelman, Rep. Clark, Senator Hoey (D-NC), Sen ator Umstead (D-NC) and Mari - time officials resulted in a 'new offer from the commission, de scribed by the Congressmen “as materially the same as the earlier offer.” However, the Authority is un - derstood to have ready a counter proposal which is to be presented at the White House conference. Registered Voters Urged To Support Measures At Polls The community committee advo cating the establishment of a tuberculosis sanatorium and a junior college in New Hanover county last night urged early vot ing in today’s county-wide referen dum and climaxed a months-long campaign by expressing confi dence that both proposals will be approved. The committee announced that ample facilities will be available today to transport voters to their polling places. Automobiles for this purpose will be dispatched to voters who tele phone Junior Chamber of Com merce headquarters, 2-3360, it was announced. A substantial turn-out of New Hanover’s properly registered voters for this important referen dum is expected today, when the 22 polling places will be open from 6:30 a. m. until 6:30 p. m. A general feeling of confidence I pervaded the meeting of the com ! munity committee last night, held at the Woodrow Wilson hut and attended by some 30 men and women representing organizations identified with a cross-section of interests, whose efforts in recent months have fused in ardent sup port of the sanatorium and junior college proposals. The meeting was attended by (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) REGISTRATION TO START SATURDAY No Candidates For City Council Positions Have Filed Yet Registration for this year s city election is scheduled to get under way Saturday and continue, each Saturday until April 19, with the latter day set aside for challenge day, according to H. G. Carney, chairman of the city board of elections. ' The date for the city primary has been set for April 21, at which time nominations for the May 6 general election will b e made. So far, Carney said yesterday, no candidates have as yet filed for positions on the city council (Continued On Page Two; Col. 7) High Winds Rip Big Hole In Nashville Church Spire NASHVILLE, Term., March 24. —(/P)— A cave-size hole was rip ped in a downtown church steeple and more than 100 telephone and electric power lines were damaged by 70-mile-per hour winds that swept Nashville today. A hole appearing to be about 20 feet high and seven or eight feet wide was torn in the wooden-frame steeple of the First Baptist church on one of Nashville’s busiest streets.. Police detoured all traffic away from the building as a pre caution against the steeple falling. Telephone officials reported dam age to lines in more than six sur rounding localities, and the Nash ville Electric Service said between 25 and 30, power lines were dam aged. The weather bureau station at Nashville airport reported an 18 degree drop in temperature with the wind. Strongest single gust re corded reached 85-miles-an-hour, and late in the afternoon a steady wind of 70-miles-per-hour was list ed. 287,000 Men, Women Will Leave Posts 49-Member Policy Com mittee Unanimously In Favor of Bell Walkout SEEK CoYfERENCE President Beirne To Con tact AT&T President Re Negotiations WASHINGTON, March 24. — (JP) — The policy committee of the Na tional Federation of Telephone workers today voted to call a na tion-wide strike on the Bell tele phone system at 6 a. m. April 7. President Joseph A. Beirne of the NFTW announced the action of the 49-member Policy committee at the close of the first day’s session in what was announced as a week long meeting. F le said the commi. se had voted unanimously to begin a na tion-w'ide tieup of telephone service by 287.000 members of the 39 unions on April 7 at 6 a. m. in each time zone across the nation. “The Bell system,” Beirne told a news conference, “by its re fusal to offer counter proposal* to our demands, and by its action in trying to move backwards in con tract matters, has restricted the course of action of the federation.” Takes Strike Step Therefore Beirne said the policy committee had taken the strike step. However, Beirne was instructed to contact President Walter A. Gif ford and Vive President Cleo Graig of the American Telephone anc Telegraph company, for negotia tions with the union’s national co ordinated bargaining committee no later than April 1. Beirne said he is to report to his policy committee by 2:30 p. m tomorrow “on the A. T. and T.’s reply.” The negotiations sought by th< union would cover the $12 wee’ (Continued on Page Two, Col. 8' D. S. ARMY PLANE CRASHES IN WOOL Missing C - 54 Transporf Located Near Stephen ville; Several Hurt STEPHENVILLE, Nfdl., March 24. —(/P)— A United States Army C-54 transport plane carrying nine persons which had been missing since Sunday afternoon was found today crashed on a desolate plateau 25 miles south of the Stephenville airbase. Four or five survivors were seen walking near the crashed plane by crewmen of search planes who lo cated it. Although the transport appeared to be little damaged, sig nals from the survivors indicated several casualties. Survival kits were dropped to the stranded survivors from one of the search craft, an Army ATC plane from Harmon field. There are no roads in the forested area where the plane came down and the survivors will have to be evacuated by a helicopter which has been flown here from New York and now is being assembled. The crash occurred only a few miles from the scene of the crash of an American Overseas airliner last fall in which 39 persons died. The four-engined Skymaster was en route Sunday from Westovei Field, Mass., to Stephenville. It last reported Its position as five miles Southwest of Harmon Field, Stephenville at 2:30 p. m. (EST). When it failed to appear over the field, search planes were sent up and a crash boat was sent cruising St. George’s bay to look for signs of wreckage. _" 4 And So To Bed So To Bed recently told the story about the fellow who had the fuel oil syphoned from his fuel barrel by a cold neighbor. Now, a certain waitress in a certain cafe tells the story of the neighbor who solicitously inquired as to her working hours. Wher told they were such and such, she started off in the pursuit of her daily livelihood. And since the day looked like rain might fall, the wait ress decided to return to the house to get an umbrella be fore catching the bus. Yep! You guessed it. She found the solicitous neighbor dabbling in her coal pile. The moral to this story: Don’t tell everything, even to your neighbors. 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