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FORECAST: Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy and warmer today; Saturday generally fair and mild. \0L. 81.—NO. 49. ' -. Red Danger Stalks China Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer Fears Nation May Be Drawn into Soviet Orbit BOSTON, Oct. 16 —(JP)—Lt. Gen Albert C. Wedemeyer said . day that “unless drastic re Jorms, particularly in the eco nomic held, are implemented ;,on. China will be drawn into •he Soviet orbit in spite of the assistance that we Americans must extend. The statement was the first mcication of the nature of his report of President Truman aft er a six-weeks investigation in China and Korea. It was con •ained in a letter to Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge of the Boston Committee F«r United Service to China. Wedemeyer said that China is passing through conditions of 'evolution and revolution” and that the Soviet Union is capi talizing on “disorganization and chaos in the area exactly as she has done in Europe.” The general made a renort on his survey to President Truman ana Secretary of State Marshall upon his return to this country in mid-September and it has been pne of the best kept gov ernment secrets in recent years. Secrecy Criticized Government authorities were criticized for their failure to disclose data from! Wede meyer's report by Representa tive Judd (R-Minn) last night on the eve of his departure for China, Japan and Korea as a one-man sub committee of the House Foreign Affairs commit tee. In Washington today, Presi dent Truman told a news con ference that the secretary of state would have something to say soon about Wedemeyer’s survey. In his letter to Mrs. Coolidge, Wedemeyer wrote: . . with approximately 80 per cent of the population illit erate, it is in my opinion un sound to expect true demo cratic procedures. However, we Americans should support the aspirations of the Chinese to im prove their cultural position and to participate intelligently and realistically in their gov ernment. ‘‘Conditions in the Far East after the war were similar to those in Europe with disrupted See DANGER On Page Two GEN. EISENHOWER SHUNS POLITICS Chief Of Staff Says Au thors Of Draft Campaign Unknown To Him MANCHESTER, N. H„ Oct. 16 —1VP1— General Dwight D. Eisen hower tonight told a news con ference: “I don’t want anything to do with politics.” Questioned about the “draft Eisenhower” campaign, General Eisenhower said he has never had any personal acquaintance with the persons sponsoring it, adding "no name (in that committee) rings a bell with me.” Asked if he would be a Presi dential candidate, the general said, “I have a lot of friends in the country and I don’t want to lose any of them.” The army chief of staff will speak tonight in the first of a series of the Manchester Com munity Forum being sponsored by the Manchester Union-Leader. General Eisenhower said he has set April 1 as the date when he would terminate his duty as chief of staff, adding, however, that it might be three months either way. Upon his retirement from •he Army he will become Presi dent of Columbia University. He sard he dM not know who would succeed him as chief of staff but declared that “the ru mors in Washington have General Bradley as my successor.” He referred to General Bradley ss ‘‘one of the greatest soldiers ana greatest Americans in Wash ington. (General Bradley is head of the veterans administration.) General Eisenhower said that h's principal concern in Washing ton at present was recruiting for the Army. The Weather So i n Carolina and North Carolina— ario clcudv and warmer Friday, with /“fjV ‘ in mountain section Friday Saturday generally fair and _ Me'f nrologica] data {or th€ 24 hoars r,g 7.30 p. m. yesterday. . TEMPERATURES 7?) h.a- 72: 7:30 a. m. 71; 1:30 p. m. rr, J p m- 73: Maximum 81; Mini Um *0. Mean 75: Normal 66. , HUMIDITY 7’1, a- m. 91; 7:30 a. m. 95; 1:30 p. m. • P- m. 88. T PRECIPITATION 0 inc^fc/or the 24 hours ending 7 :30 p. m inches^ S!nce the first of the month 4.33 rF TIDES FOR TODAY U. c; p the Tide Tables published by '-oast and Geodetic Survey). Wilrnin HIGH LOW m ngt°n -12:04 a.m. 6:35 a.m. Masnnv. - pm 7:12 p.m. nbcro Inlet . 9:47 a.m. 3:20 a.m Si,,,-, 9:55 p.m. 3:59 p.m. * 34a T 6:19; Sunset 5:36; Moonrise °onsel 7 :15p. rt WEATHER On Page lw« William Green GREEN REELECTED A F.L PRESIDENT CIO Calls For One Million Political Workers In * 1948 Campaign BY The Associated Press he CIO called hursday for 1,000,000 political action work ers in 1948, while the AFL re elected its 74-year-old presi dent, William Green, at a con vention session from which John L. Lewis and all officers of his United Mine Workers were absent. The CIO called Thursday for set a goal of 65,000,000 to 70, 000,000 registered voters for the 1948 election and moved for “unprecedented ” organization of the American people to ig nore party labels in voting. In San Francisco, Lewis was absent from the election session although it was his privilege to nominate Green because Green himself is a member of the mine workers. Lewis and the AFL leadership have been in conflict in the last two days and Lewis was strinned of his rank as an AFL officer. The move was accomplished by abolishing the 13 vice presidencies of the AFL. Election Holidays The AFL convention also called upon its affiliates to ob serve both primary and general election days as holidays, and to sign no contracts failing to contain the designation of those days as holidays. The CIO convention, despite its support of political action by its members, gave no official indication of what candidates it favors. Jack Kroll. CIO political ac tion director, said that for can didates the CIO must seek out “the type of man who will have to be coaxed into making the race but who will make a stead fast and courageous Congress man when he gets to Washing ton.” ■ TOBA CCO PRICES TAKES SLIGHT DIP Eastern, Old Belts Report Declines While Middle Belt Higher By The Associated Press Old Belt and Eastern North Carolina markets posted lowc average prices on offerings yes terday, according to the Fed eral-State Departments of Agri culture, but other markets reg istered advances, the Mar keting Service said. Middle Belt increases ranged from $1 to $4 for smoking leaf, as were most lugs. Cutters jumped from $1 to $3 in most grades, and thin nondescript was up from 75 cents to $3. Wednesday’s general average showed a 26-cent boost over Tuesday when 3,913,290 pounds were sold for an average of $39.79 per hundred pounds. Steady to slightly higher prices were posted on the Bor der Belt of North Carolina and South Carolina, with the ad vances running from 75 cents to $2. Prices Irregular Prices were irregular on the Old Belt, with gains and losses about evenly divided. Compara tive averages, as released by the Marketing Service, showed changes from 50 cents to $5.50, but the greatest variations were from $1 to $3. Although some low and com mon leaf and smoking leaf grades sold for higher prices, the majority of the offerings on See TOBACCO On Page Two “Look-See” At Elizabeth To Cost Onlookers $300 LONDON, Oct. 16—(U.R)—Scot land Yard today imposed unprec for the route of the royal wed edented security provisions for the route of the royal wed ding procession Nov. 20 when Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten make their first marital appearance before the British public. Police notified all landlords that the name of every ticket holder admitted to buildings overlooking the route must be filed with Scotland Yard. Every ticketholder is subject to search and must have an identity card and-or passport in his or her possession. Seats for any vantage point overlooking the processional route between Buckinham Pal ace and Westminister Abbey have skyrocketed well above prices charged for King George’s coronation procession in 1937. This insures that strangers will have a difficult time squeezing in unless they pay in advance. * See LOOK-SEE On Page Three Miliary Authorities Announce Plans t/ i3ismantle 682 German-Owned Plants; Britain Determined To Quit Holy Land Troop Withdrawal Likely Next Year Creech-Jones Says Nation Will Give Up Pales tine Mandate LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 16—WP) —Britain served her second no tice on the United Nations As sembly today that she will give up the Palestine mandate and withdraw from the riot-torn Holy Land. The date for withdrawal was not set but Britain said it would occur “within a limited period.” The British at the same time turned down a United States sug - gestion that they remain respon sible for the Holy Land through an indefinite transition period pending the final achievement of independence. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones told the Assembly’s extraordinary 57-Nation Pales tine committee that Britain would consider an invitation to take part in making effective a U. N. settlement but warned that “his majesty’s government will not accept the responsibility for en forcement either alone or in the major role.” Several delegates observed af ter Creech-Jones spoke that his new statement was stronger than his first, made on Sept. 26 at the opening of the Palestine com mittee debate. British sources said that his speech was intended to tell the Assembly beyond all doubt that the British meant every word when they said they would withdraw and that they no longer would carry on the man date. Nations Split Meanwhile, Cuba and Argen tina split with several of their fellow Latin American republics and spoke against partition. Creech-Jones himself has taken no position for or against parti tion of the Holy Land into Arab and Jewish nations and British delegates insisted he would not take any position. Britain thus differed from the United States and Russia, both of which have come out for partition. Creech - Jones told the com mittee that the Assembly must not delay its decision “unduly.” He said the “sand has started to run” and that the Assembly must act. Answering those who have con tended Britain could not surren der the mandate, Creech-Jones said his government felt it could do so. Creech-Jones said Britain had struggled hard for a solution of See TROOP On P; _ Three DITCHES NEEDED ON CHERRY AVE Board Of Health To Urge New Excavations As Protective Measure Unsanitary conditions report ed to the county health depart ment Wednesday as caused by drainage ditches along the north end of Cherry avenue in the Audubon section were investigat ed today by the health depart ment sanitary engineers who concluded the situation can be remedied. L. L. Lassiter, sanitary engine er, said that the board of health will recommend to the county commissioners that some new ditches be excavated to prevent the possibility of a recurrence of the condition. Residents complained Thurs day that water overflowing the ditches flooded low lying land in the vicinity, stopping the flow of septic tanks and creating an unsanitary condition. Residents of the area reported that until now they have been unsuccessful in getting ditches in the area opened up when the state and the county tossed the buck to each other, each claim ing that the ditches were the res ponsibility of the other. Bus Passengers Hit Plaintiff Testimony PARTIES OKAY WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. — (U.R)— President Truman said today that just because he and Mrs. Truman aren’t having any, there’s no reason why the rest of the people shouldn’t go in for fancy dinner parties and banquets this fall and winter if they desire. Mr. Truman added that there is no reason why dinners and banquets should not be held — so long as the general-food con servation rules are followed. WILMINGTON GETS RAIL POLICE MEET Protective Section AAR Groups Will Convene Here In Spring Wilmington will be the scene of the 1948 spring meeting of the Richmond-Norfolk com mittee of the protective section, association of American rail roads, it was announced here yesterday. Final date of this first meet ing of the committee ever to be held in this city will be an nounced later, according to James Webb, public relations director of the Atlantic Coast line railroad, which will serve as host. The 84 members of the com mittee who met yesterday in their fall session in the Monti cello hotel at Norfolk, Va., de cided on Wilmington as their spring meeting place after an urgent invitation had been is used by M. M. DesChamp, chief of property protection for the ACL. DesChamps is also a member of the committee of di rection of the Protective sec tion. J. H. Lumpkin, special agent See WILMINGTON on Page Two HARDEN HAS EDGE ON “COLONY” JOB Secretary To Governor Mav Become Manager Of Manteo Drama RALEIGH, Oct. 16—■(*—’The Lost Colony production, sym phonic drama produced annual ly at Manteo, still had no general manager today although the name of John Harden, pri vate secretary to Governor Cherry, was projected more than ever as the trustees’ prob able choice. The trustees held an executive session here and announced later through Chairman J. M. Broughton of Raleigh that a spe cial committee seeking a gener al manager had been continu ed with power to act. Sources close to the board said, however, that Harden’s name generally was approved but that several details had to be worked out before an announ cement could be made. Harden had no comment on whether he would accept the job if it is tendered him. He has shown a keen interest in the production See HAYDEN On Page Two Along The Cape Fear FATE OF THE DEFENDERS — After Fort Fisher was captured, General Whiting was taken prisoner and held at Fort Columbus on Governors’ Is land, where he died on March 10, 1865. Major James Reilly, the fearless defender of the fort remained not far from the scene of his heroic exploits un til his death on. November 5, 1894. Colonel George Tate, a gal lant Scotchman from Bladen county, who volunteered at the outbreak of the war and re mained in active service as a prominent officer in the Cape Fear area until the end of the conflict, lived to return to his home in Norfolk as did Colonel William Lamb, the fort’s com mander, who returned to Nor folk to engage in business after the war. * * * FATE OF WILMINGTON — After destroying all fortifica tions near the mouth of the Cape Fear, the Federal troops continued up both sides of the river to Wilmington, reaching the port city on February 20. Colonel John J. Hedrick fired several shells in the direction of the enemy at their approach and then combined forces with those of Commanders Hoke and Hagood and left Wilmington on the 21st after setting fire to stores of cotton and other ma terials. After Wilmington fell into the hands of the Federals, some of the officers selected the home of Dr. John D. Bellamy for their quarters. General Hawley was made Provost Marshall General of Wilmington and the surround ing district. The area was pa trolled with a guard of a few hundred men. People who wish ed to' keep business houses open were required to take the oath of allegiance to the President of the United States, a matter which would now seem com mon-place. With the exception of feeling free to sample southern cooking at certain households, the sol diers fortunately respected the citizens of Wilmington. They took an attitude of helpfulness in rebuilding the town and many of the Northerners stayed to become respected citizens. Evidence Condradicts Women’s Version Of Car-Bus Crash The suit of three Wilmington women for damages totalling $55,000 against the Queen City Coach company was dealth a blow in a special session of New Hanover county Superior court Thursday evening, when pas sengers of the bus offered evi dence contradictory to that of fered by the plaintiffs Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Gertrude Harper, Mrs. H. S. Abernathy—who was Mrs. Mavis Smith at the time of the accident, September 4, 1945 — and Mrs. Margaret Tiencken, hospital employees, testified they were riding to the hospi tal in Mrs. Harper’s Ford sedan driven by T. B. Williams on the morning of the accident. Williams and the three wom en testified the Ford stalled in the center of the intersection of Third and Market streets and that a Queen City bus driven by S. M. Horton came into the intersection at a speed of 35 miles per hour without swerv ing or slowing down and crashed into the stalled Ford. Most seriously injured ap peared to have been Mrs. Tiencken, who testified she was knocked unconscious, received a broken pelvis, back injury, many severe bruises, and nerv ous injuries. She said she spent 58 days in the hospital, and has not been able to return to her job or do housework at home since the accident. Her evidence, corroborated See BUS on Page Two CITIZENS URGED TO BACK TRUMAN Mayor White Issues Appeal For Food Saving; May Name Group An appeal to Wilmingtonians to observe food conservation measures advocated by Presi dent Truman was made here yesterday by Mayor E L White. In doing so, he disclosed that he had received a telegram from Charles Luckman, chair man of the President’s Food Conservation committee, re questing establishment of a lo cal Citizens Food committee. Luckman also “urged the pec pie of this community to co operate in the President’s pro gram by using no meat on Tues days, no poultry or eggs on Thursdays, saving a slice of bread every day and urging restaurants to serve bread and butter only upon request.” The Wilmington mayor said “all of us know that there is a critical shortage of food in the world today, particularly in Western Europe. I am request ing our citizens to be mindful of this situation and use every effort to save food and particu larly not to waste food during this critical period.” Mayor White added that “I am giving my best consideration to the selection of a representa tive committee to better consol idate the food saving efforts of the people and to conserve food now for those most in need.” WHILE MEMBERS of a Congressional committee hold a hearing in the Chamber of Commerce building at Atlanta, Ga., to investigate food prices, Henry Dyer (in plaid shirt) of Clarkes ville, a member of the Farmers Union of Georgia, squats in front of the building and sells products of his farm in a demonstration of what farmers get for their produce and what city people pay in retail stores. Selling at farmers’ prices, Dyer sold out his stock in 12 minutes. He said sign at right lists the difference in farm ers’ prices and what consumers in cities pay to retailers. Mayor To Welcome Editors, Publishers KIDS LOSE, WIN PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 16— (U.R)—Grocer George E. Ma honey of Portlan made his choice today between Hallo ween happiness and the hung ry youngsters of Europe and decided peas should be eaten and not shot. Mahoney banned the sale of split peas to children for bean shooters and said he would use the amount saved to help dis tressed Europeans. If other grocers would follow his lead, he said, 2,000 pounds of peas would be saved during the Halloween season alone. i $0 MEN INJURED IN HIT-RUN HERE Motorcycle Struck By Car At Front And Walnut Streets Local police at an early hour this morning were seeking the hit and run driver of an automo bile which in a collision with a motorcycle at Front and Walnut streets at 11:15 last night injur ed two men, one of them serious ly Hubert McGee, 22, Route 1, Castle Haynes, sustained a frac ture of the left lower leg, and lacerations above and below the left eye, according to Dr. C. H. Andrews at James Walker Mem orial hospital, who said that the youth also might have sustained other fractures. His condition was not listed as critical at 1 o’clock this morning. Paul Kosh, Jr., 20, of Castle Haynes road, suffered a fractur ed lower left leg, according to Dr. Andrews, who said that the broken leg was the only known injury at 1 a. m. and that his condition was not critical. Police this morning were run ning down a number of leads, as to the identity of the driver of the hit-and-run car, which was See MEN on Page Two Eastern Carolina Press Association Convenes Here Tonight Getting under way with an address of welcome by May or E. L. White at the dinner sesion at 7 o’clock this evening at the Friendly cafeteria, the annual meeting of the Eastern Carolina Press association will provide three featured speeches and a number of reports in its sessions today and tomorrow. Delegates from all newspaper members of the association are expected to be' on hand, and invitations have been issued to all newspapers in the State. Presenting findings tabulated from a survey of papers in this half of the state, C. A. Eury, of New Bern, will report on staff requirements at tonight’s opening meeting. The Saturday morning ses sion at the Cape Fear hotel will feature an address by Robert See MAYOR on Page Two STRANGE AILMENT PUZZLES DOCTORS California Child Suffers Paralysis From Some Unknown Cause PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 16— (f)—Doctors puzzled today over a mysterious ailment that has paralyzed five year old Andrea Brodine from the waist down, but which a thorough analysis at Huntingtoon Memorial hospi tal has shown is not infantile paralysis. The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brodine, be came ill last summer while va cationing. Shortly afterward she lost sight in one eye but later recovered it, only to lose sight in the other. She suffers no pain her parents said. The paralysis set in about three weeks ago and administration of about 40, See STRANGE On Page Two Golightly Didn’t Go ! Lightly On Marriage NEW YORK, Oct. 16—W—The two women, both blotide but one younger and stouter, stood with the man before the judge’s bench while the jurist stared at them unbelievingly. “It’s too complicated for me,” Magistrate Francis X. Giaccone said, then leaned back to ponder the story he had just heard from Detective Dewey Warnecke. Last Saturday, Ruth Belsky Golightly, 21, complained to po lice that her husband, Ray mond, 48, a hospital employe, had failed to support her or her nine-month old child. Warneke accompanied Ruth to an apart ment where she said she lived with Golightly. There was another woman there and she wanted to know what the charge was. “Non-support,” Warnecke said, “his wife complained.” “Well, I’m his wife,” said the woman, about 41, “and I’m not complaining. The woman who made the complaint is my daughter.” In felony court today, the old gee GOLIGHTLY On Page Two -- i Krupp Gun-Making Factories To Go American-British Will Go Ahead With Task De spite Threats BERLIN, Oct. 16. —(XI*)— Brit ish and American Military gov ernment authorities announced plans today to dismantle 682 Ger man industrial plants in their combined zones, despite German threats of strikes and other ex pressions of non-cooperation. Five plants of the gun-making Krupp plant were listed for level ing. Three plants in the Essen area, one for making armaments, another for miscellaneous steel products and the Barbeck Pig Iron and Steel works were desig nated for extinction. A Krupp plant at Lagenhagen in lower Saxony, devoted to making struct ural steel and submarine hulls, and a pneumatic equipment plant at Geisenheim in Hesse also were listed for the wreckers axe. At Dusseldorf trade union leaders voiced comments such as “appalling” and “crushing” when they learned that Western Ger many’s Ruhr and Rhineland val leys would lose 204 industrial plants. Under the dismantling sched ule, designed to give Western Ger many the go-ahead on a new level of industry plan intended to re move war production from the German economy, the bizonal area will have a productive ca pacity approximately equal to that of 1936. The plan calls for exports in excess of 1936. “If instead of cooperation there is conflict, any hope of reviving German economy will disappear,” Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, recently designated as the next See KRUPP On Page Three FIRST WAR DEAD DUE ON SATURDAY Remains Of 122 Caro linians Will Arrive At Charlotte Depot CHARLOTTE, Oct. 16. —OT— The remains of 122 Carolinians who died at Pearl Harbor will arrive at the American Graves Registration division of the Char lotte Quartermaster Depot at 8:30 a. m., Saturday, it was announced today. They are the first of an esti mated 7,000 servicemen and wom en, who will be returned to North Carolina and South Carolina fbr final burial. Some 10,000 Carolina troops were killed, but about 30 per cent of the next-of-kin have requested that the bodies remain buried overseas. The bodies reaching here Sat urday are the first to be return ed. They include 24 members of the Army Air Forces, 25 Army ground troops, 42 Navy personnel, 29 Marines, one Coast Guard of ficer and a civilian. They are among the 3,028 which arrived aboard the Honda Knot at San Francisco a week ago from the Schofield Barracks cemetery in Hawaii. Mayor H, H. Baxter of Char lotte today asked citizens and business houses htre to fly flags at half-mast Saturday. A me morial service to World War II dead will be held at 1 p. m. Sat urday at the First Presbyterian church. The bodies will be escorted by uniformed servicemen to the places selected for burial. A second arrival of bodies is expected the first week of Novem ber from the Henri Chapelle cemetery in Belgium. See FIRST On Page Two And So To Bed A local man decided to have a little fun at the cafe where he had oeen eating for several weeks. It had been his cutom to leave the waitress a small tip each time he had his meals. It was usually ten or fifteen cents, according to his bill. While waiting for his food, he thought of a grand idea, or at least he thought it was. As he prepared to leave, he placed a one-cent piece in plain view of the waitress and under his plate he plac ed a twenty-five cent piece. The waitress came to re move the dishes, saw the copper and remarked to the man that he needed it worse than she did. Her face turned a rosy pink and then a brilliant red when she discovered the two bit piece.
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