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lb European
NationNeeds
Announced
U. S. Asked For $19,330,
000 In Four
Years
CITES DESTRUCTION
Western Hemisphere Ask
ed For $35,000,
000,000
PARIS, Sept. 27 —UP)—Sixteen
European nations tonight re
leased the text of a 20,000-word
Marshall-Plan report declaring
that the continent’s economy
had been blighted by World
War II and asking $19,330,000,
000 United States aid in the next
four years.
The text filled in some de
rails missing from a summary
made public last Monday, when
delegates from the western and
southern European countries
signed the report here at the
close of a conference of more
than two months.
The report was issued also to
night in Washington, where it
has been sent to be put before
President Truman and Secre
tary or State George C. Mar
shall. Mrshall invited Europe
last June 5 to submit a pro
gram for its recovery through
self-help and U.S. aid.
Mr. Truman told reporters
Thursday he did not plan to
call a special session of Con
gress, which will meet next in
regular session in January.
Because of this, details of Eu
rope’s program caused little ex
citement in official circles of
European capitals. The London
Daily Mail’s Paris edition head-!
lined, “no hope of Marshall aid |
this winter.”
“France’s dollar resources
will be exhausted within a
month,” said a French foreign
office spokesman*
The report listed needs of the
Ifi nations and western Ger
many for food, fuel and pro
active goods from 1948 through
1.51 but did not specify the re
quirements of individual coun
(Continued on Page 2; Col. 4)
TIGHT-WIRE DARE
RESULTS IN DEATH
Young Mother Dies In Fall
Before Horrified
Crowds
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 27—
(U.R)—Police said today that a $10
wager probably inspired an at
tractive 27 - year - old blonde
mother to climb up to a 50-foot
high tight-wire platform before
she plunged to her death in sight
of a crowd of frolicking fair
ground spectators.
Witnesses said that the woman
had made an effort to walk the .
tight wire. They thought that she I
was part of a fairgrounds enter-!
taining group.
Police were unable to track
down her escort at the fair
grounds. But while the crowd
watched her on the tight wire
platform witnesses said they
heard a youth remark that “she’s
made her $10 bet. "
Inspector P. M. Wiebenga said
that either she made a bet or
‘'took a dare,”
Police first identified the
woman as Betty Davis from a
social security card in her dress
1 Continued on Page 2; Col. 6)
The Weather
. Met-erological data for the 2 hour* tnd
7:30 a m. today.
Temperature*
1.30 a m. 56; 7:30 a.m. 53; 1:30 p.m. 85;
1:30 p.m. 89. 5
Maximum 66; Minimum 52; Mean 59.
Normal 71.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 80; 7:30 a.m. 64; 1:30 p.m. 53;
1:30 c.m. 67.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 hours ending 7 :30 a.m.
—r..00- inches.
Total since the First of the month —
1191 inches.
Tides For Today
'From the Tide Tables published by
' ■ S Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington — 8:19 a.m. 3:10 a.m.
8:42 p.m. 3:22 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet - 6:04 a.m. 12:10 a.m.
6:32 p.m. 12:22 p.m.
Sonrise 6:04; Sunset 6:01; Moonrise
FT: p.m.; Moonset 4:17 a.m.
Diver stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8
sSaturday, (missing) feet.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—(TP!—Weather
o au report of temperature and rain
for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m., in
'he principal cotton growing areas and
elsewhere:
Station High Low Prec.
Wilmington _ 52
Asheville _ 62 47
Atlanta _ _ 66 55
Boston _ 57 37
Buffalo _ 56 33
Charlotte — _ 62 47
Chicago _ _ 64 37
Cleveland _ 61 33
Den. or __ 84 54
Duluth _ _ 54 31 0.07
Bor* Worth__ 85 62
■•cksnnville _ 72 70
Bcv West_ 86 76 0.04
Angeles*___ 96 60
“I<?: phis _ 81 52
«akni _ _ _ 86 73 0.05
f;i -St. Paul _ 63 4G .0.43
Orleans _ 82 74
Jew York_ 59 43
J :>b: _ 103 69
Por :u,d. Me. _ 58 36
“ i ond _ 61 40
Francisco _ 66 52
^annah __ _ 69 57
Pa_*_ 78 70
' ^hington —__ 01 41
FOOTBALL SCORES
University of North Carolina 14, Georgia 7
Duke University 7, North Carolina State 0
Wake Forest 6, Georgetown University 0
Georgia Tech 27, Tennessee 0
Tulane 21, Alabama 20
William and Mary 21, Davidson 0
Old 22 Getting Ready
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TVnrH, r>*w7iw,,jus hue, sensational scatback of the University of
Single a^ChanermKh^T^^T ,*r°m C^uCh Caf’ ?nave,y before yesterday’s Tar Heel-Georgia
annroximatelv 40 non *MS won the contest, top game in the south yesterday, before
approximately 40,000 fans, and gained revenge for the 1946 Sugar Bowl defeat.
(Photo by Hugh Morton.)
The Georgia Bulldogs stopped
high-stepping Charlie Justice of
the revenge seeking North Caro
lina Tar Heels at Chapel Hill
yesterday before 42,000 fans, but
the UNC eleven got in its licks
with Walt Pupa tossing a pair
of touchdown passes late in the
game to overcome a Georgia lead
and emerge triumphant 14-7.
WORKERS SAID
UNDERNOURISHED
Sen. Flanders Of House
Senate Group
Alarmed
_ €
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27——
Senator Flanders (R-Vt) said to
day food prices have climbed so
high in New York city and some
oTher large metropolitan areas
that some white collar workers
and low-salaried job holders are
“seriously undernourished.”
Flanders has been directing
two weeks of public hearings by
a Senate - House subcommittee
investigating high costs of food
and clothing.
“It is my personal opinion
that there is a submerged popu
lation in New York city and
some other large cities,” Flan
ders told a reporter in summa
rizing results of four days of
hearings in the New York area.
He defined “submerged popu
lation” as those persons whose
“incomes have not kept pace
with the rise in the cost of liv
ing.’ ’
Flanders said that data from
welfare agencies, hospitals gnd
other sources in the larger cities
disclosed that soaring food
prices caused “serious under
nourishment for a large part of
the population.”
The wage advance that have
been made go largely to those
who already were getting rela
tively hlrfi wages,” the Senator
said, aiding that these higher
wage level workers usually are
found in fields where unions are
strongly organized.
MOTHER HAPPY
ON VET’S RELEASE
Yugoslavs Free Three
Americans Held Since
Monday
EDGELEY, N. D., Sept. 27—
(A—A tired mother whose voice
quavered as she spoke, relaxed
today as she heard that her 19
year old soldier son, Pfc. Glen
A. Meyer, had been released by
his Yugoslav captors. He was
one of three soldiers. All were
released.
“It hasn’t been too easy, this
wait*” said Mrs. Edward Mey
er, “but one has to have faith
in those things.”
From Trieste, came word of
the three United States soldiers,
captives of the Yugoslavs since
Monday, who were reported of
ficially to have returned to the
free territory tonight.
They were first Lt. William
Van Atten of East Orange, N.
J., Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick, Jr.,
of Arlington, Va., and Pfc. Mey
er.
ALBERT NOE
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 26.—
(U.R) — Albert Noe, 53-year-old
hotel owner and owner of the
former Milky Way farms at
Pulaski, Tenn., died today. Noe
boasted the largest pure hereford
herd East of the Mississippi
river.
There was more revenge at
Durham, where Wallace Wades
Duke Blue Devils turned the
tables on North Carolina State,
as a recovered fumble paved
the way for a fourth period
touchdown and a 7-0 Duke win.
Wake Forest completed the
Big Four activity last night with
a 6-0 victory over a Georgetown
eleven at Wake Forest.
Georgia Tech’s 27-0 victory
over Tennessee was the major
upset of the day, with Tulane’s
surprising 21-20 thrilling victory
over Alabama and Harry Gil
mer a close second.
(Details of all games on Sports
page)
| u m b erton Mother
Begins Jail Term
RALEIGH, Sept. 27 — (JP)— Mrs. Mary Ellen Currin
Miller, 24, petite and comely mother of two children, arrived
at Central prison here today to begin serving a four to
eight-year term for inducing a Negro man to shoot her
jhusband.
She was accompanied to the
prison doors by her husband,
27-year-old David Miller who is
still suffering from the effects
of a bullet fired into his chest
by the Negro as he lay sleeping
last May 11.
Miller told Superior court
Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn at his
wife’s trial at Lumberton Thurs
day that he was willing to for
give her and “forget the whole
thing and take Mary Ellen back
to the children.”
The couple was accompanied
on the journey to prison by Mrs.
Miller’s father, Allen Currin,
prosperous farmer of Rowland,
and by a Robeson county dep
uty sheriff.
The father and husband wait
ed while the formalities of turn
ing Mrs. Miller over to the pris
on were handled. A prison offi
cial described the entire group
as “calm.”
Mrs. Miller was immediately
transferred to woman’s prison
here where she will serve her
sentence.
Fred Wiggins, 21-year-old Ne
gro, who testified at Thursday’s
trial that he shot Miller at Mrs.
Miller’s request, was scheduled
to be brought to Central prison
today, too, but prison officials
said that he had not arrived late
! today.
OCTUPLETS BORN
IN CHINA; REPORT
IS UNCONFIRMED
SHANGHAI, Sunday, Sept. 28.
The newspaper Sheng Poa said
in a wholly unconfirmed dis
patch today that a Chinese wo
man had given birth to octuplets
in Hopeh province, and sever
had survived.
The dispatch was dated Ihsing
and quoted Chang Shu - Ping,
chief of the direct tax bureau,
as saying the wife of a nephew
had given birth to the octuplets.
They live in Communist ter
ritory, the newspaper said Chang
reported, and the Communists
were so concerned with the
safety of the survivors that they
were suppling food and other
necessities.
CHIEF HAYES
ACTS ON HINES
Assignes Patrol Car Of
ficer To Pounding s
Beat Nights
By JACK VOORHEES
Staff Writer
Radio Patrolman G. H.ines,
accused of brutality in treat
ment of a prisoner on trial in
Recorder’s court Friday, was
taken to task by Police Chief
Hubert Hayes yesterday and as
signed to pound a night beat
from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. for four
months and to be on duty for
10 consecutive weeks without a
day off.
The chief announced his de
cision after studying the case
for 24 hours.
Hines, is a former chief of
police at Wrightsville Beach,
and a member of the Wilming
ton department for the last two
years, is married and has a
family.
Under the terms of his pun
ishment, the officer will not be
(Continued on Page 2; Col. 6)
LELAND DISTRICT
VOTES 170 TO 16
FOR SCHOOL LEVY
A permanent increase in
the school levy for Leland
district, Brunswick ounty,
amounting to $7,500 annual
ly, was approved yesterday
in a special election by a
vote of 170 to 1G. There were
two spoiled ballots, L. H.
Reynolds, Brunswick county
school board member, report
ed.
The election provides an
additional levy of 15 cents
per hundred dollar valua
tion with the money being
used for the general opera
tion of the Leland district
white school.
Sikes Writes Of ‘Dem BumsWeather,
Tobacco And Comes Up Smilin\ Too
By JOHN SIKES
WALLACE, Sept. 27 — Leave
us hope, as they’ll be saying in
Brooklyn all next week while
Dem Bums are doing and dying
to overpower the Yankees, that
the melancholy days of which
the poets speak are not “upon
us.
And, forsooth, again as the
poets say, there seems to be no
reason why the melancholy
days are here. This is with par
ticular reference to tobacco
farmers, a lot of whose fortunes
have been buffeted about right
sharply these past several
weeks because of inclement
weather.
Over here on the Wallace To
bacco Market the gentlemen
who lead the sales line believe
the immediately coming Au
tumn days will be happy ones
for the farmers. These men,
Sill Hussey, Oscar Blanchard,
and Rack Rackley, have the
feeling that with the crisp,
bright and clear days tobaccos
will show up better on the local
market and prices naturally
will be better.
This belief in the future by
no means that these three gen
tlemen are disgusted with the
immediate past. Taking every
thing into consideration, the
Wallace market has borught
many happy returns to the
growers of this area. The mar
ket is at the top for price aver
ages anywhere flue-cured to
bacco is sold. But, because of
that inclement weather, there
has been a great deal of poor
grades on the market. And
these grades haven’t command
ed anything near top prices.
But during the past wek
there have been lalrly steady
indications that better grades of
the golden weed will show up
on the market from now on.
Tobacco buyers, like all buy
ers, are looking for quality.
Quality' is what warehousemen
here • are expecting to offer for
the farmers from now on. And
these same warehousemen, the
gentlemen named above, are
steadfastly hoping that the
rainy days are over and that
tobacco can be placed on the
market in its finest condition.
, (Continued on Pare 3; Column 1)
New World Government Plan
To Replace United Nations
Disclosed By British Solon
—-„-i-— ■ — —
Britain To Withdraw
Her Palestine Troops
LONDON, Sept. 27—(UP)—Great Britain has decided
to withdraw her 100,000 troops from Palestine whether the
United Nations take over or not, a foreign office spokesman
said today, and other sources predicted the evacuation will
DEEP RIVER COAL
MINE TO REOPEN
North Carolina Project To
Resume Oc
tober 1
SANFORD, Sept. 27.—(U.R)—
' V. S. Webster, president of the
newly-formed Raleigh Mining
corporation, today said develop
ment would get under way at
the Deep River coal field Oct.
1 in the company’s “all-out” ef
fort to revive the ill-fated old
mining center.
The Raleigh Mining corpora
tion is owned by Walter A. Bled
soe and Co., of Terre Haute, Ind.,
listed as the fourth largest coal
producing firm in the nation.
Webster said his firm had a
far-reaching program mapped
out to revive the Deep River
coal production and that the old
Carolina Slope in the field would
be rehabilitated and placed in
production. He said the corpo
ration also planned a complete
ly modern mechanized mine
equipped with the latest in ma
chinery.
Spokesmen said the Deep
River rehabilitation program
would require about eight
months. Webster said three
years of detailed study of the
field was made at a cost of sev
eral hundred thousand dollars
in exploratory work before the
corporation went into the pro
gram.
The Deep River field spreads
over sections of Lee, Chatham
and Moore counties.
CULTISTS HIDE
SNAKE BITTEN GIRL
‘Doctors Cannot Bother
Her Where She Is’,
Mother Says
STONE CREEK, Va. Sept. 27—
(U.R) — Copperherhead - handling
cultitsts prayed tonight for a
teen-age girl whose mother said
the child was hidden where “doc
tors cannot bother her” with
gangrene in her snakehitten
hand and arm.
Cult member Flora Nolan said
her daughter Faye, of Cawood,
Ky.., was bitten last week by a
rattlesneak used in the shouting
religious rites of the Holiness
Faith Healers’ cult.
She said the child was in an
undisclosed spot where “doctors
cannot bother her with their
medicine. She will recover
without their help.”
The mother recently served 30
days in jail for violating
Virginia’s law against handling
poisonous reptiles.
Religious Book
By State Man
To Be Published
CHAPEL HILL, Sept. 27—W—
“Bold Galilean,” a story in the
time of Christ and written by
LeGette Blythe of Charlotte, is
scheduled for publication next
fall by the University of North
Carolina press.
“Publication of Blyte’s book
will mark the first time that a
university press has ever pub
lished fiction based on a re
ligious theme, Miss Porter Cow
les, acting director of the press,
said.
start witnin two montns.
The spokesman said Britain
would begin an early withdrawal
if the United Nations failed to
reach a settlement in this session
of the UN General Assembly and
postponed the decision to some
later meeting.
Well-informed Whitehall sourc
es predicted the withdrawal
would begin within two months
but the foreign office was more
cautious. The spokesman said
Britain might agree to remain for
one or two months after the pres
ent assembly ends — scheduled
for Nov. 16—If the Un set up
some new international authori
ty to replace Britain.
If the United Nations reaches
a settlement acceptable to both
Arabs and Jews, the foreign of
fice spokesman said, Britain wili
begin her evacuation and attempt
to carry out the solution alone
but with reduced forces.
If the United Nations decides
to impose a solution by force of
arms, Britain would refuse to
carry it out alone and probably
would reduce her forces to the
same size as those furnished by
other nations.
The foreign office emphasized
that Britain’s decision to give up
her mandate and withdraw from
Palestine did not mean she is
leaving the Middle East.
COAST GUARD URGES
ACTION AGAINST SHIP
IN TEXAS CITY BLAST
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—W
—The Coast Guard today recom
mended that operators of the
French vessel Grandcamp, which
caught fire and blew up at Texas
City last April in a death-dealing
disaster, be cited to the U. S.
Attorney General for alleged
violation of regulations covering
shipment of explosives or “other
dangerous articles.”
The Coast Guard previously
had identified the French govern
ment as owner of the ship and
the French Line as operators.
13-Year-Old Given
Life In Kentucky
PIKEVILLE, Ky., Sept,
closed today that Circuit Jud
posed a life sentence at hard i
Casebolt, convicted of armed
The court decreed that the
seventh-grade school pupil be
removed Monday to the reform
school at Greendale until he is
21, after which it was directed
that he be transferred to the
LaGrange penitentiary “to
spend the rest of his natural life
at hard labor.”
The sheriff’s office said Case
bolt’s accomplices—Homer Zim
merman, 19, and Mark Smith,
23, already had been taken to
LaGrange to start serving their
terms, imposed yesterday.
They and Casebolt, all of
Ford’s Branch, Ky., were con
victed of robbing Harold E.
Roberts, 23, of Virgie. Ky., last
July of his automobile, watch
an '. $4.84 in cash.
(JAW Head Asks
Compliance
With T-H Law
DETROIT, Sept. 27 —UP) —A
top rank leader of the CIO Unit
ed Auto Workers advocated pub
licly today that the union com
ply with the Taft-Hartley law’s
non - Communist oath require
ment. j
27—(JP)—Court attaches dU
ge R. Monroe Fie’.ds has irn
abor on 13-year-old Crawfo
robbery.
FORD TAX CLAIM
SETTLED, REPORT
Total Estate And Gift Tax
Of Late Edsel $28,
200,000
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27
The remaining tax claim of $50,
446,284.58 against the estate of
Edsel B. Ford, son of Henry
Ford and former head of the
Ford Motor company, has been
settled for $8,810,724.27, it was
learned today.
Mathematically, this figures
out at settling for 17 cents on
the dollar. Actually, the govern
ment reduced the amount it
claimed was still due. It con
ceded that originally it over-val
ued Ford Motor company stocks
owned by Edsel Ford.
Mrs. Eleanor Clay Ford. Ed
sel’s widow and executrix of his
will, obtained the settlement
from the internal revenue bu
reau last montli and the agree
ment now has been recorded in
the United States Tax court.
The $8,810,724.27 payment is
in addition to a $15,824,369.07
payment by Mrs. Ford in Au
gust, 1944, and brings estate tax
collections in the case to $24.
6.35.093.34, the court records
show.
Another $3,600,000 was paid
by the estate in taxes on gifts
made by Edsel Ford before his
death on May 26, 1943. and
brings his total estate and gift
tax nayrpents to more than $28,
200,000.
STANDARD TIME RESUMED
Daylight saving time endec’
throughout the nation at 2 a. m..
today. Wilmington was unaffect
ed since the fast time was not
adopted last spring.
ClaimsHasSupport
In 6 World Powers,
100 MP Members
Gromyko Slaps U. S.; Attlee Makes Counter |
Charging Reds With Attacks To
Divert Their Own People
NEW YORK, Sept. 27—(ff)—A British member of par
liament, declaring that the present machinery of the Unite
Nations “cannot keep the peace,” said today he would
travel across the United States to enlist this country's
support for a newly-planned world federal government. \
Henry C. Usborne, secretary of the British Parliamen
tary World Government committee, said his group hoped
to stage a peoples’ world constitutional convention in Geneva
‘not later than 1950” to set up the new world government.
GREENSBORO MAY
END RESTRICTION
Ample Water May Be Had
By Sunday Midnight,
Report
GREENSBORO, Sept. 27.—OT
—Water restrictions in Greens
boro may end at midnight Sun
day if “progress continues” to
morrow as well as repair work
did today, City Manager James
R. Townsend announced today.
Townsend urged citizens to
continue under restrictions until
the emergency is declared end
ed.
His announcement followed a
conference at city hall. *
Further announcement of the
water situation will be made fol
lowing a meeting in the city
manager's office at 4:30 p. m.,
Sunday.
At today’s session It was re
ported the first pump to resume
operations at the Reedy' Fork
pumping station began working
at 3:25 p. m. and thut the sec
ond pump should be ready to
start between noon and 3 p. m.
Sunday.
“Even after the emergency is
ended, we feel that the best con
ditions will result only if citi
zens are moderate in their use
of water for the first few days,”
Townsend said.
Usborne, who arrived yester
day from England, said the
world situation is “desperately
urgent.”
His committee has nearly 100
members in the House of Com
mons, he said, adding there have
been favorable reactions to the
plan in Belgium, Holland, Den
mark, Sweden, France and Ger
many.
The staging of elections in
various countries for the selec
tion of “peoples’ representatives”
for the convention was part of
the plan, he said. The proposal
calls for monopoly of armed
force and atomic energy by a
world assembly, a world bank and
world food rationing, he added.
REDS ACCUSE U. S.
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 27.—
W—Russian delegate Andrei A.
Gromyko accused the United
States today of employing the
Greek question to “undermine”
the UN.
Speaking for one hour and six
minutes to the United Nations
assembly’s political committee,
Gromyko charged that the Unit
ed States was prepared to act
in circumvention of the UN if its
proposals for settling the Balkan
troubles were rejected by the
assembly and that there was in
dications an excuse was being
sought for “armed intervention”
in Greece.
The deputy Soviet foreign min
ister presented a resolution which
would lay all blame for the Greek
strife on Greek authorities, con
demn “foreign intervention” in
Greece, withdrawal of foreign
troops from Greece, and establish
a UN commission to supervise
economic aid to Greece.
He declared that the U. S. pro
posed resolution blaming Yugo
slavia, Bulgaria and Albania for
the Balkan trouble and accusing
them of treatening Greek integ
rity was not founded on fact and
was coptrary to commonsens..
The 55-nation committee was
solemn and intent while Gro
myko declared that the U. S.
proposal would complicate re
lations between governments and
might cause the collapse of thrt
UN.
ATTLEE ACCUSES REDS ^
LONDON, Sept. 27.—W.nl.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
today accused the Kremlin of
attacking the United States and
Britain in order to divert the at
tention of the Russian people
from their own economic trovi
bles.
“ Ithink the virulence of the
attack on the rest of the world
in the Soviet press is a measure
of the difficulties that the Rus
sian government is experienc
ing,” Attlee told a Labor party
rally at Leicester.
Simultaneously, he berat'd
Conservative party critics of his
government. “Those in t! :s
country who care little for tl'e
harm they do to this country
provided that they can injure
the government.”
Conservative leader Win;! n
Churchill, Attlee’s most ve .
ment critic, addressing a party
rally in London, made an
sive excoriation of the L >
government and blamed it 1 e
Britain’s “decline and fall” a* a
world power.
PAKISTAN CHIEFS
ASK BRITISH HELD
TOP INDIA WAPS
LONDON. Sept. 27—'* -An
formed British official said to
day the Pakistan government
had appealed to Britain and the
British Commonwealths for help
in ending Hindu-Moslem slaugh
ter in India.
The official said the Mosl-m
dominion’s plea had been for
warded to the commonweal a
capitals but would not confirm
a London newspaper report that
in included a request for mili
tary aid.