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YOLJ^— -°*_____Xr^NGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1867
Kevin Flatly
Rejects U.S.
Treaty Plans
British Minister I n j ects
first Anglo-American
Clash Into Parley
MARSHALL worried
Secretary Tells Ministers
Ensnarlments Endanger
ing Meet Progress
MOSCOW, March 26—(U.R)—Brit
jjj) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev
U jn the first major Anglo-Ameri
cjn clash of the Big Four con
ference, flatly rejected tonight a
United States proposal that the fu
ture German government be spar
ed the responsibility of signing a
peace treaty.
The German government "must”
,ign the treaty because it will be
the only body that can take re
iponsibility for executii% it, Bev
)n said.
Secretary of State George C.
Marshall, confronted by this Brit
ish support of Russian objections
tc his plans, said the question was
cot urgent and need not be decid
ed no>v
But after this conciliatory ges
ture. the Americon secretary of
,tate. disgusted by hours of wrang
ling over points of procedure,
teamed his Big Four colleagues
that they were jeopardizing the en
tire conference by getting tangled
j, minor disputes.
"Frankly,” Marsnall said, “it
seems to me that we are ensnari
ng ourselves in a series of com
plications which are not in them
selves of such great importance
but which are making the possi
bility oi reasonable progress of
these negotiations unfortunately
remote.”
At the four hour and 45-minute
meeting, the longest of the con
ference, the Big Four ministers
irgued without result over German
peace treaty procedure.
Russian Foreign Minister Via
ehesiav Molotov stubbornly refus
ed to permit China, which is a
member of *he Big Five Council
of Foreign ministers, to be one of
(lie sponsor powers for the German
peace conference.
SUPEWOR COURT
ACTIONS LISTED
36 Divorce Cases Due To
Be Heard At Two Week
Civil Term
A total of 75 cases, 36 of which
ire divorce actions, were listed
on the civil Superior Court calen
dar released yesterday by A. L.
Meyland. clerk of court.
The ^rm is scheduled for two
weeks beginning April 7. The full
eallendar follows:
Monday, April 7, motion docket—
Robert E. Jenkins against Cora
Jenkins; City of Wilmington, et
il. versus George Schutt and wife;
Sam Spach, against A. R. Keith
and wife; Theodore G. Gennis,
•gainst L. J. Hannah.
Uncontested divorces — D. C.
Stalvey vs. Marie Stalvey; J. Eu
gene Lucas vs. Dorothy P. Lucas;
Louise Hall vs. Dexter Hall;
Gladys L. Hogan vs. Donnie P.
Hogan.
Louise Faison Small vs. Arthur
Small; Julia D. Austin vs. John
Austin; Carl Ulrich vs. Helen Ding
Well Ulrich; Janie Ellis Stewart
V!' Will Stewart; Jacoba Stephens
Luck vs. Ralph H. Buck; Myrtice
H. Inman vs. Aon’er N. Inman.
Ann McCormick DeMasi vs.
Hred J. DeMasi; Clyde L. New
•ome vs. Myrtle Annie Newsom;
LeRoy Wenford Upperman vs.
Grace Pauline Sanders Upperman.
Halph J. Shaw vs. Wilma Inez
Shaw; Helen Fisher Kincaid vs.
Robert Andrew Kincaid; Eloise
Hopkins Dow vs. Wilbur Dow;
H.izabeth Styron Bost vs. George
pam Bost, Felicia M. Canty vs.
James M. Canty; Annie Hughes
Henry vs. Richard Henry.
Sarah Elizabeth M-cKoy vs. Eli
jah McKoy; Katherine C. McLane
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TEN PERSONS HELD
IN HUGE CAR THEFT
RING, FBI DECLARES
NEWARK, N. J., March 26.
—W—S. K. McKee, FBI chief
for New Jersey, announced to
night that a car theft ring
operating between Newark and
Bishopville, S. C., had been
smashed with the arrest of ten
persons, and warrants have
been issued for two fugitives.
McKee said the ring was
first uncovered when the Chief
of Police in Bishopville. spot
ted men removing license
plates from autos stolen in
New Jersey. Twelve autos
have been recovered, he said,
and additional recoveries and
arrests are expected.
Charged with auto theft and
transportation of stolen cars in
Interstate Commerce, the FBI
said, are Jesse James Gilcrest
Raleigh, N. C., held at Bish
opville, and Eugene Finklea of
Newark, held here, in $5,000
bail each; and Charles Mor
gan of Newark, held by New
ark municipal police.
Held in Bishopville on
charges of receiving stolen
cars: Ira B. Newsom, Jay Lee
McCaskill, Kemp Charles
Nash, Lorie E. Hyatt, Leo
George Radcliff, Ollie Moore
and Mamie Thomas Williams.
BILL WOULD PUT
MARTIN IN LINE
House Rules Committee
Approves Presidential
Succession Measure
*
WASHINGTON, March 26—
Voting on strict party lines, the
Republican - dominated Senate
Rules committee today approved
a bill putting House Speaker Jo
seph Martin (R-Massl as first in
line of succession to the presiden
cy.
Six Republicans voted for the
measure. Five Democrats voted
against it. Two Republicans were
absent.
Martin, 62-year-old North Attle
boro, Mass., publisher and repre
sentative to Congress since 1924,
became speaker of the House last
January in the wake of the Re
publican election victory in No
vember.
President Truman first asked
Congress to change the 60-year
old law of succession June 19,
1945, urging that the House Speak
er be named the No. 1 replace
ment for the White House when—
as now—there is no vice presi*
dent.
He renewed the appeal Feb. 5,
declaring that “so far as possible,
the office of the President should
be filled by an elective officer.”
Succession Law
Under the 1886 law of succes
sion, Secretary of State George C.
Marshall would take over the
Presidency if a vacancy should
develop before President Tru
man’s term expires. Since Mar
shall, like all cabinet officers, is
a Presidential appointee, he would
not be an elective officer.
COUPLE^INDICT ED
IN OVERELL CASE
Grand Jury Returns Bill
Against Daughter Of
Victims, Her Fiance
SANTA ANA, Calif., March 26
_(ip) —rThe Orange county grand
jury late today returned an in
dictment charging 17-year-old
Louise Overell, University of
Southern California co-ed, and her
fiance', George Gollum, 21, with
the murder of her parents, whose
bodies were recovered from the
family yacht after a dynamite ex
plosion March 15.
The indictment, voted by the
19-member jury, was submitted to
Superior Judge Franklin G. West,
who immediately directed a bench
warrant be issued for the youth
ful defendants.
Sheriff James Musick said sci
entific evidence was submitted t0
the jury to prove Prcse™'
tion’s contention that Mr. and
Mrs. Walter E. Overell, wealthy
Flintridge residents, were beaten
to death before the dynamite ex
ploded on the ship, sinking it in
Newport harbor.
They will be arraigned probably
Friday morning.
The indictment obviates a pre
liminary hearing which had been
set for tomorrow morning in
Costa Mesa justice court.
Before the indictment was re
turned. Autopsy Surgeon Dr. Lang
J. Mathes expressed belief that
Overell was dead when the mid
night explosion shattered the
ya'cht, but his wife may have
been killed by the blast._
Radio Groups
To Coope ; •
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On W
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Engineers, Tec£ / ‘A Of
3 Major Networks "May
Join Phone Workers
RECOGNIZE PACT
Possibility Looms That
Programs Will Be Off
Air Easter Monday
WASHINGTON, March 26 —UP)—
Radio technicians on three major
networks agreed tonight to coop
erate with telephone workers if
the latter strike April 7. Union of
ficials called it a “serious” threat
to radio broadcasting.
A mutual assistance pact be
tween the National Association of
Broadcast Engineers and Techni
cians (NABET) and the National
Federation of Telephone workers
which has called 'for a cross-coun
try strike the day after Easter,
was disclosed by the telephone
union.
NABET has a contract with the
National, American, and Mutual
broadcasting chains, but not with
Columbia Broadcasting system,
whose workers of similar skill are
members of the AFL Brotherhood
of electricians.
Martin W. O'Donoghue. Wash
ington attorney for NABET, said
his organization also has contracts
with 57 local stations.
O’Donoghue conceded it might
be possible to man local stations
— or even the networks — with
management personnel of both
radio and telephone companies,
and thus continue broadcasting.
Because of the large number of
workers required to man the long
lines service of the American
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, however, the attorney
thought this would be difficult.
May Be Silenced
Inherent in the threatened tele
phone strike and “assistance” by
the broadcast engineers was the
possibility that many of the na
tion’s radio stations might be
hampered seriously if net silenced
altogether.
LEADERS NAMED
IN CHURCH DRIVE
Grace Methodist Chairman
Picks Captains For
Solicitations
The appointment of 20 team cap
tains to serve in Sunday after
noon’s every-member canvass of
Grace Methodist church members
for contributions to help restore
the heavily fire-damaged church
structure was announced last
night by M. H. Lander, general
chairman of the restoration under
taking.
Lander, also chairman of the
church board of stewards, yester
day appointed Lenox G. Cooper
and E. C. Craft, Jr., as co-chair
men of the men's solicitation divi
sion.
He named Mrs. J. Frank Collier
and Mrs. Bereniece Stellings as
co-chairmen of the women’s divi
sion.
The men’s division team captains
were named last night as follows:
Harry Dosher, Clayton C.
Holmes, W. A. McGirt, Bruce Yan
dle, Raymond Crow, George Prit
chard, J. Utley King, Herbert Da
vis, N. A. Avera and Bate Mauney
Tlie following team captains for
the women’s division were ap
pointed:
Mesdames A. S. Trundle, Jr., T.
E. Moody, E. T. Crow, Leon Walsh.
Levi McMillan, E. T. Walker, J. E.
McCarty, S. D. Hurst, Jr., Martna
King, and Miss Lillian Davis.
Chairman Lander yesterday
named as his advisory committee
in the fund raising campaign Al
bert Trundle, Mrs. J. Frank Col
iier and E. C. Craft, Jr., announc
ing at the same time that still an
other member remains to be select
ed.
The special gifts solicitation com
mittee is made up of E. L. White,
chairman of the church board ot
trustees, Roger Moore and Albert
Trundle.
The every-member canvass will
take place between 2 and 5 p. m.
Sunday.
The Sunday schedule of church
services was announced as Hol
lows:
Sunday schodl at 9:45 a. m. at
Hemenway school, on Fifth street
near Chestnut; morning service
at 11:15 o’clock at St. Paul’s
Sixth and Princess streets; ana
Lutheran church parish house, M
evening service at 8 o’clock at the
same place.
British Scientists Make
WarmestPanties To Date
LONDON, March 26—(U.R)—Brit
ish scientists claimed today they
have developed from a coal de
rivative a fabric which will make
possible the warmest panties in the
history of lingerie.
A research technician of Im
perial Chemical industries said
the new fabric, Terylene, was in
vented last year and now is being
subjected to exhaustive tests which
have shown that it is equal to ny
lon in many ways. It was describ
ed as almost run-proof and definite
ly moth-proof.
Spun with wool, which contri
butes warmth, it can be made into
lingerie items of strong, smooth
appearance which will appeal to
women, it was said.
‘‘Burning coal is such an inef
ficient way to destroy one of the
world’s richest natural resources,”
said the technician. “This ma
terial, which comes from the same
stuff, also gives a warming ef
fect, although in a different way.”
He said it would be severaC
years, however, before Brjtish
plants would be prepared to mass
produce the new fabric.
“Du Pont in America also is
working on it as a possible com
petitor to their own nylon,” he
said.
Liner In Flames
The 22,424-ton Monarch of Bermuda, one-time British luxury liner
in the New York-Bermuda passenger service, burns in drydock at
Hebburn-on-Tyne, England, where she was being re-fitted for pas
senger trade. The big ship was used as s> troop ship durftig the
war. (AF Wircphoto via radio from London).
Committee Ejects
Communist Leader
The Weather
FORECAST:
North Carolina—Increasing cloudiness
and continued rather cool Thursday,
rain and warmer Thursday night and
some light rain in mountain section;
Friday rain and cool.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1:30 a. m. 43; 7:30 a. m. 40; 2:30 p. m.
54; 7:30 p. m. 48; Maximum 47; Mini
mum 32; Mean 39: Normal 56.
HUMIDITY
1:30 a. m. 38; 7:30 a. m. 46. 1:30 p.
m. 37; 7:30 p. m. 19.
PRECIPITATION
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month 4.94
inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
(From the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Dow
Wilmington_ 1:03 a.m. 8:29 a.m.
1:22 p.m. 8:24 p.m.
Masonboro _11:07 a.m. 5:11 a.m.
11:39 p.m. 5:20 p.m.
Sunrise 6:06; Sunset 6:29; MoonrHe
9:20a; Moonset -.
River state at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a. m. Wednesday 12.7 feet.
sncwTlOrries
PAY VISIT HERE
Weatherman Says Area
Can Expect Warmer
Temperatures Today
The poets, if there are any poets
in Wilmington, had their hey-day
yesterday when the city was visit
ed by four snow flurries—that is
if the poets like to versify mother
nature.
Paul Hess, the weatherman
down in the Custom’s Building
who likes to deal in facts and
arithmetic, looked back through
his records and came up with
some figures that may be inter
esting to statisticians.
The genial weatherman said
shucks, yesterday’s snow flurries
were nothing—that is, speaking of
the lateness in the season. His
books reveal that in 1915—on
April 3—the city had a snow
flurry.
But that date superseded any
other year, according to his rec
ords since the bureau was es
tablished here 1871 with the ex
ception of March 27, 1927 and
March 31, 1915.
The first snow flurry was re
corded yesterday at 8:28 a.rn. and
the final at 11:30 a.m.
They were light and mild
flurries, hardly sufficient to raise
the blood pressure of the young.
Meanwhile, Hess said that the
temperature would drop last night
to 80 within the city and hover
around the 27 mark outside, But
he held out a cheerful note—today
should be warmer and fair.
Along The Cape Fear
VALUABLE RECORDS—Thanks
to Mr. R. L. Benson, popular town
clerk of Wrightsville Beach, Along
The Cape Fear is able to bring
you some interesting items on the
Grace Methodist Church, the fa
mous edifice here which was re
cently seriously damaged by fire.
As a member of the church rec
ords committee, M r. Benson
along with Mr. A. B. Love as
sembled in 1936 much d ata
about the church’s history.
These records were placed in
the basement vault of the Wil -
mington Savings and Trust Com
pany in a specially constructed
box.
All of the documents were un
der strict supervision for review,
requiring permit from the pastor
or the chairman of the board in
company of an official of the
bank. In practically all cases that
official was Mr. Herbert C. Davis,
Mr. Benson tells us.
* * ik
CORRECT NAME — Quite often
the church is referred to as
| "Grace Street Methodist Church,”
Mr. Benson says. And that iE en
tirely wrong.
The old Front Street Methodist
Church, a forerunner of the pres
ent church, was destroyed in the
FBI Chief Hoover Says
Partv Dangerous To
United States
WASHINGTON, March 26—(IP)—
In a thunderous scene a Congres
sional committee ejected the gener
al secretary of the Communist
party from a hearing today and
later heard FBI Chief J. Edgar
Hoover denounce the Communists
as a “fifth column.”
Eugene Dennis wae ousted by
the House committee on Unameri
can activities because he refused
to give any other name but Eugene
Dennis. He also refused to tell
where or when he was born.
Both Hoover and Robert E.
Stripling, the committee’s chief
investigator, said Dennis was bom
as Francis Eugene Waldron and
has used many aliases.
Stripling said the aliases have
been used in getting “fraudulent
passports.”
Hoover testified:
1. That the Communists are di
rected “from Paris with a very
definite pipeline into Moscow” and
that they are a present danger
to this country in the event of war
with a Communist nation.
2. That he has "grave doubts”
as to the wisdom of making mar
tyrs out of Communists by outlaw
ing them. Also, he said the law
might later be ruled unconstitu
tional.
The U. S. Chamber hf Commerce
also told the committee it questions
the wisdom of outlawing the party.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution favored outlawing it
Dennis, a man with pink cheeks,
neat mustache, and red necktie,
appeared at his own request to op
pose the bills that would outlaw
Communists.
GODDARD’S HAIR - DO
CAUSES WALKOUT AT
ENGLISH FILM STUDIO
LONDON, March 26—(ff>)—An un
authorized strike over Paulette
Goddard’s hair-do paralyzed the
production of a $2,000,000 movie
today.
Twelve English hair dressers,
who want no part of any foreign
labor, walked out in a pique yes
terday after hearing that Miss
Goddard’s pretty head was being
done by a Swedish expert from
Hollywood.
The walkout left nearly 1,000 ac
tors, actresses and technicians
idle, and it was costing more than
$12,000 a day for London Film
studios grinding out Sir Alexan
der Korda’s technicolor film of
Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Hus
band.”
great fire of 1886. The edifice was
rebuilt at the new and present lo
cation Fourth and Mulberry
streets. It was named Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church
South.
Later the name of the street
was changed from Mulberry to
Grace Street in honor of the
church which was one of the
finest buildings in the Port City.
With the union of the North and
South branches of Methodism, to
gether with the Methodist Protes
tant and other small branches as
suming the name of Methodist
Church, the correct name of the
church here became the Grace
Methodist Church.
•LIST OF PASTORS — Contain
ed in the information which Mr.
Benson made available for us is
a list of the pastors from 1810 to
the present day, as well as that
of the presiding elde s.
As space will not permit us to
bring you all of this material to
day we will limit ourselves to a
list of the pastors.
James Norton, 1810; Jos. Tra
vis, 1811; Samuel K. Hodges, 1816;
James O. Andrews, 1817-18; Wm.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
Irate Dairymen Hold Up
Trains, Fire On Trucks;
Mine Death Toll Grows
MINE OFFICIALS
FEAR 121 DEAD
Seventeen Bodies Already
Recovered; Senate Or
ders Probe Of Blast
CENTRALIA, 111., March 26— <JP)
—A rescue squads probed the
labyrinths of a gas-filled, explo
sion-torn coal mine today, virtually
resigned hat the death toll ol
trapped miners would reach 121,
The U. S. Senate voted an inves
tigation of the blast.
The Senate, by a voice vote,
adopted a resolution by Senator
Brooks (R-Ill) calling tor an in
quiry by the Senate Public Lands
committee to determine whether
any federal official was negligent.
The Senate acted within an hour
after the resolution was introduc
ed.
As the 24th hour after the mine
explosion passed, relatives of the
blast victims who had maintained
a hopeful vigil at the mine, began
showing the strain of the ordeal.
Old hands at rescue work shook
their heads and opined there
“wasn't a chance" any more of
the trapped men were alive.
W. P. Young, vice president in
charge of operations for the Cen
tralia Coal company, the mine
owners, said 17 bodies had been
found so far in the mine, 30 men
had been brought out alive and
that 104 others were unaccounted
for. Bodies of most of the dead
still were underground.
Many Violations
Senator Brooks told tne Senate
the mine was “under operation
of the federal government under
the Secretary of Interior” and
charged there had been “many
violations” of safety rules of both
the federal and state governments.
The U, S. Bureau of Mines,
meanwhile, said a number of vio
lations of the federal safety code
were found in an inspection of
the mine last November and a
recent report of the Illinois State
Mine inspector recommended
several changes at the mine.
Repo- ts of the state inspection
said the min was “not adequately
rock dusted,” that dirty haulage
roads should be cleansed and
sprinkled and that ventilation
should be increased at various
points. The state report also as
serted that recommendations of
previous inspections had “not been
complied with and should be com
plied with.”
STATE TEACHERS
TO SELECT SLATE
Spirited Balloting For Pres
idency Expected At Con
vention Saturday
ASHEVILLE, March 26. —(£*)—
North Carolina school teachers
Saturday will choose as theri presi
dent either a man who has suc
cessful! led their fight for a pay
raise of appropriately 30 per cent
for the next two years, or another
educator who has been telling them
— and all Tar Heels — they de
serve twice that amount and should
continue to fight for it.
The candidates are Claud Grlgg
of Albemarle, vice-president of the
North Carolina Education associa
tion and chairman of its legisla
tive committee, and R. L. Fritz
of Hudson, Caldwell county.
The 63rd annual convention of
the NCEA will be held here Thurs
day through Saturday. Never in
these three score years and more*
has a vice-president failed to be
elevated to the presidency.
Against the background of the
presidency race, the contest fox
vice-president among four candi
dates is anticlimatic. In the race
are A. C. Dawson, Jr., principal
of Southern Pines High school in
Moore county; William Elmore,
classroom teacher and athletic
coach at Lake Lure high, Ruther
ford county; B. E. Lohr, of Lum
berton, a member of the NCEA
board of directors; and T. C.
Roberson, superintendent of Bun
coombe county schools.
3,000 Delegates
Voting for all officers has been
going on in local units for the
past month. Results will be an
nounced at the convention. There
are approximately 24,000' teachers
in the state and some 3,000 dele
gates are expected at the conven
tion.
Former Chief Justice
Spends Night In City
Even a chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court ad
mittedly doesn’t know everything.
Charles Evans Hughes, who pre
sided over the nation’s highest
tribunal from 1930 until his re
i tirement in 1941, admitted last
■ night that he didn’t know Wil
mington was the boyhood home
of President Woodrow Wilson
. Mr. Wilson was his opponent for
the presidency in 1916.
Mr. Hughes, enroute from Flor
ida to his Washington home, was
the over-night guest of the Cape
Fear Hotel.
He likewise was the dinner
i guest of the St. John’s Tavern.
It was while dining at the St
John’s that he made the observa
tion regarding Mr. Wilson.
Despite his 85 years, Mr. Hughes
was as lively as a man much
younger. He wore a Florida sun
ten that undoubtedly had invig
orated him and accentuated his
stately bearing.
Mr. Hughes’ aversion to pub
licity and recognition is well
known. But his host of the eve
ning recognized him at once when
he entered the dining room.
"Good evening, Mr. Hughes. ’
(Continued on Page Two; Col. S)
OPA ENFORCEMENT
OFFICE AT RALEIGH
TO CLOSE APRIL 30
ATLANTA, March 26.—(S’)—
Regional Administrator James
P. Davis of the OPA said today
branch enforcement offices in
Miami, Memphis and Raleigh,
N. C., would be closed April
30 and their activities trans
ferred to Atlanta.
Davis said the closing of the
offices was necessitated by the
limited funds made available
by the recently passed OPA
liquidation appropriation.
Regular 30-day termination
notices will be given to branch
office personnel March 31,
Davis said, although some em
ployes in each office may be
transferred to the regional of
fice.
The 72 area rent offices in
the Southeast will undergo no
major changes, nor will the
sugar control branch offices
of which there is one in each
state, Davis declared.
SCOUT EXECUTIVE
QUITS POST HERE
Courtland Baker To Head
Palmetto Council At
Spartanburg, S. C.
Courtland W. Baker, Boy Scout
executive of the Cape Fear Coun
cil for the past four years, has
been appointed executive secretary
of the Palmetto Council in Spartan
burg, S. C., it was learned here
last night.
The scout executive who has
guided the activities of the Cape
Fear Council which cover nine
counties will assume his new duties
on May 1. He will remain scout
executive here until that time.
Mrs. Baker and their two chil
dren will remain here until the
close of school and then will join
him in Spartanburg.
Entering Boy Scout work in 1938
as field executive and assistant
scout executive in Ashland, Ken
tucky, Baker was previously con
nected with State Recreation work.
Baker, coming to Wilmington
as Scout Executive in January of
1943, has aided the development
of the scouting program of the
Cape Fear area from the 78 units
th'at were active on his arrival to
the present 160 units with about
3,000 members. Only two staff
members were employed by the
councjl at that time and now seven
are required to handle the work.
The scou<“ executive last night
expressed regret on leaving Wil
mington and the community. He
contributed the success of the
scout program here to the “many
active men over the community
who have given their time, as
scouting is a volunteer program
(Continued On Page Two; Col. 4j
STEELMAN STUDIES
OFFER FOR YARDS
Delegation Assured 01 Full
Review At White House
Parley
WASHINGTON, March 26— (JP)—
Senator Hoey (D-NC) said today
a delegation was assured by
Presidential Assistant John R.
Steelman of a further investigation
of uses of the North Carolina Ship
Building yards at Wilmington be
fore he makes recommendations
to ^President Truman on disposal
of'the yards.
Hoey said the group requested e
check independent of proposals by
the U. S. Maritime commission to
lease the yards and by the North
Carolina State Ports authority to
buy them.
Rep. Clark (D-NC) told reporters
the commission and authority pre
sented statements to Steelman
regarding uses each would make
of the property. He added “Steel
man is considering the question of
whether the property may con
sistently be made to serve both
uses.”
Among those who attended to
day’s White House conference
here:
Senators Hoey and Umstead (D
NC), Rep. Clark; Ports Authority
Chairman R. B. Page of Wilming
ton; and W. C. Park, formerly
with the North Carolina Shipbuild
ing Co. _
TEAMSTERS UNION
CEASE DELIVERIES
Louisiana State Safety
Chief Orders Police To
Keep All Roads Open
NEW ORLEANS, March 26—(U.R)
—Angry dairymen of Tangipahoa
parish today hoarded Illinois Cen
tral milk trains in the ‘‘Jesse
James” manner and fired on
trucks running their blockade into
New Orleans in a turbulent strike
that already had cut in half this
big city’s milk supply.
Tonight, the AFL Teamsters’
union, representing the strikers,
threatened to shut off deliverii
of any products to any New Or
leans firm or individual dealing
with dairy firms on the union’s
blacklist.
Leo Carter, international repre
sentative of the teamsters, said
that the unions five locals in New
Orleans handled "everything that
moves on rubber” in the city. Ha
notified shipping companies that
no cargose including milk would
be delivered to their vessels.
In Tangipahoa parish, 70 miles
north of New Orleans and lonj
a stormy spot in Louisiana, th»
rugged dairy farmers were de
termincd to stick out their strike
and blockade against milk from
other sections in protest ol a K
cents per hundredweight price
reduction for their production.
Keep Roads Open
State Public Safety Chief Hun
ter Huckaby ordered state police
cars from Baton Rouge into the
troubled area with orders to "keep
the roads open.” The strike hac
spread to neighboring St. Tam
many parish where Sheriff R. C
Moise reported the farmers were
carrying weapons openly.
In Tangipahoa, where blood was
shed in a strawberry farmers’
idispute eight years ago, two IC
trains had been stooped in 24
hours. Armed union dairymen
flagged down the trains, one
freight and one passenger tram
with milk cars, broke open the
car seals and dumped the milk.
“It was an act of terrorism
worthy of Jesse James," said W
D. Bee, special agent of the rail
road. He said more than 250
farmers took part in one train
incident at Amite.
Sam Gurgo, a produce trucker
from Jackson, Miss., said he was
fired on from ambush when he
failed to halt at a road blockade
near Slidell, just the other side of
Lake Pontchartrain. Shots riddled
a fender and shattered his wind
shield but Gurco came on through.
He said he was not hauling milk.
NOBLE TO SERVE
AS HEAD OF VFW
Newly Elected Officers To
Be Installed Here On
April 4
Ken R. Noble was last night
elected commander of the James
F. Manly post Number 2573, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, in a meet
ing of that organization held in
the VFW hall. Noble succeeds
E. C. Snead in the position.
Other officers elected last night
to serve for the coming year are:
A. J. Brunjes, senior vice-com
mander; S. C. Zatkiewicz, junior
vice-commander; Tommy Long,
quartermaster; Frank Shepard,
chaplain; H. L. O’Steen, judge ad
vocate; and C. W. Fulford, J. J.
Ray, and William Zimmer .trus
tees.
A public installation service
will be held on April 4, it was an
nounced. The place of the service
has not yet been decided, but a
dinner-dance will be held at the
same time.
Members of the VFW last night
also passed two resolutions, the
first of which is that a request be
made that all necessary steps be
taken to remove the bombing
ranges at Albemarle Sound and
Myrtle Beach which are delaying
the installation of a very high
frequency range here and thereby
interfering with the possibility of
additional commercial air service
into Wilmington.
The organization also went on
record favoring and endorsing the
reorganization of Company I of
the 30th Division of the North
Carolina National Guard here, and
pledged assistance in bringing
about the formation of the group.
It was brought cut at the meeting
that Company I is traditionally
Wilmington and a part of the 30th
Division which made outstanding
records in two wars.
And So To Bed
The winds oi yesterday and
the day before performed
freakish feats, some of them
amusing, after a fashion, and
some of them not so funny.
Not so funny was the ex
perience of a taxi driver who
was wheeling along South
Front street when a gust of
considerable force struck with
head-on suddenness.
He heard a terrific clatter
ing din and for a brief instant
was blacked out before ho
could pull over to the curb.
The wind had simply un
loosed his hood and sent it
hurtling back in front of tto
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