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FORECAST: Served By Leased Wires of the Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy ! ASSOCIATED PRESS with scattered thundershowers in after- - .. noon and evenir.; today; Friday partly cloudy with afternoon thundershowers. UNITED PRESS “ With Complete Coverage of ----:-- State %nd National New* V()LJ^1NQ- 1—----WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1947 ESTABLISHED ltdft food Prices Up 31 Cents Consumers Presented With Highest Grocery, Meat Bill In History CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—(U.R)— r burners were presented today C°th the highest food bill in the Nation’s history, while the gov ernment told them they were making more money than be {°nun and Bradstreet, Inc., .a at New York that the index ■wholesale food prices, rose cents last week to $7.02, a ... all-time high. Twenty of the basic foods used in compiling the figure showed sharp in creases. The only price dips were in ..as raisins and rice. y At Washington, the Commerce Department announced that per sonal income reached an un precedented annual rate of $197, ooo 000,000 during July. This was almost $2,000,000,000 higher than the previous record, set in June. Consumers were being bom barded with facts and figures on the status of their food hill. Tjiey also were beginning to feel the effects of the record market prices set a month ago, but on the grain and mercantile exchanges those records were just a memory. Many Commodities Up The price of hogs, wheat, oats, eggs, butter, lard, sugar and co coa all went up, following the i-ad of corn, which popped to iyjiher record on the Chicago ;0ard of Trade. An increase in the price of bread was threatened by higher wheat prices. Hog prices set a new all-time national record of $31 at Sioux City, la. Onions cost more, and even the price of cottonseed oil went up, be cause higher pork prices had forced lard futures up again. Officials of the National Fed eration of Millers said the price of flour lias been rising to keep pace with the price that millers must pay for wheat. Spokesmen for the baking in dustry in turn said it was “only a matter of time” before bakers would be forced to increase the price of bread. In states where See FOOD On Page Two AHOSKIE LOTTERY STORY BACKFIRES St. Louis Times-Star Cited By Postmaster For Publishing Facts By The Associated Press Taken to task by a postmaster for publishing a story about the Negro temporarily denied an au tomobile he won in a lottery, the St. Louis Star-Times served notice yesterday it would con tinue to publish such reports. The Baltimore Sun papers ex ecutives also have been “cau tioned” because the Sun carried a story about a drawing con ducted by the City of Peoria, 111. Sunpaper executives said they had not yet decided on a future policy. Postoffice officials in Washing ton said warnings like those to the Star-Times and Sunpapers are routine. They disclaimed any “campaign” against news papers carrying lottery stories. They pointed, however, to a law forbidding the mailing of publications carrying lottery ad vertisements or news about prizes. While they could recall uo prosecutions ot newspapers in recent years under the law, they said they would have no choice but to go to court if pa pers persisted to deliberately vi olating the law. Paper Protests In 8t. Louis, the Star-Times said in an editorial it intends to KeeP on publishing such stories 91 the account of a North Caro lina Negro who won a Cadillac '9r in a lottery last July. The ‘"egro was first denied the prize on the ground that the drawing 'vas only for white participants, JUt he subsequently received payment equivalent to the auto mobile, St. Louis Postmaster Bernard Dickmann cautioned the Star ‘mes that publication cf the AHOSKIE On Page Two The Weather . .,, FORECAST: UtilJth Carolina — Partly cloudy and p... ,or no temperature changes alters ay and Friday. Widely scattered N.H?on and evening thundershowers. djV ™ Carolina—Partly cloudy Thurs noon d Friday, Widely scattered after m.i ai^d evening thundershowers. «Min. U.g'cal data t°r the 24 hours S i .30 p. m. yesterday. ] TEMPERATURES il ', ,!' ra 75; 7:30 a. m. 77; 1:30 p. m. JiumF Tl-. 79; Maximum 82; Mini ,3' Mean 79; Normal 74. HUMIDITY 61; vin m 94; 7:30 a-'m. 91; 1:30 p. m. ■™ P- m. si. Total , FKECIPITATION U inches'1 24 hourE ending 7:30 p. m. t!6° Inches''* <he Jirst 01 4he mon,h (Prom ,TIDEs F0R TODAY T. S cnali6 Tide Tnbles published by • '-°ast and Geodetic Survey). Wilmington HIGH LOW exon - 6:20 a m 1:23 a m S,>sonboro Tni r 7:05 p.m. 1:33 p.m. 0 Inlet .. 4:11 a.m. 10:31 a.m. ,Sris„ s.„. 0 4:49 p.m. 11:20 p.m. xis v ’ oj, Sunset 0:24; Moonrise ,»lver a,anS€t 4 «P 11 m at Fayetteville, N. C. at 95 Icet. HEATHER On Page Two UNIVERSITY of Paris student and ex-U.S.A.A.F. flyer, Regin ald G. M. Gilbert (above), St. Louis, Mo., is credited with French police in foiling an alleg ed plot to “bomb” London. Gil bert agreed to pilot plane for Jewish underground but in formed French police of the plan. Climax came when Rabbi Baruch Korff and Mrs. Judith Rosen berg were arrested entering plane with propaganda leaflets. (International) ATTEMPT TO KILL MINISTERS NIPPED Explosive Packages Deliv ered To Three Czech Government Heads PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 10. —(U.R)— Three cabinet ministers escaped an assination plot today when explosive pack ages addressed to them were de tected before they received them, Minister of Industry Bohumil Lausman announced. The ministers were Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, who is to leave Saturday for the United Nations General Assembly ses sion in New York, Deputy Prem ier Petr Zenkl and Minister of Justice Prokop Drtina. All three are close to Presi dent Eduard Benes, who stated recently that Czechoslovakia, while looking toward Russia for ‘■protection,” was tied economic ally and culturally to the West. Zenkl and Drtina are members of Benes’ National Socialist party. Masaryk, a non-partisan, was Benes’ foreign minister in the war-time exiled government. Party Cautioned Lausman revealed the assassi nation attempt at a meeting of his Social Democratic party to night. He cautioned his followers to “keep calm and cool-headed, because we do not yet know which way the wind is blowing.” The Communist-dominated gov ernment has not yet issued a communique, but it was under stood all three packages were re ceived this afternoon. Those ad dressed to Masaryk and Drtina were sent to their offices and ZenkTs was received in the sec See ATTEMPT On Page Two RUSSIANS BLAM I FOR WORLD 1 S AFL Executive Council Calls For Immediate “Big Four” Meeting RUSSIANS BLAMED CHICAGO, Sept. 10—(AP)— The AFL Executive Counsel today blamed Russia for “the turmoil and tensions that exist in many nations of Europe and Asia” and called for an ^im mediate conference of the Big Four” nations. The council said the United Nations had failed as an organ ization to keep the peace, and proposed that President Tru man, Premier Stalin and the heads of the British and French governments get together at once. The conference is necessary, the 15 leaders of the AFL said, “to end existing impasses and to chart a more effective pro gram of cooperation f-or world peace in the future. “The deterioration of inter national relations has reached such alarming proportions that an eventual break appears in evitable unless strong and con structive leadership is exerted, the council said. ■'“The United States should not See RUSSIA’S Page Two Army Losing Men Steadily Eisenhower Expresses Con cern Over Dwindling American Ranks WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. — (ff) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today he was concerned over the dwindling American Army and that he would become “aw fully shaky” if the trend con tinued. The chief of staff told a news conference the Army now has between 965,000 and 970,000 men (the authorized strength is 1,070, 000) and has been losing about 10,000 a month . Recruiting is running well De low the 30,000 per month average needed to atain the authorized strength — and, said Eisenhower, “it is up to the American people to produce that strength.” The general said he was “going to get awfully shaky” when and if two things happen:— 1. The size of occupation forces abroad fall below the level of safety prescribed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay in Germany and Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan: 2. Air force strength decreases to the point where it ceases to be a major element in national de fense. May Tell Congress When those things happen,” said the general, “I’ve just got to go to Congress and tell them the story.” He did not say what course he would recommend to a Congress which ended the draft a year ago. Answering questions about other military matters, Eisen hower had this to say: A “terrific” amount of military construction is needed in strateg ically vital Alaska — but costs there are extremely high. There are virtually no facilities for ground troops. The command so far has been almost completely aviation. The question of taking over Britain’s occupation duties in Germany has not arisen: “I am certain that no one in government has even hinted to us the British even thinks of pulling out of Germany.” He is “hopeful” the withdrawal of American troops from Italy See ARMY On Page Two TAXPAYERS POUR CASH TO GERMANY Americans, British Provide $900,000,000 Worth 0£ Food For Hungry BERLIN, Sept. 10. — (U.FD — American and British taxpayers have poured more than $900, 000,000 into the Western zones of Germany to feed Germans since V-E Day, it was announced officially today. The announcement said that nearly 7,000,000 tons of food at an estimated cost of $916,114,000 were imported in the combined British and American zones from V-E Day to last August 31. Almost 5,000,000 tons were bread, grains and flour valued at approximately $600,000,000 came from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Argentina. In addition there were 585,000 tons of potatoes from Britain, Holland and Czechoslovakia; 80,000 tons of dried milk from the U. S. and Britain; 22,570 tons of livestock from Britain and Denmark; 27,800 tons of fish from Britain, Norway, Holland and Belgium. STREET CAR DWELLERS WILL LOWER FLOORING TO MEET CITY'S LAW COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 10—Ml —The folk who bought a string of street cars at $125 each for conversion into homes found themselves stranded by a low ceiling today. The city and county build ing departments refused to issue permits for remodeling of the vehicles. The trolleys have a 6 foot 6 inch clearance betwen floor and ceiling. City law re quires 7 feet, county lav? " 1-2. Owners of the street cars, taken out of service here this week, said if the building de partments did not relent, they would lower the flooring to meet requirements. Churchill Would Create Saints Of Medical World LONDON, Sept 10—Wl—Wins ton Churchill suggested in a speech tonight that medical science ought to create its saints. He proposed that the world could do with “the good Saint Anaesthesia, and the chaste and pure Saint Antiseptic.” He said he would feel bound to cele brate the virtues of “Saint Peni cillin and Saint M. B. (Sulfona mide preparations).” Chur chid addressed W" sicians of 29 nations, attending the International Conference of Physicians, who were dinner guests of the Royal College of Physicians. In referring to “Saints Peni cillin and M. B.” Churchill al luded to his two wartime bouts with pneumonia. “Both saints are invaluable figures to whom I was introduc ed during the war in good time, and without whose benediction I might be regarding your pre sent troubles, if not otherwise preoccupied, from a more se rene sphere,” he said. " Western Europe To Set Marshall Plan Needs At 19,000,000,000; U. S. Gains Voice In Ruhr Control Britain, America Sign Agreements Pact Covers Broad Plan For Increasing German Coal Output WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. — (U.R) — The United States and Britain today agreed on a broad plan for increasing the output of Germany’s Ruhr coal mines — a key factor in the Marshall plan for European economic recovery. The agreement, signed here after a month-long conference, gives the United States for the first time an equal voice with Britain in supervision and con trol of the rich mining district which lies in the British half of the merged Western occupation zones. It also provides for German management of actual operations in the pits for the first time since the Nazi surrender. Plans also were laid for increas daily food ration of the German miners — a step which many ex perts have described as the first essential in restoring production to pre-war levels. While the conference produced agreement on the long-standing U. S. demand for an equal share in supervision, it failed to settle the sharp Anglo-American con traversy over British plans for eventual socialization of the mines. Assistant Secretary of State Willard Throp, who represented the United States in the two-pow er talks, said that this country “still is not in agreement with Britain’s attitude” on the ques tion of nationalization. The chief British delegate, Sir William Strang, was equally em phatic in saying his government had not changed its opposition to returning the pits to private German owners. Throp and Strang stressed that their accord was subject to the ratification by their respective governments, but both believed it would be put into operation quickly. For the United States, the See BRITAIN On Page Two ICC DENIES RAIL FREIGHT INCREASE Request For Immediate 10 Per Cent Must Wait Further Hearings WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. —VP) —The Interstate Commerce Com mission today ruled against an immediate freight rate increase for the railroads by announcing that shippers opposed to the raise will be heard before action will be taken. ~ The railroads are asking a 27 per cent boost in rates, with a 10 per cent increase to take ef fect at once as an emergency measure, prior to formal hear ings. However, ICC Chairman Clyde Atcheson told attorneys for the railroads at an afternoon ses sion on the case that opposition witnesses will be heard before the commission acts on the pro posed “emergency” increase. Frederick G. Hamley, general solicitor for the National Associa tion of railroad and Public Utilities, contended at today’s hearing that the railroads have underestimated revenues for 1947 by $622,000,000 based on past shipping trends. EXCURSION BOAT AFIRE after death blast. Hoses are played on the blazing river excursion boat “Island Queen” following the blast which occurred as the craft was tied to its dock in the Ohio River at Pittsburgh. Though the boat norm ally carries a crew of 96, police reported that fortunately many were ashore at the time of the expl iscion. Twelve persons were said to have lost their lives.__ (International Soundphoto) MILITARY MOVES AGAINST RIOTERS Situation In New Delhi Termed Under Control By City Police NEW DELHI, Sept. 10—(AP) —Military forces took the of fense today against - riotous mobs, implementing a govern ment pledge to act on a war basis against communal carnage which has taken an estimated 1,000 lives in four days. No official count existed of the dead and wounded in the twin cities of old and New Del hi, but most police and mili tary officials said the toll was at least 1,000 killed and possib ly many more. The military and police said the situation was “under con trol,” but they voiced frankly the belief that the violence would end entirely only when enraged Sikhs and Hindus have killed or driven away most or all of the 300,000 Moslems in old and New Delhi. The Mos lems were fleeing the area in great numbers. While sporadic bursts of gun fire and new cases of arson still dotted the two cities, the India cabinet emergency com mittee ordered a halt to the in flux into Delhi of refugees, de scribed by Commissioner Khur shid Ahmed Khan as the “chief cause of trouble.” At the same time the transport ministry was asked to provide special trains to remove the Moslem refugees from the area. Gandhi In Camps Monhandas K. Gandhi, whose “protest” fast in Calcutta end ed violence there, toured some disturbed areas and refugee camps. He said he wuld remain in Delhi until peace is restored. The cabinet committtee auth rized punishment of police and miltiary personnel guilty of derelection of duty. An ordin ance issued by Governor Gen eral Lord Mountbatten provided the death penalty for members of armed forces whose derelec tion may cause loss of life aboard guarded trains. A dispatch from Madras said armed Sikhs boarded the Mad ras-bound express at New Delhi Sunday, stopped the train two miles South of the city and See MILITARY On Page Two Along The Cape Fear FORT FISHER FIGHT NEARS END—After t roops had landed on the beach Sunday and the Federal Set had laid down a terrific bombardment, the fleet slackened its fire to allow the infantry to advance. As the Union troops advanced the Confederate soldiers prepar ed to meet the assault. General Whiting continued in his offi cial report of the battle by writ ing “our men hastily manned the ramparts and gallantly re pulsed the right column of the assault. A portion of the troops on the left had also repulsed the first rush to the left of the work. The greater portion of the gar rison being, however, engaged on the right, and not being able to man the entire work, the ene my succeeded in making a lodgement on the left flank, planting two of his regimental flags in the traverses. From this point we could not dislodge him, though we forced him to take down his flag from the fire of our most distance guns, our own traverses pro tecting him from such fire. From this time it was a suc cession of fighting from tra verse to traverse and from line to line until 9 p.m., when we were overpowered and all re sistance ceased.” * * * COMMANDERS FALL—Gen eral Whiting’s report tells that the fall of the commanders pro duced a bad effect upon troops. He writes that “one fell about 4 and the other about 4:30 p.m., and had a perceptible ef fect upon the men, and no doubt hastened greatly the result; but we were overpowered and no skill or gallantry could have saved the place after the enemy effected a lodgement, except an attack in the rear. The enemy’s loss was very heavy and so, also, was our own. Of the latter, as a prisoner, I have not been able to ascertain.” * * * HEROISM RECOUNTED — General Whiting goes on to re late the acts of other officers and men just before the fall of See CAPE FEAR On Page Two GRAND RABBI Jacob I. Korff (above), leader of the Boston, Mass., Jewish rabbinate, an nounced that he will ask the State Department to intercede for his son, Rabbi Baruch Korff. The later is being held in Paris by the French Security Police in connection with a Jewish un derground plan to “bomb” Lon don with propaganda leaflets. (International) EAST BELT PRICE AVERAGES STEADY Tobacco However, Sells Be low Tuesday’s Quota tions On Border Marts BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tobacco prices were steady yesterday on markets of the Eastern North Carolina Belt while on the Border Belt most grades were below Tuesday’s levels, the Federal and State Departments of Agriculture re ported. The losses on the Border Belt were scattered and affected of ferings in all groups and colors. Most were in the $1 to $2 per hundred pounds range although some common grades lost as much as $3. However, fair le mon smoking leaf was up $4 and fair orange cutters were up $3. A few grades on the Eastern Belt were up from $1 to $3 and a few were down as much as $3. Quality of the offerings was the lowest of the season and consist ed mostly of common to good leaf , fair to fine lugs and non descript. A total of 9,360,558 pounds were sold on Eastern Markets Tuesday at an average price of See BELT On Page Two BLAST ON “QUEEN” CAUSED BY SPARK Evidence Before Coast Guard Board Bears Out Survivor’s Theories PITTSBURG, Sept. 10.—(#)— Survivors of the ill-fated river boat Island Queen testified to day that the blast which killed 20 persons apparently was due to a spark from a welding torch which exploded the oil storage tanks. Several witnesses testified be fore a Coast Guard board of in quiry that they had seen Chief Engineer Fred Dickow welding a stanchion with an electric torch shortly before the double explosion yesterday. Witnesses said Dickow worked on the broken stanchion at his workbench, then took it to the second railing from the gang way across the deck from the oil storage tanks to weld it in place. John Carmen, Cincinnati, a cashier, said he and Jack O’Ber ry, a soda fountain clerk on the Queen, were leaving the boat as Dickow was setting up his welding equipment . near the gangway. Before they left the gang way, Carmen said, he heard the sputtering of the tcrch. They walked- a few feet more See BLAST On Page Two FAIR BLUFF CHIEF WILL FACE COURT _ Coroner’s Jury Orders Of ficer Held For Grand Jury In Shooting WHITEVILLE, Sept. 10.— Chief of Police E. L. Brooks of Fair Bl.uff, tonight was bound over to Superior Court for grand jury action under $2,000 bond in the fatal shooting Aug. 18 of Frank Hinson, a former Fair Bluff policeman. According to witnesses at to night’s hearing, Hinson, 39, was shot to death by Brooks after Hinson fired a 12-gauge blast at Brooks. , ,, , Tonight’s hearing was held be fore coroner Hugh Nance of Columbus county. After Brooks shot Hinson, the chief of police limped toward a nearby drug store and Owen Hinson, brother of the dead man, fired a .22 calibre rifle shot at the officer. The shot went wild, Nance said. Hinson died enroute to a Mullins, S. C. hospital. Accord ing to Witnesses, the shooting was the result of an argument between the two as the result of the purchase of a taxi license by the dead man’s father. Cherry Tosses Jackson I ‘Spud’ Back To Thurmond j RALEIGH, Sept. 10—(*—Gov ernor Cherry today tossed the ball back to Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina in the controversy over whether Andrew Jackson was born just a little South—or North—of the border between the two states. When told that Governor Thurmond had produced a pho tostatic copy of a letter written by Jackson in which the seventh president referred to South Car olina as “my native state,” Gov I ernor Cherry said that he doubt led if the state line was “very clearly drawn” when Jackson was born. “Anyway we know he was , born somewhere in the Waxhaw | settlement, and Waxhaw is in North Carolina,” the governor added. “It makes no difference where he was born. He belongs to all the people.” The friendly exchange got un derway when the South Carolina governor commented that it was “a nice gesture” for North Car olina to erect a monument to See CHERRY On Page Two Nations Will Ask 1). S. Underwriting Total Amount Expected Tq Take Care Of Needs For Four Years PARIS, Sept. 10—W—Western Europe will ask the United States to underwrite a little Jest .than $19,000,000,000 for a four year program of reconstruction under the Marshall proposal. « well-informed source said to night. The source, who is participat ing in the 16-nation European economic conference and re quested that his identity, even by nationality, not be disclosed, said the total balance-of-payment de ficit with the entire world for supplies needed in the year* 1948 through 1951 now stands at $19,726,000,000. This figure, he predicted, will be reduced to below $19,000,000, 000 by the conference central committee when it takes up the report of the subcommittee on balances of payment, probably to morrow. The source explained the cur rent, tangled balance-of-payment situation in this manner: Western Europe’s four-year de ficit with American countries alone will amount to $22,600,000, 000. With the rest of the world, excluding the American coun tries, however, Europe hopes to have a balance-of-payment sur plus of $2,874,000,000, which would reduce the over-all de ficit to $19,726,000,000. Balance Of Payment The total balance-of-payment deficit with the entire world will amount to $8,276,000,000 In See NATIONS On Page Two LABOR DIRECTION NEW BRITISH PLAN Government Plan* To Or der Luxury Worker* In to Essential Jobs LONDON, Sept. 10—(U.R)— Tho Labor government in the most drastic move of the kind ever made in peace time plans to order thousands of luxury trade work ers into essential industries at part of its attempt to restore Britain’s shattered economy, it was made known today. Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the Board of Trade, is to an nounce the plan Friday. A high government source who disclosed the plan said that it would not mean compulsory di rection of labor. But, he said, it would provide a “degree” of la bor direction never known in peace time Britain. As part of the plan the gov ernment hopes to get into es sential industries thousands of men now working for football betting pools and other gambling enterprises, the authority said. No Mass Movement There will also be a “degree of labor direction applied to per sons in non-essential industries” and “some direction of workers within their own areas,” he ex plained. Unmarried workers may be “moved around a bit”, he said, but there is no intention of “moving large masses from one area to another.” In addition, the government has started a new comb out of the armed forces with the inten tion of releasing excess man power to industry wherever1 practicable, the authority divulg ed. The government received its newest blow when it was an nounced that Argentina had cut off canned meat shipments to Britain, apparently because Brit ain suspended a clause in the American loan agreement under which Argentina could have sought payment in American dollars. A Board of Trade spokes man announced the move. And So To Bed Once in a while, “And So To Be<J” gets caught out oa a limb — figuratively speak ing. Such was the case yester day morning when it re ported an incident the pur chaser of a ticket to Jack sonville,, Fla, told us. What the informant really meant, we suspect now, is that he purchased a bus ticket, and not a railroad ticket. Be that as it may, the ACL wishes it known that it was not a railroad ticket be cause, say they, “we haven’t sold any tickets to Jackson ville, N. C., in so many yean. “And So To Bed” stands > corrected. ,
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