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Instead it de ! cided to make these “unfair labor practices"—the National Labor Re lations board could tell a union to stop them, and go to court for 8n injunction if the union disobey ed. Also knocked out, 7 to 6, was a ban on health and welfare funds administered solely by unions. Minority Beaten On both these votes a group of Democrats and Republicans over ruled a minority headed by Taft. The softening of the strike and boycott provision was favored by Senators Ives (R-NY), Aiken (R Vt), Morse (R-Ore), Smith (R NJ'. Pepper (D-Fla), Hill (D-Ala), Murray (D-Mont), and Elbert Thomas (D-Utah). For the original draft were Senators Taft, Ball (R Minn). Donnell (R-Mo), Jenner <R Ind), and EUender (D-La). On the other vote the lineup was the same except that Smith joined the Taft group. These were not the first set backs for Taft in his own commit (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) BULLARD ELECTED BOARD CHAIRMAN Civil Service Commission Defers Action On Police Force Vacancies Eugene Bullard, police depart - ment representative on the local civil service commission, was e lected chairman of the organiza tion at a meeting in the city hall yesterday afternoon. Named as secretary of the group was the Rev. W. J. Steven son, representative of the Wil mington Ministerial Association. The new civil service law was studied at yesterday’s session, with William C. Campbell, city attorney, and J. R. Benson, city manager, in attendance. No final action , however , was taken by the commission toward filling the present five vacancies or the police department. Appli - cations for positions on the force were studied but any decision on who would be recommended to fill the vacancies will be deferred for several days, the board decided. Some of the applications were incomplete, according to a mem ber of the commission, and no ac tion will be taken until all appli cations have been graded and studied. Fifteen names probably will be recommended to the governing (Continued On Page Two; Col. 81 BOARD OF EDUCATION RECEIVES NEW GRANT OF FEDERAL FUNDS — A grant of $12,376 by the Federal Works agency to the New Han over County Board of education, was revealed in Washington last night by Senator Umstead. The funds, which were allocated to the board for school use to June 30 come under the government pro gram for aiding schools in com munities where war workers caus ed an unusual population increase, Senator Umstead pointed out. According to Superintendent R. M. Roland, when informed of the grant last night, the amount is considerably lower than during the war years. The $12,378 will be used by the board for the maintenance of school plants and the purchase of school supplies, the superintendent said. The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina — Partly cloudy and slightly warmer North portion, con siderable cloudiness with scattered showers and little change in tempera tures South portion Tuesday: Wednesday mostly cloudy and mild with scattered South. showers and a few thunderstorms in North Carolina — Partly cloudy and slightly warmer in the interior, scattered showers and little change in tempera ture along the coast Tuesday. Wednes day mostly cloudy and cooler with oc casional rain. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours •nding 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 a. m. 58; 7:30 a. m. 58; 1:30 p. m. 1:30 p. m. 70; Maximum 70; Mini mum 55; Mean (12: Normal 62. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 94: 7:30 a. m. 96; 1:30 p. m. 33: 7:30 p. m. 96. PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. «-31 inches. Total since (he first of the month 2.70 Inches. TIDES FOR TODAY 'From the Tide Tables published by U " Coast and Geodetic Survey). .... High Low wilmmgotn _ 5:06 a.m. 12:29 a.m. . 5:34 p.m. - p m. Masonhoro _ 2:52 a.m. 9:26 a m. 3:15 p m. 9:37 p.m. Sunrise 5:41; Sunset 6:43; Moonrlse 2:54a; Moonset l:14p. . River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at B ™ Monday no report feet. Alar* a> Pbb* Xwb UNDER FIRE by members of Congress, Henry Wallace, above, former vice president and secre tary of commerce, has been soundly criticized for his anti Greek loan speeches abroad. A demand for criminal prosecution of Wallace was made iri the House of Representatives yesterday. PRESIDENT KEEPS HANDS OFF STRIKE Union Telephone Workers Hold Conferences With Secretary Of Labor WASHINGTON. April 14—(JP)— President Truman again steered clear of direct ntervention in the. nation-wide telephone strike to day as the CIO rallied its support behind the walkout with a pledge of “effective cooperation.” Prospects for a settlement of the eight-day-cld strike appeared still far in the offing. However, strike leaders held a “thorough discussion’’ with Sec retary of Labor Schwellenbach and were “standing by’’ for consulta tion. Joseph A. Beirne, president of the National Federation of Tele phone workers, conferred with Schwellenbach for an hour and later told reporters they discussed “where we stand right now—which Is no different than where we stood before.” A more optimistic note was sounded by Attorney General Clark, who told newsmen he be lieves the dispute “is going to work out all rgiht.” He did not elaborate. Talks With Truman Clark made his comment after emerging from a talk with Mr. Truman, but he said they did not discuss the strike. The promise of CIO support came from Allan S. Haywood, CIO organization director. He said in a statement his union planned to increase the “effective cooperation (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) RFC ASKS DELAY IN B & 0 PLANS D i r e c tors Requested To Hold Up Reorganiza tion Procedure WASHINGTON, April 14—(U.R)— Th-e Reconstruction Finance cor poration has asked the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to delay carrying out its reorganization plan, now under Senate scrutiny, it was dis closed tonight. The request reportedly was sub mitted to a meeting of the execu tive committee of the B & O board of directors today. It was said to have followed a renewed demand by Chairman Charles W. Tobey, R., N. H. of the Senate Banking committee, that RFC go no fur ther in the deal until his group has concluded hearings on an. $80,000,000 RFC loan to the B & O. Tobey’s view is that the RFC has agreed to a "clearly illegal’’ extension of the loan to 1965. As a result of a letter from To bey to the new RFC chairman, John D. Goodloe, RFC reported ly asked B & O officials to agree to delay temporarily any further exchange of B & O securities with the RFC. Under the court-approved refi nancing program, new B & O se curities are being issued in ex change for matured securities. Tobey Letter Tobey wrote Goodloe Saturday (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) Mrs. Karl Bishopric Named State Mother NEW YORK, April 14 — (#) — The Golden Rule Foundation to day announced selection of Mrs. Frances Farrell Bishopric of Spray as the 1047 North Carolina state mother. Mrs. Bishopric, 49, is the mother of three sons and the wife of James Karl Robert Bishhpric, president of the Spray Cotton Mills. She is president of the North Carolina Federation of Women s clubs and chairman of the women s division of the war finance com mittee of the U. S. Treasury. Mrs. Bishopric, who was describ ed as tall, slender and attractive has long been active in all kinds of social wefare work in her state. She was a member of a com mittee that established the state mental hygiene society, and in her home town she was leader m a movement that resulted in the establishment of a public library and another movement to establish a Girls Club similar to the girl Scouts. She also is an active member of the Methodist church at Spray. Mrs. Bishopric' is deeply interest ed in international relations and is credited with building up the internal relations committee in the N. C. Federation of Women’s Clbus. $772,000 Stock Sale Consumated Lumber Company Sells Block Of Shares, 5,500 v'O Of Timber Land In New «C. ^•$0 To W. F, Sledge ev. yea ^ with ton L. of $77_ ___ acres od timfoerland in the county to W. F. Sledge, of Whiteville, it was announced last night. With the completion of the sale, the Hilton Lumber co. was dis solved. Prior to the sale, it was said, the lumber company transferred to Corbett Industries, inc., all real estate in Wilmington, including the Plate Ice co., and saw and planing mill of the Hilton Lumber co., together with all lands and timber rights in Erunswick, Bla den, Pender and Duplin counties, which comprised about 90,000 acres. The transaction was completed by Max Myers, of Acme. The Hilton Lumber co. was head ed by W. A. Corbett, chairman of the board of directors; W. H. Corbett, president; Waddell A. Corbett, vice president and treas urer and R. T. Davis. At the same time it was an nounced that Corbett interests re cently had purchased certain tim ber rights at Pembroke Jones Park, Summers Rest, on Wrights ville sound. It also was reported that the company plans to manufacture a product entirely new to this section. Full plans of this new in dustry will be announced at a later date, it was said last night. Southeast Halts Operation Today _ i -- LISTS ALL RALEIGH, April 14—(A3)—S. i. Ervin, Jr., of Morganton, former Congressman and Su perior court judge, evidently believes that the law which re quires lobbyists to report their expenses means exactly what it says. In reporting to Secretary of State Thad Eure today on the expenses he incurred in lobby ing in behalf of the South Pied mont plan for increasing teach ers’ salaries, Ervin reported that his expenses amounted to exactly $458.81, including one item of 15 cents that he inert ed *n Raleigh parking meters. NO. 1 COMMUNIST UNDER INDICTMENT Gerhart Eisler, Reputed Party ‘Brain’ Charged With ‘Fraud’ Statement WASHINGTON, April 14. —(A>)— Gerhart Eisler, reputed “brain” of American Communism, was indict ed today on a charge of making “fraudulent and fictitious’ state ments when he sought a State de partment permit to leave the coun try in 1945. The permit was refused and Eis ler is now in custody at Ellis Is land. A German alien, 50 years old, he has been described as a top man in the Communist movement in the United States, by witnesses before the House Committee on un American activities. The committee asked his prosecution on charges of passport falsification, income tax evasion, perjury and conspiracy to overthrow the government. U. S. District Attorney George Morris Fay said today that Eisler “entered the United States illegal ly” in 1933 and again in 1935, and asserted he was acting at the time “as a representative of the Com munist International.” Contempt Charge Eisler was indicted for contempt of Congress last February after he refused to take the oath upon be ing called to testify before the House Committee. In today’s action, the Federal grand jury charged him with con cealing facts and giving misinfor mation about himself when he ap plied to the State department for an “alien departure permit” in September, 1945. One question on the application required a listing of all organiza tion memberships or affliations. Eisler, the indictment said, wrote “ ‘none’, whereas in fact the de fendant had been and was then a member of the Communist party.” • The aplication required the list ing of aliases, but Eisler listed none. The indictment said he had used the name Gerhart with va rious spellings, and also the names “Edwards, Brown, Samuel Liptzen, Hans Berger, and Julius Eisman.” Obtained Passport Further, it was alleged, Eisler concealed from the department the 1933 and 1935 visits to this coun try described in Fay’s statement. Fay asserted Eisler had obtain ed another man’s passport in order to leave the country in 1936 to join the Communist forces in Spain. Violation of the statute under which he was indicted today carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine and ten years in prison._ Airline President Indicates Finish Fight Against CAB Decision All scheduled route services of Southeast Airlines will halt today and will remain in this status un til something definite on the firm's petition for a rehearing on CAB action in awarding air routes in five Southeastern states is render ed, W. C. Teague, Southeast presi dent disclosed last night. Teague said that his company will continue to operate a. charter service, student flying program and selling agency but that sched uled flights will be ended for the present. “We have a lot of money in vested in this thing.” he said, "but we do not plan to invest more until some decision on our petition is forthcoming the Civil Aero nautics Board.” “We are going to fight this de cision to the last ditch,” Teague continued. "We feel that we have given good service all along our routes and we intend to stay in business but not on a scheduled flight basis until we hear some thing from our petition.” He stated that if the people of the Wilmington area shared the belief that Southeast had rendered good service in the past and felt (Continued On Page Two; Col. 2) NEGROES REFUSED NEW COURT TRIAL Governor Cherry However, Grants Reprieve To Ac cused Lumberton Men LUMBERTON, April 14—(^P)—Mo tion for a new trial for four Lum berton Negroes convicted of criminal assault on a white woman was denied in Robeson Superior court today by Judge Walter J. Bone. However, Judge Bone declared that after reading the record of the trial and hearing the new evi dence submitted “I am of the opinion that these men should not suffer the death penalty and I am going to write the governor to that effect.'* The four men are; Cliff Inman, Granger Thompson, Calvin Cov ington, and Stacy Pow’ell. Meanwhile, in Raleigh Governor Cherry announced that he was granting a reprieve to the four men who were scheduled to die (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) Education Board Members Sworn In At Courthouse Along The Cape Fear ANOTHER RAILROAD — To day Along The Cape Fear -will at tempt to tell you about one of the most ambitious railroad project ever devised in these parts. We’ve had much to say about the famous Cape Fear and Yad kin Valley railroad, but now we ask who has heard of the South Atlantic and North Western Rail road Company? If that’s one line that slipped ycur memory you certainly will be excused as the South Atlantic and North Western railroad never went much farther than the paper stage. * * * VIVID ACCOUNT — Calling once again on Dr. Walter Gilman Curtis, who for 30 years was the state quarantine surgeon for the Port of Wilmington, we find an interesting account of this particu lar railway in his reminiscences. During the 1880’s, after many major improvements had been made to transform the city of Wilmington into one of the na tion’s leading ports, many of the newspapers in both the North and west told in glowing terms of the opportunities for development ex isting in the Lower Cape Fear region. j “Promoters began to pour into Smithville (now Southport) from all parts of the west, and even from England,” Dr. Curtis re ports. * * * ONE CORPORATION — “O n e corporation was formed called ‘The South Atlantic & North West ern R. R. Co,’ The promoters of this scheme were the men of con siderable ability. David Risley and J. B. Bilheimer were the names of the principal promoters. “Apparently these promoters had some money of their own v/hich they were willing to spend. They put a force of engineers in the field and surveyed a line through from Southport to Bristol, Tenn. “All went favorably and the different counties through which the line was to pass were enthu siastic about the great benefit which would accrue to the state of North Carolina,” Dr. Curtis continued. * s t PROPOSED ROUTE — After the corporation was formed with a board of directors and a presi dent a trust company in New (Contiued On Page Eight; Cel. «) Dr. John T. Hoggard Again Named Chairman; L. T. Landen Honored The New Hanover Board of edu cation was administered the oath of office for a two year term ast night by A. L. Meyland, clerk of court, during a brief ceremony held in Superintendent H. M. Ro land’s office at the county court house. Immediately after Dr. John T. Hoggard, L. T. Landen, J. C. Roe, Mrs. E. L. Meister, Ensley A. Laney, and James S. Craig, Jr., were sworn into office, th elec tion of board officers was held. Dr. Hoggard was renamed chairman and L. T. Landen, vice chairman. Administrative officers named for two years by the board in cluded Supesintendent Roland, J. W. Grise, as assistant superinten dent an ddirector of elementary educatio; T. T. Hamilton. Jr., as assistant superintendent and direc tor of secondary schools; and John Q. LeGrand as attorney for the board. Committees appointed by Dr. Hoggard included: Building and Grounds — Craig, chairman, Roe Hoggard. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) ti COMMITTEE MEMBERS URGE PROSECUTION OF WALLACE; ‘BOMBSHELL ’ NEARING HOME Plane Ready For Next Hop Reynolds Ship Arrives In Tokyo On World-Girdl ing Flight; Fast Time TOKYO, Tuesday, April 15—(AP) —Milton Reynolds and his around the-world plane landed at Yokota Army airdrome, 30 miles West of Tokyo early today, 47 hours and 47 minutes out of New York. Army ground crews, striving to set a servicing speed record, im mediately began refueling the con verted A26 attack bomber in prep aration for a fast takeoff for Anchorage, Alaska, the next stop. Reynolds, Chicago manufactur er, said he himself intended to take over the controls of his “Bombshell” plane “from here in.” The plane has been piloted by William Odom of Roslyn, N. Y., with Reynolds navigating. Only other person along is Flight En gineer Carroll Sallee of Dallas. When the Bombshell arrived from Shanghai, it was timed local ly at 7:01 a. m., but Army offi cers at the field placed the offi cial time at 6:58 a. m. (5:58 p. m., Monday, Eastern Standard Time). This made the time from Shang hai 3 hours, 36 minutes. The distance was estimated at 1,100 miles. “We will make it to New York in 65 hours,” Reynolds declared as he stepped onto Japanese soil. “That is still below the record.” The present record of 91 hours, 14 minutes, was set in 1938 by Howard Hughes. Asked if he had experienced any trouble since leaving India, Rey nolds replied, “We ran out of oxygen. Odom was a little de lirious.” This apparently was over the (Continued Oil Page Two; Col. 2) TRUMAN’S APPEAL CAINS MOMENTUM Leading Radio Manufact urer, Shoe Dealer An nounces Price Cuts NEW YORK, April 14—(£>)— A leading radio manufacturer cut prices today 9 to 17 per cent “in response to President Truman’s appeal,” a shoe manufacturer lowered prices 21 per cent, and 12 makers of non-leather soles slic ed 10 to 40 per cent off their quotations. On the other side of the picture, the Electric Storage Battery Co. of Philadelphia announced a 10 per cent increase in prices of replace ment batteries for automobiles because of higher material costs, $5 an ounce to $66. and the price of platinum went up The Emerson Radio and Phono graph corp. announced retail price reductions ranging from $3 to $20 on nine models previously listed above $30 a set. Five table model radios, pre viously listed at from $32.95 to $36.95 were reduced to $29.95. Three combination radio and phonographs were reduced from $99.95 to $89.95, and another combination from $119.95 to $99.95. Benjamin Abrams, president, said the company was “gambling on a 10 to 20 per cent drop in (Continued On Page Eight; Col. 4) SHERIFF PORTER DAVIS Davis Promises Justice To All PICKS PLACES GREENSBORO, April 14—(IP) —Police lieutenant James H. Burton, 1218 West Wendover avenue, had plenty of police protection for his residence when he went to Washington for the week end but he didn’t count on a thief who would step in where angels fear to tread. The bold theif ransacked the Burton home—within 50 feet of Patrolman M. P. Clayton’s resi dence across the street and within 30 feet of Patrolman R. L. Paschal’s residence next door. QUEEN ELIZABETH FAST ON SHOALS World’s Largest Liner Runs Aground 12 Miles From Southampton Berth SOUTHAMP TON, England, April 14—(U.R)—The 85-ton Queen Elizabeth, world’s largest ocean lined, grounded on the edge of treacherous Brambles shoal off Southampton in a dense fog to night with 2,446 passengers from New York. Attempts to refloat the mammoth vessel were abandoned until to morrow morning after 12 private tugs and several Admiralty tugs failed to loosen her from the sandy shoal during two high tides to night. The 1 iirabeht ran aground at 6:30 p. m. (11:30 a. m. EST) just 12 miles from the Cunard White Star line docks at Southampton, where she had been due to land an hour later. Among the passengers were U. (Continued On Page Two; Col. 4) Newly-Appointed Sheriff Pledges Cooperation, Efficient Regime By ROY COOK Star Staff Writer The citizens of New Hanover county last night were promised by their newly-appointed sheriff, Port er Davis, an efficiently administer ed office with “equal justice to all.” Davis, who has served the coun ty for 20 years as a law enforce ment officer, added that he felt honored to be appointed sheriff and pledged his best efforts to carry out the work of his predecessor. He was appointed to fill the un expired term of the late Sheriff C. David Jones, who died Thursday night, by the county commissioners at their regular meeting Monday. “I was at home sleeping this morning — You see I worked last night,” when one of the men called me and told me I had been appoint ed Sheriff.” He was sworn in by Clerk of Court August Meyland. During the course of the inter view Davis received more than 20 telephone calls from friends con gratulating him on the appoint ment. “I am the same old Porter Davis and I want you to come in to see me at any time,” he told them. “I will do my dead level best to (Continued On Page Two; Col. 4) COAL PRODUCTION BACK TO NORMAL Thousands Of Miners Re turn To Pits As More Shafts Reported Safe PITTSBURGH, April 14 —(/Pi Coal poured from the tipples of the nation’s soft coal mines at al most normal production rates for the first time in two weeks today as a safety shutdown by AFL United Mine workers ended. Spearheaded by re-opening of big captives mines in the Pitts burgh-Uniontown area, production was reported “virtually normal” throughout the major coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois. The Coal Mines administration, in Washington, said production in the nation’s soft coal mines today approached normal, with 1.883,216 tons expected from mines east of the Mississippi during the day. The agency said the district East of the Mississippi, producers of most of the bituminous coal, re (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) COOL WEATHER WILL CONTINUE 24 HOURS LONGER OVER STATE By The Associated Press Moderate to heavy rains fell throughout North Carolina yester day but the Weather bureau last night predicted the precipitation would end sometime today. Rainfall measured generally about a half inch in all parts of the state. Asheville had an even half inch; Raleigh reported .46 of an inch and Charlotte .49. The temperatures yesterday were below normal with both Ra leigh ond Charlotte reporting nighs of 56. Asheville had 62. The cool weather is expected to continue for at least anothsr 24 hours with clouds today. Congressmen Blast Speech President Truman Remains Silent As Criticism Grows On Capitol Hill WASHINGTON, April 14—<jP)_A congressional demand for criminal prosecution of Henry A. Wallace mingled today with fresH denuncia tion of his speech-making abroad but President Truman maintained silence The House Committee on un American activities looked up the old Logan act which provides three years in jail and $5,000 fine for a citizen having “intercourse” with a foreign government to defeat an American measure and concluded, in the words of Rep. Thomas (R. N. J.), its chairman: “It covers Henry Wallace just as you’d cover a person with a cloak.” Wallace has been making speech es abroad assailing Truman for eign policy, notably the $400,000, 000 program to bolster Greece and Turkey against communism. Thomas declared that “it’s as clear a case as I’ve ever seen” and that Attorney General Clark “has no alternative but to take ac tion.” He reported that the other four committee members at the session agreed-Reps. McDow ell (R.-Pa.), Nixon (R.-Calif.), Rankin (D.-Miss ) and Peterson D.-Fla.). Clark declined to comment. He was one of those at a luncheon at the capitol attended by Mr. Tru man and congress members before they all went out to the ball game but those present reported the lat est Wallace affair was not men tioned even indirectly. No Comment In advance of the luncheon, Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, told newsmen the presi dent had nothing to say about Wal lace—there is no comment on the Wallace situation in any way, shape or form,” Ross said. The questions there were prompt ed *by reports that Senator Van denberg (R.-Mich.), chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, had urged Mr. Truman to make a personal answer to Wallace’s at tacks on the Greece-Turkey pro gram. Wallace called the step “ruthless imperialism.” Senator Connally (Tex.), rank ing Democrat on the Foreign Rela (Continued On Page Two; Col. 2) GENERAL MOTORS GRANTS PAY HIKE United Electrical Workers Win Wage Increase Of Ten Cents Per Hour DETROIT, April 14 —(U.R)— Gen eral Motors corporation today reached an agreement with one of its three CIO unions which gave immediate pay increase of 15 cents an hour for 30,000 workers. The giant corporation and the United Electrical Workers an nounced the agreement after only a week of negotiation. It indicat ed that GM was ready to settle the wage Increase demands of the United Auto workers and the Unit ed Rubber workers at the same figure. Settlement with the URW’s 3, 200 GM members appeared most likely. A wage agreement reach ed by the Rubber workers with the rubber industry recently called for an 11 1-2-cent-an-hour increase. The basis of the settlement was a proposal by GM Saturday of a provisional 10-cent hourly wage increase for all of its 265,000 hour ly-rated workers. In 1946, the cor poration signed first with the UEW for 18 1-2 cents and a month later settled with the auto work ers at that figure, ending a 113 day strike. UAW officials already said the 10-cent offer was inadequate but Walter P. Reuther, UAW presi dent, promised to submit it to the 225,000 GM auto workers for a vote. Up To Workers H. W. Anderson, GM vice presi dent, and James Matless, UEW organizational director, said to day’s agreement was subject to ratification by the workers with an April 21 deadline. Other issues, including a welfare plan, remain to be negotiated. An derson and Matles said the 15 cent increase would be in the form of an 11 1-2 cent hike in hourly (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) And So To Bed The elements were in the spotlight when two local law enforcement officers made a trip to Raleigh last week to return a prisoner. The officers were Sgt. E. J. Hale of the Wilmington police department and Charlie Snow, New Hanover county deputy sheriff. But the thing needed to com plete the triangle was aid from the weatherman. He responded with rain. Thus Hale, Snow and Rate worked hand in hand. J