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VOL. SO.—NO. 232.____WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947 ~~ ESTABT.IRHBTI
Negro Lawyer Kills
Two Men At Capital
Maddened Over Failure To Gain Practice
Before District Courts, Mississippi
Man Puts On Shooting Spree
WASHINGTON, May 16.—CU.R)—A
ormally mild-mannered Negro
Lever, 'maddened by his failure to
,aiii admission to the District of
Columbia bar, killed two men and
,-ounded two others in a 20-minute
,hooting spree today before he was
,tibdued bv police bullets and
blackjacks .
Tb- crazed killer, finally cut
#Uv.n by three shots from the gun
«! a dying policeman, was removed
to a local hospital in serious con
ation from deep head lacerations
,nd bullet wounds in the hand,
chest and shoulder.
He was identified as Dan Wil
iams. about 45, a Jackson, Miss,,
attorney who had been disbarred
in his home state, allegedly for
handling “shady divorce actions.”
The dead were Ray Devendorf,
a 65-year-old law clerk, and Pvt.
Hubert Estes, 51, a veteran Wash
ington policeman. Estes cornered
Williams on a crowded downtown
street and, although mortally
wounded, disarmed and captured
him,
TVo Wounded
Wounded in the bat le were
George Dalzell, 69, .ecretary of
the Admissions and Grievance
committee of the District Bar As
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angry argument
UPSETS DECORUM
Polished Calm Of UN
Security Council Broken
By Hot Words
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May 16.
—!JJS— An angry spat between
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko and American
Delegate Herschel V. Johnson
shattered the polished calm of the
United Nations Security council
today and threatened for a time
to break up debat(v'i|6r the deli
cate Balkans aues,tj|j|y|^
Johnson trid^ to interrupt a
speech by Sava Kasanovic of
Yugoslavia, one of four Balkans
diplomats invited to participate in
the council's discussion of a Rus
sian attempt to curtail activities
of the new subsidiary border patrol
stationed in the Balkans by the
UN.
This touched off a bitter ex
change between the American,
Yugoslav and Russian delegates
which nearly got out of hand be
fore Alfonso Lopez of Colombia,
current council president, put it
down with a ruling favoring
Gromyko and Kasanovic.
He told the Yugoslav to finish
his statement, including an at
tack on Greece for allegedly fo
menting trouble in the Balkans.
But Lopez cautioned him to
keep in mind tha: the council was
dealing only with "one aspect” of
the friction between Greece and
her three northern neighbors —
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Al
bania.
Bitter Exchange
T!ie bitter exchange began when
Kasanovic switched from an ex
planation of Yugoslavia’s non-co
operation with the new frontier
(Conttnned on Page Two, Col. 6)
GOVERNMENT ASKS
REVIEW REFUSAL
Justice Department Files
Brief With Court In
Mayor Curley Case
WASHINGTON, May 16. —(U.R)—
™e Justice department today ask
•d the Supreme court not to re
view the mail fraud conviction oi
Mayor James M. Curley of Boston,
*'ho was sentenced last year to 6
18 months in prison and fined
*1.000.
-he court is expected to announce
soon whether it will accept the
case. Curley was convicted by a
federal court jury here and appeal
'd to the Supreme court after the
verdict was upheld by the U. S.
t°urt of Appeals for the District
m Columbia. He is now free on $2,
wo bond.
The government brief filed to
day claimed that the lower court
mling was in accord with prin
clP«s enunciated by the Supreme
court and that “there is conse
quently no conflict of decision, and
here is raised no other question
eriting further review.”
1 said that Curley and Donald
" ^ef-eld Smith, who also was
convicted of engaging in a war
contracts brokerage racket under
"e name of Engineers’ Group,
®ade statements to prospective
customers which were false and
j'hich they either knew or should
ave known were false.”
The evidence shows, the brief
'•'d. that both Curley, former
emocratic Congressman, and
j™™. former member of the Na
ronal Labor Relations board, “lent
eir names and the prestige ac
1u‘fcd through public office to an
'fterprise which they knew had
6 financial stability.”
The Weather
. FORECAST:
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cloudy, warmer Saturday and
ifi'~Vjed '.varm Sunday; scattered
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FROG FROLIC!
ANGLES CAMP, Calif., May
16 — C/P) — The 20th annual
jumping frog jubilee was alert
ed against any dark Plotters
with lighter-than-air gasses as
300 leapers from big and little
puddles assembled for the big
hop Sunday.
Jump officials offered as
surance to the 25,000 expected
to pass through the fair gates
for the feature attraction that
no scandal has touched the
jubilee and “fixers” for the
gambling interests would be
kept out of Calaveras county.
A newspaper sounded the
alert against any hopped up en
try with lighter-than-air gas to
gain distance, but the county
fair officials will check each
frog before the jump.
DADS, SONS HONOR
REV. E. F. KEEVER
Retired Lutheran Pastor
Presented With Cash
Gift On 84th Birthday
Knowledge, discipline, courage
and character are the four Essen
tials necessary to carry this na
tion successfully through this
atomic age.
So declared Walter Andersen of
Raleigh, director of the state bu
reau of investigation, at a Dads
and Sons banquet last night at
St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran
church honoring Rev. Edwin F.
Keever, retired church pastor and
widely known North Carolina reli
gious leader, upon his 8-ith birth
day.
Asserting this world is living
through the “greatest scientific
period in history,” Mr. Anderson
said that through knowledge we
“must learn how to live and how
to work together as churchmen,
as businessmen and do things to
gether.”
“Never has there been a time
when we need knowledge so bad
ly,” the speaker said. “We must
start over again in learning.”
He added that we have lost sight
of living as neighbors and fami
lies and that only when we learn
to live as those two groups can we
learn to live together as nations.
Discipline Needed
Discipline is needed, averred the
director, because “discipline is
training.” He pointed out that
there are today seven million per
sons in this nation on the march
in crime because of the lack of
discipline.
The need of courage is necessary
because "courage brings convic
tion of things essential to life.”
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 8)
BILLBANNmGPORTAL
PAY SUITS MAY HALT
MOCK, JUDSON ACTION
GREENSBORO, May 16 —(JP)—
Whether or not the bill signed by
President Truman Wednesday out
lawing practically all portal-to
portal pay claims will eliminate
the suit brought in Middle United
States District court here by the
American Federation of Hosiery
workers, against Mock, Judson,
Voehringer company remained a
question of dispute following a
pretrial conference in the case
before Judge Johnson Hayes to
day.
Harry Stanley, counsel for the
plaintiff, argued before Judge
Hayes today that all claims in
the suit filed against the local
hosiery plant did not come under
the portal-to-portal classification.
Stanley stated he wished to re
serve the right to press all claims
named in the suit if the Congres
sional bill should be declared un
constitutional. __
Flea Circus Seeking
Talent Across Ocean
By FRANCIS STILLEY |
Associated Press Correspondent
IfZW YORK, May 16. —(fP)—The
flea circus, too, is looking +o Eu
rope for new talent.
That, says •■.-ofessor’- Roy:
Heckler is because U. S. fleas just
don’t take to show business.
They’ve got energy and tenacity
but their European cousins have
the jump on them in more ways
that one, it seems.
Heckler, who operates a Rea
circus on 42nd street juost off
Broadway, said today the species
from Spain and Italy is the best
performer of all - - it's hardier and
1 lives longer, and thus has time
to get its act polished up for top
It’s good lor about six months
in show business, the professor
said. Actually, the European house
flea normally lives two to three
years, but the rigors of the five
a - day cut its life expectancy
rather markedly, he said.
The U. S. House flea, on the
other hand, lives only about a
month and, since it takes three
weeks to make a circus perform
er out of him, it’s hardly worth
the trouble, he said.
Ten Cents Each
Thus Heckler, as did Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
this season, is getting ready to im
port a fresh batch of talent from
(Coatined o* hgt Two, Col. S).
United States To Crack Down Against
Germans Agitating Strikes Over Food;
Arabs Plan Boycott Of UN Commission
Emil Ghouri
Phones Jfcg
Fear Gr*
Pale Ex
pre. Leader
CAIRO, Egypt, May 16.—(£>)—
Emil El Ghouri, leader of the
Palestine Arab delegation which
attended the United Nations special
session on Palestine, today told
Haj Amin El Husseini, the exiled
Mufti of Jerusalem, that his group
insisted that all “Arabs must boy
cott the fact-finding commission”
established by the U. N.
Speaking by telephone from New
York, Ghouri told the Mufti, the
head of the Arab Executive com
mittee, that the “delegates of five
Arab states share our opinion and
will advise their government to
boycott the commission.”
(At the final meeting of the U.
S. special session in New York
Thursday, delegates of Egypt, Iraq,
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria
did not repeat earlier threats to
boycott the inquiry committee,
which will visit Palestine and re
port to the United Nations before
Sept. 1.)
Boycott Reason
Ghouri said the reason for the
boycott was that “it has become
clear the commission will suggest
the partition of Palestine and the
continuation of Jewish immigra
tion.”
Member nations of the commit
tee, with the exception of India,
he added, have fallen under “im
perialistic Anglo-American influ
ence or Zionist influence.” The at
titude of Iran, a committee mem
ber, is unclear, he said.
An official spokesman of the
Arab executive committee told
newsmen tonight that a “majority
of the committee will approve the
boycott” and that the committee
would meet soon under the Mufti's
chairmanship to make a final de
cision. The committee, he said,
would ask the Arab states to boy
cott the commission if it decided
itself to do so.
The exclusion of the five major
powers from the inquiry committee
made that body “unimportant,” he
added.
MAY DENIES ALL
FRAUD CHARGES
Former Kentucky Con
gressman Takes Stand In
His Own Defense
WASHINGTON, May 16.— (B>) —
Andrew J. May, former Kentucky
Congressman, denied today that a
$5,000 note which Murray Gars
son paid for him in 1942 was a
bribe to help the $78,000,000 Gars
son munitions combine in its war
contract deals. '
Red-faced but calm, the 71-year
old ex-legislator went on the wit
ness stand in Federal Court to be
gin his fight against charges that
he conspired with the Garssons,
Murray and Henry, to defraud the
government and was paid at least
$53,000 for his services. The gov
ernment rested its case Wednes
day.
Testifying under oath for the
first time on his relations with the
Garssons, he told the jury of
seven men and five women that
the $5,000 note was actually part
of a deal in which he was surren
dering to Garsson a lease-hold on
7,500 acres in a West Virginia
manganese field.
He said he invested from $8,000
to $10,000 in the land under the
name Greenbrier Co., but “lost
everything.”
Garsson Interested
Garsson, he said, expressed in
terest in taking over the acreage
and agreed to give him $7,500 to
cover his losses and a 42 per cent
interest in a company Garsson pro
posed to organize. Joseph F. Free
man, the Garsson’s Washington
representative who was acquitted
as a co-defendent Wednesday, also
was in on the deal, May said.
May identified a letter he sent
Garsson on April 2, 1941, in which
he advised that he had executed
three notes, one for $5,000 and two
for $2,500 each. It said he had done
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 1)
New Motive Enters “Love” Shooting Case;
Negro Recounts Murder Attempt Details
SHOOTING SCENE—Fred
kViggins, 26-year-old Robeson
county Negro farm hand is
shown right reenacting in his
jail cell the shooting last Sun
day morning of David Miller,
prominent storekeeper of the
Rowland community in Robe
son county. The man on the
cot is Dewitt Britt, jailer
turnkey. Wiggins, a native of
Bullock county, Ala b a m a,
came to the county after the
first of the year and was em
ployed on the farm of Allen
C u r r i n, father of Mrs.
Mary Ellen Currin Miller,
whose husband he allegedly
shot at her instigation. Wig
gins’ own story of the shoot
ing appears below. (All photos
by Roy Cook, Star photog
rapher.)
HIRED MAN TELLS
OF CRIME PLANS
Fred Wiggins Describes
Events Leading Up To
Shooting Of Miller
By FRED WIGGINS
As Tcld To
RANDOLPH S. HANCOCK
Star Staff Writer
LUMBERTON, May 16. —
This is the whole truth about
the shooting last Sunday
morning of Mr. David Miller
in his home while he slept
near Rowland.
This is the truth from the
iirne three weeks ago up and
intil it actually happened.
One afternoon Mrs. Miller (Mary
Ellen Currin Miller) stopped me
when I was going hy her house
and said, “ ‘Fred, will you cut
the grass in my yard for me.’ ”
I said, “ ‘Well, I don’t feel so
good today, but I guess I can.’ ”
I hadn’t been at work long when
she came up to where I was swing
ing a grass blade and said, “ ‘Fred,
will you do something for me.’ ”
“ ‘I will if I can,’ ” I answered.
I kept right on cutting grass and
she stood there for a few minutes
without saying a word and then
she said:
“ ‘I want you ... I want you
to . . .’ ”
She didn’t say anything more
and I didn’t say anything else to
her about what it was that she
wanted me to do, because about
that time her husband (David
Miller) came up and she said,
“ ‘Fred come by the store before
you leave.’ ” I said, “ ‘All right,
mam.’ ”
The store that Mr. and Mrs. Mil
ler operated is about three or four
hundred yards from their house.
Went To Store
When I had finished cutting the
grass I went to the store, and she
paid me for the work.
“ ‘Fred,’ ” she said. “ ‘I have
a job that must be done. Its just
got to be done.’ ”
I had no idea what she was talk
ing about. I had never dreamed of
such a thing because I had never
heard them say one cross word to
each other. Then she said it. This
time she came right out and didn’t
hesitate like she did there in the
yard.
“ ‘I want you to do away with
my husband,’ ” she said.
The thought sorta startled me at
first. I didn’t know what to say
and then she said, “ ‘ Don’t think
(Continned on Page Two, Col. 4)
Along The Cape Fear
Where did Wilmington get its
name?
The name has been mentioned
millions of times by its resi
dents, yet many of them wonder
where the name Wilmington was
originated.
* * #
SETTLEMENT OF Wilmington—
About the year 1730, some five
years after the town of Brunswick
was established fourteen miles
lower down the river, a few set
tiers built their humble habita
tions on a bluff in the midst ol
the primeval forest known as Dick
inson Hill, near the junction ol
the Northeast and Northwest
branches of the Cape Fear which
was then called the Clarendon
river.
* * *
PURPOSE — The settlers pur
pose was to find a safer harbor
than the exposed roadstead of
Brunswick, and to secure a large
er share of the river traffic from
up country, which was then very
profitable.
* * *
HAMLET INCREASES - In a
few months this hamlet increased
to the proportion of a small vil
lage, without o»der ei irregutaantp.
which was named New Liver
pool.
* * *
SURVEYED — In 1733 the land
was surveyed into town lots, al
though the inhabitants had no
legal right to the land.
* * •
OBTAINS LAND — John Watson
obtained a royal grant of 640
acres of land on the East side
of the Northeast branch of the
river, called the Cape Fear, in
which was included the site of the
village or town called New Liver
pool, but later known as New
ton.
* * * *
NAME CHANGED — In 1739
through the influence of tho
Colonial Governor, Gabriel John
ston, the name was changed to
Wilmington, in honor of Spencer
Compton, Baron Wilmington, an
influential English friend of the
governor.
tic * *
MADE INTO BOROUGH — In
1760 King George II made the
town a borough, with the right of
sending a member to the Assem
bly.
* * *
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS— In 1768
m Hat rw«v ML ft
MB. AND MBS. DAVID MILLER
Mrs. Miller Described
As Very Nervous, Upset
“CHEESY FIND”
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 16.
Morgan Lane strolled through
Balboa park, enjoying the trees
and perfume of the flowers.
Suddenly he sniffed some
thing alien to the floral scents.
In a patch of shrubbery he
found a huge cache of pack
aged Swiss cheese—100 pounds
of it, reported police, who
haven’t discovered how it got
there.
Robeson County Jail
Matron Says Young Wife
Prayed For Husband
By ROY COOK
Staff Correspondent
LUMBERTON, May 16. — Mrs.
Ellen Currin Miller was described
by the Robeson county jail ma
tron yesterday as a very nervous
and upset person the three days
she was confined to prison this
week.
Mrs. Miller was arrested Monday
and released yesterday under $15,
000 bond, signed by her father Al
len Currin, prominent farmer of
the county, in connection with the
shooting of her husband last Sun
day.
Mrs. R. C. Cox, wife of the jail
er, said she was a small girl,
weighing about 115 pounds.
“She was in a high state of nerv
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 4)
Wild Spending Spree
Halted By Johnny Law
ERIE, Mich., May 16 — (JF) —A
22 - year-old Pontiac, Mich., man,
whose aging mother attempted
suicide over the loss of her $15,000
life savings, was under arrest to
day by state police who said he
used the money to finance a wild,
four-weeks spending spree.
Joseph Luasiewicz, or Lukas,
was arrested Thursday night after
state police chased his car two
miles. With him were Rudy Fors
lund, 22, of Alpha, Mich., and
Nick Poulos, 21, of Milwaukee,
Wis.
Sgt. Carl Seim and Trooper Ed
ward Mongeon said Lukas admit
ted the theft of $15,000 last April
18 from his mother, who had *»*•
od it I* taw * bom*. , ,i
The trio had $3,390 in their
pockets when srrested, the of
ficers said.
The mother, Mrs. Victoria
Cisek, 58, attempted to kill her
self by gas and poison April 23,
Pontiac police said, in remorese
over her son’s act.
Troopers Seim and Mongeon
said the missing money had been
spent on a new car, new clothes
and on parties in Chicago and
Milwaukee. They added the trio
were on the way to Baltimore
when they stopped here for gaso
line. A station attendant noticed
revolvers and notified police. The
^arrest* JMQovnd.
FAMILY INJECTS
INSURANCE ANCLE
Miller’s Sister Discounts
“Triangle” T h e o r y In
E xclusive Interview
By RANDOLPH S. HANCOCK
Staff Correspondent
ROWLAND, May 16. — A
new motive for the shooting
early last Sunday morning ot
David Miller, 28 - year - old
storekeeper of near here, was
injected into the case yester
day by members of his
family.
Mrs. G. E. McLean, Miller’s
sister, said that when he was
permitted to know the reasor
why he was shot by Fred
Wiggins as he lay in bed asleep, he
said, “ ‘This is what insurance
will do for you.’ ”
Miller, now a patient in Baker’s
Sanatorium at Lumberton, where
he was carried Sunday morning
by his father-in-law, Allen Currin,
shortly after he was shot in the
chest by Wiggins, discounted the
theory that his wife allegedly had
him shot because of another man.
According to Sheriff Willis C.
Britt of Robeson county, Mrs. Mill
er confessed to one of his deputies
that she had her father’s Negro
farm hand shoot her husband be
cause she was in love with Garland
Cottrell, a tenant farmer on her
father’s farm.
Refuses Comment
However, Cottrell, when ap
proached about the alleged illicit
love affair, refused to confirm or
deny what Mrs. Miller had said.
"I had rather not say one way or
the other," he said. -•
He did say, however, that he had
known Mrs. Miller for about 11
years, and that he went to school
with her. He added that she was
graduated from the Rowland High
School three or four years before
he was.
Asked if he had any idea what
her plans were with respect to her
husband, he said, ‘‘I certainly did
not. It was a surprise to me. I
had never dreamed of such a
thing.”
Beyond that he would have noth
ing further to say about the case.
Out On Bond
Mrs. Miller was not available
for a statement when reporters
stopped at her home. She was car
ried to her father’s home from the
Robeson county jail yesterday af
ternoon in an ambulance, jail at
taches said, in a highly nervous
condition.
Her father posted $15,000 bond for
her release. Wiggins has been un
able to raise a like bond and is
still confined to jail. Both Mrs.
Miller and Wiggins are charged
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 8)
Martial Law
‘Threatened'
Military Governor Plan*
Confiscation To Halt
Hoarding In Hesse
FRANKFURT. Germany, May
16.—(U.R)—The American Military
governor of the State of Hesse
warned 4,000,000 Germans under
his control today that he would
crack down with the harshest
penalties, including death, for
strikes or agitation that hinder the
occupation during the food crisis.
The Military Governor, James R
Newman, also threatened to “de
clare martial law in certain areas
or even place the state under com
plete military control” unless “the
attitude of the people improves.”
He told the German administra
tion of Hesse that unless it stop
ped hoarding, he would start seiz
ing and confiscating foodstuffs.
Newman delivered practically the
same speech twice. He delivered
it first to 30 German officials and
union leaders at a private confer
ence in Weisbaden. Tonight, he de
livered it over radio Frankfurt,
deleting his earlier reference to
martial law and military control
for reasons that were not explain
ed.
Reads Riot Act
He literally read the riot act to
the Germans of Hesse. The mili
tary governors of the other two
German states under American
ocupation warned labor leaders
and German officials against
strikes or demonstrations, but they
apparently did not approach the
bluntness of Newman.
In the first place, he reminded
the Germans that there was “no
obligation—absolutely none—upon
the United States to engage In a
program of feeding a country it
defeated.”
“Never before in all history has
a conquering army set about to
feed the people it conquered,” he
sadi. “Think of this before you in
dulge too freely in self-pity.”
Then he outlined what th« Ger
mans should do- and what would
happen to them if they did not
comply. (Newman had told the
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
PRESIDENT ACTS
TO STEM PRICES
Rising Valuations Placed
On Farmlands Causes
Hurried Meeting Call
WASHINGTON, May 16. —MPi—
President Truman called today for
action “to prevent further infla
tion in farm real estate prices" and
the Agriculture department prompt
ly called a conference on the prob
lem for June 9.
Secretary Clinton Anderson an
nounced plans for a meeting of
lending agencies and farm leaders
after getting a letter In which the
President said “I am deeply con
cerned about the recent rise” in
the price of farm land.
Latest Agriculture department
reports show that farm land prices
have increased 92 per cent over
the 1935-39 pre-war level. The in
crease was 12 per cent during the
past year.
In asking the conference, tb'
President said it is apparent that
“united efforts by all concerned
is needed” if further price rises
and over-expansion of farm debits
are to be prevented.
Anderson said representatives of
the Federal Reserve board, the
Farm Credit administration, the
Federal Land banks, insurance
companies, baking organizations,
and officials of such organizations
as the American Farm Bureau
federation, the National Grange,
and the National Farmers union
will be invited.
Both Mr. Truman and his sec
retary of agriculture said they
are concerned lest the land market
repeat the experience of the period
after World War I. A sharp drop
in farm commodity prices after
that war brought a crash in farm
land prices and ruin to thousands
of farmers who had bought land at
inflated prices through liberal
loans.
And So To Bed
The days of chivalry are not
over. , .
The other night a lady driv
er, in making sorr^e sort of
a maneuver, stuck her car in
the sand at the intersection of
Jackson street and Central
boulevard.
After successfully getting the
vehicle mired to the running
boards the lady sought help at
a nearby house. The ‘good
neighbor’ armed with shovel,
hoe, boards and other things
used to unstick a stuck car
started to her aid.
The last bus, about half full
of passengers came along, the
driver halted the bus and the
passengers, peering out the
windows saw the struggling
woman and promptly alighted
and helped her on her way.
The passengers then boarded
the bus and their journey was