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WEATHER Served By Leased Wire* North Carolina—Considerable cloudiness R B B H MB B* ^B of tbe Sunday, warmer. B ^ J ASSOCIATED PRESS f da^Umucha tor'^nome I I I L ill F ffl TT| UNITED "pRESS in morning, warmer. ™ ™ ■ ■■■ B BHM ^B ^B With Complete Coverage ot -- ■—1 £jlTMB p®Bir e»irv«g>Fg>is®®Bi8a amis isiLit/c^nngirpo. I—«*..**«-**•*.— V0L3—NO. 43. WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1947. SECTION A—PRICE TEN CENTS Uncle Sam May Purchase Leaf British Do Not Kep. Cooley, (D-NC) Predicts Markets Will Reopen Nov. 3; Plan Meets With Ap proval Of U. S. And Britain WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—(lP)—Flue-cured tobacco mar kets scheduled to close Tuesday because of the British ban on importing American tobacco probably will reopen Mon day. Nov. 3, Rep. Cooley (D-NC) predicted today. Opening of the market depends on government buying 0f tobacco which would have been purchased by Great Britain, he said. * --— President Truman and Secre tary of Agriculture Anderson conferred today on the tobacco situation and took under con-' sideration the possibility of government purchase, Cooley tr.ld a reporter. He said a deci sion on this proposed program can be expected late Monday. Cooley told government offi cials today the United States must buy the tobacco scheduled to have gone to Britain or “the tobacco country will be para lyzed untu something like that is done.” “The government,” he said, “will have to buy the tobacco outright, as specified in con tracts, and put it in storage and hope that the British will take it in preference to tobac co from other countries when dollars are available.” Last year the British bought more than 1,000,000,000 pounds of American tobacco. Fedral officials and tobacco mer. will meet at the Imperial Tobacco company in Richmond tomorrow to work out details of the proposal with Sir Alexander Maxwell, chairman of the To bacco Advisory board of Great Britain, and Winfred Anson, a member of that board. L. L. Gravely, of Rocky Mount, N. C. president of the Leaf Tobacco exporters, arranged the Rich mond conference. At conferences today Ameri can and British government and tobacco officials agreed the proposal would be “mutually advantageous.” JOHN SHARPE, SR. EDITOR, DEAD Heart Attack Fatal Yester day Morning At Home LUMBERTON , Oct. 25. iff) — Death closed the long news paper career today of John Allen Sharpe, Sr., publisher and editor of the Robesonian for 40 years. He died of a heart attack at his home this morning. Mr. Sharpe was a past presi dent of the North Carolina Press Association, a former president of the Lumberton Rotary club, a founder of the Roheson' County dub. and a steward in the Me thodist church. He was a son of a Methodist minister, the Rev Van Buren A. Sharpe, and Mrs. Annie McDavid Sharpe. He was born in Lincolnton on December 23, 1873. The survivors include two sons, J. A. Sharpe, Jr., associ ate editor of the Robesonian, and Albert M. Sharpe, who is a student at Duke University; one daughter, Mrs. A. F. Ward, Jr., of Williamsburg, Va., one sister, Mrs. P. T. Farabow of Arling ton. Va., and by two grandchild ren. The funeral is tentatively set for Monday afternoon. The Weather Meteorological data for the 24 hours --ding 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 am 65. 7:30 am 66, 1:30 pm 75, 7:30 pm 69. Maximum 75. Minimum 63. Mean 69. Normal 63. HUMIDITY 1:30 am 87 , 7 :30 am 84, 11:30 pm .>6, 7:30 pm 81. PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7 :30 pm. n inches. Total since the first of the month. 5.86 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by ". s. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1 High low Wilmington _6:57 am 1:48 am 7:19 pm 2:06 pm Masonboro Inlet_4:44 am 11:06 am 5:08 pm 11:30 pm Sunrise 6:26, Sunet 5:26; Moonrise 4:04 Pm. Moonset 3:01 am. Hirer stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 am Saturday, 10.9 feet. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—OP)—Weather bureau report of temperature and rain lad for the 24-hours ending 8 pm in the Principal cotton growing areas and else where; STATION H. U. R’fall "h.mington _ 75 63 .02 A-heville _ 76 — -00 Atlanta _ _61 57 .14 B» : igham _ 74 65 .00 Bufiaio _ _ 72 42 -00 Chari ,t*e, N. "cT_IZ_III 68 55 -00 Chicago _ 73 52 .00 Cleveland _ 67 49 .02 Br ,-er _I”__ 48 32 .00 Bl Paso_— 52 .00 Jacksonville _ 80 68 .00 Key West___ 84 74 .00 Knoxvme _ _ 74 58 .01 Los Angeles_ 85 49 .00 Memphis _ 82 64 .00 "'am ___ 85 73 -19 York _ 65 45 .00 ‘'monix _ 88 46 .00 7 burgh _ 72 48 .00 H'eriniojnj _ 72 49 .00 e • Francisco _ „ 71 52 .00 g : ah _ 76 65 .07 - 68 47 .00 'icksburg _ 82 — .00 wasningion _ 71 48 .00 BROUGHTON SAYS BRISTISH DRASTIC Tell Bladen Farmers To bacco Policy Of Nation ELIABETHTOWN, Oct 25. —I®—It would seem that the British government could have acted “in a less drastic man ner” in imposing a ban no fine cured tobacco imports, former Governor J. Melville Broughton told a Bladen co; • «et ing here. Broughton cited the example of this nation’s making a “most helpful and sympathetic” loan a year ago to Great Britain. “Certainly them was every in timation that with this fi nancing. British rvn-r’- - of commodities would continue throughout this season at least on a substantially normal basis,’ ’he said. “Tobacco acreage, which otherwise would have been sharply reduced, was allocated on the theory of such normal purchases,” Broughton said. However, he said that the Flue - Cured Tobacco r’mera tive stabilization corporation “already was functioning,” CHRISTMAS PARTY i BEING PLANNED HERE BY JUNIOR CHAMBER The second annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Christ mas party for less fortunate children now is being formulat ed, according to Francis Mal loy, chairman. The organization solicits the cooperation of other agencies and associations. The work is going forward under Malloy and the Christmas Activities committee, he said. The affair Hvill be conducted at the USO center, Second and Orange streets at a date yet to be set, Malloy said. On Christ mas eve the group will visit hospitals and homes where youngsters are ill. Santa Claus will go along with them. A large tree is planned for the post office lav/n and this will be traimmed with lights, Malloy said. Last year 25 children were remembered by the organiza tion and merchants and others who donated gifts. League Of Women Voters Deny Charge WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—(JP)—The League of Women Voters today said Walt Disney had made an “irresponsible” statement by including it with Communist front organiza tions in his testimony before the House Un-American Activities committee. f The film cartoon producer, testifying yesterday in the hear ing on subversive influences in the movies, said communists and communist groups had launched a “smear” campaign against him at the time of a strike at his studio. Among the groups attacking him wa.; the League of Women voters, he added. The United Press, meanwhile, said, movie Czar Eric Johnston tonight urged Congress to curb the “prosecutor, judge and jury” powers of its cr~ -pion al investigating committees. The Associated Press said the House un-American Activities committee, in recess*today, will hear so-called “defense witnes ses” next week in its investi gation of communism in Holly wood. 4-H CLUBS PLAN ACHIEVEMENT DAY HERE NOVEMBER 1 New Hanover and Pender county 4-H clubs will hold their annual achievement Day pro gram Nov. 1 at the Legion stadi um, Nancy Ingram, assistant home demonstration agent, an nounced yesterday. .Menders are to enter farm and homemakers exhibits which will be judged at 10 a. m. on ! Achievement Day, she said. First, second and third prizes will be awarded for each group of exhibits. Rescuers Bring Out Torn Dead Plane Crash In Utah Kills 52 Near Landing Strip FIRE WAS CAUSE Pilot Attempts To Land When Sudden Crash Heard — BRYCE CANYON, A ^h- Oct. 25— (/?)—Sober-f''.men and officials rer^" nd burned bodie^^^y a a canyon rim^* Naming four-engir V $ ^ fell yes terday -<P ns perished. Fire _ in the bag gage co*. .lent of the Los Angeles-to-* w York plane car rying 47 passengers and a crew of five. Pilot E. L. IvIacMillen of Balboa Park. C*> ' ?w be yond the scenic canyon, then radioed he was turning back to land here. Whether the craft e minded in the air or as it struck ground was a subject of theorizing. The plane crashed 1,500 yards from an emergency landing field just after clearing $ 200 foot deep canyon. There was no inquest. Th coroner ,Hans P. Ipson, noted only that the crash caused the deaths and left the rest to fed eral and UAL officials. Currency, papers and clothes were widely strewn with the shattered wreckage. Postal in spectors picked up scattered mail. Reporters who had covered major crashes in mountainous Utah said they never saw wreckage scattered so widely and so many bodies unidentifi able. Two of the victims were infants and a score or more were women, one an expectant mother. EVEN THE VETERAN COPY READER GIGGLED OVER THIS, A BIRD MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 25. — UP) — A female butcher bird slipped and fell down the chimney at the Aaron Rosenberg home here today, and came out in the liv ing room looking like a crow. The family opened the front door and shooed the feathered creature out. Her mate awaited outside, chirping lustily. The Rosenbergs reported that the male bird’s reaction was almost human—the tone of his voice and sharpness of his chirps during a reunion on a nearby tree limb plainly indi cated that he gave her a good bawling out for her careless ness. DAILY GOES WEEKLY MOREHEAD CITY, N. C., Oct. 25—UP)—The Twin City Daily Times will become a weekly next Tuesday, officials of the Carteret Publishing company which recently acquired the five-day daily from the More head city publishing company, announced yesterday. ACL FEMALE CHORUS IS FEATURED TODAY ON WMFD RADIO The Atlantic Coast Line fe male chours, under the direction of Edwin D. Clark will be fea tured on the 1:30 p. m. pro gram at WMFD today. The program, written and di rected by Ben MacDonald is under the supervision of Miss Ella Mae Bullard, president; W. G. Robertson, organist, and Clark. The program is billed as The Voice of Wilmington. included on today’s program will be a solo by Miss Orma Jean Willis. _ Editor's Note: This is the third of a series of articles dealing with the numbers racket in Wilmington. Others will follow in the Wilmington News exclusively this week each day. By JACK VOORHEES Staff Writer Few arrests have characteri zed the efforts of city police and Sheriff's deputies against num bers racketeers in Wilmington during recent years, according to a thorough check yesterday Great Britain Accuses Soviets Of ‘Poisoning The Atmosphere’ Of UN During Bitter Attack _ _ + --—' 1 — Bodies Scattered In Wreckage Of Big Airliner ’naiwBXft 111 — MticcwjIIUJIJ iwy'.y i_■ i i i ■^■aiwvvj»»hi iraamma. ... .•.v,y*i BODIES AND WRECKAGE are scattered widely over a hillside near Bryce Canyon, Utah, where a United Air Lines DC-6 transport plane crashed Friday with 52 persons aboard. All were reported killed. En route to New York from Los Angeles, the plane reported by radio short ly before the crash that a fire was burning in its tail section. On board were 47 passengers, including two babies, and seven crew members. . (AP Wirephoto). Navy Day Observance Here Begins With Banquet, Dance Use of guided missiles, such as the “flying stovepipe” being developed at Camp Davis, will not become effective as a war weapon for at least 10 years, Rear Adm. Ernest W. Litch, chief, Aviation Plans, USN, predicted last night at a ban quet at the Cape Fear club on the eve of Navy Day. “Until we get a really good guided missile, the Navy end the Army will have to rely on the airplane,” he said. Admiral Litch spoke at a banquet which was given by the city and New Hanover county and the Reserve Offi cers of the Naval Services. It was part of Wilmington’s ob servance of Navy Day. Officers of the USS Gyatt were guests. “So far there is no such thing as a guided missile. It’s just a dream in the minds of the military inventors. Thezgg German V-2, beam riders and truly guided missiles. All ofi, radar-directed missiles are not these weapons can be1 jammed by the enemy.” Based on his experience in World War II, when he com manded the aircraft carrier USS Lexington and Carrier Di vision 26, Admiral Litch praised the Navy reserve offi cers and men. He said 96 per per cent of his enlisted men (Continued on Page 2; Column 1) COLUMBUS’ WAR DEAD STARTS COMING HOME, RITES TO BE TUESDAY WHITEVILE, Oct. 25. Rela tives were notified today that the remains of seaman second class, H^nry W. Carroll 21 who died in an accident board ship in Pearl Harbor four years ago, will arrive here Monday. Chief machinist mate, Elton C. Partin will accompany the body to the Meares Funeral Home where it will remain un til shortly before the funeral services at Lake Waccamaw Baptist church at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. S. L. Lamb, assisted by Rev. W. L. Freeman, will conduct the final rites and burial will follow with military honors in Shiloh ceme tery at Bolton. Surviving are his father, J. J. Carroll of Wananish, three bro thers, James E. of the U S Navy, stationed at Arlington Mass, Clayton of Wananish and Willie H. of Wilmington a sister, Etta Mae Carroll of Wananish. ON THE EVE of one of the most colorful Navy Days in Wilmington history, Rear Adm. Ernest W. Litch, USN, was the guest of the city and New Hanover county at a banquet at the Cape- h ear club. Shown discus sing Wilmington’s port possibili ties are, left to right, Commander Carl R. Tellefsen, captain of the USS Gyatt, Addison Hew lett, chairman of the New Han over board of county commissioners, Admiral Litch, and Mayor E. L. White. CLINTON PLANS FARMERS’ DAY Affair To Be Held Oct. 29’ Many Feau tures CLINTON, Oct. 25— Clinton’s second annual Farmer’s Day is scheduled to be held Wednes day, October 29, sponsored again this year by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. The day will be highlighted by a parade with bands, free entertainment and prizes, a wedding and a street square dance. In addition the program will feature an address by W. Kerr Scott, N. C. commissioner of agriculture and a beauty con test with 15 county high school contestants participating. 2 A livestock show will be held at 10 o’clock and a free foot ball game between the Clinton Dark Horses and Warsaw high will be held at the Clinton park at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Donald Britt, program direc tor of the Clinton radio station will act as master of cere monies for the day’s event. Few Arrests Reported Here In Numbers Rackets, Report of records in New Hanover Su perior court, Recorder's court, the sheriff's office, city police department, and the city-county identification bureau. The last time a “big shot” in the numbers racket was arrest ed was back on December 14, 1940, when George “Crip” Smith, alias Dutch Smith, was taken in custody in a raid on a house in Sunset Park led by the late Sheriff C. David Jones. A side light of this indicent is that Sam Yopp, who recently, left the employ of Sheriff Porter Davis as a deputy sheriff, was the man who swore out the war rant against Smith, long recog nized by police as a central figure in the racket. Smith was fined !2,000 and given a six-month road sentence when the case came up before Judge John J. Burney in New Hanover superior court after he drew a six - month sentence in Recorders court before Judge Alton A. Lennon and entered an (Continued on Page 2; Column 5) CALVIN ANDERS DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS FUNERAL INCOMPLETE Calvin Anders, 35, Harbor Is land, formerly of the circula tion department and later man ager of the classified advertis ing department of the Star News, died yesterday afternoon after a short illness. Mr. Anders, after leaving the Star-News, had engaged for several years in the real estate business. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Artelia Blake Anders; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Anders, of Wilmington; a brother, C. K. Anders, High Point; a sister, Mrs. Ralph Dunham, Atlanta. English Minister Of State Makes Strong Charge Asks If ‘Control Of Earth From Elbe To Vladivostok’ Does Not Give Russia A Sense Of Security By ROBERT MANNING LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Oct. 25—(UP)—Great Britain accused Russia of “poisoning the atmosphere” of the United Nations today and demanded to know whether “control of the earth from the Elbe to Vladivostok” did not give Russia a sense of security. Appealing to Soviet leaders to abandon “a policy of hatred,” British Minister of State Hector McNeil said in the political committee of the UN General Assembly that if Russia wants world peace it must be prepared to believe that “non-Communists are not always fascists and monop oly-capitalists are not always guerrillas.” U. S. NAVY READY ’ IN PEACE CAUSE Secretary Of Defense For restal Praises Dead Of Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—UP) — The United States navy is ready “to advance the cause of peace and preserve the basic liberties for which 87,000 navy men and marines so recently gave their lives,” Secretary of Defense James Forrestal said today. In a statement for Navy Day, Monday, Forrestal said, “from every corner of this unsettled world, the cries of the hungry, the homeless and the oppressed assail our ears. “Freedom as we know it is still unknown to them, fear, which we Americans have never really known, dominates their lives. “The course to lasting peace is difficult. We must sound the channel cautiously and with pa tience.” Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan invited the public to take a look this Sunday at his ships and planes iii hun dreds of ports and air stations. MAINE FOREST FIRES SEEM TO BE LOSING TO ARMY OF FIGHTERS BOSTON, Oct. 25—(U.R)—An army, of fire-fighters and dis aster workers, swarming into Maine from other states and Canada, appeared tonight to be winning a week-long battlo against forest fires which have killed 20 persons in New Eng land, causing $40,000,000 dam age and left 7,000 homeless. Blackened by the flames were nine Maine communities —Unionville, Newfield, Brown field, East Brownfield, Brown field Center, Lyman, Fortune Rock, Cape Porpoise and Goose Rocks Beach. Portions of Ken nebunkport were a shambles and Bar Harbor was a ghost town. John Sikes To Take Holiday Over British By JOHN SIKES WALLACE, Oct. 25—Just in case you want to know, or care, the holiday I’m taking as of next Tuesday after noon is nothing at all like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, or the Fourth of July. I n fact, I don’t see why they call it a holiday at all. It’s more like a wake to me. I’m talking about the tobacco holiday declared when the Bri tish decided they didn’t have the kind of money our farmers ought to get for their tobaccos. I may be a little selfish in my peeve over this particular holi day. Wallace, my favorite to bacco market for the one big reason that all the folks con nected therewith honestly tear their shirts trying to get the best money for their farm customers, would have set up an all-time record for volume of sales in one season next week if every thing had gone along normally. Wallace also would have no doubt had the undisputed lead in price averages. (Even with (Continued on Page Column 3) * DR. BURDETTE KEY WITNESS AT INQUEST IN DEATH OF SHERIFF SOUTHPORT, Oct. 25. — Dr. F. M. Burdette, key witness in the scheduled coroner’s jury in vestigation into the death of Sheriff John White, is expected to shed “some light” on the cause of the cerebral hemhor rage which, according to Coro ner G. C. Kilpatrick, was the cause of death, the coroner an nounced. Dr. Burdette performed the autopsy. Mrs. Bert Jacobs at whose home the Sheriff was' reported ly found dead and Mrs. Jacob’s mother, a Mrs Robinson, and Deputy Sheriff, D. T. Tripp are also to testify. McNeil made the appeal in the closing stages of the fight over Russia’s foredoomed at tempt to indict the United States and other western countries in the UN for fostering war pro paganda and “inciters of a third world war.” McNeil advised Soviet deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vi shinsky to withdraw his pro posal because, in his scathing assaults on Americans and on the press of western countries he had “thrown away” any chance of getting any support for it among the 57 united na tios. The youthful Briton, No. 2 man in the British foreign of fice, denounced Vishinsky foi his attacks on the western coun tries and told him that there would be less chance of a new war if the people of Russia got a chance to “express their feel ing for peace through a free press.” “Must we forever bear these shrill complaints that the elect are attacked by the infidels,” McNeil cried. “If the Soviet Union is really anxious for peace,” he said, “it must be prepared to believe that non-communists are not always fascists and monopoly capital ists are not always guerillas. McNeil indicated Britain would join the growing list of UN coun tries favoring some sort of UN action at this assembly session aimed at condemning war talk and checking the spread of war propaganda. In the windup of the general debate, the United States stood out as the only big power country opposed to any such action at this time. American officials reiterated in UN corri dors their belief that any reso lution, no matter how mild, would be construed by Russia as a Soviet victory and might be interpreted in other places as an admission that war pro paganda is being spread by the western powers. McNail lashed out bitterly at the Soviet formula for solving the problem, a formula calling for a direct indictment of “war mongering” in the United States, Turkey and Greece plus a UN recommendation that all governments suppress war-inci ting activities under pain of cri minal punishment. “1 feel I ought to say to my Soviet colleagues,” he asserted, “that they have poisoned the at mosphere here by their reso lution and furthermore, by their spepeches. “By their heat and bitterness, by tiie unfairness and obvious ness of their propaganda, they have destroyed an occasion for dealing dispassionately and ef fectively with this important subject.” While Vishinsky sat a few seats away, busily scribbling notes ana preparing one last as sault on the western powers and their system of press freedoms, McNeil recalled that Moscow had cried “warmonger” in the early stages of World War II in defense of its non-aggression treaty with Germany. McNeil chided Vishinsky and the Soviet bloc supporters for using “a book of clippings and a clue pot” as their political weapons for the warmongering debate. He added, however, that his own clippings and glue pot had produced some evidence damaging to the Soviet case. It leads one to believe, he said, that a warmonger is mere ly “someone whom Mr. Vishin sky doesn’t like.”
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