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FORECAST: ^ | ^ 4 /IfTf ^ L~V W Served By Leased Wire* ***«*« tltttttujunt Uuuauttn mar :^nr. - --—— State tnd National New* VOL. 81—NO, 35.___ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1947 ~ ESTABLISHED 1867 Russia Will Join Parleys Moscow Accepts Plan For Big Four Talks On Ital ian Colonies LONDON, Sept. 30— (ll.P)—A foreign Office spokesman an nounced today that Russia had accepted a proposal for Big Four power talks on the future o( Italian colonies and indicated that the talks would open here Friday. Tfce Soviet acceptance was brought to London by Ambassa dor Georgi N. Zarubin, who re turned last night after consuia lions in Moscow. The spokesman said the initial fc»sk of the Big Four representa tives would be to establish a commission to ascertain tha po litical views of the inhabitants • ef the colonies—Libya, Eritrea end Italian Somaliland. Two representatives were sent here by the U. S. State Depart ment last June for the proposed commission. They estimated that the job of hearing the wishes of various tribes and po litical groups in the colonies would take three or four months. The conference of U. S., Brit ish, Russian and French repre sentatives will also have to de cide what other nations fall un der the heading “interested powers” since that category is entitled to be heard on the fu ture of the colonies under terms of the Italian peace treaty. France and Russia have indi cated they may press for return of the colonies to Italian admin istration under a United Nations trusteeship agreement. The United States at one time sug gested that a joint UN trustee ship be set up for the territories. SUGAR SHIPMENT BEATS BLOCKADE French Army Conroy Ltares Verdun After 11 Day Bloodless War VERDUN, France, Sept. 30— •JB—An armed convoy of 142 French Army trucks left this city through streets cleared of barricades today, carrying 410 ton* of sugar for civilians In Germany after a bloodless "second battle of Verdun” with Communist demonstrators who had blocked the shipment for 11 days. Some 300 demonstrators, claiming that the sugar should remain in France to supple ment scanty rations, scuffled with 400 khaki-clad police but the trucks rolled out of town towards Paris despite their adoption of the historic World War I slogan “They Shall Not Pass.” The convoy was manned by gendarmes in steel helmets and was preceded by four jeeps mounting machine guns. It took the “sacred way” used by the French taxicab army which saved Paris in the first World War. The cargo will be trans shipped to Germany at Paris. The demonstrators spat and shouted insults as the trucks be gan to move. Officials in Paris insisted that the sugar was for civilians in iheir zone of Germany and had been purchased in the United States with dollar credits. They said this led to a misunder standing that the sugar actually was intended for American oc cupation troops. (In Frankfurt, Army quarter master officials said they did rot know of any sugar for the IT. S. zone coming from Ver dun.) magnifying glass SETS FIRE TO HOME; DAMAGE IS $10,000 WE.KAM MANOR, N. Y., Sept. The magnifying glass *Meh 11-year-old John Lydgate uses to examine his rare coin col lection was blamed by Fire Chief Arthur Fawcett for a $10,000 f'.re »t the home of William A. Lyd gate. Gallup Poll editor. Fawcett said last night that glass fell from a third floor window, landing in a position to locus the sun’s rays on dry cedar Singles, which caught fire. The Weather FORECAST: Carolina—Fair weather, cooler rather windy Wednesday night; **Wr«day fair and continued cool. N'orth Carolina—Fair weather, cooler 1®<* rather windy Wednesday and "•dnaaday night; Thursday fair, warm * to afternoon. «eWoroIogical data for th« 34 hours 7:30 p. m. yesterday. , TEMPERATURES a. m. 60; 7:30 a. m. 55; 1:30 p. m. g t M p. m. 67; Maximum 76. Mini *** *4; Mean 66; Normal 70. HUMIDITY •* *. tn. M; 7:30 a. m. SO; 1:30 p. m. *» l'I0 p. m. 73. Precipitation tor the 24 hour* endln* T:»0 p. V4 Caches. i alnca the first of the month *-* inches. Tide* fob today the Tide Tables published by » Ooest and Geodetic Survey). _ High Dow ws*'bHrt*>ii _ 10:24 a.m. 5:00 sum. 10:38 p.m. 5:31 p.m. Met „ 3:02 a.m. 2:03 a.m. 8:20 p.m. 2:25 p.m. .•anrise «;0T| Sunset 5:57; Moonrise Moonset 7:18a. vrr stag, at Fayetteville, X. at 8 m- Tuesday 13.9 feet. Mere WEATHER Ob Pate *w* Local Tug Pilot Missing Tn River „ -A<^ - Coast Guardsmen S Dallas Laige Believed I ^Vv^^pe Fear River Early A>*ght From Boat —- - Coast Guardsmen we* ^drag ging the bottom of the Cape Fear river at a point 10 miles south of Wilmington in the early hours of this morning in an at tempt to recover the body of a 26-year-old boat pilot believed lost overboard from the tug L. J. Williams and drowned early last night. Dallas Laige, of Abbeyville, La., who was making his home at 117F Marion drive in Wilm ington, is the man feared drown ed, according to Deputy Sheriffs Buddy Best and Ernest Priest, who investigated the case. Crewmen of the tug, which boat the Coast guardsmen were using in their dragging operations, told sheriffs officers that Laige hand ed over the wheel to a deckhand, Robert Justice, who is a Texas native and now is living aboard a dredge near Big Island, and asked him to hold it for a few minutes. Justice told the officers, that Laige said he was going, to the stern of the boat to check some lights. All members of the crew said that they had not seen the pilot since the time he left the wheel at around 7 p. m. The tug had just left the dredge, which is anchored below Big Island, and See PILOT MISSING On Page 2 W. Kerr Scott Takes Fot Shot At Health Program GULLS ADOPT CITY DOUGLAS, Ga., Sept. 30.— (U.R)— A flock of seagulls en joying the quiet of this town 100 miles from salt water ap parently don’t know the hurri cane is over. The birds were blown here by the big winds 10 days ago and have shown no inclination to go home. Mingling with the town’s pigeons, the gulls appear to be thriving and state wildlife de partment spokesmen theorized they were living off fresh water fish from nearby streams and lakes. PRESBYTERYS GET ASSESSMENT CALL Churches $ Wilmington Area Must Raise $122, 439 For “Progress” Wilmington Presbyterian churches have been assessed $122,439 as their part in the southern Presbyterian church’s five-year program of progress, it was announced last night from Charlotte when J. Norman Pease, Charlotte construction engineer, was appointed chair man for the program in North Carolina. The committee charged with raising $1,412,390 in the state’s nine Presbyteries named the members of the Myers Park church at a meeting here. Leaders of the drive in the Presbyteries will be named at the next meeting of their group, it was decided. ' Last spring the general assem bly of the southern Presbyterian church at Montreat decided to raise $7,250,00 in 17 southern states during the next five years. Director of the program is Roy DeCraw, former mayor of Atlanta, who turned down an offer of $10,000 a year to lead the program of progress and be come a $1 a year man of God. The money will be used for foreign and home missions, war relief, Christian and religious education, publications, negro See PRESBYTERYS On Page 2 AIR SPEED KING AT CHERRY POINT Major Marion Carl’s Arriv al Revives Rumor Of Jet Plane Corps MOREHEAD CITY, Sept. SO UP)—The holder of the world’s air speed record—Maj. Marion Carl—arrived at Cherry Point today to take command of one of its fighter units, giving some credence to current rumors that the base will be outfitted with jet planes. While no official word was forthcoming, local residents linked the arrival of Major Carl with recent training to some Cherry Point contingents in jet planes and forecast the base would soon be jet-minded. At present the Marines are outfitted with propellor - driven Corsairs. Major Carl recently piloted a jet plone to 650.7 miles an hour at Muroc, Calif. Memories Of Tire Patch Taste Rouses Ire Of Vet NEW YORK, Sept. 30 —Cfl — Frank Bordes, 24-year-old Paci fic war veteran, has a very grim memory of the “Tire Patch,” a drink he says is com pounded of gasoline, hair tonic and shaving lotion. Bordes, brought before Magis trate Charles F. Murphy today on a disorderly conduct charge, said a bartender sold him a glam si be«r wb-«h *••*#£ Ju** like a Tire Patch, so he threw a stool and broke a few bottles. “A Tire Patch, what’s that?” queried the magistrate. “It’s the stuff we used to drink in the Pacific,” Bordes said. “The soldiers made it and sold it for five dollars a quart. It made us sick.” Murphy directed him to pay $50 damages to the bartender and reserved decision in the •see. __ . —. .. Agriculture Leader Scores New Medical School For UNC RALEIGH, Sept. 30. — W — Upwards of 6,000 farmers gath ered here today for the annual meeting of the N. C. Farmers Cooperative Association and the Farmers Cooperative Exchange heard Commissioner of Agricul ture W. Kerr Scott loose a blast at the state’s good health pro gram. Scott told the farmers that it seemed to him that the good health program, under which the General Assembly appropriated $11,540,000 for the construction of a four-year medical school and teaching hospital at Chapel Hill and for hospital construction throughout the state was under taken “to build a medical school at Chapel Hill to keep up with the Jones.” AH the rest of us were sucked in to serve this end,” he added. Scott also charged that in the campaign conducted in behalf of the good health program last year by the N. C. Good Health Association “one farm organiza tion, I feel sure, was used by the good health association” as a propaganda machine. Referred To Grange Although Scott did not name in his speech the farm organization to which he referred, he said lat er that he was talking about the State Grange. He pointed out that Harry B. Caldwell of Greensboro, former master of the Grange, served as executive director of the Health Association during the good health campaign. Caldwell and officials of the Health Association were not avail See SCOTT On Page Two ROTARIANS HEAR EDMUND RODGERS Well Known Attorney Speaks Before Club On “Americanism” Expose would-be infiltrating Communists to freedom and more freedom and they will not want to return to the dictator ship that is Russia today. At torney H. Edmund Rodgers told local Rotarians at their lunch eon meeting at the Friendly yes terday afternoon. Talking on “Americanism,” Rodgers told the club how Com munists have used the infiltra tion plan in a number of coun tries to undermine their govern ments and set the stage for their own philosophy of government. Retain Freedoms To oombat this same menace in the United States, Rodgers pointed out, the best possibility is to maintain our own tradi tional freedom and teach the in filtrators the meaning of living under a free and democratic system. LeFloyd Hobbs, lumber deal er from Wrightsboro, was intro duced as a new member of the club. Dr. George C. Thompson called on one old member and one new member to give brief personal backgrounds in order to become better acquainted with other members. Julian Hobbs was the old member ask ed and George Tenuta, Blue Cross representative, was the new member called upon. Soviet Ukraine, India Deadlock In Tense Race For Council Seat; Yankees Win Opening Game, 5-3 American Champs Score 5 In Fifth Old-Time Technique Of Bronx Bombers Thrill 73,365 Spectators BY OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 30 —(U.R)— The New York Yankees threw one big inning at the Brooklyn Dodgers today and won the first game of the 1947 World Series, 5 to 3, before a record 73,365 fans packed into Yankee Stadium. It wasn’t the vaunted power of the Bronx Bombers which shattered the Dodgers. It was the old-time Yankee technique. They made all five of their runs in the fifth and so were off to a flying start in the annual baseball classic. Through four innings, the Dodgers’ ace hurler, young Ralph Branca, set them down in order, sending in his high hard one and a baffling change of pace with an icy deliberation. But in the fifth, the kid pitcher sud denly lost both his control and his confidence and before the debacle was over the Yankees had the runs which spelled the See YANKEES On Page Eight LANGLEY AWARDED $927.80 BY N. C. Former Inmate Of Death Row Gets Recompense For Time Served A former Wilmington resident, who was placed on death row of State’s Prison, for a crime he did not committ, was yesterday awarded $927.80 by the Council of State, acting under a law passed by the 1947 General As sembly. Gus Colon Langley, whose trial in Buncombe county for the alleged robbery-slaying of a fill ing station operator, drew state wide attention in 1932, as one of the four men the state of North Carolina acted to recom pense for the time they had serv ed in prison. The following payments were approved by the governor and council of state; Hamp Kendall of Caldwell county, $4,912.56; Eddy Victor Fowler of High Point, $1,068.08; Sylvan Palmer of Greensboro, $1,104.19; and Langley, who now makes his home at Asheboro, $927.80. See LANGLEY On Page Two LIGHTNING STRIKES FOOTBALL SQUAD AT DENVER UNIVERSITY DENVER, Sept. 30—OT—One Denver-University freshman player was killed and seven others and two coaches injured today when lightning struck the frosh football squad during prac tice. Head Coach Cac Hubbard identified the dead youth as Kent McCauley, Jr., 18, son of the superintendent of schools at La Junta, Colo. McCauley, a back, played in the recent state high school all-star game at Denver. Two other players were knock ed unconscious as the bolt struck during a light rainstorm. They were fullback Ed Burke of Im perial, Nebr., and center George Pietrefeze, a North Denver High graduate. Along The Cape Fear SAGA OF PADDY’S HOL LOW — Today’s Horatio Algier story, “From Rags To Rich es,” or “From The Very Worst To The Very Best,” comes from the able pen of this city’s contemporary historian and old friend of this column, C. C. Chadbourn, of 415 Front street, who writes “In 1897, just 50 years ago, tools place in Wilmington the most marvelous civic transfor mation that the mind of man could conceive. Metaphorically speaking, from Rags to Riches. The perfect antithesis of two types of citizenship — the very worst and the very best. Prior to that year the most disreput able part of the city was the block bounded by Front, Mul berry (now Grace), Nutt, and Walnut streets. “On Mulberry between Front and Nutt was a row of delapi dated, one-story hovels, whose denizens were of the lowest and most vicious character imagin able. Dickens, with all his pow ers of vivid description never drew a word picture of men and worn an won* ffcwtt *»« to habitants of Paddy’s Hollow as that slum section was called. FROM RAGS TO RICHES — Around the corner on Nutt street was a low dive, a vile sailor’s boarding house, with all the ignominy that is attached to places of that type at a time when the Cape Fear river was congested with vessels of all nationalities, corncrackers, schooners, brigs, brigantines, barques, barquentines, and steamers. "This boarding house had the customary grog shop. To call it a bar room would be gross flat tery. This place was the scene of nightly revels by color blind participants—that is, there was little or no racial discrimina tion. "Then, in 1897, came a revo lutionary change, a veritable metamorphosis. The low dens of iniquity were razed sind a building—both whose cause and effect were lofty ideals — was raised. For two generations it has taken a place of moral •m CAPS FEAR Or Iwt VETERANS OF FOUR WARS are shown discussing the 28th annual reunion of the Ninety First Division to be held at Seattle, Wash., on October 4. Pictured (1. to r.) are: Bud K. Powell, president of the Seattle sector of the Ninety First Division; Hiram Gale, past commander-in-chief G. A. R.; Benjamin Hayes, Spanish-American War; A1 Aeils, World War I. and John D. Erickson, World War H. (International Soundhpoto) HUMPHREYS WINS IN COLLEGE ROW Dr. N. M. Harrison Reliev ed Of Duties By High Point Board HIGH POINT, Sept. 30. — W —Dr. N. M. Harrison was reliev ed of his position as vice-presi dent of High Point College to day when the college’s board of trustees voted to “sustain and uphold” action of its executive t committee which last week de clared the vice-president’s post vacant. The three and one-half hour session of the trustees today was held after publication of reports of long-standing differences be tween Dr. Harrison and Dr. G. I. Humphreys, president of the college. One of the members of the trustees’ executive commit tee last week said that “incom patability and antagonism” be tween the two administrative heads had prompted the execu tive committee’s action. Both Dr. Harrison and Dr. Humphreys addressed the trus tees at length today, after which they were asked to retire. A See HUMPHREYS on Page Two TOBACCO PRICES PROVE 1RRECI ,AR Growers On Eastern Belt Get Better Returns; Bids Dip On Border .... By The Associated Press .... Tobacco prices were steady to higher on markets of the Eastern Belt yesterday, irregu lar on the Old Belt and some what lower on the Middle and Border Belts, the Federal and State Departments of Agricul ture reported. Better quality leaf on the Old Belt was steady to $2 higher, but some of the lower qualities were off as much as $4. Good lemon cutters advanced $1 to $61 and good lemon leaf at $56, fair lemon leaf at $54, and good orange leaf at $51 were all up $2. Low orange lugs at $29 and low orange cutters at $54 were down $4. On the Eastern Belt, most leaf and smoking leaf grad#s were up from $1 to $2 while some of the lower grades were up $3 and $4. Good lemon cut ters at $59 were off $1 while low lemon cutters at $59 were up $1. Low green orangeside leaf at $29 was up $3. Chamber Committee Stands By National --il -- NEEDS MORE ROOM ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30. — UP)— Harry C. Sherwood, a war vet eran, started looking for larg er living quarters today. His wife became the mother of twin girls last night for the second time in a year. The Sherwoods share their 3-room efficiency apartment with her aunt. Pamela Ann and Patricia Sherwood will celebrate their first birthdays Saturday. STRIKE TIES UP OVERSEA AIRLINE 190 Pilots Of AO A Leave Jobs In Protest Of Com pany Actions NEW YORK, Sept. 30. —(U.R)— Transatlantic passenger and mail service of the American Overseas Airlines was halted today by a strike of 190 pilots in protest against what the union charged was company “strong arm” tac tics in contract negotiations. The strike, which threatens to ground 17 overseas planes, was announced at 4 a. m. EST by Da vid L. Behncke. president of the AFL Airline Pilots’ Association, in Chicago. It is the second strike in the union’s 16-year history. The company described the strike as a violation of the Rail way Labor act and said that Overseas operations would be “indefinitely postponed,” with planes ready to takeoff at 10 minutes’ notice when crews are available. A flight to Frankfurt scheduled to take off early today was the first to be affected by the strike. Later scheduled flights to London and Stockholm also were cancel led. RECESSION SEEN IN SPRING OF’48 Eighty Per Cent Of Credit Group Members Predict Business Lull NEW YORK, Sept. 30. — (*) — A business recession beginning in the second quarter of 1948 is pre dicted by 80 per cent of the 3500 members of the New York Credit Men’s Association, according to the results of a poll released by the Association today. Steel and the construction in dustry were expected by the credit men to foresee a boom in the midst of a slump period for other industries. High prices, buyers resistence, excessive inventories, too little capital and labor unrest were principal reasons named in the poll as making a recession prac tically “inevitable.” Instead Of Going Broke Sam Misses Going “Up” GREEN BAY, Wis., Sept. 30— <jp)—Sam Collins muttered as he emptied the second three-gallon can of fuel into the tank of his home’s circulating oil heater last night. “If this stove burns oil at this rate we’ll go broke,” he com plained to his wife. He didn’t know how olose both of them were to “§a4mt brofco” —in more ways than one. Today he learned police and state oil inspectors had been searching frantically for Mrs. Collins to warn her she had been sold six gallons of gasoline instead of the fuel oil she’d ordered and that they had escaped an explosion by one chance in a million. “Burned fine,” Sam said shak ily, “except it had a red Ink iin*t«ad * t Mm* e~” Aviation Group Pours Oil On Waters Of Air Ser vice Controversy The Chamber of Commerce Aviation committee poured oil on the troubled waters of Wil mington’s air service contro versy yesterday afternoon and the tempest might have been stilled had more elements of the troubled waters been present at the Woodrow Wilson hut meet ing. “We agreed with the airport committee of the New Hanover county commission that Wilming ton has a crying need of better air service,” Hamilton Hicks, chairman of the airport commit tee said after the meeting. “But we believe National Airlines will give it to us.” He said that his committee had invited members of the commissioners’ airport commit tee to attend the meeting but that the commission committee failed to show up. “We are not mad with them,” Hicks insisted. “They probably did not understand what we wanted.” The Chamber of Commerce See CHAMBER On Page Two PAID DEPARTMENT RETURNS DIVIDEND Fayetteville Firemen Cred ited With Saving Busi ness Block FAYETTEVILLE, Sept. 30 — f-Pi—Firemen this afternoon were credited with saving an entire business block in down town Fayetteville from destruc tion by fire when an oil heater exploded in a bathroom of a nine-room apartment on Hay street and did damage estimat ed at $30,000. Fayetteville began maintain ing a paid fire department about two weeks ago and the big fire today was the first one of major importance that they had fought. "I thought the entire block was gone when we got to the scene of the fire,” said Fay etteville’s first chief, “but the splendid work of the part of the firemen reduced the loss by many thousands of dollars.” The apartment, over the Lit tle Pep Lunch. City Shoe Shop and Colony Soda Shop, was in flames when firemen arrived at 4:30 and they fought the stub born blaze until 6 o’clock. Three rooms, a bath and the roof of the apartment building were destroyed, and equipment and stock in the business firms below were damaged by smoke and water. The apartment was the prop erty of Mrs. Hester Clark and was rented to soldiers and their families from Fort Bragg. Fireman Harold Black was overcome by smoke and was taken to Highsmith hospital. was soon released, however. Western Nations For Russian Blor.i Delegates Adjouta After Ir Seven Ballots Fail Of Majority NEW YORK, Sept. 30,-UmJ The Soviet Ukraine and Indna were deadlocked tonight in ^ tense race for the Security Count ed seat to be vacated Dec. 3\1 by Poland, Russia’s consistent voting partner on major issues coming before the United Na tions. After seven ballots, the U. N. Assembly adjourned at 4:58 p. m. (EST) until 11 a. m. tomor row, when it will continue the effort to fill the third prospec tive vacancy on the 11-nation council. Australia, Brazil and Poland leave the council at the end of this year. Two places were filled quickly. The Assembly elected Argentina to replace Brazil and Canada to take Australia’s posi tion. Soviet Deputy Foreign Mini ster Andrei Y. Visbinsky, who was reported to have made a last minute deal for Latin American support for the Ukraine, me Y two attempts to keep a Slav r tion on the council alongside th Soviet Union. The United States, backing dia, remained silent. But rep sentatives of some Westr countries which normally opp Russia indicated they were sup porting the Ukraine because the felt that the Russian bloc shor'd have that seat on the count". See WESTERN On Page Two N. C. TO OBSERVE NEWSPAPER WEEK i Govornor Cherry Proclaims October 1-8 As Period Of Tribute RALEIGH, Sept 30 —(fl—G ernor Cherry today proclain October 1-8 as Newspap - Week in North Carolina “in tb ■ hope that such action will re vive the thinking of the public concerning this institution—the free press of our state and na ton — which is the product of the consitution and the servant of the public.” The same period is being ob served nationally as Newspaper Week. “The newspapers of our state comprise leading institutions in the several communities in whch they operate,” said the governor in his proclamation. “The press of our land and the maintenance of its complete freedom are integral parts of our way of life,” he added, “and the guarantee of a free press is, in fact, one of our basic laws. Perpetuation of the peace is in a large measure the responsibility of the press, to gether with other institutions.” CABINET MAN HINTS AT FOOD RATIONING RETURN FOR NATION WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. — 'Ah — Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach tonight hinted at fond rationing if President Trumans campaign for voluntary conservr. tion fails to “meet the need nf starving people abroad.” While Mr. Truman’s 26-member citizens food committee gathe:' d here to fashion a program to sup port his “waste less” appeal, the cabinet officer declared. “President Truman’s program, if successful on a voluntary basis, will make unnecessary more dras tic action. “But I am confident that tiie people of this country wouid overwhelmingly support more drastic action, even rationing of essentials, if the present system does not work.” And So To Bed “Scare headlines” which appeared in The News yester day afternoon apparently had most women of the city searching under their bed* last night for the so-called “hooded mob." When the night was over, and the Star’s staff had as sured each telephone ealler that the crimes had been committed no closer to Wil mington than Cleveland, O., and Camp Gordon, Ga., they each breathed a sigh of re lief. However, one wag wanted to know what sort of an imagination a reporter had to localize an Ohio and Georgia story. The answer, o< eo -«m-- ana VlV IWi HOT PHBOTW
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