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FORECAST: 4 f ** V j' Served ByofI^ased Wir*B gg^2^5 Umttmiim Dwnnttttn mar :ss=“. . _ State and National News \0^-3nNQ- —- ~ WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947 ESTABLISHES Grain Bidding Stoking Fires manufacturer Blames Gov ernment For Inflationary Price Spiral MANCHESTER, N.H., Sept. _■ j.pi The administration’s 'licy of bidding up agricul f ral" prices is responsible for Lnkins the inflationary fires / aii lines,” President Royal ijttle of Textron, Inc., told a Congressional committee inves .: ^r.g hiSh Prices today. Unless something is done uicklv to stop the wage and „.ice ' inflationary spiral, he ,aid. “"'e may wel1 have a 25‘ cont dollar one year from now.” Little said his company was attempting to cut costs but was “fighting a losing battle. . . I 8in° sorrv to announce that we noW 'have no recourse left but to increase prices.” He told the committee, which i5 holding hearings in Eastern states, that last spring textile unions announced they would not seek wage increases m the fall contracts. ‘ “Since then,” he said, “the administration’s policy of bid ding up the prices of agricul tural commodities for world re lief has greatly increased food costs and has indirectly been responsible for stoking the in flationary fires in all lines. Reverse Position “As a result the textile unions hsd to reverse their position and have obtained wage in creases which may ultimately cost the industry . . . $337,000 000 annually and the consuming public several times that amount.” Little said Textron’s 1947 sales should total $120,000,000 but that if 1939 costs for materials, wages, salaries, sup plies and taxes were substi tuted. it could produce the same quantity of textile products with 550.000,000 less expense. He said Congress had three See GRAIN on Page Two NLRB BACKS DWN ON FILING DATE Unions Given Over 6 More Weeks To Comply With - Labor Law WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 —<U.R) -The National Labor Relations Board and its powerful general counsel, Robert N. Denham, to day called off an immediate showdown with CIO and AFL officials over their refusal to comply with the anti-Commu nist section of the Taft-Hartley labor act. In a joint announcement, Den ham and the board extended from next Monday until Oct. 31 the deadline for labor leaders to file affidavits with the board denying any Communist affilia tions, as required by the law. Denham had ruled previously that if the unions did not file within 20 days after the Monday deadline, he would dismiss the 5.000 AFL and CIC cases pend ing before the board and slam the door against the union using the board’s facilities. The effect of the extension, which was requested by the la bor leaders, if. to give the CIO and AFL more time to recon sider their stand. National conventions of both organizations meet next month and Denham and the board hope that they will reverse their leaders or propose some accept able comDromise. Scant Business Dropping of the pending cases "ould leave the board with want business and halt the complex management - labor Peace machinery set up by the laft-Hartley law. In announcing the extension, Benham and the board said hey wanted to give every labor organization "the fullest oppor hnity” to comply with the law end so be eligible to use the ward's services. Both the CIO and the AFL ?r? making an all-out drive against Denham’s interpreta :°n of the act, and have asked - board either to over-rule it See NLRB on Page Two The Weather s FORECAST: , J ' Carolina — Partly cloudy and V. n Saturday and Sunday, v ,,,1 r-;arolina — Partly cloudy and .v.ied warm Saturday and Sunday ca'tered showers and cooler ‘ r ■ late Saturday and Sunday. rV;:?^io2ical data for the 24 hours 20 P m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 75; 7:30 a. m. 75; 1:30 p. m. :J;-in. 80; Maximum 86; Mins Mean 30: Normal 72. :-n humidity ; : &8: 7:30 a. m. 98. 1:30 p. m JJ P- m 87. T0<. i precipitation ■Mn-h°r 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. •*0°jT ince the first of the month n'ues. 'Krr, TI1,ES ,0R TODAY : r‘‘ Tid? Tables published by ' and Geodetic Surveyl. HIGH LOW . ’ * ’ - 1:?0 a.m. 8:40 a m. 2:07 p.m. 9:20 p.m. 0 *-Get 11:52 a-m. 5:20 a.m. V , . - p.m. 6:03 p.m. % 'v. Sunset 6:12; Moonrlse ■■ Mon,t,t 8:„p at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 'nissing feet. *THER On Page Two FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA’S physician said last night the 64 year-old former mayor was in “extremely critical” condition and that he was “sinking rapid ly.” LaGuardia has been in a coma almost continously since Tuesday night when he col lapsed at his home. He under went an operation last June which disclosed an inoperable pancreas condition. PIEDMONT PLANS RADAR ON SHIPS First Of Warning Sets For Wilmington-Cincinnati Planes Arrive WINSTON-SALEM, Sept. 19 Piedmont Aviation, whose plans now are materializing for *an east-west air service from Wil mington to Cincinnati, today an nounced the latest addition of safety devices for their planes with the arrival of radar warn ing sets. The radar warning devices will be installed on their DC 3’s, which will be used in the east-west flights, according to Les Watson, communication’s superintendent. Watson said that these units had been on order for some time, and that it is expected that a sufficient quantity would be on hand to complete installa tion in every Piedmont ship by the time operations are begun. He pointed out that this was just another step by Piedmont in offering the cities to be serv ed by his company “the very best equipment” to be obtained for safety and service. Specifically, Watson said, the See PIEDMONT on Page Two CHURCH MEMBERS GET PRICE CUTS New Jersey Pastor Buys Fruit, Vegetables On Wholesale Market SOUTH ORANGE, N. J„ Sept. 19. —(IP)— The first customers of the “Church Family Market” left the South Orange Methodist church today—their arms laden with fresh fruit and vegetables, and their pocketbooks still quite intact. Dr. A. Boylan Fitz-Gerald, Jr., pastor, who last week volunteer ed to do the weekly shopping for his parishioners at whole sale markets in Newark, said “it’s a real pleasure to be able to help my people in this con structive way.” The pastor took orders last week from 14 women for 225 pounds of potatoes, two bushels of apples, and 20 pounds of onions. Many others came to day to see how the plan worked out. Dr. Fitz-Gerald, who expects greater response this week when “the word gets around,” had melons, which are selling for 20 to 30 cents a pound retail, for sale in his garage at 11 cents. Sweet corn, grown by the pas tor himselff sold for 20 cents a dozen, compared with the 60 cent retail price. Apples, which he bought last night in Newark for $2 a bushel, were compared with the retail super-market price of $4.90. One of *he housewives re marked, “this is really one of the best things thi^Lhas happen ed to me in a loim time. “Well,” the pastor laughed, “we may force those, prices down yet. I want to emphasize that I can buy anything on the market, and that includes al most every fruit and vegetable now in season.”_ Scribes Witness Coast Guard Mission Of Mercy A BOARD COAST GUARD CUTTER MACOMA OFF FLORI DA COAST, Sept. 19. — W — Correspondents aboard the Maco ma racing with medical supplies and doctors to hurricane stricken Bahamas today witnessed another Coast Guard mercy mission sev eral miles off Miami Beach. As the Macoma bucked head winds, another Coast ,Guai d boat stood alongside the 10,000 ton American tanker Wallowa out of Portland, Ore., and trans ferred a doctor to the tanker to treat an ill man. Nature of the man’s illness was not disclosed. The Macoma is carrying Red Cross supplies, physicians and medicines in the 82-mile trip to the Bahamas. It was hoped that the doctors and supplies could be put ashore tonight but if rough seas prevent a landing, the Macoma will stand by off shore until tomorrow. Strikes Halt Rail Express Shipments o' <?ency Refuses Less Than Full Carloads 3r Delivery In New York, New Jersey* S®s- Metropolitan Areas; Six Injured By The Associated Press Strikes Friday cut off ship ments of air and Railway Ex press of less than carload size in and out of New York and brought a threat of use of troops to quiet labor strife in Detroit. The Railway Express Agency announced the New York em bargo on shipments of less than carload quantity after a strike of §,700 AFL teamsters at mid night Thursday tied up the agency’s trucks in the New York New Jersey metropolitan area. A spokesman for the teamsters said two locals had walked out in a dispute involving wage in creases and reduction of the work week from 44 to 40 hours. Governor Kim Sigler of Michi gan went by plane to Detroit Friday to inspect the scene of a three-month-old strike by 600 C IO garage mechanics. He said he had become alarmed by re ports of violence in the dispute. Six persons were injured and several arrested in clashes be twen flying squadrons of Local 415, CIO-United Auto Workers, and police Wednesday and Thurs day. Sigler said he intended to use “the full power of the state” to settle the dispute which involv ed demands for wage increases and a city-wide master contract. Seventy-seven auto dealeis were involved. Italian Premier Scores Heavily In Strike Test COUGHS UP DENVER, Sept. 19. — (^»)— Shaken awake by a police man, the man on the bus sta ton bench gave vent to a lipstretching yawn. Out popped a $100 bill. Patrolman Eugene Covillo said the bill had been hidden in the man’s upper plate. Moreover, said Covillo, it was part of $150 another man camplained had been stolen from him. The yawner was taken to jail. YOUNG D HOCRATS HEAR B \CKWELL Winston House Member Sounds Convention Key note At Raleigh RALEIGH, Sept 19—!J)—Chris tian ideals should be brought in to politics, Winfield Blackwell of Winston-Salem, member of the house of the 1947 legislature, said today in making the key note address of the state con vention of the Young Democrats. “Men and women who are practicing Christians can help achieve the more abundant life for others by an active political life,” he said. “I believe our party has the right purpose to justify its con tinued existence and its continu ed success. But if it ever loses the purpose of putting the peo ple ahead of personal ambitions, then it will falter and fail. “If ever the first symptoms of that sickness should ever de velop, we Young Democrats should be the first to call the alarm as quickly as we would i: a member of our family be gan to break out in measles.” Blackwell told his audic.-ce that “peace must start at home if permanent world security is to endure. “People will be more at peace when decent housing is avail able for all; when better health facilities are provided; when better educational provisions are made, and when there is a determination that men of all races shall be given equal pro tection, a share' in economic prosperity. “If we can give inspiring leadership in making the broth erhood of man a reality in North Carolina, it will speed the day when the men of the whole world live as brothers — which See YOUNG on Page Two VOTERS DEFEAT PLAN TO EXTEND CONOVER LIMITS; TALLY TIES CONOVER, Sept. 19—W—1The Town of Conover failed by one vote in its efforts to expand its city limits, the town board de cided today. Residents of the city voted 219 to 4 in favor of the expansion but in the area which was to have been incorporated, the vote was 170 to 169 against One vote against was challeng ed and thrown out, leaving the result a tie. A majority in favor of the proposal was necessary. Communists Trounced Soundly As Farmers Vote Return To Fields ROME, Sept. 19—(U.R)—Premier Alcide De Gasperi won a smash ing victory against leftwing at tempts to overthrow his govern ment today when 1,000,000 strik ing agricultural workers agreed to return to work under a settle ment negotiated by government labor officials. The 11-day-old strike was set tled less than 12 hours after the Communist-dominated federa tion of labor ordered farm work ers in Tuscany province to join the strike. The settlement halt ed, at least temporarily, left wing labor agitation against De Gasperi. Faced by the settlement, the labor federation belatedly order ed all strikers to resume work immediately. It was believed the settlement came in time to ensure harvesting of Italy’s rice and sugar beet crops, vitally neded food supplies imperilled by the strike. One other comparatively brief strike threat loomed on the hori zon. -A one-hour general strike See ITALIAN On Page Two CHARLOTTE FLIER PLANS WORLD HOP Jean P. Doar, AAF Vet eran, Hopes To Break Mark Set By Odum CHARLOTTE, Sept. 19 — Jean P. Doar, 28-year-eld Army Air forces veteran from Char lotte, announced today he would attempt to break the round-the world flight record of 68 hours set bv B;il Odom of New York this summer. Doar said that he had pur chased a twin-engined Debavi land Mcsauito bomber and hoped to have it ready for the flight by late October The flight would begin and end at Charlotte. “My ship is considerably fast er 'than Odom’s),” Doar said in an interview, “and although I expect t; fly several hundred miles farther I am confident I’ll be able to put her down on the Charlotte airport with a new world’s record several hours under Odom’s.” Doar said that the plane, built by the British during the war, could cruise at about 400 miles per hour. Odom flew' the globe in a converted A-26 bomber. Under present plans the flight would be financed by a group of sponsors in North Carolina and South Carolina. Doar said that he would fly about 20 400 miles with New foundland his first stop. Along The Cape Fear MECHANIZE COTTON GROW ING—Cotton growing in the Cape Fear valley lacks the per-, fection of only one process to make possible the complete mechanization of the production. When the mechanical cotton picker—which is still unsatisfac tory in most cotton fields of the valley—has the bugs taken out of it, the drudgery and woe can be taken out of cotton growing by anyone who has the proper equipment. This fact came to light recent ly at a field day in Robeson yunty when government agri cultural experts and experimen tal cotton growers got together to check up on new practices to see what was practical. On an experimental project between Lumberton and Red Springs they found cotton that they estimated would produce two bales to the acre, standing thick in white, defoliated fields in which no hoe had ever touch ed the soil. * * • dust crops from the AIR—The land had been fertiliz ed, prepared Cor planting, seed ed and cultivated, by tractor drawn equipment. Boll weevils had been battled by a mule drawn duster and from air planes. The cost of dusting the cotton fields from the air was approximately five dollars per acre. The grower reported that when labor was diverted to tobacco curing, the airplane was a god send, dusting many acres in a small fraction of the Lime they could be dusted by other means even had the labor been avail able. , The battle against the boll weevils was considered of prime importance in getting a good yield of cotton. The efforts of the etymologists in devolping treatments to control the pests were highly praised. While the boll weevil was not yet licked, the concensus of opinion was that the pest could be controll ed. As a final step in the produc tion of the two-bale-per-acre cotton, the plants were defoliated in the final treatment before the See CAPE FEAR On Page Two Russia Loses First Test In United Nations Hall; Storm Blowing Self Out Hurricane Makes Shambles Of Gulf Hundreds Reported Home less At Gulfport; New Orleans Escapes NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 19 — (/P) — The ferocious hurri cane, rumbling inland tonight toward Natchee, Miss., after drubbing and drowning the Gulf coast from New Orleans East ward to Biloxi, left four dead behind and an undetermined number injured. A terse radio message from the Mississippi State Highway Patrol in the Biloxi area re ported tonight that the bodies of a woman and three children had been found in the debris of broken and splintered boats and buildings. The Biloxi report canje just a few hours after the body of Joe Markeese, 54, was washed ashore at nearby Gulfport. Meanwhile, there was a belat ed report out of Fort Myers, Fla., visited by the hurricane some 36 hours earlier that eight Cuban fishermen were reported missing and feared drowned off the beach there. As for the big wind itself, Alexandria, La., said it was veering to the East, instead of moving Northwest toward Ar kansas as previously indicated, and apparently was going to miss that middle Louisiana city. Alexandria said winds there had died to 35 miles per hour and the barometer was rising. Despite communications han See HURRICANE on Page Two 125 MEN ATTACK TRAILWAY BUSES Trained Driver Wounded Near Hattiesburg By Gun fire Blast HATTIESBURG, Miss., Sept. 19 — (A—Gov. Fielding L. Wright today opened a personal investigation here of the am bush firing on three Trailways buses yesterday in which one trainee, driver suffered a flesh wound in the arm. Drivers and mechanics of the Southern Bus Lines, a Trail ways affiliate, have been on strike four months in a dispute over wages. The company re sumed operations Aug. 20 on an open shop basis, announcing it was preparing to take on old or new employes. Trainees have been used to replace strikers. The governor conferred with State Highway patrolmen who had investigated the shooting, but his inquiry was temporarily sidetracked by the need for or ganizing relief for the residents of Mississippi’s Gulf coast, See ATTACK On Page Two POLICE CHIEFS GET TOUCHY OVER COMIC BOOK “BELITTLING” DAVENPORT, la., Sept. 19. — (ff)— A resolution opposing comic books which “belittle police of ficers and glorify crime” along with radio programs detrimental to the minds of children was pass ed by the Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police yesterday. The resolution will be present ed to the International Associa tion of Chiefs of Police in Du luth, Minn., next month. THE CAPTAIN LOOKS TO THE SEA—Captain W. D. Hatch, vet eran party boat operator has arrived here to command Billy Decover’s Jim-Jam during the SENCBA fishing rodeo. Capt. Hatch stressed the point that a deeper inlet at Masonboro will be a boom to sports fishermen along the eastern coast. (Staff Photo by Roy Cook) Veteran Fisherman Cites Area Handicap i THREE ON ONE CHICAGO, Sept. 19. — (ff) — Mrs. Betty Bajorin, 30, ob tained a divorce today after explaining to the superior court that while she liked eggs for breakfast she didn’t like them thrown at her in bed. Through her attorney, Michael Bernick, the wife re lated that her husband, Stanley, 35 became angry with her Jan. 27 when she refused to get out of bed to to fix his breakfast. He pick ed up three eggs and hit her in the face with them, the lawyer said. Judge Edwin A. Robinson granted the divorce on ground of cruelty. SPECTACULAR AIR SHOW FOR BURGAW Carl Dunn Announces Thrilling Program At Airport On Sunday Thrills, chills, and even a spill are ticketed for Burgaw airport Sunday when Air Progress, Inc., presents an air show as the cur tain raiser on their operations from that base, Carl Dunn, presi dent of the company, announced today. Highlights of the full program of entertainment outlined by Dunn include thrills from the professional aerobatic exhibition by Capt. Cecil Boone, leader of the Flying Aces aerobatic team, in his converted army North American. Chills will be inserted into the program by Carl Dunn, himself, with his spectacular “How Not To Fly,” act. In this sequence the pilot plays drop the handkerchief with his wing tips, having out grown the childhood game. Not On Level The spill, paradoxically, is authentic but not on the level. After the manner of a klobber ed high altitude fighter, the ’chutist will bail out at an alti tude of 6,000 feet above the spec tators and will fall free for a See SPECTACULAR On Page 2 Shallow Water At Mason boro Keeping Large Boats From Wrightsville •V - ■*? • '' • BY BOY COOK Star Staff Writer Captain William D. Hatch, veteran sports fisherman, who has been angling and operating sports fishing boats for the past 35 years, said yesterday after noon that the main thing need ed at the present time at Wrightsville Beach to encour age fishing along the Southeast ern North Carolina coast is a deeper inlet at Masonboro. “The operators of party boats as well as owners of private craft know the inlet is shallow here and that is the reason they keep away,” the sun bronzed captain said. “The inlet is only four feet deep on low tide and it should be at least 15 feet deep and 150 feet wide,” he continued. “But there is not much use to deepen the inlet unless jetties are con See VETERAN On Page Two ARMY USING TNT ON TOKYO DYKES First Cavalry Division Men Rescue 50,000 Japa nese Families TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 19 —<U.R> ■—U.S. Army authorities fought with dynamite and shovel crews tonight to break the dyke of the raging Naka river and divert a new flood crest from Tokyo, a fourth of which already was un der six feet of water. Seven per sons had been drowned, six were missing and 600,000 were homeless. The dyke was attacked at a point North of Tokyo, near Yat sugibashi, in hope that the rush ing flood crest bearing down on Tokyo from the North could be diverted into* the wider Ara riv er and funnelled harmlessly in to the sea. Below this point the Naka dykes were dangerously weak ened in two places in the center See ARMY On Page Two “Movie Loving” Pooches Receive $20,000 Legacy LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19—OT —Contesting a will leaving $30, 000 to two Irish setters, Attor ney Harold A. Fendler today told superior court that the late Carleton R. Bainbridge took his dogs to the movies, discussed the pictures with them after wards, and read them bedtime stories. “One dog liked one type of bedtime story,” he added, “and the other preferred an entirely different type,” he said. “It was wholly unnatural and illogical,” asserted Fendler, representing Sherman Bain bridge, a brother of Carleton Bainbridge, onetime prominent attorney. He declared Bainbridge slept in the same bed with the dogs and ate off the same plate with them. He argued the former at torney’s mind was deluded as the result of a long illness. The will names Charles Con nelley executor of the estate for the dogs, Pat and Gunner, si-: year-old pedigreed setters. O.i their deaths, Connelley woul. inherit. ~ — .m Committee Passes Veto To Nations - i )' Gromyko Fights Stubborn* ly Against Argentina Motion NEW YORK, Sept. 19 — Russia lost the first round of the veto battle in the United Nations Assembly tonight while the whole Soviet bloc drove ahead with its new campaign, against the United States on “war-mongerin|” charges. Russia protested in a heated meeting of the 14-nation Steer ing committee against Assem bly consideration of an Argen tine proposal for a special U.N. conference on the veto. Argen tina and others seek to abolish the great power veto. The Steering committee pass ed the proposal on to the As sembly by a vote of 9 to 2. Russia and Poland were the two against. India, China and France abstained. This meant that the veto fighlj definitely would burst out in thq Assembly itself and in the Po litical committee as ’soon as its turn comes. Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet delegate who has cast 19 of the 20 Russian vetoes recorded in the Security council, fought stubbornly against sending the Argentine item to the Assembly. Gromyko charged that the two-year campaign against the See COMMITTEE on Page Two SAFE ROBBERIES NOWUNDER PROBE —- - f Turkey Postoffice Safe Bat tered Open; Strong Box Carted Away ,\ GOLDSBORO, Sept. 19 — W— Four safe robberies in Duplin and Sampson counties within 43 hours are being investigated to day by sheriffs officers and an SBI agent, Sheriff Ralph Jones of Duplin said this morning. One included the post office at Turkey. The Turkey post office safe was battered open and less than $100 in cash and an undisclosed amount of unissued savings bonds, money order blanks, stamps and miscellaneous pa pers were removed, Sheriff Perry B. Lockerman of Samp son county said. At Warsaw the safe at Milton West’s garage was prized open with cold chisels and $800 in cash and a number of checks were taken. A valuable dia mond ring was not taken. The safe in the Kaiser-Frazier garage at Wallace, which was not locked last night, was open ed and $40 in silver was re moved. Wednesday night a one-ton safe was taken from the office of Crumpler Brick company near Roseboro. Sheriff Locker man said no trace of the safe had been found. Pretty Blonde Will J J Wed In Conventional Way In Tokyo Soon KANNAPOLIS, Sept. 19—UP)— Pretty, Blonde Mrs. John Seku lich left Kannapolis for Tokyo today to marry her husband, Lt. John Sekulich of New York city. Actually the couple was mar ried several months ago by proxy, with the Kannapolis girl, the former June Knight, saying her vows before a judge in Washington, D. C. The young model said that the first thing she plans to do in Tokyo is to get married all over again in the conventional way. The couple met while Lt. Se kulich was stationed at Morris Field, Charlotte. And So To Bed Walter Hewett, 1704 V. 4 Fourth street, told poBce ! Friday that as a result of his charitable intentions he was a poorer man by the amount of $45. He said be 1 took a friend home with him last night. He had approxi- ' mately $45 in cash when ha * and his friend retired. When he awakened Frb ' day morning, his $45 wag ( missing, Hewett told the o$ ficers. By an odd coincO- ’ dence his “friend” wat missing, too. Police suspect the early bird is getting quite i charge out of his escapade* If he is not, they may bo . ab’c to help him by adding little charge of larceny of I $45. i
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