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^_ > FORECAST: + € 4 4 uttuttgintt nnttny fyjtu* yOL. 81—N°. 50._ WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947 " ESTABLISHED 18$ C AB Sets October 29 F or Airline Hearing Piedmont President Announces That Only Oral-Re-Arguments Will Be Entertained On Wilmington Feeder Line Route -[') e Civil Aeronautics board , . set Oct. 29 as the date for Rearing 1 - al re-arguments by piedmont Aviation, Inc., and ctate Airlines for the franchise ,0 operate feeder routes between Wilmington and Louisville and Cincinnati. Tom Davis, of Wins ton-Salem and president of Pied mont. announced yesterday. ’ He said the hearing would be conducted in Washington, begin ning at 10 a.m. Each airline vl]i be allocated an hour for arguments and no new briefs will be permitted. Davis was unable to “even es timate when CAB will hand down a decision following the re-arguments. It could be, he added, anytime from a few days to six months. Several months ago, CAB awarded the franchise to Pied mont, a Winston-Salem com pany, on a temporary basygSt State airlines, whose v' quarters are in Charlotte,- ' mediately protested. Early \. week, CA3 issued a supplemeiK tary opinion in which it granted State re-argument and recon sideration of the orginal deci sion favoring Piedmont. From the time it was first awarded certification. Piedmont has been busy preparing to place the routes into operation. Regu lar flights were scheduled to be gin two or three weeks ago but the fact the case had not been “cleared” kept Piedmont’s planes on the ground. If it is favored again by the federal agency, then operations are ex pected to begin shortly after wards, it was said. Byrnes Answers Critics With Secret File Notes BRAZIL TO BREAK OFF WITH RUSSIA Severance Of Diplomatic Relations Expected Within 72 Hours RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct. IV A high government ; ce said today that Brazil will break diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia as a result of Moscow’s failure to apologize for an attack in the government newspaper Izvestis upon Presi dent Eurico Gaspar Dutra. Izvestia recently declared that Dutra was subservient to the United States, and made other attacks offensive to the Brazili an Army and government. The Moscow Literary Gazette in an other article said President Du tra was a “crab with claws” who followed the lead of “the United States horse with hooves.” Foreign Minister Raul Fernan des announced orj Oct. 14 that the Brazilian government had asked Soviet Russia for an ex planation of these comments in the Soviet press. The high informant said an official announcement of the break in relations could he ex pected within 72 hours. Well - informed diplomatic sources said other American na tions may adopt a similar atti See BRAZIL On Page Two ARRIMAN URGES SHIP DISPOSAL ammerceSecretaryWould Send Surplus Bottoms To Foreign Nations NEW YORK, Oct. 17 — W— Secretary of Commerce Harri man recommended tonight that |he United States send more of >ts surplus merchant ships to foreign nations to reduce their need for other types of aid. Harriman, who heads a 19 man citizens committee named 'Dv President Truman to see "■'hat aid can be “safely and ''i.-ely" given Western Europe under the Marshall plan, said also that: 1 Foreign shipping should be 8lven a competitive chance to ■arry more of America’s over *eas trade, thus earning dollars !P pay for goods obtained from ln<? United States. „ -■ American ship owners snouid not expect subsidies to cover all the additional costs” O' operating vessels under the American flag, although they '™uld be given “financial ’’-quality with their foreign com petitors.’’ In the long run the pros Pority of our shjpping industry Spends on an expanding inter ne HARRIMAN on Page Two Hie Weather s FORECAST: v- Carolina—Partly cloudy and --nued warm Saturday and Sunday. n . Carolina—Partly cloudy with ? ‘r' showers Saturday and Sunday, warmer Saturday. er.ciinrr'-‘;u,2ical ^*»ta for the °4 hours - ,;30 p. m. yesterday. y temperatures i:; 7. ®- n- "4; 7:30 a. rn. 73; 1:30 p. m. mum •-/ c 71: Maximum 79; Mini ‘ ■ Wean 74; Normal 65. J.,ft _ humidity 30-m 91: ":30 a. m. 95; 1:30 p. m. ' ,,JU P- m. 95 T precipitation to i Vi *or 24 hours ending 7:30 p. Tot i lnches 8.34 inched6 the first of t,he montl1 (Frm« TIDFS FOR TODAY V. S V e ^^e Tables published by i oas* ai>d Geodetic Survey!. HIGH LOW 510,1 —12:15 a.m. 7:20 a.m. toasonborn i , , 12:48 p m- 8:00 p m' oro Inlet _ 10:28 a.m. 3:59 a m. Sunt,.. , 10:35 p-m- 4:43 p-m to-44- '-19: Sunset 5:35; Moonrise , River 8 :33p a s’aae at Fayetteville, N. C. at k today 10.2 ieet. re weather Oq Fate tw« British Agreed In 1944 For Soviet “Voice” In Ro manian Affairs WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 —UP)— James F. Byrnes opened the lid a bit further tonight on secret Roosevelt - Churchill corre spondence to show that the Brit ish agreed in 1944 to let Russia have “a largely preponderant voice” in Romania and Bul garia. In return, his evidence showed, Britain was to “have the freedom to save Greece.” Byrnes, former secretary of state, dug into the Roosevelt Churchill files to reply to crit icism from the British Foreign office of his new book, “Speak ing Frankly”. A Foreign Office spokesman said in London yesterday that Byrnes was “incorrect” in stat ing that Britain and Russia agreed to set up spheres of in fluence in the Balkans, with Greece in the British orbit and Romania in the Soviet orbit. What had actually happened, See BYRNES On Page Two FRANCE WILL GET POT OF GOLD CUT D o 11 a r-H u n g r y Nation Awarded 104 Million Of Nazi War Loot WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 —(* Dollar-hungrv France will get $104,150,250 of the “pot of gold” that Germans looted in Europe, it was announced tonight. The American-British-French Gold Commission awarded a to tal of $144,526,550 of the gold to Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Belgium and Luxembourg agreed to turn over their share— $104,150,250—to the French gov vernment to pay back gold France lent to them several years ago. The low countries have been reported by President Truman to be able to buy their essentials as contrasted with France, Italy and Austria. The Netherlands Government got $40,376,250 as its share. The commission simultaneous ly set aside $29,460,375 in gold for Austria and $4,280,625 for the Italian government. First Awards These awards represent pre liminary distribution of a to tal of $330,000.,000 which the 3 power commission will divide among allied powers who claim the Nazis stole it from them during the war. The American government asked the commission to begin distributions by Oct. 15 in order to help the European countries needing additional resources tc tide them over the winter. Most of the gold the commis sion must rule upon was cap tured by the American Army in the salt mines at Merkers, Ger many, in April of 1945. The bal ance represents stolen gold sold by the Nazis to Switzerland and other countries. Stalin Seeks Settlement Of Political, Economic Issues With United States Now; Jokers Of Nation Join Food Saving Drive am To Save Huge Wheat Pile — Leaders Of Industry Esti mate 3,000,000 Con tribution Monthly WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — (U.R) —The nation’s 35,000 bakers joined the voluntary food con servation drive today by adopt ing an 11-point economy pro gram designed to save up to 3, 000,000 bushels of wheat a month for European relief. The bakers were the third big segment of America’s grain consuming industries to mobil ize behind the Food-For-Europe campaign launched 12 days ago by President Truman and Chair man Charles A. Luckman of the citizens’ food committee. Representatives of the brewing industry agreed last night to cut the use of corn in beer-making by 25 per cent, turn back 200,000 bushels of wheat and rice to the government, and stop using feed barley and grain sorghums. A grain-saving of 1,000,000 bushels a month is anticipated. Whiskey makers previously had volun teered to go on a 60-day dis tilling holiday, starting at mid night Oct. 25, which is expected to save anywhere from 10,000, 000 to 20,000,000 bushels of scarce grain. Supply Adequate ■The brewers said their con tribution would have no notice able effect on the quality of the beer supply. The distilling See PROGRAM On Page Two BARRING' INSETS KICK-OFF DATES Division Goals Also An nounced By Red Feather Drive Chairman Goals and kickoff meeting dates for the 10 divisions in the 1948 Red Feather campaign to collect $119,996 before November 18, closing date, were an nounced yesterday by Charles M, Harrington, general cam paign chairman. Harrington estimated that by November 1, the campaign of ficials will have more than 1.500 volunteer workers collecting funds for the campaign. An excess of move than 1000 workers who do their soliciting within plants and stores will volunteer their service with 500 other workers, Harrington said. He added that inside 233 Wil mington firms, who employ 10 or more persons and in addition to the various 105 departments of the government, that it is necessary for an estimated 1500 volunteer workers to make the campaign a success. The 10 divisions in the cam paign and their campaign kick off meetings and goals are: ad vance gifts, $69,500: industrial employees, $4,500, October 27; Negro general solicitation, $2, 496, Oct. 27; railroads, $11,200, Oct. 28; commercial employees, $4,000, Oct. 29; service employees, $6,000. Oct. 29; coun See HARRINGTON on Page Two BUG MENACE PAYING DIVIDENDS FOR ONE OMAHA HOUSEWIFE OMAHA, Oct. 17. —VP)— Box elder bugs have descended in force on Omaha but one woman has found the answer. City Forester Frank Pipal said today she equipped her vacuum cleaner with the attachment de signed for cleaning draperies. Then she siphoned up a bucket and a half of bugs from her porch and lawn. She fed the bugs to her neigh bor’s chickens. “Those chickens laid so well after eating those bugs,” declared Pipal, “that her neighbor gave her a couple dozen eggs.” » SHC To Spend Millions On Road Work In 1947-8 RALEIGH, Oct. 17 — <*l— Ap pearing on a public-service radio program sponsored by the North Carolirjp Citizens’ Association, State Highway and Pyblic Works Commission Chairman A. H. Graham said that more than $65,000,000 will be spent on Tar Heel roads and highways this year. “In 1946,” Graham pointed out, “the Highway Commission spent $49,173,292 on roads and highways.” In 1947 total dis bursements will be $65,531, 388— an increase of more than $16, 000,000. With direct jurisdiction ever more miles of rural roads than any other state in t.ie union, North Carolina’s mileage under constant state maintenance would extend two-and-a-half times around the world, Graham stated, noting that current em phasis in North Carolina is on construction and improvement of rural roads. Emphasis on rural roads. Gra ham said. Will of necessity See SHC On Page Two PRESS OFFICIALS MEET HERE—Key figures at the dinner session of the Eastern North Carolina Press association at the Friendly Cafeteria last night are, left to right: Don Eck, general manager of the National Editorial association; E. A. Resch, presi dent of the North Carolina Press association; Mrs. Resch; Mayor E. L. White; President Henry Belk of the Eastern North Carolina association; Mrs. Belk; Star-News Publisher R. B. Page; Mrs. C. A. Eury; Mr. Eury, of New Bern, chairman of the committee on youth training; J. Walter Webb, general manager of the Star-News.(Staff Photo by Maynard) SOUTHERN KRAFT AGENT MISQUOTED James M. Ross Declares Company Does Not Plan Expansion Here Asserting that he had been mis quoted in a Wilmington news paper report Friday afternoon, James M. Ross, mill agent for Southern Kraft division of the International Paper company at Georgetown, S. C., asked the Star to correct an impression that his company planned any “expan sion of the pulp industry in Wil mington.” “While we bought some land up there just as we buy every where else, we bought it for fu ture pulp wood requirements,” Ross explained. “I did not say we would cut it immediately — as a matter of fact no plans have been made to cut the wood in this tract of land. v “We are building a dock tc facilitate the loading of barges hut we do not anticipate an\ large increases in our immediate volume of business. We have about 250 people employed in Wilmington and adjoining coun ties, and that is as large an opera See SOUTHERN on Page Two PRICE AVERAGES ON LEAF DECLINE Border Belt Markets Re port Lower Bids For Offerings Friday By The Associated Press Price averages by grades for most all flue-cured tobacco was steady to lower yesterday, the Federal-State Departments of Agriculture reported. Prices were down from $1 to $2 over Thursday’s sales on the South and North Carolina Border Belt, with good quality lemon leaf and smoking leaf the only grades offered in heavy volume that remained firm. Few grades showed increases, and these were slight . Quality was lower on the East ern North Carolina Flue-Cured Belt, with more low and fair grades being offered and less of the better grades. Bulk of sales consisted of low to good leaf, fair and good smoking leaf, low arid fair cutters, and lugs. De clines, occurring more frequent ly for the better offerings, rang ed from $1 to $2. The Middle Belt, after post See PRICE on Page Two Addresses, Reports Feature Press Meet - |~ WHAT A LIFE! OMAHA, Oct. 17. — (JP) — Bill Billotte, Omaha World Herald reporter, and a police detective met on an emergency call during the noon hour. “Didn't get to eat half my lunch,” griped Billotte. “What are you beefing about?” countered the detec tive. He removed his hat and dis played half a haircut. WOMEN AWARDED $21,500 IN SUIT Superior Court Jury Finds AgJnst Queen City In Accident Case The jury in New Hanover Su perior court at 10 p. m. Friday filed back into the court room af ter two hours of deliberation tc award three Wilmington ladies a total of $21,500 from the Queen City Bus company for damages al leged to have been sustained through the negligence of a bus driver in an automobile collision at Third and Market streets on September 4, 1945. The jury found damages for the plaintiffs as follows: Mrs. Mavis Smith — who since filing suit has become Mrs. H. S. Abernathy — $1,000. Mrs. Margaret Tiencken, $15, 000. Mrs. Gertrude Harper, $5,500. The Wilmington ladies who won the first round of the legal bat tle were represented by the legal firm of Stevens and Burgwin and Attorney Aaron Goldberg. At torneys Jack LeGrand and Alan Marshall asked the court to be heard on a motion to set aside the verdict. Hearing on the mo tion was set for the November term of court. The counsel for the bus company indicated that if the motion were not successful, thej would file an appeal. judges ^naigc Testimony in the case was so contradictory that it was up to the jury to decide which side told the truth and which wit nesses gave a mistaken version of the accident. Judge Leo Carr in structed the jury that in order to return any damages for the plain tiffs against the bus company, the jury must first find that the bus company was negligent. Judge Carr defined negligence See WOMEN On Page Two Along The Cape Fear END OF THE WAR—The en tire garrison which had defend ed Fort Fisher numbered only about 1,900 men. The Federal forces which captured the fort lost 1,445 killed, wounded, and missing. Many of the Federal dead lie in the National ceme tery in Wilmington. General Hawley, who was ap pointed Provost Marshal Gener al of Wilmington and the sur rounding area, was succeeded by Colonel Frank. The latter gained the respect of the ladies of the city when he refused to interfere with their practice of decorating the graves of their Confederate dead. Someone, however, sent a complaint to Washington about the activity of the ladies, which is reported to have provoked the telegram in reply: “What are those rebel women doing now?” Colonel Frank did not lose any friends by replying: “The ladies of Wilmington are quietly at home doing nothing.” The Confederate armies were suffering reverses all over tne South during the brief period following the fall of Fort Fish er. Approximately two months after the fall of the fort, on April 9, 1865, the battered rem nants of the Confederate army surrendered at Appomatox, Vir ginia. Gradually the soldiers who survived the bitter contest re turned to their Cape Fear homes from the scattered com mands in which they had ren dered distinguished service. They entered into the life of the towns and farms they had left with new aspirations, al though the way was not the same and the new way of life was not to be easy. That the valley of the Cape Fear -ight once more hold her own in vision and accomplish ment, it was necessary both conquerors and conquered to unite in reconstruction—for the nation they were building was destined to play a leading role in the world in which it was then but a fledgling. C. A. Eury Ciies Need Of Trained Printers Dur ing Dinner Session Members of the Eastern North Carolina Press association pre pared today to hear discussions of State Ports Authority plans and newspapers’ influence on public opinion after being urged last night to help arrange a North Carolina tour of the National Editorial association next May. Opening their two-day semi-an nual meeting at a dinner at the Friendly cafeteria last night, some 60 editors and representatives of Eastern North Carolina journals heard brief addresses by E. A. Resch of Siler City, president of the North Carolina Press associa tion, Miss Beatrice Cobb of Mor ganton, secretary and C. A. Eury of New Bern. Resch stressed the value ot the proposed visit of the newspaper editors from all over the nation to North Carolina, declaring it will be an opportunity for North Carolina to acquaint editors from the other 47 states with the ad vantages this State has to offer. Miss Cobb added to his state ment, saying, “We are going to call upon you to have some part in the entertainment for this group that we are planning for next year.” Belk Presides The nation’s editors will visit the State May 6-9. General Man ager Don Eck of the NEA, who has offices in Chicago, was in troduced to the group by Presi PIEDMONT GROUP SUPPORTS FRITZ Classroom Teachers Ask Assembly To Deprive Board Of Power CHARLOTTE, Oct. 17. —W— Strong support of R. L. Fritz, Jr., ousted Caldwell county school of ficial and champion of higher salaries for the state s teachers, was voiced here today by the South Piedmont District of the North Carolina Education Asso ciation. Classroom teachers of the dis trict, comprising the mail strength of the South Piedmont district, unanimously adopted s resolution disapproving the State Board of Education’s action in re voking Fritz’ teaching certificate. The resolution asked that the General Assembly amend the law so as to deprive the State Board of what was termed the “implied power” under which the certifi cate was revoked. The teachers also took a stand on further increases in their sal aries. Other resolutions favored minimum beginning salaries ol $2,400 a year for four-year-college See PIEDMONT On Page Two FLORIDIANS KEEP EYE ON NEW BLOW LatestTropicalDisturbance Reported North Of Puerto Rico MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 17—UP)— A new tropical storm probably reaching hurricane force within the next 12 to 18 hours was centered in the North Atlantic 180 miles North of Puerto Rico and 875 miles East Southeast of Miami late today. The storm, the fourth within a month, contained winds of 50 miles an hour in squalls extend ing outward for 100 miles in a Northern semi - circle, the Weather Bureau said in a 4:30 p.m. (EST) advisory. Wearily, South Florida kept an eye on the storm. The Weather Bureau said it was “too early” to tell what path it would take as it comes closer to the United States. Heavily flooded areas of Dade and Broward counties are be ginning to lose some of theii water after five days of brighl sun, but residents are fearful oi what might happen should there be another deluge such as marked last Saturday’s hur ricane. The new storm, classified as a “potentially dangerous” dis turbance, is expected to pass a See FLORIDIANS On Page Two FUEL OIL DEARTH HOLDS SHIPS HERE Peruvian Freighter Unable To Leave For Home Port Of Callao The 300 ton Peruvian steam ship SS Reina Astrid recently purchased from the United States Maritime commission en countered trouble in stormy seas off the mouth of the Cape Fear and has been lying in port in Wilmington for 12 days, un able to leave for her home port of Callao, Peru, for lack of fuel oil, C. D. Maffit, local agent for the vessel, reported today. “Why can’t we let a stranger within our gates go home in peace and not feel he has been held up in an American port?” Maffit pleaded to anyone who would listen the length of the Eastern seaboard Friday. The situation for the Peru vian vessel is becoming despar ate, Maffit contends, claiming that he has never witnessed such a maritime outrage in 62 years on the sea. Not To Blame The local agents of the fuel companies are not to blame, Maffit explained, pointing out that only the Texas Oil com pany here handles bunker “C” marine fuel oil which is re quired by the ship’s engines. Because there is a shortage of oil, the Texas company has been unable to secure permis See OIL on Page Two Doe Doris Does Didoes; Dizzy Drinkers Disband YONKERS, N. Y., Oct. 17—(IP) _Three men were quietly quaf fing the cup that cheers today in a Yonkers bar when Doris the doe entered — through a plate glass window. Doris, a 10-month-old female deer, then began a 15-minute rampage which turned a sec tion of the city into a bedlam. She smashed through two bars and a garage before succumb ing to a policeman’s coup de grace in a show window. Where she came from nobody knows, but the populace first spotted Doris as she tore down Hawthorne avenue with a small slack and white dog in yapping pursuit. Jumps Bar She jumped through the glass window of Brophy’s Bar and Grill where the three men were drinking. Then Doris jumped the bar, failed to find an exit, cleared the bar again and dashed out the door as the dumbfounded customers hud dled behind a table barricade. See DORK on Page Two Britishers Quote No War Statement Laborites Say Premier De sires To Reach East West Understanding WARSAW, Oct. 17. — — Eight labor members of the Brit ish parliament touring Europe declared tonight that Prime Min ister Stalin had told them in Rus sia that he had no thought of mak ing war and wanted to settle po litical and economic issues with the United States. The Britons, headed by Konni Zilliacus, said Stalin added that if the U. S. and Britain did not desire to settle differences, “we shall wait until they regain their reason.” Zilliacus said he and the seven other members of parliament, on a visit to Moscow to study Rus sian trade unions and factories, were flown in a special plane to Stalin's villa at Sochi on the Black Sea. There, Zilliacus reported, Stalin voiced a desire to reach an un derstanding between the East and West and dissipate fears of a new conflict. The parliamentary group quot ed Stalin as saying in a two-hour interview: “We want as close trade rela shutdown is not expected to cause any whiskey shortage, See BRITISHERS On Page Two FARMERS DECLARE FOR ALLOTMENTS House Committee Hears Plea For Continuation Of Price Support ROCKY MOUNT, 6ct. 17—MB _Farmers of the Carolinas and Virgnia told the House Agricul ture committee today that they favor the refinement and con tinuation of the present farm program, including price sup port and acreage allotments where needed. Neville Bennett, a former speaker of the house in South Carolina, told the committee he objected to the Department of Agriculture’s proposal f o i? “modernization” of the parity formula. He said that adoption of a “movable base” instead of the base period now used would “give more to those who have and less to those who have not.” Thomas J. Pearsall, speaker of the North Carolina House and a farmer in his own right, was the first of more than three score witnesses to testify be fore the committee which is on a nationwide tour to learn from farmers what they want in the See FARMERS on Page Two DANCING DADDY GETS 10 TO 29 YEARS FOR TOO MUCH MARRIAGE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17—UP)— The self-styled “dicing daddy”, Gerald O’Neill, 51, who wooed and won too many wives in public ballrooms, was sentenced today to 10 to 20 years in prison on three counts of bigamy. Not one of the eight wives the prosecution claimed he married without benefit of divorce was in court when sentence was passed. The bald-headed film extra, minus the toupee which he wore while a-courtin’, took the sentence with equanimity. His attorney announced he will appeal. And So To Bed North Carolina Press As sociation President E. A. Resch apologized at the Eas tern Press meeting here last night for getting lost on the way to the city. It seems that Mr. Resch and the four members he was bringing to the meeting drove around for a couple ) of hours on Manchester road at Fort Bragg before finally J finding the right road to Wil mington. each passenger on the ill fated trip mentioned it aa he was introduced to the as sembly. National Editorial Associa tion President Don Eck of Chicago taopped them as he said that on a recent invita tion for his organization to meet in Rhode Island he waa told he could be Shown the entire state in five hoars driving. “From that,” he said, “I gather they could lose Rhode Island on the Fort Bragg reservation mid never find it.”
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