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lUtlmuutfmt iHitntutg VOL.J^no- 48»___■ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947 -- General Clay Sounds Alarm Withdrawal Of Troops From Germany Would Be World Calamity WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—UP)— r,n Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany, de c]ared today that United States occupation forces should be ,ept in Germany until there is *' c]ear understanding on the fu ture peace of the world Clay told a luncheon at the National Press Club that Is* could think of no greater cala jtv to Europe and the world than w remove United States troops from Germany before ‘ real peace settlement is reached. He spoke before the luncheon mitted use without direct quota group under rules which per son of any remarks he made which were not designated as “off the record.” In genera;, he defended the new level of industry in Ger man'’ as one which is essential both to make Germany self-sup porting and to aid the recovery of Europe. In Accord (The United States and Bri tain agreed to raise the level of industrial production in their occupation zones despite Rus sian protests.) Clay said that any increase in the German industrial level naturally meant an increase in the possible German capacity to make war in the future. But he -aid that the industrial resourc es of the country could be con trolled and it’s war potential al ways held in check by agree ment among the allies. Clay estimated that if the Ger man economy is allowed to pull tself up by its own boot straps —that is, without American loans—and if the proceeds of exports from Germany are plowed back into the economy, ’he merged British-American zones can become self-sustain ng in three to four years. m WILL STUDY ACL APPLICATION Board Takes Under Advise ment, Plea For Discon tinuance Of Trains RALEIGH, Oct. 15—After hearing today, the State Util es Commission took under ad visement an application of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for ■permission to discontinue its passenger trains 48 and 49 be tween Rocky Mount and Wil mington. Commission members indicat '1 that a decision of the appli ation probably would be made r a few days. Strong objections to discontin uance of the two trains was voiced by delegations from Goldsboro, Mt. Olive, Fremont and Wallace. The delegations included mer chants, farmers and produce dealers who told the commis sion that the train service was essential both to the communi ties and to farmers of the area. Present Evidence At an earlier hearing on the issue, ACL officials presented evidence showing that revenues derived from the two trains is not sufficient to pay their op The ACL originally asked for Permission to discontinue the two trains between Wilmington See SL’C On Page Two JUDGE ORDERS MAN TO FULL OUT NAILS HE DROVE IN FLOOR CLEVELAND, Oct. 15— UK — Thomas Callahan, 25, today was ordered to pull out 200 nails he Pounded into the livingroom floor of his East side apartment. The floor squeaked, your hon or- ' he told Municipal Judge Andrew M. Koieachy, who was hearing an eviction case drought against Callahan by the apartment owner, Miss Helyn “resin. The judge ruled that Callahan fould stay in the apartment un ?• his ’ease expired in 1948, but •e must remove the nails. I he Weather s FORECAST: ni7 t Carolina—Partly cloudy and Shower-'and Friday' seattered v,etr Thursday. da‘v°V"Carolina — Partly cloudy Thurs p0‘ri.d’;ci Friday, scattered showers west ir Thursday. Not much change • temperature. en'd^f0- !ngical data for the 24 hours 4 P- m. yesterday. , TEMPERATURES 7;:"V a m. 74: 7:30 a. m. 72; 1:30 p. m. Hm' p rn- 74; Maximum 79; Mini J: Mean 74; Normal 66. i.,n HUMIDITY V. T ,n' m- 91: 7:30 a- m 95; 1:30 p.m. ’ •"i0 P. m. 97. Tot a; ( precipitation to -1, 0r, th€ 24 hours ending 7:30 p. Tom 1 ■ es inches. 'lnCe the first of the month 4.33 •fI"ioTI,)KS eor today U. s. r 'ne TlCle Tables published by ,J,lM and Geodetic Survev). *:lminKUm ,IIGH LOW -11.20 a m. 5:50 a.m Hisonborn 1 , * H:33 p m- 6:24 V-m Inlet _ 9:04 a.m. 2:40 a.m. ^tmri^ 9:15 p m- 3:15 p.m. /40a v, ' ld- Sunset 5:37; Moonrise k *v*oonset 7:14. '* weather On Pa«« Ivi MEMBER of a five-member House Foreign Affairs subcom mittee touring Europe, Rep. Don ald L. Jackson (R.-Calif.), was fired on by guerillas using mor tars, while riding in a jeep, north of Kilkis, Greece, near the Yugoslav border. The Congress man escaped injury. SPECIAL VENIRE CALLED IN CASE k ’*ornevs Exhaust Reg ular Panel In Attempt To Secure Jury A special venire of 30 jurors was summoned last night to ap pear in New Hanover county Su perior Court this morning after attorneys exhausted a panel of 40 jurors yesterday attempting to select a jury to try a damage suit arising from the collision of an automobile and a bus. Three claims against the Queen City Coach company were con solidated for purpose of trial. Attorney Jack LeGrand for the bus company successfully moved to have one of the plaintiffs, Miss Gertrude Harper, and T. B. Williams, who was driving her automobile, listed as co-defend ants with the bus company in two of the suits. The action arose from injuries the plaintiffs allege they sustain ed when Miss Harper's 1941 Ford four door sedan driven by Wil liams was struck by a Queen City bus driven by S. M. Horton at the intersection of Third and Market streets on September 4, 1945. Mrs. Mavis Smith and Mrs. Margaret Tiencken, plaintiffs in two of the suits, were passengers in the automobile owned by Miss Harper, plaintiff in the third suit. Complaint Filed The complaint, filed by at torneys for Miss Harper, alleges that Williams drove Miss Har per’s Ford into the intersection on getting the green traffic light, that the car stalled in the center of the intersection, and that the bus came barging into the intersection at a reckless pace — more than 35 miles per h«ur — and struck the stalled See SPECIAL on Page Two THREE GUARDSMEN KILLED IN CRASH Four Others Injured When Plane Smashes Into Famous Pike’s Peak COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 15—W— A missing Iowa Na tional Guard C-47 transport plane was found smashed against a snow-covered slope of famous Pikes Peak today, three of its crew dead and four injured. One of the injured crewmen had dazedly stumbled down a mountain trail to bring out a partly-coherent story of the crash. He was identified as Master Sgt. John W. Knight, 28, of Des Moines, home base of the plane. Shortly afterward, a Colorado Springs deer hunter, Leonard Detherage, 28, clambered to the ship through thick timber and foot-deep snow. Inside the crushed fuselage Detherage found six men, with both the dead and the living wrapped in parachutes. Knight apparently had done this before setting out for help. Detherage said the three sur vivors seemed to be seriously injured and only one was able to talk. He asked if “the other guy,” apparently referring to Knight, had reached safety. The hunter lighted a cigarette for this man but said he was See GUARDSMEN On Page Two Soviet Satellites Launch Hot Attack On American “Little Assembly” Plan; ;._CIO Demands Return Of Price Control Convention Asks Special Session Government Supervi s i o n Of Rent, Rationing Urged For Nation _ By The Associated Press The CIO national convention Wednesday demanded an im mediate session of Congress to reestablish price and rent con trols and rationing, while the AFL convention voted to tax each of its members an additional one cent or more per month to ward an election year war chest of $3,000,000. The CIO, meeting in Boston, asked for an income tax policy which would raise exemptions to $1,500 for an individual and $3,000 for a married couple, with $500 deduction in addition for each dependent. The AFL convention refused to commit itself on the question of the right to strike by public em ployes, but instead endorsed gov ernment workers’ “legitimate and fundamental rights.” Wage Boost In Detroit, General Motors cor poration announced it had grant ed a five-cent hourly pay boost to an estimated 15,000 mainten ance men in its 90 plants through out the country. Harry W. Anderson, GM vice president in charge of personnel, the 11% cents, plus three paid holidays, granted to all GM work ers last spring, and was given to correct “certain inequities” in the skilled faintenance classifi cations In Baltimore, the first NLRB hearing on charges of unfair labor practices against a union continued, despite attempts of the union, the International Typo graphical Union, to obtain a post ponement. The complaint charges the ITU and its Baltimore Local No. 12 violated the Taft-Hartley act by refusing to bargain col lectively with the 22- firms of the Baltimore Graphic Arts League. Government and company at torneys attempted to show that the local explicitly followed “in structions from the home service office” of the ITU. Union motions for recess until Monday and for separate hearings of the cases were denied. In Brooklyn, officials of the See CONVENTION on Page Two PLANE TO STREW FLOWERS ON SEA Ceremony Will Be Part Of Navy Day Program An nounced For City The 2,200-ton United States navy destroyer Stribling, a new comer to the American *leet, will arrive in Wilmington for the Navy Day celebration on Octo ber 24, 25, and 26, the Navy department in Washington in formed the Navy Day program committee here, chairman George A. Carey, said yester day. The Customhouse steps will be the setting for the Memorial services to be conducted Sunday, October 26, by a Navy chaplain. As a part of the ceremony flow ers will be carried away by plane and scattered out over the sea. Rear Admiral Ernest W. Litch, former commander of the USS Lexington, will address a meeting of the local naval re serve unit Saturday, highlight ing a program in charge of Lt. Cmdr. John Wilson, USNR. Ladies Night will be highlight ed by a dance at the Plantation club. Capt. C.G. Richardson, chief of staff for the Sixth Na val district, will be the chief speaker at brief ceremonies pre ceding the dance. Dr. R. J. Spinharney, former Navy flier, is in charge of the opening pro gram. The Stribling will be open for public inspection while docked in Wilmington, Garey reported. Auction Gets Little Gilt But Provesi Social “Tops” WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—W— There was a rummage sale to day at the U. S. capitol. And bargain hunters hurried in to bid on everything from a chair Theodore Roosevelt once sat in to a wornout soda fountain, complete with wornout squirters. U. G. Lewellen of Jefferson City, Mo., bought the Roosevelt chair, a huge, hand carved ma hogany thing for $125. According to legend, the chair was built for TR, when he was vice-president. Said Lewellen, a secretary to Senator Ken (R-Mo.): “I don’t care who sat in it. I bought it because I liked it.” Sentiment didn’t enter into the sale of the soda fountain either. The fountain, formerly of the Senate restaurant, went for $25. It was bought by a local salvage firm more interested in scrap metal than history. The whole auction was a queer affair. Underneath the capitol are See AUCTION mi Page Two Cold Storage Poultry Stocks On Oct. 1 Highest In History — ■ —■ ■ —- ■■ i Agriculture Department On Eve Of “Poultryless Thursday” Says Nation’s Supply Increased By 23,000,000 Pounds Last Month; Report May Add New Fuel To Hottest Food Controversy WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — (IP) — The Agriculture De partment reported today — on the eve of “Poltryless Thursday” — that poultry stocks in cold storage on Oct. 1 were the largest for that date on record. The stocks increased 23, 000,000 pounds during Sep tember to reach a total of 206.000,000 pounds. This report, given with out comment by the depart ment headed by Secretary Anderson, came as the hot test controversy facing the Citizens Food committee threatened to flare up again. It coucerns the wisdom of the committee’s request that Americans refrain from eat ing fowls and eggs on Thurs day to save the grain it takes to produce them. Critics contend the idea won’t save grain. Committee Chairman Charles Luckman has said he is not convinced that this contention is cor rect but that if further study shows it is the program will be changed. The issue will come up Monday at a joint meeting of poultry producers, grain and feed dealers, and members of the staff of the committee. The poultryless Thursdays are one feature the adminis tration drive to conserve 100,000,000 bushels of grain by mid-1948 to help feed Western Europeans. One poltryman, in Wash ington today, said that the National Poultry Producers Federation is not asking out right abolition of poultryless days, but that it is concerned with the prospect of a glut of chickens on the market The Agriculture Depart ment’s report noted that cold storage holdings of shell eggs were the lowest for Oct. 1 since the government started keeping records more than 25 years ago. They totalled 2,800,000 cases. The total of stored eggs, in cluding frozen and dried as well as shell, was equivalent to 12,200,000 cases, or 1,00, 000 cases below the figure of a year ago. See COLD STORAGE on Page 2 WILMINGTON AREA HAS AMPLE POWER While Supply Grows Acute Over Nation, No Short age Expected Here There is no shortage of elec trical power in Wilmington or this section and none is expect ed, “unless something unfore seen turns up,” George Conant, Tide Water Power company merchandising manager de clared yesterday. Conant made this statement when informed of an Associated Press power story and survey of the nation at large which re vealed that American power lines, already strained by un precedented and unusual de mands, may be pushed to the limit by Christmas. The Asso ciated Press story follows: The nation’s power lines may be strained to the limit by Christmas. They are already taut under unprecedented, and in some sections unexpected, demands for electricity. A nation-wide survey by the Associated Press shows that in some sections plhns are being made already to: 1. Ask householders “voluntar ily to save electricity.” 2. Urge industry “voluntarily to rearrange operacion sched ules” to space out demands on generating equipment. This might mean changes in working hours and conditions, even a re turn to the three-shift system of See WILMINGTON on Page Two Savannah Suffers Heavy Damage From Hurricane HIGH TIDE STILL LASHING BEACHES Cape Fear Overflows At Chestnut Street; Dam age Negligible Here High tides continued to lash nearby beaches last night after ihe highest tide level since Sep tember, 1928, sent the Cape Fear river rolling into some downtown Wilmington streets yesterday morning, but no storm or tide damage had been reported in the area last night. Observers at Wrightsville Beach said that the wind picked up there and the water again reached an unusually high mark at shortly after 8 p. m. last night, but no damage resulted. The winds and tides in the Wilming ton area for the last three days were induced by the fringes of three freak hurricanes. The last of the three reported great storms struck across Geor gia and South Carolina yester day, hitting Savannah and Charleston damaging blows, but continued inward with almost no possibility of striking Wilming ton or southeastern North Caro lina. The tide here which carried Cape Fear waters into several waterfront streets to a depth of ’See HIGH TIDE on Faye Two State Department Cool, Politicos Extoll Book WASHINGON, Oct. 15—(U.R)— The State Department officially ignored former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes mem oirs today, but their recom mendations on how to deal with Russia drew applause from Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Chairman Charles A. Eaton R., N.J., of the House Foreign Affairs committee said Byrnes had performed a public service “of the most vital importance” in writing his memoirs. But Eaton said he doubted that “even so penetrating a mind as that of Mr. Byrnes can really go to the bottom of the malignant forces represented by Mr. Stalin with which we are now dealing and must continue to deal.” Rep. Pete Jarman. D., Ala... a member of Eaton’s committee, said the book would be “very valuable” to American officials now dealing with Russi. The State Department, which has to do the dealing, was asked about the memoirs, no com ment, a spokesman said. Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee, agreed with Byrnes that the United States may have to seek separate peace settle ments with Germany, Japan and Austria. But he was un willing to go as far as Byrnes did in suggesting that this coun GGrtlishG; try might have to drive Russia out of Estern Germany. Along The Cape Fear FALL OF FORT FISHER—To continue with General Whiting’s official report of the battle of Fort Fisher: “The fall of the general and the colonel com manding the fort—one about four and the other about four thirty o’clock, p.m. had a per ceptible effect upon the men, and no doubt hastened greatly the result; but we were over powered, and no skill or gal lantry coulud have saved the place after he effected a lodge ment, except attack in the rear. “The enemy’s loss was very heavy, and so, also was our own. Of the latter, as a prisoner, I have not been able to ascer tain. “At nine o’clock, p.m., the gallant Major Reilly, who had fought the fort after the fall of his superiors, reported the ene-. my in possession of the sally port. “The brave Captain Van Ben thuysen, of marines, though himself badly wounded, with a squad of his men, picked up the general and colonel and endeav ored to make way to Battery Buchanan, followed by Reilly with the remnant of the forces. “On reaching there, it was found to be evacuated, by whose order and what authority, I know not; no boats were there. The garrison of Fort Fisher had coolly been abandoned to its fate. “Thus fell Fort Fisher after three days unparalleled in the annals of war. Nothing was left but to await the approach of See CAPE FEAR on Page Two Only One Death Reported As Storm Blows Out In Rural Georgia SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 15—<U.R) —A haphazard hurricane tore into the Georgia-South Carolina coast today and killed at least one person, handed the Savan hah area a $1,000,000 repair bill and temporarily i3olted more than 30,000 unprepared beach and island dwelers. Mountainous waves surged in land along 200 miles of coast from Brunswick, Ga., to Charleston as the storm spent I its waning fury on the South Georgia plains and the upland Piedmont region. At 11 a.m. it was whipping those areas with diminishing gales and all storm warnings were down. Caught on short notice when the hurricane suddenly mada an end-run to the South Atlantic coast after lashing South Flori da and then heading seaward, the new storms target appeared to have escaped with surface scars. Police Active Fast action by police who made “Paul Revere” drives, with sirens wailing, along the menaced coastal areas helped residents of the exposed areas scramble to safety. Scores of temporary shelters were set up on 30 minutes notice when the See SAVANNAH On Page Two VA GROUP COMING HERE THIS WEEK Hospital Site Inspection Board Will Be Given Complete Brochure An inspection board from the Veterans administration in Wash ington, now touring proposed sites for the 1,000 bed neuro psychiatric hospital to be built in Eastern North Carolina, is expected to arrive in Wilming ton this week-end, according to John H. Farrell, executive sec retary of the" Wilmington Cham ber of Commerce. Upon their arrival here the inspection board members are slated to meet city and county officials and a joint veterans committee at the city hall, where an illustrated brochure listing pertinent facts, figures, and in formation concerning proposed sites near Wilmington will be presented. The VA inspection board is See GROUP On Page Two ONE OF two women employees slightly hurt when the U. S. Consulate in Jerusalem was bombed was Mrs. Ethel de Levie, formerly of Dorchester, Mass. She has been employed in the Holy Land consular service as a Clerk for many years. CIO CONVENTION APPROVES POLICY Delegates Roar Approval Of American Foreign Plan; Back Truman BOSTON, Oct. 15— Iff) —The CIO convention roared thunder ous applause today as CIO lead ers, one after another, shouted their support of American for eign policy. Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, said the “same people in the CIO who were calling Roosevelt a ‘warmonger’ in 1940 are now calling Truman a ‘war monger’.” George Baldanzi, executive vice president of the Textile Workers, said that American of ficials had been denounced in Russia, and that the President has been called a "Hitler” and he shouted: “He couldn’t be a Hitler, be cause if he were a Hitler, Rus sia would work out a pact with him.” This brought one of the big gest ovations of the CIO conven tion, which earlier today heard a speech by Secretary of State Marshall. Van Bittner, director of the CIO organizing committee said “any group anywhere in the world that says the United States wants war—they’re just saying something that is abso lutely untrue, and they know it.” RUN AWAY COUPE CRUSHESINFANT Jacksonville Baby Dies Of Injuries From Freak Accident JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 15 A 14 week-old baby was crushed to death at Holly Ridge, near here, Tuesday afternoon about 4:30 when the emergency brakes on a 1939 model Ford coup failed to hold, offcers said. The baby, Alan John Menting, son of Sgt. and Mrs. Kelart Menting, was in a carriage in front of Rhodes store beng at tended by four-year-old Jerry Browning, whose mother was inside shopping with Mrs Ment ing. James C. Batson parked his car near the carrage, facing it, and had walked over to talk to someone. Sheriff Dan Sanders, who with Coroner Talbert Jones inves tigated, said the emergency brakes on the car gave way and the car rolled into the carr iage and pointed it and the baby against the building. Sanders said that Batson had just bought the car Monday. The baby was rushed to the naval hospital at Camp Lejeune a half later. Farm Income This Year To Be Highest Recorded WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—M — Farm income this year will be the highest on record and prob ably will remain high next year, the Agriculture Department said today. This year’s gross farm in come was estimated at $34,300, 000,000, or 18 per cent above last 3 ear. Net income—the differ ence between gross income and production expenses —was esti mated at $18,000,000,000. Looking to 1948, a department report said income will depend largely on the volume of crop production and foreign demand. “Domestic consumer purchas ing power seems likely to re main high. Farm production ex penses may continue to increase in 1948; and even if gross in come is maintained at the 1947 level, net income may not be quite so high as in 1947.” Total cash receipts this year are expected to show the larg est percentage gain over the previous year since 1943, the de partment said. In general, this is due to a substantial increase in prices for farm products, chiefly in the first half of the year. -J Slavik Says Move Would Kill Veto Five Nations Rally Behind U. S. Proposal Before UN Group LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Oct. 15. —(U.R)— Soviet satellites today ripped into the American proposal for a year-round United Nations “Little Assembly,” charging that it was a scheme to sneak through the back door and kill the veto. Both Yugoslavia and Czecho slovakia warned that the proposal would undermine UN, and hinted that it would increase world sus picion of the United States. But five other nations rallied to the American plan, hailing it as the answer to the mounting world problems which the regular UN general assembly does not have time to solve. Backing the United States plan today were China, Turkey, Bel gium, Uruguay and El Salva dor. Some had reservations, but they made a total of nine coun tries which have supported the “Little Assembly” in principle during two days of debate before the UN Political committee. Rus sia, Yugoslavia and Czechoslo vakia are the only nations that have objected. Slavik Attacks Juraj Slavik of Czechoslovakia protested that setting up a veto free, 57-member “Little Assemb ly” would be an attack on the veto “through the back door and service entrance.” He joined Vladimir Popovic of See SLAVIK On Page Two PERILOUS RESCUE AT SEA COMPLETE Crew Of Bill Takes Off Last Of Sky Queen Passengers NEW YORK, Oct, 15 —MV Heroic sailors of the Coast Guard Cutter Bibb today com pleted the perilous rescue of all ■ 69 persons on a wave-battered flying boat ditched in mid-ocean and then sped through North At lantic waters for port—with all survivors “in fine spirits.” [ The sleek cutter, whose crew : had fought mountainous waves [ and gale winds for nearly 24 ; hours in removing men, women . and children from the downed • trans - Atlantic plane, ploughed through now placid seas for Boston, 1,605 miles away. Capt. Paul B. Cronk, skipper of the Bibb, and his crew brought 17 men and a woman 1 to safety at dawn—last of the 62 passengers and seven crew men to be taken off the huge flying boat which fluttered to a : landing near the cutter yester day when fuel ran low. Cronk said tonight in a radio broadcast from the Bibb, moni tored by the National Broad casting Co., that “we sort of have the feeling that we are coming out of a nightmare.” He said he could not estimate when the ship would put in at Boston because he now has or ders to rendezvous with another Coast Guard ship, the Duane, to take off a seaman suffering from appendicitis. When the Bibb’s second mercy mission is completed, she will continue for Boston. Meantime, Cronk said, fill passengers of the plane, *ie See RESVUE On Page Two WISCONSIN MAN GETS SKUNK BACK BUT NOT HIS ‘HARMLESS’ PET SUSSEX, Wis.. Oct. 15—Wl — Almond Zillmer’s search for his pet skunk—a project ordinarily as difficult as finding a tiger in a clothes closet, but complicat ed in this case by deodorization of the skunk—will be carried on, but with more caution. A neighbor recently handed Zillmer a bag, assuring him it contained the skunk which had escaped. The neighbor was half right. Occupant of the bag, un deniably a skunk, was the wrong one. And So To Bed Many persons were lined up at the theatre last night to see “Gone With the Wind.” Included in the crowd were a couple from Wrightsville, who were discussing the storm. One of them said: “Tonight we come to Wil mington to see ‘Gone With the Wind’ while last night we came to keep away from the wind.”
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