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VOL. 80.- NO. 236.___WILMINGTON, N. C,, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947 " ESTABLISHED 186$
Phillips Wins
Trial Appeal
Purported Nott Signed By
Dead Wife Saves Liliing
ton Man’s Life
ISLINGTON, May 21.—{IP)—
fharlie Phillips. 31-year-old Angier
teiant farmer who was saved
m death in the state’s gas charn
L April 11 by the timely dis
’ ry ot a sucide note purported
f signed bv his wife, was granted
new trial in Harnett County Sup
erior court today.
Tie ruling in the case was made
. judge \V. H. S. Burgwyn, the
.me jurist who last September
'entered Phillips to die after a
had convicted him of murder
!, the fatal shooting of his wife.
The move for a new trial was
made by Phillips’ attorney, Neill
McKay Salmon, on the basis of
•ly discovered evidence consist
, , 0‘f the alleged suicide note and
I. affidavit bv a man who said
he had heard Mrs. Phillips threat
ened suicide a short time befoie
her death last August 18.
The affidavit was made by Cal
v n Williams, Wake county resi
dent and it quoted Mrs. Phillips
threatening to kill herself be
cause of trouble caused by liquor
in her home.
Courtroom Packed
A packed courtroom heard Sal
mon and Solicitor Jack Hooks take
part in heated debate over the
authenticity of the note.
Salmon produced testimony by
James Powell, handwriting expert
for the State Bureau of Investiga
tion who expressed the opinion that
the handwriting in the suicide note
via; the same as samples of her
writing. Hooks countered with a
letter from FBI Chief J. Edgar
Hoover stating that the writing in
the note was neither that of Mrs.
Phillips nor her husband.
Phillips, returned from State
prison to his home county for the
healing, broke out in smiles over
the judge’s mling and expressed
the belief that the new jury “will do
the right things.”
Judge Burgwyn, saying he was
faced with one of the hardest de
cisions of his long career on Ihe
tench, said, "I cannot afford to
Ignore the testimony of an expert
(See PHILLIPS Page Two)
EAST RAILROADS
- GET FARE HIKES
iCC Approves 10 Per Cent
Increase On One-Way
Passenger Tickets
WASHINGTON, May 21 — (JP; —
A:: approximate 10 per cent in
c/ease in basic passenger fares on |
Eastern railroads was authorized i
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission today to compensate fcr
i,.creased operating costs.
The decision applies to 60 rail
roads operating East of the Mis
i/ssippi and North of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers.
The lines were authorized to
make the change to the higher
level or, five days’ public notice.
This will put one-way passenger
(ares up from 2.2 to 2:5 cents per
mile in coaches, and from 3.3 to
U cents per mile in sleeping and
parlor cars. There will be an in
crease of about 15 per cent in
roach round trip rates and about
< per cent in Pullman round trip
rales.
The railroads were also given a
minimum ticket rate of 15 cents in
leu of the present It) cent mini
mum.
"This increase is moderate in
relation to the increases in wages
*r-d price levels sin-ce pre-A'ar
tears,” said the commission, which
11 h authorized a general passen
Eer fare increase in 1942 when
'he rates went up 10 per cent.
Incurred Deficit
Today’s order noted that the rail
roads which asked for the new in
crease incurred a deficit from,
Passenger train operations last:
!'ear of S54.000.000.
ahred for the new increase in
rprred a deficit from passenger
0Pe:ations last year of $54,
000. 000.
The ICC previously granted the
., -Der. cent increase separately to
‘,5 ^'ew Haven railroad, which
c.or.eered the proposal boost In
r independent proceeding.
Jn the general case, the com
I;lsS!°n found the increases to be
(PJst and reasonable” for all in
( '!‘ate passenger traffic in the
orntory East of the Mississippi
p.': an6 North of the Ohio and
1, ‘®nac rivers and for interstate
.'Umn the state) traffic in Illin
‘2 "Michigan. Ohio and New York.
■lose states were specifically
IS<* EAST Pafe Two)
ihe Weather
Jifcth r. , roRECAs'f
inside*Ti2*0 Ina ?nd South Carolina —
jjoniftv ‘eple cloudiness, showers East
to V8_- dir-8 b ' Thursday noon. Not
fai- '*} portion Thursday. Friday
and mild.
‘Eastern Standard Time)
\le* E l . S. Weather Bureau)
^dinp0*0^031 data *or the 24 hours
g ‘ :30 p. m. yesterday.
i:3o „ temperatures
H T v, m' 75; 7:30 a- m* 76; 1:30 p. m.
ihun, 7, p. m- 75: Maximum 80; Mini
‘ u’ Mean 77: Normal 72.
. HUMIDITY
* - v, 10• 84: 7:30 a m. 81: 1:30 p. m.
i P- m. 30.
Total PRECIPITATION
loo 01 34 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
Total 1
•■96 nic'i* *1Ce °* tlie month
Prorn ,TfDEs FOR TODAY
*. s. Tide Tables Published by
ast and Geodetic Survey).
*ilmin£lfm HIGH LOW
* n - 11:08 a.m. 6:13 a.m.
RasonV „ t 11:43 p.m. 6:04 p.m.
lr-et . 9;00 a.m. 3:05 a m.
Sunr- _ 9:27 p.m. 3:06 p.m.
•'47a • m J:05: Sunset 7:12; Moonrise
^•.>:?fon£et 9:59p
' «,."«•« *l Fayetteville, N. C. at i
' ^Qncsday 9 s feet.
',l>fe tfuther On Pigt x—*
HERE’S A MIRACLE that happened—and there was a camera to
record it, otherwise no one would believe that N. Baldini, Logansport,
Ind., had driven his car into open space and that, somehow, it failed
to fall into the culvert. The gap was bridged by a few inches. (In
ternational)
SPA May Determine
Location Of Office
FEW HUNDRED MORE
WAR BRIDES MAY BE
ALLOWED TO ENTER
WASHINGTON. May 21 — (JP)
Bills to let a few hundred more
war brides and fiancees come to
America were approved today by
a House Judiciary subcommittee.
The full committee and the
House and Senate still have to
pass on the measures.
One would extend for six j
months the law allowing fiancees;
to come to this country to marry
service men or veterans. The law
expires next June 30.
The State department informed
the subcommittee that some 200 to
300 girls would be affected.
Another bill would let in brides
who are ineligible racially to en
ter the United States. It applies
mostly to Japanese.
Apportionment Of $50,000
Grant A!so To Be Dis
cussed On Trip
FAYETTEVILLE. May 20—(JP)—
R. B. Page of Wilmington, chair
man of the State Ports Authority,
said the group will have a good
idea how to apportion the $50,000
appropriation it received from the
recent legislature after a five day
inspection junket beginning here
tomorrow.
Page said a formal meeting of
the Authority will be held on the
trip to discuss where its" office
shall be located and its legisla
tive program for the next few
years.
The inspection party will touch
at Wilmington. Morehead City,
Hatteras. Ocracoke and Manteo.
Aboard the government inspec
(See SPA Page Two)
Local Shriners Hold
Ceremonial Limelight
BY AYCOCK BROWN
Special To The Star
ATLANTIC BEACH. May 21 -
More than 5,000 Nobles of Sudan
Tsmple. Shrine had arrived in the
tri cities of Beaufort, Morehead
City and this incorporated resort
of Atlantic Beach by late after
noon and they continue to come.
This is the first spring ceremoni
al ever held in coastal Carteret
county. Official nobles were pre
dicting that it would be one of
the largest in history of Sudan
Temple.
Wilmington is playing an impor
tant role in the ceremonial. Judge
J. J. Burney of the Cape Fear
area was presiding over a terra
of Superior court in Beaufort, but
court was adjourned today and
now he is taking an active part
in the ceremonial and as this is
written, be. ween five and seven
o’clock. is attending the
Potentates banquet for the Divan,
an event that is being held at
Ray Garretts' beautiful Blue Rib
bon club in suburban Morehead
City. Mrs. Burney is here with
her husband .a First Ceremonial
Master of Sudan Temple.
Drum Corps Past
Immediately following the ban
quet the scene of activity shitts
to another of the tri towns of this
coastal area. At 7:30 o’clock the
temples famed drum corps which
(See LOCAL Page Two)
PHYSICIAN GIVES
MRS. TRUMAN ‘NOD’
_
General Graham Reports
President’s Mother Now
Has Fair Chance
GRANDVIEW. Mo., May 21.—CP)
—President Truman’s 94-year-old
mother began passive exercise in a
new mechanical bed tonight after
the White House physician gave
her a “chance” for recovery.
Mrs. Martha E. Truman was
moved into the new oscillating bed
a few hours after Brig. Gen. Wal
lace H. Graham told reporters of
her gradual improvement.
General Graham said his be
lief in his elderly patient’s recov
ery is based on a continuance of
her will to live and the endurance
of a tired heart and a "wornout”
body in which “every cell” has
deteriorated.
His optomistic outlook at hi, first
formal talk with newsmen since
President Truman flew here Satur
day to see his gravely ill mother
was borne up during the afternoon
when Presidential Press Secretary
Charles Ross reported at 5 p. m.
(EST) the physician was still en
couraged.
T ilrac VPU’ RpH
The new bed, which has an end
to end movement, was brought
out during the afternoon and Mrs.
Truman said after she was placed
in it that she was “more com
fortable” than she had been for "a
long time.”
The bed has a silent motor and
offers what Ross described as
“gentle oscillation.”
At 2:45 p. m. (Kansas City T.me)
the President, General Graham and
Miss Mary Jane Truman, the
President’s sister, helped Mother
Truman into her favorite chair, an
old rocker with a cane bottom and
a cushion.
While she rocked cheerfully, the
mechanical bed was substituted
for her old one, and she accepted
the change gratefully.
“Her spirits are excellent,” Ross
said, and she is cooperating in
taking nourishment. She ate
wheat cakes and Vermont svrup
sent her by another Presidential
secretary, William D. Hassett, dur
ing the morning.
RESCUERS PRY RAIL
FIREMAN LOSE FROM
LOCOMOTIVE FIREBOX
CHICAGO. May 21.—(JP)—Res
cuers, working feverishly with
acetylene torches, freed a locomo
tive fireman today who was pin
ned for 20 minutes against the hot
firebox of his cab when the engine
overturned.
The fireman, Sherman E. Hor
richs. 31, suffered a broken left
leg and severe burns. The engi
neer, Edward Baseda, 55, was
thrown clear, but received minor
burns when he climbed back into
the locomotive cab in a futile at
tempt to rescue his partner.
The Chicago Outer Belt Railway
locomotive overturned while pull
ing a 76-car freight train in subur
ban Cicero. The train’s diesel en
gine had stalled and the locomotive
was pulling the entire train to a
switchoff.
FDR Directed
potter Files
3V
V -
Late President W i s h e s
Notes From King, Card
inal Sealed For Ever
WASHINGTON, May 21 — (JP}~
President Roosevelt, it was dis
closed tonight, directed nearly
two years before his death that
"the long hand letters between the
King of England and myself, or
between Cardinal Mundelein and
myself, are to be retained by me
or my estate and should never be
made public.”
A memorandum signed "Frank
lin D. Roosevelt” and dated July
16, 1943 offered these letters as
example of papers in his "famous
people’s file” which "are in ef
fect personal”and not to be pub
lished. There was no hint as to
what may have passed between the
late President and the King, or the
late Cardinal Mundelein of Chi
cago. famous Catholic leader.
The memorandum was released
by Senator Brewster (R-Maine)
who said it came today from Fred
W. Shipman, director of the Hyde
Park_ N. Y., library where many
Roosevelt papers are stored.
Beside the letters which Mr.
Roosevelt wanted never to be
made public, his memo mentioned
that there were others which
should be kf,pt under seal for 10,
15 or 20 years "for the reason
that they may refer to peo-ple who
are still alive in a way which would
be embarrassing to them.”
(See FDR Page Two)
CITY GOES OVER
ENLISTMENT TOP
Wilmington, Winston
Salem Naval Reservists
Exceed Quotas
Morning Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 21 —Wil
mington and Winston-Salem N. C..
have enlisted more Naval Reserv
ists than their quotas, Senator
Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina
was informed today by the Navy
department.
' Our whole state has a fine rec
ord of enlistments,” the Senator
said, citing the statistics released
in conjunction with the current
observance of Naval Reserve
week.
North Carolina cities, with their
quotas and enlistments, respec
tively, follow:
Asheville, 630. 630; Charlotte,
630,336; Durham, 630, 253; Greens
boro, 630. 229; Raleigh, 210. 137;
Wilmington, 210, 218; Winston
Salem, 420, 469.
Both Wilmington and Winston
Salem units already have head
quarters buildings. The other five
are to be housed in quonset huts.
Buildings at Charlotte and
Greensboro have the official
“OK” already, the Navy said.
PROPELLEXCLUB
MEETS TONIGHT
Colonel Thomas J. Weed
To Be Principal Speak
er For Occasion
Colonel Thomas J. Weed, prin
cipal assistant operations division,
office of the chief of transportation,
stationed in Washington, D. C.,
will be the featured speaker at a
meeting of the Wilmington Propel
ler Club and' their guests tonight at
8 o'clock.
He is scheduled to speak on the
“Development of the Port of Wil
mington.”
The dinner meeting is the an
nual Maritime Day banquet held by
the club. Today has been proclaim
ed National Maritime Day by
President Truman.
R. C. Cantwell, secretary-treas
urer of the club, said that approxi
mately 100 persons are expected
to attend the banquet.
Included in the guests of club
members will be city and county
officials. T. D. Love will serve as
master of ceremonies.
During the morning Col. Weed
will be taken on an inspection trip
of the Brunswick River Lay-up
basin by Col. B. C. Snow, U. S.
district engineer, and party.
Jury Acquits Defendants
In Earle Lynching Case;
Relief Program Approved
Senate Okays
Truman Fund
Foreign Affairs Committee
men Rally To Defeat
House Amendments
WASHINGTON, May 21 —(£>)—
The administration’s $350,000,000
relief program won final Congres
sional approval today after sur
viving a determined, eleventh
hour House attempt to clamp a
$200,000,000 ceiling on it.
The end of its long legislative
trial was reached in the Senate,
where approval was routine after
Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich)
of the Foreign Relations commit
tee told his colleagues that Presi
dent Truman is considering a
man “of wide Red Cross exper
ience” to administer the program.
Richard P. Allen. Red Cross
vice president, is slated to get the
job.
The final House action came on
a roll call vote of 288 to 86, in ac
cepting the measure as redrafted
by a Houes-Senate Conference
committee. This committee modi
fied several stringent restrictions
tn the program and recommend
ed the full amount sought by Pres
ident Truman.
Much more close, however, was
the 205 to 170 rollcall tally by
which the House beat back an at
tempt to return the bill to the
Conference committee with in
tructions to its representatives to
insist upon a $200,000,000 ceiling.
The House, in originally passing
the bill, had voted for such a
limit.
In its final form, the bill per
mits expenditure of the relief
funds in Italy, Greece. Hungary,
Austria, Poland, China and
Trieste. Of the total, a minimum
of $15,000,000 is earmarked for the
United Nations Children’s
Emergency fund.
(The bill is entirely distinct
from the $400,000,000 program to
bolster Greece and Turkey against
Communism.)
Rep. Jonkman ( R-Mich ), lead
(See SENATE rage Two)
DR. DENNIS COOKE
OF ECTC RESIGNS
T. T. Hamilton, Jr., Named
On Committee To Select
New President
GReENVILLE, May .21—(ft—Dr.
Dennis H. Cooke, who has been
president of East Carolina Tea ch
ars college here since last August
L. resigned today, effective Sep
:omber 1. to become director of
teacher training in the depart
ment of education at Woman’s
College, in Greensboro.
The resignation was accepted
oy the board of trustees of ECTC
ii a meeting here today, and Dr.
?lyde A. Erw'in, slate superintend
:ni of public instruction and chair
man of the board, named a com
mittee to seek a new president.
Appointed to the committee were
T. T. Hamilton of Wilmington,
Ralph M. Garrett of Greenville
and Thomas J. Hackney of Wil
son.
Maiden Native
Dr. Cooke, a native of Maiden.
;ame to ECTC last year from
Peabody College. Nashville, Term.,
where he was head of the depart
ment of school administration.
Dr. Cooke came to ECTC after
a period of turmoil at the college
which saw its former president.
Dr. Leon R. Meadows, convicted
Df false pretense and embezzle
ment in his handling of student and
special funds. He was sentenced
to three years in prison and is
scheduled to complete serving his
,erm on July 28.
THE NAVY HAS CONFIRMED that Lt. Comdr. Edward Little
(left) of Monrovia, Calif., is being secretly court-martialed in Wash
ington on charges of currying favor with the Japs by allegedly be
traying his fellow prisoners at Fukioka District prison camp. Actual
camp commander at the time was Ma.j. Achilles Tisdelle (right), of
Orange Park, Fla. Little, claiming seniority, refused to obey him.
(International)
Top Flying Officers
Killed In Air Crash
FOUR MINUTES
MIAMI, Fla—(U.R)—A Douglas
DC-6 failed by four minutes to
day to crack the transcontinen
tal speed record set by a Lock
heed Constellation last week.
Capt. Frank J. Havelick, of
Butte, Mont., flew a DC-6 here
from Santa Monica Calif., in six
hours, 59 minutes, four minutes
more than the Constellation.
CHAMPAIGN, 111., May 21—(VP)—
THe bodies of two top Army flying
officers and five other soldiers
were found today in the wreckage
of their B-25 bomber which crash
ed in a cornfield during a violent
thunderstorm.
The dead included Col. Ray
mond E. O’Neill, 52, an AAF bal
loon expert and brigadier general
in World War Two, and Col.
George A. Whatley, 45, head of a
headquarters unit having supervi
see TOP Page Two)
Mysterious Explosion
Wrecks Railroad Coach
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 21
—(A3)—A mysterious explosion ap
parently originating in a water
cooler in the rear of a “Jim
Crow” passenger coach injured
two men today.
It occurred north of Ardmore,
Okla., on a Santa Fe train en
route from Chicago to Galveston.
Oscar Lett, 59, Fort Worth, and
W. C. Brown, 35, Ardmore, riding
in the rear of the coach parti
tioned off to segregate whites and
Negroes, were injured.
O. D. Crill, division superintend
ant for the railroad, called in Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation ex
plosives experts. He said a “high
type explosive” had damaged the
coach considerably.
Lem Thomas, special agent for
the line, said he believed the ex
plosive might have been nitrogly
cerin left in the compartment by
safe crackers. The coach had been
picked up at Newton. Kansas. It
was brought here after the explo
sion, for investigation.
The coach did not leave the
tracks and the train continued af
ter a brief stop.
The side of the washroom was
blasted out, and flying bits of
metal bored into seats and walls.
One large piece buried itself in
steel 20 feet away. All 10 double
glass windows in the compartment
were shattered.
KIWANIANS HEAR TALK
BY NAVY OFFICER
Kiwanians enjoyed thirty min
utes of speech and song at their
weekly luncheon meeting at the
Friendly cafeteria yesterday and
heard a final report on the Ladies’
night party next Wednesday night
at the Famous club when the
wives, sweethearts and a few in
vited guests will enjoy 's an
nual party.
Bernard Solomon, executive of
ficer of organized surface division,
6-29, United States naval reserve,
spoke briefly on the subject of the
naval reserve and answered the
three most important questions
asked by the general public and
prospective enlistees.
He was introduced by Ed.
Snead, who in turn was presented
to his fellow clubmen by program
chairman Aaron Goldberg.
Department Admits Burning U. S. Potat oes;
One-Wing Swan Waddles Bit Off Balance
“Rudy” Pecks Frettishly
At Sutures Of Last
Port Stabilizer
RAHWAY. N. J , May 21—MV
“Rudy,” a one-winged swan,
waddled a bit off balance around
Rahway River park today.
He pecked frettishly at sutures
in what is left of his port stabili
zer.
But Rudy is recovering.
Rudy lost his left wing in what
veterinarians described as a unique
operation several weeks ago. The
wing was amputated on a white
sheeted picnic table.
Two surgeons and an anesthet
ist presided.
Dr. Lester Reddin of Westfield,
a veterinarian, said amputating
swan’s wings isn’t in the text
books, because the birds usually
are destroyed when stricken by
a serious ailment.
Rudy’s wing had been broken—
(See ONE-WING Page Two)
Along The Cape Fear
CAPE FEAR RIVER—The Cape
Fear River is the largest stream
of water in the Slate, and with
it’s 320 mile length, it has shown
what the United States Corps of
Engineers have done and are still
doing.
* * *
IMPROVEMENT—The improve
ment of tne Cape Fear below Wil
mington has been under the con
sideration of either the state of
North Carolina or of the United
States since 1821. But now more
action has taken place and with
the 32 foot deepening now taking
place and the proposed 35 foot
deepening, it should furnish a
waterway for most any size ship.
* * *
LOW WATER—Prior to ’76’, it
was reported that a depth of 14
feet at low water was available
over the bar; 10 feet to • point 14
miles be!owr Wilmington, and seven
and one-half feet thence to Wil
mington.
* ‘ * *
BREACH — In 1761 a severe
equinoctial storm made a breach
through the outer banks at a point
about eight miles above the form
er and present entrance. This
breach formed a new mouth to the
river and received the name of
New Inlet, made famous by the
blockade runners during the Civil
war.
U. S. ASSUMES CHARGE—In
1829 when the U. S. assumed
active charge of the improvements
the controlling depths to Wilming
ton was seven and one-half feet.
* * *
LATTER YEARS—In later years
from 1829 to 1870. projects were
authorized to deepen the main^har
channel by construction of jetties
(Se* CAPE FEAE Page Two)
At Same Time, Canadian
Spuds Sell At High
Prices All Over South
WASHINGTON. May 21 — (/PI—
Sure the Agriculture department
agreed with a Congressional critic
today, Canadian potatoes are be
ing sold in the South—where the
department has destroyed some
11,500 bushels of home-grown
supds.
The explanation offered at the
department: Nobody would buy
the small, low grade potatoes, and
they were destroyed for lack of a
market.
Rep. August H. Andersen (R
Minnl in a House speech accused
the department of “wanton de
struction” and said:
“While Department of agricul
ture agents pour kerosene on huge
piles of new potatoes in Alabama,
North Carolina. Virginia and other
Southern states, potatoes come in
from Canada to supply those mar
(See DEPARTMENT Page TweJ
15-DAY DROUGHT
STILL UNBROKEN
Crops In Wilmington Area
Badly In Need Of Rain;
Predictions Awry
Al press time last j.ight, the 15
lay long drought in this area had
not been broken, despite Weather
man Paul Hess’ predictions that
rain would fall last night and this
morning.
The last time Wilmington felt
rain was on May 5, and Hess’ rec
ords show that only .96 of one
inch rain has fallen here during
this month. This, he says, is way
behind the normal precipitation for
May as we should have had 2.2
inches up to date.
But despite it all, Wilmington
iias seen months of May that have
been drier than this one — in 1943
only .87 inch fell during the whoie
month, records reveal.
Meanwhile, assistant county agent
Coy R. Cook says that “the crops
are really suffering for rain.”
Some of the plants continue to
grow, despite the dryness, he said,
but all would be helped by rain.
Cook says it is impossible to
tell how much damage has been
caused to plants over the county
because of the lack of rain.
New Hanover’s usual million dol
lar lettuce crop will not amount to
that much this year. Cook said. The
lettuce that is now being shipped is
good, he said, but there just isn’t
nearly as much of it this year as
was last because of the cold
weather.
Beans grown over the county
will start being shipped in about
two weeks, he said, while the mar
ket times for most of the other
truck crops come later.
RAINS ARE GENERAL
OVER NORTH CAROLINA
By The Associated Press
Cooling showers coming from the
Gulf of Mexico fell in many por
tions of North Carolina yester
day bringing an end to drought
like conditions which have serious
ly threatened farm crops during
the past month.
Heavy thunderstorm* were pr«v
mm tf-DAY r*r •*•))
28 Men Freed
By Verdicts
Not Guilty Findings Re
turned In Trial After
Long Deliberation
GREENVILLE, S. C.. May 21. -
:U.R)— The nation's biggest lynch
trial in history ended tonight in
full acquittal for all 28 defendents
charged with the lynching of Wil
lie Earle. Negro, last February 16
It took a jury of nine textile
hands, two salesmen and a farmer
anly five hours and 15 minutes to
reach the verdict clearing the de
fendants on al four counts charg
ing murder, conspiracy and access
ary before and after the fact.
The clerk had to read out 98 sec
tions of the complicated indictment
but all 98 were “not guilty.” and
the reading was completed in min
utes.
As defendants and their relatives
leaped to their feet in a wild cele
bration, Judge Robert Martin. Jr..
sai'1 “Mr. Sheriff, you can release
the defendants.”
Spectators Warned
The judge warned the stirring
spectators against any demonstra
tion as the “not guilty’s” were
sounded off in rapid fire order
by T. E. Christenberry, the aged
clerk.
As the- roll-call of acquittal was
completed, Carlos Roosevelt Hurd,
squat cab dispatcher named by
fellow-defendants as trigger-man
in the lynching, jumped on a chair
(See 26 MEN Page Two)
MURRAYFQRBIDS
STEEL STRIKES
CIO President Philip Mur
ray Tells Union Wage
Contract Absolute
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 21
—[/?)—CIO President Philip Mur
ray today issued an order to the
3,000 locals of the CIO United
Steelworkers forbidding strikes for
the next two years.
Murray, also president of the
steelworkers, said in a letter to
local union leaders that recently
signed, two-year contracts "for
most of the members of our union
in basic steel and fabricating
plants” constitute ” one of the
most notable achievements in the
annals of our nation’s collective
bargaining history.”
Murray said in the letter it is
“imperative w e understand
thoroughly that:
”1. We must meticulously re
spect provisions of the collective
bargaining contract.
”2. That under no circumstances
must there be work stoppage* dur
ing the life of the agreement.
‘3. We must resort to the order
ly methods of adjudicating out
differences by taking recourse to
;he grievance procedure of the
wage agreement up to and includ
ing arbitration.”
L,ener upproveo
The letter was approved by the
steelworkers’ 41-man board of di
rectors at their biennial meeting.
He said the wage agreements,
which called for a 15-cent-an hour
package pay increase, guaranteed
continued production in the steel
industry and thereby provided an
“opportunity for stabilizing our
country’s internal economic af
fairs.’’
“To retain the confidence of the
public, the union and management .
must display that spirit of labor
management cooperation so es
sential to the welfare of this great
nation,” Murray said.
The union leader said adher
ence to his three-point order was
“so vital to preserve the integ
rity” of the wage agreements and
the union that all officers of locals
and grievance committeemen
“should give notice to this effect
to the members.”
Murray said the steelworkers
union, by negotiating the two-year
contracts, “won for itself the re
spect and admiration of its mem
bers and the public.”
Board In Meeting
Murray added the board would
continue to meet until Friday,
but that he expected no further
developments of general public
interest. The board meeting pre
viously was announced as a nor
mal biennial parley to discuss
“routine matters.”
And So To Bed
It was a sincere but not tear
ful parting at yesterday’s city
council session.
The meeting was the final
one for two retiring members
—R. S. LeGwin and Garland
Currin. When business was
completed at noon, H was
Councilman J. E. L. Wade
who called attention to the
situation and expressed good
wishes to the retiring mem
bers.
That was followed by a brief
remarks by other members.
Then everyone shook hands, In
cluding incoming member S.
L. White attaa«h« Mo M
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