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yO^SO^NO. 280.______WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1867
21 Lose Lives
In DC-3 Crash
Puerto Ricans, Homeward
Bound, Killed In
Florida Swamps
MELBOURNE, Fla., July 13—(A1)
Twenty-one persons were killed,
'. 0f them Puerto Ricans home
ward bound to visit relatives, and
„ were injured today in a crash
\ a • win-engined D-3 charter air
f:ner on a knoll in Swampland six
miles west of here.
Two children miraculously es
caped injury. One, Jose Rodiguez,
I received minor scratches and
t^'other, Ellen Acavedo. 12, a
,light cut over the eye.
Three unidentified victims were
reported dying at Brevard hospital,
,t‘ere all survivors were taken.
Among the known dead were the
the pilot. CaP1- Henry Hein of
Houston. Texas; the co-pilot, listed
,5 Roderick Paul McKinna, and
jIcKinna's wife who had signed
on as a crew member.
Survivors told of babies being
*rn from sleeping mothers’ arms
by the crash, of screaming and
weepin® passengers, and of pray
|rS offered by helpless injured
trapped inside or strewn around
the plane.
One boy, Frank Gonzalez, 12
whose left leg was broken, at
tempted to rescue a man who ap
parently was dead.
“I prayed, but I did not cry,”
said Frank.
Ail of the dead were moved to
the Brownley funeral home, where
the back yard and garage were
turned into an improvized morgue.
The bodies of four children, nine
women and eight men were there.
Owner At Scene
The plane belonged to Burke Air
Lines whose owner, Andrew J.
Burke of Miami flew to the scene.
He said the plane was licensed to
carry 25 passengers and a crew
of three, and that the additional
passengers were babes in arms.
He said the craft was flying
from Newark airport to San Juan,
Puerto Rico, via Augusta, Ga.,
and Miami, Fla. At Augusta it
picked up a flight engineer, Wal
lace Irwin, who w-as not listen
among survivors.
The plane also carried a Puerto
Bican stewardess whose name was
not known here.
Large numbers of Puerto Ricans
have migrated since the war to
See CRASH On Page Two
TOBACCO GROWERS
FOR EXPORT PLAN
Less Than One Per Cent
Vote Against Ten Cent
Per Acre Assessment
RALEIGH, June 13 —W—With
less than one per cent of the total
vet* objecting, flue-cured tobacco
farmers of North Carolina yester
day voted to assess themselves
ten cents an acre on the 1947 crop
in order to aid the export market.
Incomplete returns, as recorded
here by the U. S, Production and
marketing division, showed:
North Carolina (60 of 67 count
ies) -103,455 for assessment; 1,026
against.
South Carolina (20 of 21 coun
tiesi—14,964 for assessment; 122
against.
Tabulators here said that it was
unlikely that the final and official
vote could be made public until
later this week.
Total ¥90,000
The assessment will total over
190,000 and will be used to finance
the Tobacco Associates, Inc. ex
port program.
All flue-cured tobacco farmers,
vhether planters or tenants on the
' 4,000 farms in the states, were
v-gible to participate. Agriculture
officials here cs tinrated the total
eligible to vote at about ,200,000.
Production and marketing divi
tlon tabulators were surprised at
ihe vote of over 118,000. Fair
'veather late last week following
heavy reins led the officials to
“dieve that many farmers would
tut go to the polls, and would re
mah in the fields to cultivate
their crops.
™e assessment was given
Pearly endorsement by Governor
Cnerry o£ North Carolina and
Governor Thurmond of South Car
0:ra, and was given strong sup
port by Agriculture depatment
waders of the respective states.
Legislatures of the states this
|,eat passed laws providing for
I e assessment referendum. The
laws specified that a two - thirds
Majority of those voting would be
vquired to make the assessment.
~'le assessment will be levied
011 the current cron, and also will
aPP]y to the 1948 and 1949 crops.
The Weather
- Forecast:
Math Carolina and North Carolina—
cloudy, not much change in
‘Mrature Monday and Tuesday.
•Eastern Standard Time)
li (BJ !'■ S. Weather Bureau)
*r-dTr°!0-iCal data for the 24 hours
1":30 p. m. yesterday.
. a. m. 74. 7;30 a. m. 75; 1:30
him 85; 7:20 P- m. 78; Maximum 88;
“‘mun 70; Mean 79; Normal 79
humidity
fc,'„ a- »• 96; 7:30 a. m. 84. 1:30 p.
7'30 p. m. 81;
* . , PRECPTATON
.Of inched 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
If. TOES FOB TODAY
t, e°m„the Tide Tables published by
"oast and Geodetic Survey)
ti;,. High Low
‘■ngton - 5:54 a m. x.07 a. m.
kiaw„i 6 ;43 p. m. 1:06 p, m,
.w° nlet 3:29 a. m. 10:00 a. m.
Sunric n 4:17 p' m- 10:55 p'
1:33,.‘ ^ 0:11— Sunset 7:25— Moonrise
fiiver “nset S:59p'
I a * sta*« at Falettaville, N. C. at
*• m. 0.00 feet
H WEATHEE Ea Pag* Ywu
POLICE in Marion, O., are seek
ing a man who was seen in a
churchyard where the rope-truss
ed body of Mrs. Zora Gerbes, 25
year-old divorcee, was found. She
had been strangled to death by a
piece of clothes line. Police be
lieve that Mrs. Gerbes, the mother
of three children, had been killed
somewhere else and her body car
ried to the churchyard by the un
known murderer. — (Internation
al).
Death Around
Boy In Plane
MELBOURNE, Fla., July 13 -
(U.R) — The story of death and
rescue in- a Florida jungle were
told today by some of those who
survived the crash of a DC-3 air
liner that plunged into a coastal
swamp and killed 21 passengers.
The full story was still un
known. The two pilots were dead.
Investigators could only piece to
gether the accounts from those
who had survived, stories told in
broken English and Spanish.
Even what they told was not
easy. They had suffered shock for
hours during their ordeal in the
swamps, lying in water beside the
bodies of their dead companions.
Fourteen-year-old Frank Gonza
lez, of New York, believed he was
the only passenger awake when
the twin-engind plane began to
have trouble
“I heard one of the engines stop,
then the other, then the plane
began to dive and then it hit. I
think I was knocked out, and noth
ing was clear until I got to the out
side.
“I crawled out a big hole in
the side of the plane. I got outside
and I fainted again. I came to,
and saw a woman dragging the
little girl (Ellen Acevedo, unhurt)
out by the hair, My father was
with me then, and I tried to stand
up but my foot hurt.
“People were screaming for
help and praying all around i^,
some of them didn’t move, and
the sun was just coming up.
“I passed out again, and when I
came to I didn’t try to get up any
more.”
His father, Abelardo Gonzalez,
operator of a New York travel
agency who arranged the flight of
Puerto Ricans to their home
island, said:
“It took me about 45 minutes, it
must have been, to get out of the
plane. It was all wrecked inside,
and I had to push seats off of
me. When I got out, and found
Frank, I just laid on the ground
a while.
“Then I heard a plane overhead.
I had a rag from somewhere, and
I stood and Jumped and waved it
over my head.”
Earl B. Franks, civil aeronau
tics administration waterman
here, said that act saved the day.
“Vic Robbins, who runs a fly
ing service here, and I took off as
soon as we got the call from the
highway patrol,” he said. “We
flew ovei* the wreckage once, but
it -as hard to see in the mist of
the morning.
“We made another pass over it,
and this time we saw a man wav
ing something at us. If it 1 adn’t
been for that, we might have miss
ed them again.
“We flew right back to the field
and told the patrolmen where _ it
was, and then flew out again,
hovering over the wreckage until
we figured a land party had reach
it.
“Then we landed on an auxiliary
field about a mile away, and walk
ed over to help as much as we
could.”
Karl Adams, state highway pa
trolman, reported:
‘‘A fellow named Victor Duddad,
who lives near the place, called
me at 4:30 and said he had heard
a plane having motor trouble and
then an explosion. I got Vic Rob
bins to go up in a plane and hunt
for it.
“When it was spotted, Duddad
and I walked to it from the north
and city Policeman Bill Rush and
the undertaker, Conger Brownlie,
See DEATH On Page Two
Delegates Implement Marshall Aid Plan;
Lew; May Seek Labor Federation Toga;
L\52£ To Back Italy And Austria For UN
i i _ _
Council Gets
Member Bids
Opposition To Russian
Satellite Balkan Nations
Now Expected
LAKE SUCCESS, July 13 —(&)—
The United States will plump for
early admission of Austria and
Italy to the United Nations, but
may oppose the entry of three
Russian satellites in the Balkans,
authoritative sources said today.
A Security council membership
committee begins work tomorrow
on nine bids, including three pre
viously vetoed by Russia.
The old applicants are Ireland,
Portugal and Trans-Jordan, block
ed by Russia, and Albania and
Outer Mongolia, voted down by
the council.
The new ones are Italy, Aus
tria, Hungary and Romania. Fin
land and Bulgaria also may ap
ply in time for summer consider
ation.
The United States is consider
ing opposing Hungary, Romania
and Albania by questioning
whether they are peace-loving
states and are willing and able
to carry out the obligations of the
charter.
Sources close to delegate War
ren R. Austin said the American
position would not solidify until
the conclusion of talks being car
ried on in Paris, Moscow, London
and Nanking by United States
ambassadors. These conversa
tions augment preliminary con
ferences here among delegates
from the Eig Five powers, which
hold the power individually to
veto any applicant.
Rejection Expected
On the basis of Andkei
A. Gromyko’s vigorous objection
to event consideration of Austria
at this time, the Soviet Union can
be expected to reject any move
to add that country to the present
55 members.
Russia previously^ agreed that
Austria was not to "be considered
an ex-enemy state and the United
Slates contends that, as long as
a government is now functioning
in Vienna, there is no reason to
aivait the signing of a peace
treaty. Treaty negotiations, bog
ged down over Soviet demands
See COUNCIL, on Page Two
A-BOMB SECRETS
RETAKEN BY FBI
Agents Said To Have
Known About Theft
Three Months Ago
CHICAGO, July 13 — (U.R) —
Atomic bomb secrets which Earn
est D. Wallis is accused of having
stolen were recovered from him
by G.-Men nearly three months
ago but no action was taken
against him until his sudden ar
rest yesterday, his attorney said
tonight.
Wallis, 34, one of two former
Army sergeants charged with
thefts from the Los Alamos (N.
M.) atom bomb project while they
were in service, was arrested by
agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation yesterday in the Paul
Stone-Raynor photographic studio.
The studio, on Chicago’s Michigan
boulevard, was purchased by Wal
lis last year.
Attorney Julius Schwartz said
Wallis had taken some negatives
and prints just before he left the
Army, believing they were out
dated as secrets. He said Wallis
took the material in good faith
and had kept them in an unlocked
drawer in his studio, with the idea
of perhaps writing a magazine ar
ticle some day.
The G-Men, Schwartz said, ques
tioned Wallis last May, told him
he should not have taken the nega
tives and prints, but took no other
action. Wallis freely turned the
negatives and prints over to the
G-Men, he said.
Schwartz described the situation
as "a tempest in a teapot.”
Wallis is being held incommuni
cado at Chicago police headquar
ters for the U. S. marshal. He
will be arraigned tomorrow be
fore U. S. Commissioner Edwin K.
Walker here.
Resignation Of Convicted
Pastor Finally Accepted
Milwaukee, July 13. — m—
After a stormy meeting, members
of Calvary Presbyterian church
voted today to accept the resigna
tion of their pastor, Dr. John
Lewis, who was found guilty of
starting a $150,000 fire in the
fashionable edifice.
At least eight persons stalked
out of the meeting before the con
gregation voted 125 to 52 to accept
the offer of the 73-year-old scholar
and author.
Dr. Lewis, sentenced last month
to a one to five year term in the
state penitentary on an arson
charge, is at liberty under $5,000
bond pending the filing of his ap
peal. . ,.
A resolution of commendation
was accepted after some argu
ment.
Church Elder Gordon Parks told
the congregation:
“It’s an insult to Dr. Lewis to
offer such a resolution. He is aware
of the divided sympathy in this
church.”
He was interrupted when some
one shouted from the audience.
“We are persecuting an innocent
man.”
The resolution expressed the
congregation’s “deep regard for
Dr. Lewis” and “our sympathy for
him and his family in view of the
trouble which he has faced and
which still confronts him.”
The resignation become* effect
ive July 31.
FOR THE fellow who dreams of
toys operated by remote control,
this coming Christmas season has
much in store. At an exhibit held
by the toy trade in New York, a
youngster gazes wide-eyed at a
new etectromatic crane as it un
loads steel shavings from a minia
ture freight car before him. — (In
ternational).
EMPLOYMENT HITS
NEW RECORD HIGH
First Quarter Report Shows
5,000 More Than In
Peak War Month
RALEIGH, July 13—(IP)—Despite
an upswing in the volume of un
employment claims paid by the
Employment Security commission
during the first quarter of 1947,
Henry E Kendall, corftmission
chairman, today reported that em
ployment still is above the peak
month of World War H by more
than 5,000 workers.
With 150 firms, representing ap
proximately 6,000 workers, unre
ported as of June 30, the 12,991
covered firms reported employ
ment in January of 607,876; in
February, 605,763; and in March,
604,007. The average for the three
months was 605,882.
Unreported firms, Kendall said,
sh'.uld bring the total to about
612.000, as compared to 606,000
workers for the peak month of
the war in November, 1942.
Slight Dip
More than half of the 600,000
workers are employed in manufac
ture. Kendall stated! While the
trend in manufacturing employ
ment was slightly down in March,
the dip was not nearly so decided
as in construction, transportation
and trade. Employment in the
service industries increased by
some 500 workers during the three
month, and employment in the
real estate and financial group
increased by nearly as much.
Employers paid their workers
more than $290,000,000 during the
first quarter of 1947, for an all
time record. In the war years,
total wages averaged close to 800
millions a year. At the present
rate. 1947 wages should reach near
$1,200,000,000.
POLICE RELEASE MAN
SUSPECTED OF B EIN G
WANTED CAFE KEEPER
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., July
13. —(JP)— A man described as re
sembling Morley V. King, missing
restaurant man charged with mur
der of his wife, was detained in
Winnemucca, Nev., today but later
was released.
Sheriff Murray Hathway said the
man was picked up by Nevada au
thorities on the broadcast descrip
tion of King. A check of finger
prints however, resulted in his re
lease, the sheriff said.
King, 46, has been missing since
last Tuesday. His wife’s body, jam
med into a trunk hidden under the
kitchen porch of a hotel here where
King operated a restaurant, was
found about 30 hours after King
last was seen.
Mrs. King had been dead several
days. _
Coal Wage Triumphs Seen
As Impetus For New Goal
United Mine Boss, Now Holding Membership
On Executive Council, Wields Powerful
Influence On Federation Policy
WASHINGTON, July 13 — (£>) —
John L. Lewis’ negotiation of new
record contracts in the coal in-:
dustry increased speculation to
day that he may now set out to
head the American Federation of
Labor.
Lewis is a member of the AFL's
powerful 15-man executive council
which would play a large part in
selecting the successor to Presi
dent William Green, if he decides
to retire.
The council meets in Chicago
for 10 days beginning September
8 in preparation for the annual
AFL convention in San Francisco
beginning October 6. The conven
tion will do the electing, guided
to a considerable degree by the
attitude of council members.
Green, 74, has beaded the AFL
since 1924. A former secretary
treasurer of the Lewis’ United
Mine Workers, Green was Lewis'
choice for the Presidency at that
time and since Lewis, return to
the AFL in January 1946, the two
have been as close as pees in a
I»d.
Now that the hard and soft coal
miners are covered for at least
a year by the best contracts in
their history, Lewis may see his
way clear to go out for the wider
field of opera lions in the AFL.
If he does, it would be largely
because of his desire for this dis
rinction, because as 13th vice
president, friends say, Lewis has
wielded as much or more influ
ence in policy matters as Green
himself.
Lewis, 67, could turn over the
leadership of the UMW to Vice
President John O’Leary, Secre
tary -Treasurer Thomas Kennedy
or A. D. (Denny) Lewis, the mine
chief’s brother.
Many persons in AFL and CIO
labor unions believe Lewis cher
ishes the ambition to head the
AFL before he steps out of public
life. He brought about the great
split in labor in 1935 with the
founding of the CIO, but eventu
ally he drifted aw'ay from the CIO
and effected a reconciliation with
the old line union leaders of the
AFL.
Now, if he wished to make a
fight for the top spot, some AFL
officials think he could probably
get enough votes on the executive
council to make it.
VIOLENCE TAKES
LIVES OF EIGHT
Four Of Deaths In State
Over Week-End Occur
In Auto Accidents
By The Associated Press
Death took the lives of at least
eight North Carolinans through
violence this weekend.
Three we.e killed instantly seven
miles of Wilson Sunday when the
automobile in which they were
riding struck a bridge abutment.
The victims, as identified by
State Highway Patrolman George
Oakley, were James A. Parness,
32, of Elm City, route two, and
Marvin Farr and J. C. Isom, 18
and 29 respectively, also of Route
Two Elm City.
In addition, two others riding
in the vehicle were seriously in
jured.
W. Cleveland Jackson, 65, a
resident of Elizabeth City for 46
years, died at Kittyhawk beach
Saturday while wading in toward
the beach. Coroner Marvin Rog
ers said Jackson probably drown
ed after suffering a heart attack
See VIOLENCE on Page Two
TRUMAN WILL APPEAL
ONCE MORE FOR BILL
TO ADMIT EUROPEANS
WASHINGTON, July 13. — OJ.R)—
President Truman meets with con
gressional leaders tomorrow to
make a personal, but probably
futile, plea for passage of a bill to
admit 400,000 displaced Europeans
to the United States.
Despite three previous White
House appeals, neither House nor
Senate has displayed any anxiety
over the issue, and Mr. Truman
summoned the leaders in the hope
another plea would influence action
before Congress adjourns for the
summer two weeks hence.
The President’s position is bas
ed on American obligations under
provisions of the International Ref
ugee organization. Congress au
thorized U. S. participation and vot
ed more than $70,000,000 for that
purpose. But it wrote in bans
against admitting any of the refu
gees to the United States without
its specific consent.
Along The Cape Fear
..SALMAGUNDI — In 1898 there
wes a paper called the S. A. L.
MAGUNDI and devoted to the
Seaboard Air Line and the agri
cultural and industrial interests of
the South. The entire May issue
■of that year carried stoTies and,
pictures of Wilmington.
Perhaps the paper is still being
published. Nevertheless, an old is
sue was brought to Along the
Cape Fear by James M. James,
railway express agent, Atlantic
Coast Line depot, and contains
many interesting items about the
Port City.
Called, the City by the Sea, Wil
mington is described as “mistress
of the sea and Jand”, in the whole
front page layout.
The story begins: “To a visi
tor in early March, Wilmington
with its 25,000 inhabitants is a
most agreeable surprise, and in
proportion to the length of his
stay in that city his admiration
and astonishment increases. The
approach on its coast or river
border in its immediate vicinity
'.s through a marshy country, but
not maiarisl, for the tidal inflow
is of salt water, occurring at reg
ular intervals, never standing
long enough to become putrescent
or miasmatic.”
> K j . j • . - - - - 1
THOROUGH COVERAGE —
Hie four - page paper carries 21
pictures with the write-up. All of
the pictures are of familiar land
marks, some of which are still
standing, although in a more or
less weathered condition. The
postoffice today is a new struc
ture.
About the city the writer noted,
"Considered in every conceivable
light, it is not only a healthful,
but a cleanly, beautiful city. The
streets and sidewalks are well
paved and their condition is dili
gently looked after. Even along
tlie river front, on Water street,
and at the wharves where vessels
are all the time loading or un
loading, the same system of good
order and cleanliness prevails. No
obnoxious heaps of filth or degris
are allowed to accumulate, and
there are no noxious or noisome
smells.”
* * •
BUSINESSES — Also of interest
is it to note how time has changed
tlie types and number of busi
nesses in the Port City since 1898.
At that time there were 36 retail
liquor dealers, four daily papers,
five weekly papers, four livery
See CAFE FEAR On F»*e Two
ANOTHERSAUCER
IS SPOTTED HERE
Couple Says They Saw
Bright Thing Flying
Near Horizon
Another flying saucer zoomed
across the gky south of Wilming
ton yesterday.
Two local residents told of see
ing an object that traveled with
such a bright light that it “hurt
my eyes” as related by a husband
and wife.
The couple were Mr. and Mrs.
Donald E. Hamilton, 609 Castle
street, who said they viewed the
saucer for a “few seconds” as
they peered oW of a second story
window at their home at the height
of a rain storm at approximately
1:40 p. m.
“The object was about three
quarters the size the moon ap
pears,” Mrs. Hamilton related. “It
was traveling west and just before
it seemed to disappear into a cloud,
it turned sideways and you could
see that it had a spinning motion.”
The couple discounted a theory
advanced by attaches at Bluethen
thal airport that the object might
have been a PT-13 silver colored
training ship. Employes at the field
said that at that time such planes
were in the air, same with landing
lights on.
The Hammons said they saw a
plane at the time, but the ship was
flying in the opposite direction.
“What we saw couldn’t have been
a plane,” they agreed. “It was like
nothing that we have ever seen
and was much larger than any
plane.”
The saucer, according to the
Hamiltons, was running at teriffic
speed about parallel with the hori
zon but not high in the sky.
The light from it was red, said
Mrs. Hamilton and “as my eyes
are not so strong it hurt them to
look at it.”
The ; ouple said the saucer ap
peared “heavy and pcnderous” and
it “glowed” and seemed to be
“lurching.” After it turned side
ways, they added, “you could see
the b ed light.”
Oft at Blv.ethenthal airport
and 1 -• Field said that pilots in
the air at the time when question
ed, declared they had not witnessed
the objects.
HENRY FORD CHOICE
OF FINANCE WRITERS
AS “MAN OF THE YEAR”
NEW YORK, July 13—(jP)—Hen
ry Ford 2nd, president of Ford
Motor Co., has been named “man
of the year’’ by New York Fi
nancial Writers' association, Ro
bert Denver, president, annoimced
today. Ford was the majority
choice of the association in the
first such annual poll._
Roberts Blasts “Tactics ”
Of Taft On Military Bill
PHILADELPHIA, July 13. —(U.R)
—Former Supreme Court Justice
Owen J. Roberts said today that
"obstructionist tactics” by Sen.
Robert A. Taft, (R.-O.) to block ac
tion on President Truman’s univer
sal military training program
"might result in a national calami
ty.”
Roberts, a Republican, is chair
man of the newly-formed Citizens
Emergency committee for UMT.
He made public an “open letter”
to Taft in which he accused the
Ohioan and possible 1948 GOP
presidential nominee of being "the
major stumbling block’’ to legisla
L.'
tive action at this session of con
gress.
In a separate statement, Roberts
said he regretted the need for send
ing the letter, because he consider
ed Taft a lawmaker whose judg
ment on economic and political
matters has “in most cases been
good and is worthy of the most
serious consideration.’’
“But when it comes to matters
relating to war and military prep
arations for it,” he said, “it seems
obvious that he is one of those
sincere but, I think, misguided
gee ROBERTS On rage Twe i
SECRETARY MARSHALL
MARSHALL SLATED
FOR TALK TODAY
Secretary To Address Con
ference Of Governors;
Politics Hot
SALT LAKE CITY, July 13—(U.R)
—Forty-seven state and territorial
governors gathered tonight for the
last governors’ conference before
the selection of 1948 Presidential
candidates. Politics dominated
their pre-convention talk.
The conference opens at 10 a.m.
tomorrow with the membership
strongly Republicans for the first
time in more than 10 years. The
governors came frrm 44 states and
three territories, with only Ari
zona, Delaware, Kentuckyf Miss
issippi and the Virgin Islands un
represented.
The governors were expected to
go on record as strongly favoring
tax slashes as proposed in the
Republican income tax cut bill
which comes up for a vote in the
Senate tomorrow.
- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York will preside at a round table
discussion of taxation tomorrow
afternoon. Plans for members of
the House and Senate Finance
committees to present the views
of Congress were cancelled be
cause of tomorrow’s Senate vote.
The tax meeting will follow
scheduled morning speeches by
Govs. Thomas Herbert, Ohio, on
"Can The States Do The Job?,’’
Beauford Jester, Texas, on Safety
and Ernest Gibson, Vermont, on
Veterans Housing.
Marshall To Speak
An address by Secretary of State
George C. Marshall on internation
al affairs at a banquet tomorrow
night will climax the opening day.
He is expected to urge bipartisan
support of the "Marshall Plan”
for economic aid to Europe.
But overlying the official con
ference business is a political at
mosphere centering on Presiden
tial campaign prospects.
Political talk was heightened by
the presence of Dewey, a leading
GOP Presidential aspirant, Gov.
Earl Warren of California, and
Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois.
Since his arrival Dewey has
maintained the appearance of
being on vacation. Yesterday e
took his family on a picnic in the
nearby snow-capped Wasatch
mountains. But there has been a
steady stream of national and
state GOP leaders in and out of
the Dewey suite.
Green spent a similarly busy
weekend. Both he and Warren
have been mentioned as likely
choices of Dewey for the vice
presidential position on the 1948
GOP ticket.
COAL WAGE INCREASE
TO SEND STEEL COST
UP A B 0 U T $5.00 TON
CLEVELAND, July 13—(A3)—In
creased wages for coal miners and
earlier increases for steelworkers
will boost steel prices an average
of $5 a ton within the next few
weeks, predicted the magazine
Steel today.
Announcement of the new steel
price schedules is expected early
in August,” said the publication.
‘‘Metalworking officials are al
ready studying the effects of the
cost increases on the prices of
their finished products. For many,
advances in selling prices will be
necessary.
Committees
Set For Work
Economic Conferenct
Establishes Machinery
For Aid Program
PARIS. July 13—UP)—The Euro
pean Economic conference estab
lished machinery late today to
implement the Marshall program
for European recovery, and em
phasized again that Russia and
her satellites were welcome to
participate.
The action came after spokes
men for the Scandinavian coun
tries—Sweden, Norway and Den
mark—a!l expressed opposition to
any political implications of the
aid-Europe plan, and said their
countries desired economic coop
eration, but nothing more.
Claude Bouchinet-Serreulles of
France was elected secretary gen
eral of the conference, which nam
ed British Foreign Secretary Er
nest Bevin as its president at the
opening session yesterday.
The conference, in its second
plenary session, adopted unani
mously a rules committee report
setting up a steering committee,
an executive committee and four
technical sub-committees to sur-.
vey Europe’s assets and define
her needs for United States assis
tance.
The steering committee will be
composed of 16 members — one
from each state attending the con
ference.
To Reserve Places
The conference also decided to
reserve places on the steering
committee for “all other European
states which declare themselves
willing to participate in its work."
Herve Alphand of France, chair
man of the rules committee, said
in presenting his report that this
would mean “the door will remain
open to all European countries.”
The makeup of the executive
committee and the four technical
sub-committees will be decided at
the third plenary session Tuesday.
On a motion by Sweden, the
rules committee also inserted a
clause providing that the new eco
nomic organization should main
tain “close relations” with the
United Nations and its specialized
branches as well as with exist
ing inter-governmental organiza
tions.
The conference set Sept. 1 as its
target date for the submission to
the American government of a
report on Europe’s needs and re
sources for the next four years,
and directed its steering commit
tee to seek “the friendly assist
ance of the United States for the
preparation of the report.’’
Data Urged
The steering committee also was
instructed to request data on tha
assets and requirements of Ger
many from the four commanders
in-chief on the Allied Control Coun
cil for Germany.
Two other changes written into
the conference rules during a noon
See MARSHALL On Page Two
SCHOOL BUDGET
TO BE UP TODAY
County Commission Also
To Renew Discussion Of
Stadium Lighting
The budget for 1947-48 fiscal
year operation of New Hanover
county schools will be presented
the county commissioners today
at their regular weekly session.
Although Superintendent H. M.
Roland has declined to disclose
figures on the budget, it is known
that an increase in teacher’s sal
ary will be included in the pro
posed budget.
Also expected to come up at
today’s session is installation of
new lights at the American
Legion stadium. The bid submit
ted by Jerry A. Jones at last
week’s meeting was deferred.
Since then Jones has said there
will be no charge on his part oa
the previously submitted figure.
The commissioners last Monday
instructed Chairman Addison
Hewlett to clarify the bid with
the electrical contractor.
Work on preparing the county
budget is expected to begin in
earnest following Tuesday’s joint
session with the city council when
it is hoped that expenses shared
by both bodies will be ironed out.
And So To Bed
The persistant knocking at
the door of the Wilmington
home at breakfast time continu
ed.
Everyone kept eating and
hoping that whoever was at
the door would finally give up
and go away.
The knocking became louder
and more frantic.
Finally in desperation the
man of the house got up and
wearily opened the front dodr.
There at the step was a smaEj
boy from across the way with
a look of urgency on his face.
He had one request:
"Will you put my June-buf
on thig string for »if*