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MUmtmtfmt JUorttttm State Mid National Newa V0L. 8L —_N0.40. _ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBErTTi947 -ESTABLISHEnTfR Grand Jury Indicts Airport Watchman Henderson County Panel Holds J. R. Calton For Murder In Fatal Shooting Of Noah Cecil Rhodes, Wilmington Youth HENDERSONVILLE, Oct. 5 — A Henderson coun ts grand jury today indict ed .!. R. Calton, elderly night watchman at the Aslieville Hendersonville airport, for murder in the fatal shooting of Noah Cecil Rhodes, 16 5 par-old Mars Hill college student from Wilmington, Iasi August 7. The case was set over to the March term of court here. Calton remained free on bond posted following a coroner's inquest in August. The day of the shooting Calton gave a signed state ment to investigating Ashe ville officers in which he said he shot the youth when Rhodes refused to stop. In the statement, Calton said that the youth told him “I am going to take an air plane.” Calton said Rhodes took a wheel chock from under one of the planes “and as I approached him he threw the chock at me. He then grab bed a second chock and was coming toward me. I told him to drop it but he kept com ing toward me. I had my gun out bv this time and when he refused to stop, I fired one shot at him, anq he dropped the chock and grabbed his chest and fell.” Vishinsky Demands U. S. Britain Leave Greece GEN. CLAY, SMITH LEAVE FOR HOME Ambassador To Moscow, Military Leader To Con fer With Eisenhower BERLIN. Oct. 6. — <U.P>— Gen. Lucius D. Clay and U.S. Am bassador to Moscow Walter Be dell Smith left Berlin by plane today for Washington to confer v.itjr high government officials in what was believed prepara tion for the November Foreign Ministers meeting in London. Accompanying the two top of ficials as Clay’s private plane roared out of Tempelhof field in mid-afternoon was Robert D. Murphy, special state depart ment representative in Berlin. There was a strong feeling in Berlin that the November con ference would fail to accomplish anything definite toward unifica tion of Germany, especially in view of yesterday’s Moscow an nouncement that a new Euro pean organization of nme Com munist parties had been formed to combat ‘'American Imperial ism’’ Flan Plebiscite Widespread rumors among Germans in the Russian zone claimed that the conference will he followed by a Russian call for a plebiscite in the Eastern 7nne to make the Soviet zone, of Germany a separate nation j ruled from Moscow. Clay announced the purpose of his Washington visit was to dis cuss financial matters with the War Department because addi-j tional appropriations will be needed to keep military govern ment operating through the fis cal year. For almost two hours through lunch and until takeoff time, Clay was in private conference with Sen. William Knowland, R., Calif., chairman of the Sen Pie Appropriations committee. Knowland declined to reveal the results. Stiff Protests Clay's departure coincided with speculation that only his Set GIN. CLAY on Page Two REPORT OF AIRLINE CRASH CENSURES CAA FOR CONTROL ERROR WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. — (jip> — A Senate Commerce committee side reported today that a Capi ta' Ai lines plane which crashed w.ti* 50 dead near Leesburg, Va., June 13 was flying low against both company and government rule?. Hr said a Civil Aeronau ! s Administration control “er rph m permitting the two-low flight. The report, by Carl Dolan, technical assistant to the com mittee which made his study Public, recommended that the C vf Aeronautics Board clarify runt ml tower instructions and P'ovide for “standardization of approach procedure” for all planes. The Weather I FORECAST ’ c a: o', i-’a—Cloudy and slightly, v. >. occasional ram Tuesday. r ' - ii' coastal area Tuesday Rv.' '?• Wednesday fair and warmer. I ^ Carolina Occasional rain Tues *V<1 Tuesday night followed by * Wednesday; moderate to heavy I 3 n' in extreme east portion Tues | lightly cooler Tuesday, warmer I *«dnesday. I V ‘ ^woiogieal data for the 24 hours I ",J? " 30 pm yesterday: Temperatures a"i 64 7:30 am 65. 1:30 pm 77. ; ''69. Maximum 77; Minimum 02: :aa 69. Normal (if;. Humidity I . / •' ST 7:30 am .90. 1:30 pm 62. ■ ‘ Jtl Pm a$. | r Precipitation 1 .. ol“' foi ihe 24 hours ending 7:30 u‘ V*hes. Total since the first of | * 22 inches. '! tides For Today 9 L * f><Tl Vfl* Tide Tables published b* '-oas- and Geodetic Survey.! ■ w High Low 1’8ll>n 2:42 am 10:02 itrfi 3:34 pm 14:05 pm I '!<>! 12:31 am «e49 am 1:15 pm 7 50 rxr ,4 * •’!. Jv.v -et 5:43, Mb on rise 3 •*>*■ t "sc‘ *’ Fayetteville, fV r a! Soviet Vice Foreign Minis ter Hurls “Military Base” Charges LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„ Oct. 6. .—(U.R)—Russian Vice-Foreign Mi nister Andrei Vishinsky accused the United States today of con verting Greece into an Ameri can military base. Vishinsky demanded that the United States and Great Britain withdraw all troops and in structors—military and civilian from Greece, letting the Greek people work out- their own fate. Vishinsky in his first full-dress statement on the Balkans, pro tested that the Anglo—Amreican case against Greece's Northern neighbors was based on testi mony that was ridiculous, ab surd, rotten and lying. He spoke as nine European Communist parties banded together for the specific purpose of fighting Am erican foreign policy in Greece and elsewhere. Vishinsky said Soviet-dominat ed Yugoslavia. Albania and Bul garia comisistently had shown peaceful intentions toward Greece. But, he protested, Greece has had aggressive de signs on her Northern neighbors and went before the Paris Peace j conference to demand nearly | one-fourth of Bulgaria's terri- j tory. Heavy Day Vishinsky’s 35-page state ment, delivered to the UN Poli-1 tical committee, highlighted a See VISHINSKY On Page Two HIGH TIDESTASH AT JACKSONVILLE Navy, Coast Guard Rushes Men To Bolster Sea wall Along Beaches MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 6. —</P)— The U. S. weather bureau issued the following advisory at 10:30 p. m. (EST): “The storm still has a broad flat center and is located at 10:30 p. m. (EST) near latitude SO.5 north longitude 79.5 west or about 130 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla. Its intensity has increased some what. Strongest winds from land stations are about 35 miles per hour with gusts of 55 miles per hour but winds range up to 65 miles per hour in squalls over the Atlantic. Strongest winds of 100 miles per hour to the north and north west of the center where the gradient between the storm and high pressure area further to the north is most intense. The center is moving between north northwest and northwest about 14 miles per hour. The storm should continue to move slowly toward the northwest for the next 12 hours and will ap proach the coast line near Sa vannah, Ga„ by tomorrow noon. Winds should increase on the Georgia, .South Carolina and North Carolina coasts for the next few hours. Velocities at exposed points on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts will be between 50 and 60 miles per hour in squalls. Storm warnings remain dis See HIGH TIDES On Page Two Wallace Sets New Price Mark For Current Season by JOHN SIKES WALLACE, Oct. 6—The Wal lace Tobacco market zoomed sky-high today, right on past its previous 1947 top of $50.-5 pei hundred, to a record-breaking $53.25. ‘ . . , . This $53.25 per hundredweight average is believed to be a rec ord for any flue-cured market anywhere this season for a lull day’s sales. A total of 358.000 pounds brought farmers of this area $190,535.50. Today’* high »i*d hear teswiR Austrian Government Launches All-Out On Communist Party Practices; •fiew York Yankees Win Series, 5 To 2 Fireman Joe Page Iji Starring Role Spectatular Relief Hurling Saves Richest Series For Bronx Bombers BY OSCAR FRALEY United Pre:; Sports Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 6 —-The New York Yankees won the World Series today when two of their old pros, fireman Joe Page and big Tommy Henrich, came through in the clutch and finally flattened the battling Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 to 2, in the seventh and deciding game. In the climactic game of the bitterly fought, fantastic series which saw the embattled under dogs from Flatbush come up off the floor time and time again, Big Tommy slashed a fourth in ning single with the bases load ed that provided the ultimate margin of victory. And Page, with $75,000: riding on every pitch, went to the hill in relief in the fifth before a roaring crowd of 71,543 base ball fanatics, and shut the des perate Dodgers out all the rest of the way. The burly left-hander had sat a\yay out there in the right field bull pen through four frantic in nings. And he had seen the Dodgers jump into the lead off the deliveries of two of- his mates. But then Hsnrich put the Yanks in front and they sounded the alarm for old Joe. He came a’running and had just what they needed Through the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and the eighth the Battling Bums came up to the plate swinging bats which look ed as big as violins. But the cool, calculating Page went in to his windup and fired the baf fling chjjnge of pace ball which had won 4 games for him dur ing the regular season and sav See JOE PAGE On Page Eight LABORSECRETARY BACKS UP UNIONS Schwellenbach Says Work ers Being Made “Whip ping Boys” On Prices SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. — i/Pj—Secretary of Labor Schwell enbach told the American Feder ation of Labor convention today an attempt was being made to make labor “the whipping boy’' for the high cost of living oy using wage boosts “as the ex cuse for price increases.” The cabinet member said that, although there is a true relation ship between wage and price in creases, thus far “all that Amer ican labor attempted to do was to pursue prices and never, in the last 15 months, have they been able to catch up.” Earlier, AFL President Wil liam Green called upon labor to '‘march to the polls” in 1948 “to defeat every member of Con gress who voted for the Taft Hartley law.” “We should fight with all our vigor against any effort to con tinue the campaign to tie upon the wage earners of the country the label of being exclusively responsible for the increase,” Schwellenbach said. Schwellenbach characterized as “naive and amusing” the re cent assertion by Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) that a tax cut would ease high prices, and that the cost of living could be stabilized at a level 50 to 60 per cent above 1939. “Means Little” He said the reduction which would have been effected by the Republican tax-cut bills—-vetoed by the President—would have amounted to about $30 a year for the great mass of taxpayers. This, he declared, would mean little — “If you don’t know how much groceries $30 wili buy, go home and ask your wife.” “Wage increases,” said Schwel lenbach, “have been used as the See LABOR On Page Two average, some $10 per hundred above the average of two weeks ago and about $5 above last week’s, when prices here began zooming upward, caught all the Figuring Filberts, including myself, completely by surprise. I had prepared to sit down and knock out a routine story about how good prices were, how ea ger the buyers were to grab up the offerings, and so on. In a story written early to day for the afternoon newspa gee WALLACE on Page Two ONE KILLED AS CAR PLUNGES INTO CREEK—S. H. Veasey, a Wilmington traveling salesman, met death last night as the 1938 sedan shown being pulled out of the waters of Smith Creek, 1 eft Gordon road and plugged over an embankment. Rescue workers were watching as the car was pulled out to see whether there were other occupants in the machine. (Star Staff Photo By Mayfeird) ACCIDENT KILLS SIDNEY RVEASEY Traveling Salesman Meets Death When Car Plung es Into Creek Sidney H. Veasey, 31 was killed last night when his 1938 sedan plunged into the waters of Smith Creek about four miles from Wilmington while he was traveling east on Gordon road shortly before 6 o’clock. The traveling salesman, who was the husband of Mrs. Sallie D. Veasey, lived at 213 Country Club boulevard, was riding alone at the time his car barely miss ed the right hand rail of the bridge over the creek and plung ed head first over an embank ment and into the v/ater. Highway Patrolman R. E. Sherrill, who investigated the ac cident, attempted to resuscitate Veasey, whom he thought might be suffering from effect of drowning, by artificial respira tion. Firemen, who were sum moned to the scene, used a pul See ACCIDENT on Page Two SCHOOLS TO HOLD DRILLSTHURSDAY Speed In Emptying Build ings Will Be Tested By Fire Chief Fire Chief J. Ludie Groom said last night that fire drills would be held in all city schools Thursday morning at 11 o’clock in conjunction with National Fire Prevention week. Chief Croom said that the city’s largest fire truck, hook and ladder, would participate in the program. Meanwhile, State Fire Mar shall Sherwood Brockwell, of Raleigh, announced similar drills for the state’s entire school system at the same time. The drill, part of the state’s observance of National Fire Prevention Week, is being spons ored by the State Department See SCHOOLS op Pa^e Two New Hanover Stores Have Business Gain REV. ANDREW J. HOWELL ANDREW HOI L TAKEN BY TH Well Known Historian, Minister Dies Early Last Night At Home The Rev. Andrew ?. Howell, 78, New Hanover county historian and pastor emeritus of the Pear sall Memorial Presbyterian church, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home, 1918 Market street, about 7:30 o’clock last night. The Rev. Mr. Howell, author of ‘‘The Book of Wilmington," ‘ Songs of Summer Night” (book of verse) and several other books, was stricken at the din ner table and died a few minutes later. He was born in Wilmington, March 10, 1869, the son of the late Andrew J. Howell and Laura Harris* Howell. He was educated in local private schools and by Professor Washington Catlett. He has lived his entire life in the city with the excep tion of seven years. In 1894 he was married to Miss See ANDREW On Rage Two Along The Cape Fear QUICK ACTION — On the very day following the organization of the directory headed by John Ashe to resist the hated Stamp Act, the colonists swung into ac tion. Colonel Hugh Wadell headed a group of armed men who crossed the Cape Fear and marched into Brunswick. George Moore and Cornelius Harnett, were sent to deliver a letter to Governor Try on, informing him that the men had come to assert their rights. Another body of men called on Colonel Dry, revenue collector for New Hanover county. At the col onel's office the men wasted no time in diplomacy but broke open the desk and took the ship's pa pers of the Patience. On the following day Captain Lobb announced to all the Brit ish officers on the deck of the Viper that he would hold the Pati ence and insist that her papers be returned. * * * BLOODLESS REVOLT—With in two hours of Lobb's announce ment, the Wilmington rebels boarded the Diligence. Before the determination of Ashe, Wadell. and Harnett Lobb capitulated and the Patience was released. Large books of stamps were found aboard the Diligence. The rebels refused to disembark until every British officer on board swore that he would not use the stamps. The insurgents next marched to the house of the governor af ter Pennington, His Majesty’s Comptroller. When Tryon refus ed to let the men see Penning ton, Ashe warned him! “Persist in your refusal and we will come and take him.” Tryon persisted and a body of 60 men marched up the avenue toward the governor’s home. Pennington staged a sudden ap pearance and agreed to resign his position. During the day every clerk of court and every other county of ficial took an oath never to han dle any stamped paper. This completed the purpose of the re volt; the authority‘of Parliament d been repudiated without the shedding of * drop of blood. Revenue Department Re port Shows 10.8 Per Cent Increase Here Wilmington and New Hanover county business establishments enjoyed a 10 per cent increase in business this year over 1946, rt was revealed here yesterday in figures released by the State De partment of Revenue. The figures were based on fis cal year-end reports by the de partment's use and sales tax di visions. Reports show that receipts from New Hanover, for the fiscal year of July 1, 1946 to June 30, 1947, amounted to $1,079,671.50 as com pared with $982,253.17 during the 1945-46 period. According to the department, this amounts to a net increase of $97,418.33, a boost in local busi ness of 10.8 per cent during the year. Gain in business for all of the 100 counties in North Caro lina, however, was 32 per cent. In 1947 the state collected $35, 508,042.43 from its three per cent sales tax and from the so called "use tax.” The receipts for 1946 See NEW HANOVER on Page 2 GREENSBORO MAN STEALS OWN BABY Former GI Settles Dispute With Wife By Boarding Plane For Home LONDON, Oct. B. — <U.R) _ Scotland Yard reported today that Curtis Elmer Vincent, a former GI from Greensboro N. C., had settled a dispute with his British bride over the custody of their infant son by taking the baby for a “walk” and boarding a plane for New York. The mother, Mrs. Marjorie Vincent, of Leeds. Reported the case to police man Vincent failed to return with the 10-month-old boy after Being gone an hour. Mrs. Vincent told police she suspected that the baby had been kidnaped because her husband followed her back to England recently to plead in vain for her return to the United States with him and the child. She said she had left America because she didn’t like it here. Scotland Yard said they start ed a search for Vincent but that he had boarded a British Over seas Airways Corporation plane at Heathrow Airport near Lon don last night which arrived m New York today. ___ VETS CATS PAWS IN EXPORT DEAL Investigation Uncovers Lit tle, VFW Commanders Reveal Here An Investigation of automobile exporting activity here yesterday by the office of the War Assets Administration uncovered noth ing illegal beyond the alleged fraudulent use of veterans as cats paws in the purchase of WAA surplus cars, E. C. Snead, State commander and Ken Noble, local commander of Veteran* of Foreign Wars disclosed last mght. The investigation was sched uled after officials in the Wash ington office of the VFW pro tested the exporting of new automobiles when cars are so scarce in this country. It revealed that W. J, Lutes, of Detroit, and Alvin Reiss, of New York, purchased class R vehicles (automobiles in need of repair and non-operatable) from the WAA, towed them to a de pot on the White Truck lot on the Castle Hayne road, and re paired them, repainted them, and boxed them in waterproof crates, preparatory to shipping them abroad, officials said. The probe resulted from a mistaken idea the officials gain ed from a news report Thurs day, that new automobiles were being shipped abroad. A cheek of papers at the Castle Hayne lot revealed that under the name of Sid's Truck See VETS On Page Two PRICES ADVANCE ON LEAF MARKETS Many Grades Reach New Season Highs On East ern Belt Floors By The Associated Press An upward price trend that got undei’way last week continu ed on flue-cured tobacco mar kets yesterday, the State and Federal Departments of Agri culture reported. On the huge Eastern North Carolina Belt, where the seventh week of sales began yester day, many grades rose to new highs for the season as the mar kets felt “the best demand of the year.” Advances ranged from $1 to $4 per hundred pounds with lower leaf and lugs making the broadest gains. For other grades, most increases were from $1 to $2. Quality of the Eastern Belt offerings was greatly improved over Friday. The proportion of cutters was the highest of the See PRICES on Page Two | Local Cafe Patrons May Get Usual Menus Today A cross-section survey of res staurant operators here last night indicated that the public may expect the usual menu in their favorite eating pice to day. One of the larger operators said that he had discussed the matter of meatless Tuesdays with a number of his contem porries, and all agreed that it was a case of “watch and see” what hanpens. He pointed out ” practical ly everything sf with the exception of seafood, eame from some sort of grain. There fore, he conceded, he could see little in the “meatless Tues days” so far as saving grain was concerned. Meanwhile, both the state and county restaurant associa tion presidents have called upon the eating places to ob serve the President's appeal. The Coast Line rilroad, through its president C. McD. Davis, has announced that its j gee CAFE On Fage Two j Economic Warfare Brews In Europe Diplomats See Move At Soviet Counter To Mar shall Plan LONDON, Oct. 6 —i-P—Diplo matic sources here said today creation of a new International Communist organization was the signal for openly intensified political and possibly economic warfare between the Soviet Un ion and the Western powers. Late reports from European capitals indicated such a con flict was already brewing m the wake of yesterday’s announce ment that Communists in nine countries had banded together to fight “American im perialism.’’ The diplomatic in formants saw the move as Rus sia’s counter-strategy to Secre tary Of State Marshall’s plan for European reconstruction through mutual cooperation. In Vienna high diplomatic sources said the Austrian gov ernment, convinced that there is no possibility of agreement between the allies on the Aus trian treaty, had launched a« all-out attack against Commit niet propaganda and tactics. “We cannot allow Austria to become another Hungary,” a diplomatic informant quoted a high Austrian official as saying. “We must not let the Commu nists secure a dictatorship of the minority. Therefore we must expose their aims and See ECONOMIC on Page Nine JURY VIEWS BODY OF DALLAS LAKE Remains Of Tug Boat Pilot Recovered Monday From Cape Fear The body of Dallas Laigo, >0 year-old tug boat pilot, lost off the tug L. J. Williams last Tues day night, was viewed by a coroner’s jury at Yopp Funer al home last night after havmg been found in the Cape Feay river yesterday morning at 8:45 o’clock. Sheriff's officers said that. Laige’s body was found floating on top of the river by a dredge boat crew at a point approxima tely a mile below the place hp was last seen on the tug around eight miles south of Wilmington. Summoned by Assistant Coro ner Dr. Fred H. Coleman, In the absence of Coroner Gordon Doran who is ill, the six-man jury was composed of B. T. Hopkins, Charles Casteen, C. C Goodwin, J. H. Holmes, J. i. Siegfred and R. E. Heath. Dr. Coleman said that no defi nite time has been fixed for the inquest as yet, because several See BODY on Page Two THREE OLD REBELS, RARING TO GO, ON HAND FOR REUNION CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oot. 6.—(It)—Three old rebels arrived here today for the 52nd annual reunion of the United Confed erate Veterans — and they all were spry as crickets and ‘rar ing to go.’ “This one will be the best one we’ve ever had,” predicted Gen. William Mercer Buck of Muskogee, Okla., 96, commander of the Oklahoma Division, who was the first to arrive for the two - day convention beginning tomorrow. That frisky spirit was echoed later in the day by Capt. Wil liam Freeman, a 103-year-old gentleman from Wetumpka. Okla., who remarked that he’s “still going around kissing the girls,” and Gen. William W. Alex ander, 97, of Rock Hili, S. C., eom* mander of his state division. And So To Bed Baseball is not only the number one sport in the Unit* ed States, it has reached tnth the British navy. Yesterday afternoon ft member of the crew of the H. M. S. Snipe, British sloop, tied up at the Customhouse docks for a four-day visit, was listening to the play-by play account of the World Series between the Yankee* and the Dodgers. When the final score was announced, the British sailor grinned, turned to a local citizen standing nearby, and said. “Oh, Sav, what do yon know, I lost a pound on those Bums.” He vowed he would wevef < bet on the Dodger* again. A
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