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r~~ WFATHFB ' --- WEATHER _ > Served By Leased Wire* WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Part- IHH B B 'BHB 1 am ■■■■ ■' A~BT^^HBl ot th® ^t^^rs^sssr^ss^* T U L T: ^1 |U assorted press cloudy today, cooler tonight and tomory E BE il *®BbB VV UNITED PRESS ( iirrirr___ ■ ■ ■■» .__, pubushcb^n^_ IIIeIIW .. -_->n__ £&¥(nlg £>©[%¥ (gQTV ©IF AMR) (DlLfgAgtUMSlgftft - ? -“ -1_:_______> WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1947. SECTION A—PRICE TEN CENTjjP Lewis Again Challenges Government Refuses To Sign Non-Com munist T-H Bill Re qurement WINS AFL BACKING \\t Asks What Is Govern ment Gong To Do About It By HAROLD W. WARD CHICAGO, Sept. 13 — W— John L. Lewis defiantly asserted today he chose to refuse to sign an' affidavit that he is not a Communists, and he challenged the government to do something ^Lewis’ refusal to comply with a requirement under the Taft Hartley Labor-Management Re lations Act, as interpreted by general Counsel Robert N. Den ham counsel of the National La bor Relations board, deprives 105 \FL unions of resort to the board. Denham ruled that no AFL or CIO union could use the board’s election and complaint machin ery until the top officers of the two big labor federations signed affidavits disowning Commu nism. The members of the AFL (■vecutive council, concluding a week's sessions here today, are all officers of the AFL. All, in cluding Lewis, are ardent foes of Communism. Lewis, with a sometimes scath ing diference to those of his colleagues on the executive coun cil who wanted to sign, held out all week against complying. Singlehandedly he forced the council to announce last night it was “unable to conform to Denham’s ruling. PICCARD FAMILY RIDES BALLOON Test New Safety Gas Value In Pennsyl vania POTTSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 13.— (ffi—A balloon carrying three members of the family of famed stratosphere explorer Dr. Jean Piccard drifted over the Penn sylvania countryside for five hours today. Donald Piccard, 21-year-old son of the scientist, was in con trol of the flight with his 18 year-old wife, the former Joan Russell of Swarthmore and Dr. Piccard’s wife, Jeannette, 60, the other passengers. Dr. Piccard said the flight’s purpose was to test a spark blocking gas valve designed ,by him to en dthe danger of static sparks causing explosions in hydrogen used to inflate balloons. The balloon was inflated with 25.000 cubic feet of highly in flammable illuminating gas. It took off at 8 a. m. from an estate near Pottstown and land ed in a field hfarth of the city. FLANS BEING MADE TO CLOSE ROBESON COUNTY INFIRMARY LUMBERTON, Sept. 13.—(#) —Plans were being made today to close the Robeson county home for the aged and inform as an economy measure for this "inter at least and possibly for good. Mrs. Kate S. McLeod, county welfare superintendent, told the commissioners she believed she could find private homes for the h inmates by Oct. 15. The Weather Meterological data for the 24 hour? f -ding 7 :30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures .':30 a.m. 74; 7:30 a.m. 73; 1:30 V-m. 77; ,:3° p.m. 75. ..Maximum 79; Minimum 72; Mean 75. formal 74. Humidity , a.m. 94: 7:30 a.m. 97; 1:30 p.m. 89; ,:,j0 p.m. 96. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — inches. inches. Total since the first of the month — Tides For Today .. from the Tide Tables published by s Coast and Geodetic Survey!. uYr High Low Strung,on _ 9:20 a.m. 3:59 a.m. 9:58 p.m. 4:16 p m. • daonboro nlet 7:09 a.m. 1:02 a.m. - 7:31 p.m. 1:18 p.m . sunrise 5:54; Sunset 6:21; Moonrise a,ni-: Moonset 6:41 p.m. a ?taSe at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 ' Saturday, 9.8 feet. — wJVASHINgt°N, Sent 13— (/P) — n5r bureau report of temperature iai:-ifa!i for the 24 hours ending 8 r " : the principal cotton growing Slat , aild elsewhere: A.-,,'n, Hieh Low Free. A..l4, le - 88 «s K'.:?" — - 88 71 0.10 c;;, - - 77 oi 1)4,?. 83 69 03 , 83 49 Mo,;,:?1 - - 7® ];- 94 70 - 9(1 80 M, '••(!« ...- 90 72 „ , 93 75 0.29 Xw. V V* °S - 94 74 B- ■. - - 88 75 St. r „“hia - 90' 73 Sari -- 85 59 t £fataeanc,so° -. 76 47 - 89 72 Y ' GT0V —. 79 11 0.*4 All For One IN THE SUIRIT of “all for one, and one for all,” playmates of 10-year-old Phyllis Detweiler (above) of Willoughby, O., are working at part-time jobs to earn money to buy her an artificial arm. Phyllis’ right arm was am putated to remove a cancerous tumor.—(AP Wirephonto ) ‘BIG MO’ SLOWS ” TO BY-PASS STORM President’s Ship Reported Not In Immediate Danger MIAMI, Fla., Sept.. 13—W— The battleship Missouri, bring ing President Truman home from the inter-American defense con ference at Rio Do Janeiro, was reported to have slowed her pace today to permit the Atlantic hur ricane to move out of her path. The great superdreadnaught radioed word from a point well to the South of the storm’s center that she was running through scattered showers and moderate ly rough seas. The skies were I partly cloudy. I He officers indicated that after j the storm has moved out of the . way, the “Mighty Mo” will step | up.her speed to regain her sched ! ule. Storm advisories were being radioed to the Missouri, and some additional weather details were being sent to her. Fear Price i Rise Brings AU.S.‘Bt__*’ CHCICAGO, Sept. 13 — (AP)—Fears that the nation might be riding its upward spiral toward a “bust” were sounded today by Senator Ives (R-NY) and Paul Port er, last federal price boss under the OPA. They ex pressed their apprehension as the cost of basic food items pushed close to all-time peaks. The' New York Senator said unless, “wild - speculation in grains and other foods is curb ed, congress will be lorcea to take some action.” Talking to a Washington reporter he said he feared booming ilving costs “might cause the bottom to drop out as it did in 1929 and 1920-21. He said, however, that he hoped business, the public and govern ment can solve the price prob The Associated Press last night said not one community has been found in North Carolina where protests are known to exist against the price of food. The statement was made after the AP was told by The Star-News that, contrary to alarmist reports, Wilmington apparently was free of organized anti-price housewives. lem, adding that “we do not have all the features of a gen eral depression as yet.” _ Porter said in an interview in Atlanta, Ga., that the country would be lucky “if we dont have a bust,” asserting he be lieved it was too late for con gress to do much about high prices now. In Santa Cruz, Calif., Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told a news con ference that President Truman should exercise export control powers more effectively as a means of helping to bring prices Meanwhile, the staffs of the special congressional investiga tion into rising food prices issued a study reporting that food prices were nearly double pre war levels and might go even higher. , , The study, prepared for three subcommittees of Senate-House members who lyill conduct a series of nation-wide hearings on the question, showed it re Hurricane To Hit Hatteras Tomorrow; Wilmington, Coastal Red Cross Alerted; Gales /J$£tend 200 Miles From Center $ £ _ Reporter Sees Gales Inners Describes Wind Of 140 Mije Velocity And Near Death By MILTON CARR SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept. 13.—(U.R) Veteran weather ob servers said tonight that the tropical hurricane moving to wards the United States Atlantic seaboard was one of the worst ever recorded in this area. Ten Navy airmen and this cor respondent who flew through the center of the storm, can describe it in one word: Terrifying.” We battled the ugly, black, doughnut-shaped monster for more than two hours in one of the Navy’s most powerful four motored planes. For at least five heart-stopping minutes, I was sure the storm had won. Winds of 140 miles per hour velocity slammed us once to within 250 feet of the angry, churning seas. The pilot and co-pilot tried desperately to pull out but it was like trying to swim up a waterfall. For one instant, the plane was virtually stationary. You could feel it shudder from nose to tail as the engines clawed at the wall of rain and wind. Then, it began to skid sidewise. After that paralyzing moment, the plane gained forward mo mentum, but still it seemed like a matchbox in a raging stream. Two-hundred-fifty below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction, and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hur ricane, We were in the center. Then, darkness closed in. It was 3 o’clock in the afternoon (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) quired $193 in July to buy the amount of food that could be purchased for $100 in the 1935-39 period. Further price boosts since July, one congressional ex pert said, have sent the cost of some foods to double or higher. Princes in 1937 and 1947 in four cities were cited as follows: St. Louis 1937 1947 Butter .39 .89-.95 Round Steak .20 .45 Pork Roast .25-% .53 Rolled rib roast .33-% .63 Bacon . .30 .75-.79 Milk .13 .20 Eggs .,.25 .81 Minneapolis 1937 1947 Butter .35 .79 Round steak .15 .55 Pork roast .23 .49 Rolled rib roast .19 ' .59 Bacon .34 .71 Milk .09 .18 Eggs .36 .69 Atlanta, Ga. 1937 1947 Butter .38 .90 Round steak .39 .73 Pork Roast .29 .65 Rolled rib roast .32 .69 Bacon .33 .79 Milk ..16 .22 Eggs .27 .75 Los Angeles 1937 1947 Butter .42 .83 Round steak .16 .39 Pork roast .33 .53 Rolled rib roast .37 .67 Bacon .44 .89 Milk . 10 .17-% Eggs . .39 .82 Anticipated Path Of ‘Killer’ Hurricane v | ABOVE IS SHOWN a map of the locati on last night of the 140-mile velocity hurri cone and its anticipated route to Cape Hat teras. Coast Guard reports say the gale j winds extend 200 miles each way from the center of the storm. Wilmington is 100 i air miles from Hatteras. _____ Any One Have The Recording, ‘Jesus Loves Me’ For Dying Girl DECATUR, 111., Sept. 14—CU.R) —The doctors say that four-year old Carolyn Robb is dying. fore she does, her parents would like to find her a recording of her favorite song, “Jesus Loves Me.”’ She is suffering from a cancer at the base of her brain and frequently she is wracked with pain. Doctors agree that her case is incurable. Her mother said she has a record player, but she has been unable to find a recording of the song the blue-eyed little girl loves so well. Her father, a veteran of World War II, has promised her that Christmas will come early this year. “I wish Santa would hurry up,” Carolyn told him. “The doc tor’s been here so much lately.” The doctor will advise Caro lyn’s parents when it is time for Santa to come. In the meantime, her mother said, Carolyn tries to be cheerful. Two weeks adgo her right arm was paralyzed, and frequently the doctor must use a hypodermic to ease her pain. On Sunday morning, when church programs are on the radio, her parents try to dial her favo rite song. “There isn’t anything we can do now,” her mother said, “but trust the Lord that she will find a better place than she has now.” Any person having this record, and wishing to send it to the little girl, may call the Wol mington Star or News. Ask for the managing editor. Pilots, who wish to remain unidentified will fly the record to the bedside of the child. JOHNSON SEEKS OFFICE JACKSON, Miss., Sepet. 13— (U.R)_Paul B. Johnson, Jr., the man who finished second in the race for governor in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Aug. 4, will announce his candidacy for the term of the late Theodore G. Bilbo next Tuesday. Clark, Hoey, Moore NamedByProgressives Star-News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — Representative J. Bayard Clark of the seventh district, including Wilmington, is one of the most “liberal” North Carolinians in Congress, while Senator Clyde R. Hoey and Rep. Monroe Redden are most conservative, in the opinion of the “Americans For Demo cratic Action. This organization of anti communist “progressives” pub lished in the latest issue of its paper, “Ada World 2” a “score card” evaluating the votes of each member of Congress on major legislation during the past sea son. A representative with a one hundred per cent “liberal” record in the Ada’s view, voted this way on twelve roll calls: 1. Against the first income re dlction bill. 2. To sustain the veto of the first income tax cut. 3. To sustain the veto of the second income tax cut which moved the effective date from July, 1947 to January, 1948. 4. Against the Taft-Hartley la bor bill. 5. To sustain the labor bill veto. 6. To pass the Greek-Turkish aid bill “to strengthen these countries against Communist in filtration and Soviet pressure. 7. Against an amendment to cut the $350,000,000 relief bill for other war-torn countries. 8. To recomit (kill) the bill raising the wool tariff. 9. To continue the ©verseas in formation program of the State Department (Voice of America.) 10. To restore cuts in the agri cultural appropriations bill. 11. To restore interior depart ment appropriations cuts. 12. To provide judicial review in Federal employee loyalty cases. Representative Clark had only two black marks, both for favor ing the labor bill; six plus signs and four absences. North Carolina representatives rank this way in the Ada batting averages for “liberalism”: Folger . 10 0 1.000 Cooley . 11 1 -916 Delane . 10 2 .833 Clark . 6 2 .750 Barden . 6 3 .667 Jones . 6 4 .600 Durham. 6 4 .600 Bonner . 6 5 .545 Kerr .. 6 5 .545 Bulwinkle. 4 5 .444 Doughton . 5 7 .417 Redden . 4 7 .363 In the Senate, a one hundred per cent A.D.A. “liberal” such as Senator Olin D. Johnson oi South Carolina, voted this way on ten issues scored: 1. Against the first income tax bill. 2. To sustain the veto of the second income tax bill. 3. Against the labor bill. 4. To sustain the labor bill veto. 5. Against the 15 per cent in crease amendment. 6. Against the Reed-Bulwinklt bill, exempting freight rat( agreements from the anti-trus' laws. 7. For the Greek-Turkish loan 8. Against the foreign relie: cut. 9. Against the wool tariff boost 10. Against recommitting th< nomination of David Lilientha as atomic energy commissior chairman—in effect, voting foi his confirmation. Senator Hoey voted “right” ir (Continued on Page 2, Column 2] PAGING BLANCHARD, HUSSEL AND R ACKLEY John Sikes, Leaf Sales Supervisor, Suggests MeetingWiihPaulHess To Dope Out Weather By JOHN SIKES WALLACE, Sept. 13.—If Oscar Blanchard, Bill Hussey, and Rack Rackley, the three gentlemen who lead tobacco sales on the Wallace market, could get to gether in a huddle with Mr. Paul Hess, your Uncle Sam’s weather man in Wilmington, they might be able to give you some idea of how the golden weed is going to sell next week. They might also give Mr. Hess a mincing-no-words talking to. Mr. Hess has done them dirt |these past several- days. (He hasn’t discriminated, though. With his almost daily precipita tion, as he calls the torrents of rain that fell, he’s made it tough on anybody that has anything to do with agricultureal prod ucts.) The muggy stuff Mr. Hess, as official meteorologist for this area, has served up, has kept tobacco wet and in what the trade calls high order. And tobacco in that condition - just doesn’t present its best appear ance to the buyers. In an attempt to give the far mers of this area some kind of serviceable outlook for next week’s sales I, representing the Wallace market, penetrated to the deepest nook of Mr. Hess’s weather lair in the* customs house at Wilmington and went into a deep study with him. “You will,” Mr. Hess said, “preface any remarks I have to make on the weathA with the word ‘probable’. There is a hurricane fuming along about here”—he indicated ‘here’ on one of those weather maps that’re full of semi-circles and blue and black marks—“and it may or may not hit this area.” “There is a cold front moving eastward about here”—this ‘here’ was in the region of the Greai Lages—“and it may or may no reach here within the next few days.” Okay, Okay, I said to Mr. Hesi almost impudently because 1 too, have not liked the kind o weather he’s been “putting out’ lately. What I want to know, ' said downright demandingly, ii are you planning any kind o w ather besides this hot, we mess you’ve been making u; endure? “Well, it’s about time fo (Continued on Page 2, Column 3 Plans Told FLre For Aid If Need \ Should Develop All Preparation Made For Disaster Should It Arise But This Does Not Mean There Will Be A Diaster; May Skip City Wilmington chapter of The American Red Cross is now, alerted for immediate tropical storm disaster relief, it was announced late last night coincidently with a statement by the government Washington and the National Red Cross there that the so-called “killer” storm had switched its direction and was due to hit “in the vicinity of Cape Hat teras” early tomorrow morning. The cape is 160 air miles from Wilmington. Wilmington Red Cross workers said the disaster com mittee, of which Gardner W. Greer is chairman and Thomas R. Orrell, co-chairman, now is ready for immediate service along with other chapters standing under alert or ders all the way to Boston. It was said here the Wilmington chapter, operating only, in New Hanover county, was ready to evacuate those wish ing to be evacuated and that it was not part of its duty to force evacuation. Persons evacuated voluntarily, it was said, from th'® beaches would be taken to a zone of safety at Lake For rest. They will be moved by Queen City bus lines and Safe way Transit, should the need arise. It was said that volunteers, should they be needed, would be welcome and for them to report to Red Cross head quarters located at 410 South Front street, Wilmington. The National Red X Program Announced WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—<U.R> —The National Red Cross tonight alerted its local chapters all along the East coast to be prepared to cope with a hurricane driving in from the South Atlantic be fore 140-mile-an-hour winds. A spokesman for the disaster relief agency said the latest weather bureau information now is that the storm will strike in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, some time early Monday morning. Earlier, the storm had been ex pected to hit Florida. (The cape is 160 miles from Wilmington). This spokesman said the pres ent alert is “purely precaution ary.” Local Red Cross chapters will meet tomorrow to prepare “safe” buildings such as schools and other public structures as emergency refuges. The group also will set up canteen committees for possible emergency feeding of refugees. As soon as it is known definitely where the storm will hit, positive steps will be taken to evacuate people from exposed costal areas. It was pointed out that the:d still are thousands of vacationists scattered along the East coast and that it would require some time toi notify and evacuate them if the storm does reach the mainland. The alert was sent to Red Cross chapters in Florida, the North Carolina shore in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, Virginia, the Maryland East Shore, New York, Connecticutt and Rhode Island. Warnings may be sent teer to Massachusetts. The New York and New Eng land areas were alerted, the Red Cross said, because hurricanes hitting the Cape Hatteras region sometimes bounce back to sea and then hit the mainland furth er North. Two assistant national direc tors, Henry Baker and Maurice Reddy, have been sent into the New York area to help with the work Another, Clarence Row land, has been sent to Atlantic City. Red Cross field directors are moving into other costal area* to advise local committees. FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS S. C. SHRIMP TAX CHARLESTON, S. C„ Sept. 13. _(jP) — Constitutionality of a South Carolina law imposing a higher license on out-of-state owned shrimp trawlers was up held today in an opinion filed here by a three-judge Federal court. , , . The suit, brought by five Savannah shrimp boat owners and the Atlantic Seafood prod ucers, a corporation, was heard : in Spartanburg August 25 by the three-judge Federal court. They sought to enjoin the state from i imposing a $2,500 license fee, as compared to a $25 fee charged re sident boats and enforcing other allegedly discriminatory regula tions. CHARLES FORT HEADS Y. M. C. A'. STATE ASSOCIATION ASHEVILLE, Sept. 13.—W— Charles Fort, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Winston Salem, was elected president of . the Association of Employed Of ficers of the Y. M. C. A. of the Carolinas at their annual meeting at Montreat today. Other officers named were W. ; B. Mulligan of Greenville, S. C., and Bess Breedlove of Kannapolis vice-presdients; Herman C. Rai . ford of Charlotte, secretary; and | Lester E. Everett of Fayetteville, ; treasurer. r NEGRO SCHOOL FIANNED LUMBERTON, Sept. 13—W— • The Robeson county board of f commissioners has announced ; plans for construction as soon as possible of a school for Negro . children just outside the north ! eastern city limits near the Eliza bethtov. n highway. Yr U. S. ACTIVE I IN GREENLAND •- *| Danish Government To In* vestigate For Violations COPENHAGEN, Sept. IS.—UP) —Danish government officials today confirmed reports that an American force in Greenland is engaged in experiments in aorv nection with the establishment of a station whose purpose has not been .disclosed. K. Oldendow, director of th® Danish government’s Greenland, office, told the newspaper Aften bladet his office had informa tion similar to that which was published in the Communist organ, “Land and Folk,” which claimed competent Danish cir cles believed the United States was engaged in establishing a radar system in Greenland. The Communist publication had speculated that “this is prcft ably an effort to strengthen the United States air defense in Greenland,” and added that thus far, U. S. authorities had not notified the Danish government of its operations. Notice Of Appeal ? j \ In Tear Gas Case Made By Constable DUNN, Sept. 13.—W—Ever* ette Doffermyre, attorney for Constable A. H. Ivey of Dunn, who was convicted of a tear gas assault that caused loss of * prisoner’s eye, says he will fil* notice of appeal. The constable was eonvloted in Recorder’s court her* Thurs* day of shooting John Lewi* Moore, 66, after Moore was ar* [rested on a charge of being drunk and resisting arrest. j> /
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