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Shipbuilding
Strike Looms
CIO Union Leader Threat
's East Coast-Gulf
Yard Shutdown
WASHINGTON, July 15- (#) -
• II Oakes. CIO shipbuilding
official, said, today the “en
. adantic and Gulf coast ship
f'ldin« ‘ industry will be shut
“ ”“unless the union reaches
LLt agreements by July 23.
,0!1 Washington representa
■ L the Industrial Union of Ma
kve (Pd Shiobuilding Workers
Ln) to’-d reporters that about
Loo more shipyard workers will
•in approximately 67,000 now on
5 rite unless agreements ard
Lde with the Tljad Shipbuilding
C%L Agreement with Todd, he
A pxpire July 23, and the walk
L would aflect about 15 000
v-ters n the New York Clty
* ea ' about 5.000 in New Orleans
nfi about 5.000 in San Pedro, Cal
* Hp caid 67.000 workers already
on'strike at 19 shipyards on
L Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Oakes made these statement:
hp and other union officials,
Lading J°hn Green' uni0n Prcs‘
w waited for more than two
Lr. in a fruitless attempt to
,.«ent to congressmen the organ
f,,(ion's program for increasing
ffcp size of the nation’s merchant
f UTon officials naa set tip a pro
jector to be used in an Ulnstrated
ecture on the subject: Tne
L That Invented The Steamship
Must Now Use It.” All. members
p Confess. had keen invited t„
attend. _ .
union propuses
t( S Maritime Commission Ve
ranted funds immediately to sub
'‘[iht construction of 59 new mer
man* vessels. ,
Oakes said the meeting, scned
,,’.d for 4 p.m... had been arrang
by Senator Brewster (R-Me’>
j-d Representatives Wolverton
rR-NJ* and Weichel (R-Olrio).
However, both foe Senate and the
bouse were still in session at 6
pm. and the union officials de
eded to postpone their meeting
vn‘il tomorrow in hopes That the
Congressmen mav be free to at
tend then. . , .
Oakes said the shipyard work
ers are demanding an average
usy increase of 13 cents an hour,
pay for oix holidays not worked,
i 1.8 cents per hour Der worker
payment to an equity fond to ad
J:st wages of lower paid employ
es. and improved vacation sched
ules.
REGISTRATION SET
BY COLLEGE DEAN
New Wilmington Institution
Will Book Students
Next Week
Pre-registration for tire Wil
mington College will be hold next
week at the New Hanover hign
school, Dean Dale Spencer an
nounced yesterday.
Registration for three regula
courses and selection of lecture
hours will be conducted two days
during the week. Hours at tne
high school will be from 9 a.rn.,
to'4:30 p.m., Thursday end Fri
day, July 24 and 25.
Erroneous reports had been c-r
ttiiated that pre-registration had
taken place recently, Dean Spen
ter explained.
In addition to registration, stu
dents desiring may make out
tentative lecture hours for them
iclves at the same time, the dean
•deed.
Classes will be conducted when
•drool opens in September, begin
ning at 4 p.m., and lasting until
late in the evening. The hours are
•i-aned not to conflict with high
•chool students.
Courses open will be known as
the university parallel leading to
college degrees at universities or
four-year colleges: terminal
courses complete in themselves m
two years and technical courses.
Courses leading to degrees Will
include liberal arts, commerce,
•ngmeering, home economics,
Fe-nredical and pre-dental, law
*nd science. In the terminal
courses will be business adminis
tration, accounting, home econom
ic. secrets-:'1' science and mer
chandizing, -nival courses will
include va -Vses along that
general 11:
The Weather
FORECAST:
^Uth Carolina—Considerable cloudi
J*5 and continued warm and humid
Tuesday with scattered afternoon
*r>.d evening thundershowers; Thursday
jjnly cloudy and rather hot, with scat
*r&d afternoon thundershowers East
* d South portions.
North Carolina—Considerable cloudi
J,;58 and continue^ warm and humid
"^nesday with mattered afternoon and
:i?ning thunderrnowers; Thursday part
2 cloudy end rather hot. with scatter
^tttnioon thundershowers East por
u (fly U. S. Weather Bureau)
^teorological data for the 24 hours
ln* 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
It' . a m■ 74; 7:30 a. m. 76; 1:30 p m
-:30 p. rn. 76: Maximum 80; Mini
•" Mean 75; Normal 79.
, HUMIDITY
n!'“na- m- 7:30 a. m. 33; 1:30 p. m.
1P- m. 87.
T PRECIPITATION
* ■■al for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
inches.
*inC€ the first of the month
z incnes.
p TIDES for today
V 5r’T Tide Tables published by
^-oast and Geodetic Survey).
Win - „4 HIGH LOW
“•■i.on - 7:53 a.m. 3:00 a.m.
Masonu 8 :39 p.m. 2:59 p.m.
““'boro Ir.l.t 5:38 a.m. 11:S7 a.m.
Surms_ - 6:17 p m- - P-m
1 -la if 0,12; Sunset 7:24; Moonrise
n _ Mo°r,set 6 :22p.
1 I. m “'a6e a' Fayetteville, N. C. at
wrhZ 9 8 feet
FATHER On Page Twa
Plantation
Nets $ 14a f it Tables
- .
Five Men Arrested At Club; Series Of Liquor
Raids Scoop Up 15 Persons For
Alleged Whiskey Selling
In a series of raids conducted late last night by local
ABC officers 15 persons were arrested on charges of sell
ing whiskey and at the same time Sheriffs officers an
nounced the arrest of five white men in a raid at the Plan
tation club on charges of gambling. The club was padlocked.
Sheriffs Officers S. V. Sneeden, Marvin Shinn and R.
B. King said they arrested Cleeve Lewis and M. J. Peach,
alleged operators of the gambling house at the Plantation.
Arrested along with the two men were Walter Hecht, Greg
ory Novis. and William A. Lewis, the officers said.
The officers reported they confiscated $1442 from the
dice table where the five men were allegedly playing.
Sheriffs officers said they arrived at the club immedi
ately after the ABC agents began their Arrests.
Cleeve Lewis and M. J. Peach, officers said, were un
der $2000 bonds each.
Hecht, Novis, and William A. Lewis, were under $25
bonds each, officers said.
MANAGER BENSON
“NON-COMMITAL”
City OffkUlTwiil Neither
Confirm, Deny Police
Promotion Stories
City Manager ,T. R. Benson said
last night that he would neither
confirm nor deny published re
ports that a number of police of
ficers, who were named in the
story, soon would be promoted to
certain top positions.
Members of city council, who
were available for comment, said
the story was news to them. And
since that was the case, they said
they could offer no comment.
Chief Hubert Haves said that he
had no plans to bring any pro
motional matters before today’s
weekly council session.
However, Hayes did say that
other city police officers beside
those suspended yesterday, soon
may feel the ax for alleged ad
verse criticism of the department.
Probe Looms
Further investigation into the
matter likely will be launched to
day. Attention will be paid to of
ficers who may have “participat
ed in gossip activities and agita
tion detrimental to the best in
terests of the department”, partic
ularly as concerns recommenda
tions for promotions not yet an
nounced, he said.
Yesterday Hayes . suspended
both L. E. Sikes and C. W. Wilson,
officers whose names appeared on
the list of the department’s com
mittee on recommendations for
promotions.
Published rumors of promc
See MANAGER On Page Two
The whiskey raids were conduct
ed under the supervision of Earl
3. Bland, chief of the New Han
over ABC officers and A. G. Scar
borough, State ABC agent of Ra
leigh. J. C. Cook and W. E. Single
tary, local ABC agenls made the
arrests.
The following were arrested on
charges of having in their pos
session whiskey for the purpose of
sale, barter or exchange. The
evidence w-as obtained early in
the week by undercover agents
of the state and local ABC boards.
Edith McClain. Negro woman,
810 Castle street.
J. W. Crooks, w’hiie. Carolina
Beach.
B, O. ‘Plenty” Hester, white,
Carolina Beach, charged with
three separate warrants.
Charlie C. Allen, white, Carolina
Beach.
Tommy Thomas, white, Carolina
Beach, charged on two separate
warrants.
W. G. Kimel, white. Carolina
Beach.
A. P. Adams, white. Carolina
Beach is charged with three sepa
rate accounts.
Mrs. I. J. Grady, while, Caro
lina Beach.
Bill Hudson, white, Carolina
Beach road.
Edgar Freeman, Negro. Sea
breeze charged with two counts.
Thomas Robinson. Negro, Sea
breeze.
Lee Wade, Negro, Seabreeze.
Earl T. Lewis, T. C. Lewis and
M. J. Peach were arrested at the
Plantation club. T. C. Lewis was
charged with two counts.
Those arrested last night prob
ably will be given a hearing in
Recorder's court this morning.
Revolutionary Method
Of Printing Announced
NEW VORK, July 15 —UP)—De
velopment of a revolutionary
newspaper printing method de
signed to eliminate the use of lino
type machines, matrices and
stereotype plates was announced
today by John H. Perry Jr., chair
man, and his brother Farwell W.
Perry, president, of the William
J. Higgins co.
Entire pages are printed direct
ly from a single sheet of engraved
magnesium which weighs less
than a pound compared with 46
pounds for a conventional stereo
type plate.
Composition of body type is
done by proportional spacing type
writers, and the Perrys said ma
chines have been developed to
permit head-setting by the same
method.
“The process completely
changes the compbsing room as
See REVOLUTIONARY On Page 2
CHICKEN DEAI RS
BURNED IN CRASH
Two Connecticut Men Lose
Lives When Plane Hits
Telephone Pole
LURAY, Va., July 15 —(Ah—Two
men were burned to death 'eri^v
when a single engine C-64 plane
crashed into a telephone poie
about nine miles from Luray on
Route 211.
From papers found in the plane,
which State police said was carry
ing a cargo of chickens, the dead
were identified as: Francis and
Arthur H. Watrous, brothers, of
Meriden, Connecticut.
State police were reported to
have contacted the Fleet Wing
Cargo, Corp., of Wallingford,
Conn., by telephone and to have
been informed that the plane left
there about noon today, and was
bound for Charlottesville.
The accident occurred near the
place along the Skyline Drive
known as Panorama, and a part
of the wing of the plane had to
be removed from the heavily
traveled Lee highway.
A CAB official at Washington
said it appeared that'the pilot was
trying +o follow the highway
through the pass while the moun
tain top was hidden by a heavy
overcast. .... ,
The plane was identified as a
Noorduyn Norseman.
AIRPORT TRANSFER
RALEIGH, July 15—(A1) — The
formal transfer 1,293 acres of
land, leased by the federal govern
ment for use as an airfield duiyig
war,, was made today to Raleigh,
Wake county, Durham and Dur
ham county, when papers were
filed with Hunter Ellington, Wake
county register of deeds.
The instrument of Transfer was
filed by the Raleigh law firm of
Ehringhaus and Ehringhaus, at
torneys for the four municipalities
Made through the war assets ad
ministration. the transfer culmi
nated transactions which kave
been underway for a year.
MOTHER, THREE GIRLS
LOSE LIVES IN AUTO
SMASHUP WITH TRAIN
GREENVILLE, July 15—(IP) —A
mother and her three daughters
were killed today when their car
was smashed and thrown 70 feet
by a Southern railroad passenger
train at a grade crossing at Tay
lors, eight miles north of here.
County Deputy Milford Forrest
er identified the victims as Mrs.
Maudie Lee Brown Batson, about
43, cf Route 2 Greenville, and her
daughters, Mildred, 22, Mary El
len, 7, and Shirley Ann, 4.
Forrester said Mildred was
driving a 1934 Fora eoacn when
the accident occurred. He said six
witnesses told him the oncoming
train was hidden from the cars
view by a switch engine which
was stopped on an adjacent track.
Cousin Of King George Faces Bad Check Charges;
Nevada Has New Tourist Bait - But It Is Unlawful
Truck Driver Find* Over
$1,000,000 In Bogus
Money On Tree*
LAS VEGAS, Nev.. July 15—ftJ.R)
_A new tourist attraction was
added today to the scenic won
ders of Southern Nevada and
Utah—money on trees.
More than $1,000,000 in ten-dol
lar bills—was discovered between
here and St. George, Utah, by a
truck driver last Friday. Unfortu
nately from the chamber of com
merce viewpoint, it was all coun
terfeit.
The bogus bills were found scat
tered over a 20-mile area. It was
believed a strong windstorm sev
eral days ago fc-id uncovered a
cache and sent the bills whirling
through the desert, dotting trees
and brush with crisp greenbacks.
Las Vegas police saw in the dis
covery a connection with the re
cent gangland slaying of Ben
gee TRUCK SKIVER On Pace *
Governors Hear Passionate Plea
For “Total Mobilization” Now;
Nation Adopts New German Aims
Policy Opens
Doors To Aid
New Directive Declares
For Higher Living
Standard In Zones
BERLIN, July 15 —UP)— The
United States government, an
nouncing a revised policy toward
Germany, declared today ‘‘a sta
ble and productive Germany,”
with a higher standard of living
was essential to European ra«ov
ery and lasting peace.
The new policy, first over-all
American directive on Germany
since the end of the war—appar
ently opens the way for German
participation in the Marshall prop
osal for European reconstruction.
The new directive was sent to
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. mili
tary governor, by U. S. State, War
and Navy departments. It repre
sented an updating of American
occupation policy, which officially
had been based largely upon the
old joint chiefs of staff directive
to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
and the military government dated
April 16, 1945, 12 days before the
end of he war.
The new 6,OCO-word directive
laid down American objectives and
basic policies to be pursued in the
U. S. administration of still-parti
tioned Germany. It contained es
pecially in its economic aspects,
some policy revisions which were
stated officially and publicly for
the first time.
U. S. military government lead
ers here said they regarded the
document as the most important
American statement on Germany
since the speech of Former Secre
tary of State James F. Byrnes in
Stuttgart last fall, when he ad
vocated the return of self govern
ment to the Germans as quickly
as possible.
Gen. Clay said that he regard
ed the “most important’’ part of
the directive “the fact that it rec
ognizes the essential part which
Germany has in the revival of the
economy of Europe as a whole and
provides for the participation of
Germany in European revival.”
Maj. Gen. William H. Draper,
chief economic adviser to Clay,
said the new economic policy was
a public and official discarding of
the Potsdam and war era propos
i als which envisioned a pastoral
Germany and a stern peace.
The U. S. directive repeatedly
See POLICY on Page Two
EDWARD GARMATZ
ELECTION VICTOR
Baltimore Democrat, Back
ed By CIO President,
Wins House Seat
BALTIMORE, July 15 —(/P)—Ed
ward A. Garmatz, Baltimore
Democrat, was an overwhelming
victor over two opponents in to
day’* election to fill the House
of Representatives seat vacated
by Thomas D'Alesandro when he
became mayor of the city in May.
Complete unofficial returns
from the Third Congressional dis
trict’s 104 precincts gave Garmatz
12,179 votes, to 3.776 for Republi
can Edward Panetti and 7.070 for
Democratic City Councilman Si
mon P. Jarosinski who ran as an
independent.
Garmatz ran with the backing
of D’Alesandro and the Democra
tic State Central committee. The
campaign was waged on local is
sues, although national attention
was focused on it when Philip
Murray, national president of the
CIO, endorsed Garmatz in an ac
tion which may provide for a test
of the Taft-Hartley law provision
barring union-financed newspa
pers from participating in politi
cal campaigns.
Murray's endorsement was
printed in the CIO News Monday
in the form of an editorial. c
SLOWLY RECOVERING FROM AN INFANTILE PARALYSIS ATTACK, as the result of treat
ment at Burlington, Va., made possible by the Warm Springs National Foundation, Genevieve El
dredge, Rutland, Vt., pays a visit to the grave of the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Par];,
N. Y. There, after placing a flag before the gravestone, she offers a silent prayer of gratitude She
was stricken about two years ago and, while her left leg is still in braces, she is now able to stand and
walk for short' distances. (International Exclusive)
Woman Whose Heart Belonged
To Men With Wings, Pays Too
_I ___
NEW $64 QUESTION—WHO IS 5 CENTS?
WHITE VILLE, July 15—Who is Five Cents? The question re
mains unanswered even though Coroner Hugh Nance tried to iden
tify her at the inquest into the axe slaying of Anthem Davis Friday
night.
Marie Wilson, a Tabor City colored woman, was on the wit
ness stand and Coroner Nance asked who was with her at a cer
tain time. She named one person and then added, “and Five
Cets.” Coroner Nance looked surprised and tried to ascertain
whether she referred to a nickel or five cents.
“Five Cents, that’s what they call her. That's all I know,’’
Marie Wilson said. And Five Cents she is, whoever she is.
GOVERNORS BLAST
U. S. SCHOOL AID
Speakers Emphasize Im
portance Of Teaching
American History
SALT LAKE CITY, July 15—
—Sharp opposition to federal aid
in the field of education and fear
that such help would lead to fed
eral control were voiced today by
a large majority of the governors,
who engaged in a round table dis
cussion of education.
Speakers also emphasized that
American history and democracy
needed greater attention in school
systems. Gov. Kim Siglir of Mich
igan, one of the 13 ' discussion
leaders, assailed any un-American
theories in teaching and declared
the schools should stress the in
culcation of law and order.
Gove. James L. McConauchy of
Connecticut told his fellow chief
executives who are attending the
annual governors’ conference, that
federal aid to education is com
ing whether we like it or r.ot. The
problem is to make that aid as
effective as possible.”
Among those who declared
themselves opposed to federal as
sistance were Govs. Phil M. Don
nelly of Missouri. Mon C. Wall
gren of Washington, John O. Pas
tore of Rhode Island and Val Pet
ersen of Nebraska.
TWO YOUNG GIRLS
REPORTED MISSING
Henry Johnson of Havana, Flor
ida, reported to police last night
that his two daughters were miss
ing from their home and may
have been headed to Wilmington.
The girls missing are Hellen
Johnson, age 19 and Maggie John
son, 14. The father said the girls
have been missing several davs.
No discription was given of either
f the girls.
SHRIMP INDUSTRY ASKS
USE OF CHILD LABOR
WASHINGTON July 15-The la
bor department was asked today
to let children help process shrimp
on the eastern North Carolina
coast. Tar Heel Senator Clyde R.
Hoey said.
The request was made by a five
man committee promoting the
stae’s shrimp industry: Bill Wells
See SHRIMP On Page Two
Teachers Face Possible
Loss Of $6 Monthly Pay
Teachers in Wilmington and
New Hanover will face a virtual
six dollars monthly pay decrease
from the county if the commis
sioners do not approve the request
of Superintendent H. M. Roland
for a transfer of $26,400 from the
supplementary to the regular bud
gets.
A delegation of teachers made
tnat declaration yesterday : to the
ccunty commissioners.
LIGHTNING BOLT HITS
HISTORIC HALL OF
COLLEGE IN GEORGIA
MARION, Ala.. July 15— (.**) —
Flames set by lightning severely
damaged historic Jewett Hall,
principal building of Judson col
lege, here today.
Judson, a Baptist school for
girls founded in 1838, was not in
session and adminitrative. peron
nel was evacuated without injury.
J. Gilbert Balfour, editor of the
Marion Times-Standard, said the
blaze began after a bolt of light
ning struck the dome atop the
four-story building. The fire Was
Drought under control 45 minutes
later, he said, but damage was
severe.
Balfour said the building and its
contents were valued at $350,000.
Along The Cape Fear
/ .
ANOTHER CONTROVERSY —
The score is now tied on whether
the Cape Fear River ever froze
over enough to support a man.
C. D. Maffitt, shipping agent, con
tends he walked over it one win
ter, years ago.
A reader who signed himself A.
P. Reader wrote that the river
had never been frozen that hard.
L. G. Sherman of Atkinson said
he remembers when Maffitt walk
ed over the ice.
And nov; comes Major Harriss,
10 South 5th Street, and said Maf
fitt did not walk across the river
on the ice.
Major Harriss, now 83, says he
remembers the day Maffitt walk
ed over the river—but not on ice.
It was on rafts, made of logs
which were floated down the river
to the 10 sawmills here. Often the
logs became jammed in the river,
|forming a bridge. It was over this
that the shipping agent made his
way, says Harriss.
* * *
RECALLS FREEZE — On the
day the river froze over years
ago, Major Harriss went duck
hunting. Ke went down to the
river about 4 a.m. and found a
sheet of i.'e, oniy a few sixteenths
of an inch thick, coating the wa
ter. Hardly enough to support a
man, he said, although enough to
damage the prow of a boat.
He did go hunting, he recalled,
and brought a number of ducks
back. But as for walking across
on the ice on the river, Major
Harriss said he couldn’t go along
with the others, on that conten
tion.
* * *
OTHER RECOLLECTIONS —
Major Harriss also remembers
See CAP* FEAR On Page Two
Lady Iris Mountbatten Says
She Did Not Believe
Her Act Was Crime
NEW YORK, July 15—(U.R)—Lady
Iris Mountbatten, tall, blonde, 27
year-old cousin of King George
VI, was arrested today on a fugi
tive warrant charging her with
passing bad checks in Washing
ton, D. C.
Police went to Lady Iris’ com
fortably furnished Park avenue
apartment this afternoon and read
to her a warrant charging her
with writing a rubber check for
£88.95 for the purchase of a dress
or dresses at a Washington shop
on' June 9. The - warrant also
charged she passed two addition
al worthless checks for about $100.
. She was taken to the local pre
cinct station to be photographed
and fingerprinted.
Lady Iris admitted the checks
were bad, police said, but e^lam
1 See COUSIN On P&ff* Two
%
Former WAC Dies With
Fourth Husband In
Dizzy Death Plunge
MELBOURNE, Fla.. July 15—(U.R)
—Pretty Joyce Shultz MacKinnon,
26-year-old former WAC whose
heart belonged to men with wings,
lost three husbands in airplane
crashes and died with the fourth
in a dizzy plunge from the skies
near here Sunday, it was learned
today.
Joyce, once an airline hostess
herself, and her fourth lover, Rod
erick Paul MacKinnon of Rochest
er, N. Y., died in the crash of a
chartered plane in the coastal
bogland along witn 19 others.
MacKinnon was co-pilot of the ill
fated craft.
Joyce's body was being prepar
ed for cremation today, MacKin
non’s for burial. The couple wore
beautifully matched wedding rings
See WOMAN on Page Two
Headed by Mrs. Inez Hinnant,
chairman of the group, the dele
gation represented all class room
instructors in the city and county.
Declaring that the pay situation
is not well understood, the teach
ers explained that their “purpose
is to maintain at the same level
the money received for sain ties
dor the 1947-48 fiscal year from
See TEACHERS On Page Two
COMMITTEE SEEKS
SURPLUS VESSEL
State Shrimp Interests
Confer With Senator
Umstead, Officials
WASHINGTON. July 15 —/API—A
North Carolina committee author
ized by the legislature to make a
survey of the shrimp situation in
waters off the state’s coast is here
to obtain a surplus boat.
The group, accompanied by R.
Bruce Etheridge, director of con
servation and development at Ra
leigh, calied on Senator Umstead
(D-NC) during the day and con
ferred with federal officials.
The legislature authorized $50.
000 for the survey, which i* aim
ed at introduction of jumbo
shrimp into Carolina coastal wa
ters.
. In the delegation are Bill Wells
of Southport, Lewis J. Hardee of
Oriental, Dick Burnett of Wilming
ton, C. G. Holland of Beaufort and
Garland F. Fulcher of Oriental.
Roy Hampton, a member of the
State Board of Conservation and
Development, accompanied them.
OVER-LABOR PAY
COST OF BUILDING
GREENSBORO, July 15 — WR
Members of Carolinas Branch, As
sociated General Contractors of
America, meeting tonight at Sed
getfield inn, pointed squarely at
overtime labor pay as one of the
principal factors in "shamefully"
high building costs today.
The meeting, presided over by
C. P. Street of Charlotte, who is
treasurer of the organization, was
devoted to a round table discus
sion on means of reducing the
costs of building in the face of
high material prices, non-produc
tivity of labor, and labor pirat
ing by both large and small build
ers.
Preparation
SpeachTheme
South Carolina Executive
Points Out That Time
Will Be Element
SALT LAKE CITY, July 15. — OJ.R)
|— The annual Governors' confer
ence today heard a strong plea for
“total mobilization'' plans to pre
pare the nation for another war on
a moment’s notice.
Gov. Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina in a luncheon address to
the governors, called for intensi
fied national defense on the ground*
that “preparation for war is the
best insurance l-or peace."
“We have the word of our re
spected Chief of Staff, General
Eisenhower, that the Army is a
poor second to the Soviet Union,"
Thurmond declared. “He tells ua
that while war is not regarded as
a probability within the next 12
months, it is regarded as a possi
bility."
In order to prepare for this “pos
sibility.” Thurmond demanded that
the United States formulate a plan
for total mobilization on a mo
ment’s notice. “We will not have
months and weeks in which to pre
pare; we will have only hours and
minutes,” he said.
With the present missiles such a*
atomic bombs and guided rockets,
Thurmond continued, “our nation
will be shattered at a moment's
notice in the event of war.” In or
der to prevent that. Thurmond sug
gested that industry and hous ng
should be decentralized.
The South Carolina chief exe ?u
tive urged hemispheric solida; ity
to oppose any group of nations
which might attack the United
States.
“We find at present,” said Thur
mond. “that one group of nation*
is sitting at a conference table in
Paris, while another group, con
trolled by a power which seem*
headed for isolationism, is sitting
elsewhere.”
Other points suggested by Thur
mond were:
1. Unification of the armed serv
ices.
2. Organized military strength.
See PREPARATION Onn Page Tw*
NEGRO WINS CAR
BUT DON’T GET IT
Ahoskie Kiwanis Club
Rules Drawing Was For
White People Only
AHOSKIE, July 15 —(/P)—A 13
year-old Negro World War II vet
eran’s one-dollar chance won here
in a Kiwanis club festival lottery
Cor a $3,200 Cadillac, but Hertford
County Sheriff Charlie Parker told
'he winner that he could not have
the the car since Negroes were bar
red from the festival-dance, scene
of the drawing.
The winner was Harvey Jones,
! a nearby resident who took the
“ioss” of his car wiah a philosoph
ical attitude in saying, “The sher
ilf toid me I had 1he lucky num
ber, but I couldn't win hba car,
because it wasn’t for colored peo
ple.”
However, Jones was not the
only Negro sold chances on the
handsome automobile, and the
chances did not specify the win
ner had to be present for the
drawing.
Rupert Massey, local Kiwanis
club president, admitted tonight
that he knew at least six Negroes
had been sold chances, but quick
ly added that the chances were to
have been sold by the club only
lo white persons.
He pointed out that the club la
ter had advertized in a local news
paper that all Negroes who had
chances on the automobile would
be eligible for refunds.
On the night of the drawing,
three white men—Sheriff Parker
accompanied by Attorneys John
Jenkins of Aulander and Alvah
Early of Ahoskie — went to the
home of Jones at 1:30 a.m., to
tell him about winning the draw
ing.
Sheriff Parker informed the Ne
ro veteran that" it would be im
possible for him or any Negro to
win the automobile, since all Ne
groes were barrcj from ihe festi
val-dance. The three wh;te men
then paid Jones a one-aoll3r re
See NEGRO On Page Two
And So To Bed
A. T. Hardison, J6, came tat*
Recorder’s court yesterday
charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon. But the weapon
turned out to be a home-made .
pistol which wouldn’t shoot.
The butt was fastened to the
barrel with tape. Someone had
bored some holes through soft
metal to give the n; ranee
of a revolver. Then to give it
a lethal appearance, black
paint had been dabbed all over
the weapon.
“Dismissed" ruled Judg*
Peschau. “I’d have b**n
ashllmed to turn that weafe«a
over to the police as the law re
quires. Just have it destroyed.**
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