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I-*" _._ ___ dfanttitg •i'tcu* VOL. 81.—NO. 58.___ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1947 <= ESTABLISHED 1867 ’ 45 Die When Ship Crashes Swedish Airliner Hits! Mounntain Southeast Of Athens Sunday A THEN, GREECE, Oct. 27.— (jp)—A storm-blinded Swedish airliner crashed and exploded in the mountains eight miles Southeast of Athens last night, killing all of the 45 persons be lieved aboard, rescuers report ed today. The four-engined DC-4 airliner ploughed into the upper slopes! 0f 3,500 foot Mt. Evzones. The aash and explosion were so violent that human remains, fragments of wreckage, and torn scraps of luggage were scattered over the mountain side for a distance of more than 15.000 feet Although there were conflict ing reports as to the number of persons on the plane, it was be lieved to be carrying a crew of eight and 37 passengers—two Americans, Two Englishmen, two Danes, one Frenchman, one Norwegian, nine Italians, one swiss, two Greeks, 16 Turks and one Persian. No Identification The passengers could not be identified here. (The head office of ABA air lines in Stockholm, Sweden, identified the two American pas sengers as Edwin Wanner, a 39 year-old businessman, and Marie Rusch, a 24-year-old clerk. Their home addresses were unknown.) The plane, operated by ABA, left Istanbul, Turkey, at 5:24 P. M. (10:24 A. M. EST) yesterday. It was scheduled to reach Has sani airport, Athens, at 7:10 P. M., en route to Stockholm. The last radio report from the doom ed airliner, at 7:22 P- M., said that it was flying through a thunderstorm. A few minutes later, residents of the tiny village of Koropi saw a “rocket-like flash’ as the plane crashed in the nearby hills. Greek gendarmes, ambulance attendants and investigators reached the scene of the crash late today. They reported that the plane struck the mountain See 45 On Page Two BRQUGHTONURGES DENTAL COLLEGE Former Governor Cites Need For Institution In North Carolina RALEIGH, Oct 27—UP)—Speak ing at the annual convention of the Fourth District Dental So ceity here tonight, Former Gov ernor J. M. Broughton said that the state’s good health pro gram should provide for a stan dard dental college in North Ca rolina. Broughton said that surveys indicate “that there is a need of more dentists in the state, particularly in rural and small er urban areas,” and under the good health program every re sonable encouragement should be given to young men to enter this worth-while profession.” Pointing out that while North Carolina has three medical schools it has no dental college, | Broughton said that “dental col leges to which our young men have to go if they would obtain See BROUGHTON On Page Two NC PORTS AUTHORITY WILL MEET FRIDAY AT WINSTON-SALEM WINSTON-SALEM, Oct. 27 — Authority will meet here at '2:30 p.m. Friday to discuss plans for expansion of state Ports, including Wilmington and Morehead City. J. Harry White of Winston Salem. member of the auhtori ly. said R. B. Page, Wilmnig ton publsiher and chairman of the authority, will preside. Colonel George Gillette of the U- S. Army Engnieers at At lanta. Ga. will meet with the authority. The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina—Showers Tuesday '■’odirg in Northwest portiin by noon; clearing Tuesday night preceded by shower on the coast: cooler Tuesday lgin; Wednesday fair and mild. ^’orlo Carolina—Showeri Tuesday end rg in west portion by noon; clearing ,Jesday night preceded by showers in extreme east portion; cooler Tuesday '8h* Wednesday fair and mild. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ,Cjlp§ 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES -J*® a- m. 64; 7:30 a. m. 62; 1:30 p. m. '' ,:3- iJ. m. 72; Maximum 77; Mini unri Mean 70; Normal 62. . HUMIDITY a. m. 90; 7:30 a. m. 96; 1:30 p. m. 55' 7:30 p. m. 79 T PRECIPITATION rr r ri ioT th€ 24 hours ending 7:80 p. T ■'JO inches. . tal since the first of the month ^ inches. tides FOR TODAY I *he Tide Tables published by °ast and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW ,TT11ngton - 8:33 a.m. 3:14 a.m. 8 :50 p.m. 3:41 p.m. ' -onboro Inlet _ 6:11 a.m. 12:11 a.m. c.. 6:33 p.m. 12:38 p.m. ■fyrv * tvT 6:28: Sunset 5:24; Moonrise J^P. Moonset 5:04a. Mom weather On Pftf* Iw> Jack Hart Awarded Montgomery “Cup” Twenty-Five-Year Member Honored As 1947 Outstanding Man Of Senior Fraternity; Congressman Clark Banquet Speaker I here is a need for tkv* f eri can people to do us thinking and tak. ^ .rfS- f accurate infr U ^ * yC.O - fairs of tip V05?> ^man J. Bay', . *\ .embers ■ oV®S£y at their annual i a banquet last night at tl,^ iendly. Another mghlight of the 15th annual banquet was the pres entation of the William H. Mont gomery trophy to the outstand ing member of the fraternity during the year. Jack Hart was presented the1 beautiful trophy by R. C. j Shackleford, president of the fraternity and winner of the award last year. Har* has been a member of the Brigade Boysj club and the senior fraternity' for over 25 years. During the! summer he was in charge of the1 Brigade-Pirate baseball club knot hole gang. Wilbur Dosher acted as master of ceremonies and introduced j Congressman Clark. Reading parts of the Marshall Plan, Rep. Clark explained that unless the American people are allowed to do business with the other nations of the world, the nation faces a period of con fusion and chaos. “I feel that the most import ant history in 1,000 years will be written within the next 24 months,” Clark told his audience. The Marshall Plan is “vital to the welfare of the peoples of the world.” He took excerpts from the printed form of the plan and explained them. “The Congress has been called for an extraordinary session by the President,” he said. “We will have to go to Washington to grapple with this serious prob lem,” he continued. “I do not know the answers, but you can rest assured that I will do my best to represent the people of the Seventh congressional dis trict and satisfy their wishes as much as possible.” The meeting was opened by President R. C. Shackleford. Greeting was conveyed to the ladies by the meji singing “Greetings Ladies.” The wom en answered by singing in uni son “Thank you, fellows.” The See HART On Page Two Indian Troops Contact Invading Pakistan Army BACKDOOR LOSS READING, Pa., Oct. 27. — (JP) — Contractor Louis Bern hart stuffed $7,000 in $10 bills in pots and pans under the kitchen sink of his home in suburban Mount Penn. Then he and his wife carefully lock ed the front door and left. When they returned several hours later, the pots and pans were still there. But the money was gone. They had forgotten to lock the back door. TOBACCO PRICES EXHIBIT STRENGTH Demand For Export Grade Leaf Occurs On Eve Of Long Holiday By The Associated Press Tobacco prices rallied yester day (Monday) on the eve of a saies holiday resulting from an nouncement of the British gov ernment that it was banning imports of American leaf. The markets will be closed following today’s sales for an Indefinite period while plans are being worked out to meet the situation caused by with drawal of British buyers. On the Old Belt, prices were generally higher, and on the Eastern and Middle Belt, export grades, which dropped sharply after the British announcement, showed gains while grades fav ored by domestic buyers were slightly lower. Several lower leaf grades on the Eastern Belt, which were hard hit last week, recovered from $1 to $5.50 pr hundred See TOBACCO On Page Two FISHEREULOGIZES LIFE OF EDITOR Many Friends Pay Tribute To J. A. Sharpe At his Final Rites LUMBERTON, Oct. 27 —UR— Many friends paid tribute to J. A. Sharpe, editor and publisher of the Robesonian at funeral services held at his home this afternoon at 4 o’clock. Inter ment was in Meadowbrook cem etery. , „ , . Dr. Fred W. Paschall, his pastor, was in charge of the rites, assisted by the Rev. Ed gar B. Fisher of Trinity Metho dist church, Wilmington, a former pastor, and Rev. Dr. C. H. Durham, Baptist minister and friend of many years. See FISHER On Page Two Government Forces, Rush ed By Air, Expected To Quell Uprising NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 27. — (U R)— Indian troops rushed by air to the battle-ridden princely state of Kashmir made contact today with an invading Pakistan army bolstered by thousands of local Moslems, reliable reports reach ing New Delhi said. The reports said Indian forces, including 800 fierce Sikh Mercen aries, landed this morning at Srinagar, capital of Kashmir, and sped 30 miles Westward to Bara mula to contact the Moslems. The local Kashmir garrison — Hindu troops of Maharajah Sir Hari Singh — had been beaten back to Baramula, 50 miles East of the Kashmir-Pakistan frontier, by an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 armed Moslems, the reports said. There was no indication wheth er Indian troops had pitched into the battle as yet, but official cor respondence between Lord Mountbatten, governor-general of India, and the Maharajah of Kashmir left no doubt their mis See INDIAN On Page Two PRODUCER LEVEL CONTROL HINTED White House Adviser Says Idea Now Under “Serious Consideration” WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 —(A>)— Price control over producers of some foods and basic commod ities was reported to be under “serious discussion” today as the administration pieced to gather an anti-inflation plan for submission to Congress on Nov. 17. A high White House adviser, who usually does not speak for publication, used the “serious discussion,” phrase but em phasized that any proposed price regulations would be lim ited in scope. “No grandiose price ceiling plan could get by the present Congress,” he declared to a newsman. But he noted that “thinking has shifted” even among some Republicans, toward such measures as price restraints at the producer level. He noted that Senator Flanders (R-Vt) has suggested, as one possibil ity, that the government might buy the entire wheat crop and sell it at fixed prices, with con trol over the profit mark-up as the grain moves through trade channels. Flanders said the sys tem has checked price rises in Canada. Some government officials have hinted at the possibility of pric curbs on grain, steel, coal See PRODUCER On Page Two New City Directory Has 984 More Names Listed The Wilmington City Directory is out in 1947 dress. It celebrates a half century of publishing by the Hill Directory Co., who pro duced their first Wilmington Di rectory in 1897. The new directory is a volume of 580 pages listing 28,936 names, with eighteen continued as the minimum listing age. This rep resents an increase of 984 names over the 1946 edition according to the publishers’ records. Special features of the new guidebook include the designation >f tenant-owned homes and homes with telephones; the designation of Negro residents; and an illust rated story of the city. Wilmington’s variety of busi ness is shown in the classified (yellow) pages, where 375 types of enterprise are catalogued from “Accountants” to “Wood Dealers.” The new directory will be dis tributed to free-reference direct ory libraries maintained by mem bers of the directory publishers’ association at Chamber of Com fiee NEW On Page Two U N Hands Russians Moral Victory In Condemning War Propaganda; Tempers Flare At Communist Probe Hollywood Writer Defies Committee John Howard Lawson Faces Contempt Action; Hearing Turbulent WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—W— Movie writer John Howard Law son defiantly refused today to tell Congressional investigators of Hollywood whether he is a Communist and they cracked down with contempt action in a roaring and turbulent session. Lawson, who was described by an earlier witness as in di rect charge of Red activities in the movie capital, thundered to a House Unamerican Activi ties subcommittee that it is none of its business whether he is a Communist or what political views he holds. Fireworks flared at a later point, when Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R.-N.J.) said that it “makes me boil” that certain persons, whom he did not name, had asked the com mittee to “lay off” the investiga tion. Thomas said these persons tried “all the tricks of the trade” to hamper the inquiry and that some, “of dubious character,” had communicated with the committee in an at tempt to keep certain persons See HOLLYWOOD On Page Two ENGINEERS WILL OPEN BIDS TODAY Sealed Offers On Portion Of Cape Fear Dredging Due At 11:00 A. M. Sealed bids on the dredging of the Cape Fear river from the low er Lillipet to Snow Marsh chan nel will be received until 11 o’clock this morning and then publicly opened, it was announc ed yesterday by Hamilton Hicks, public relations officer of U. S. Engineers for this district. The new contractor will com mence dredging when the McWil liams Dredging Company has completed it’s work to the upper Lillipet. The McWilliams com pany started dredging in July and has removed approximately 5,633,181 cubic yards of soil. An estimated 10 months will be needed for the dredging from Southport to the foot of Castle street where 4,366,919 cubic yards of the river’s soil will be remov ed. The channel will be deepened to 33 feet plus one foot and widen ed to 400 feet from the bar to the foot of Castle street. SENIOR FRATERNITY LADIES NIGHT —The fifteenth annual banquet was held at the Friendly Cafeteria last night. Shown above, left to right are Wilbur R. Dosher, master of cere monies; Congressman J. Bayard Clark, principal speaker; George Gore; Mrs. George Gore, presi dent of the Ladies Auxiliary; Mrs. R. C. Shackleford; R. C. Shackleford, president of the Senior Fraternity; George Conant, president of the Kiwanis club and Mrs. Conant. _ (Staff Photo By Roy Cook) One-Fifth Cut In Leaf Acreage To Cost Growers $100 Million _ I IOWAN FIRES BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD, WALKS TO AMBULANCE WATERLOO, la., Oct. 27.—VP)—A Waterloo man fired a .25 caliber bullet through his head today and a short time later walked down the stairs of his home to an ambulance, Detective Tom Wood said. Police identified the man as Floyd J. Smith, 54. The at tending physician said the bullet entered the right side of his head just forward of the temple, passed entirely through his head and emerged on the opposite side. Attendants at St. Francis Hospital reported later that Smith refused to stay in bed and was walking about the hospital building. SEARCH WIDENING FOR LOST PLANE Scores Of Air, Sea Ships Hunt For Pan Ameri can DC-4 Clipper JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 27— (U.R)— A big Pan American Air ways DC-4 Clipper which van ished with 18 persons in a lash ing windstorm was sought from the air and sea tonight as cold winter rains lowered visibility dangerously across Southeastern Alaska. Army and Coast Guard rescue planes, supported by Pan Ameri can planes and other private aircraft, ranged low across the Alaskan and Canadian coasts in hopes of spotting signal flares — or the wreckage — of the four-engined Skymaster. The plane, carrying 13 pas sengers including an infant, has been missing since i:44 p. m. (PST) yesterday when Pliot Capt. A. N. Monson gave up an attempt for a landing at An See SEARCH On Page Two Steak Drops To 39 Cents But Not In Wilmington VIDALIA, Ga„ Oct. 27. — WP» — An open war between three ri val grocerymen sent weekend prices tumbling here while con sumers cheered such items as 39 cent steak and 10-cent bread. The prices were back to norm al today, steak at 69, and bread at 15, but one of the grocerymen said the war is still on. He said the truce was temporary while losses (on 85 per cent of the groc eries sold Saturday) were being absorbed. The price war began two weeks ago when one of the three princi pal stores which serve this South Georgia town of 6,000 cut the price of steak from 69 to 49 cents. Another store cut to 45 cents. Last week the third store put out big circulars headed “war declared” and cut the price to 40 cents. Then one of the other stores went on the radio with a price cut to 30 cents. By noon, highways from sur rounding towns were busy with See STEAK On Page Two Along The Cape Fear AUTHOR OF McKAY TARIFF — General James Iver McKay took with him his “Scotch” principles governing the expen diture of money when he re presented the Cape Fear dis trict in congress for nine times. As the “Watchdog of the Trea sury,’’ he headed the house committee on ways and means in 1843. Throughout his political career General McKay was a staunch Andrew Jackson man. There is said to have been something of Jackson’s nature in McKay—for the people and yet the party; for the office and yet for the government. His straight course set by the un erring compass of his political principles endeared him to his constituents and strengthened him in the confidence of his people so that toward the close of his political career, the general had no political opposi tion. With the authorship of the Mc Kay tariff, the general became a national figure. The North Car olina delegation placed his name before the democratic na-, f tional convention of 1848 for nomination for vice president. With the collaboration of Rob ert J. Walker, secretary of the treasury, the general wrote the McKay tariff in 1846. The bill represented the true de mocratic tariff principle—tariff for revenue only. The tariff was probaably the lowest ever enact ed into law, and historians re port that its effects were extra ordinarily successful. The enactment of the McKay tariff with reductions so drastic that William H. Haywood resign ed from the senate rather than vote for it though he had been elected under instructions by the North Carolina legislature to vote for tariff reform, was followed by a period of unpre cedented prosperity. Not ..even an attempt was made to repeal the tariff bill for 15 years. Every New England congress man had opposed its passage, yet the operation of the mea sure proved so satisfactory that New England along with the See CAPE FEAR Ob Page Two BRUNSWICK NAMES WHITE SUCCESSOR Walter M. Stanaland Ap pointed Sheriff; Has Criminal Record Walter M. Stanaland, elected sheriff of Brunswick county by the three commissioners in South port yesterday to replace the late John White, resigned from office as Brunswick Recorder un der fire in Superior Court in 1942 during a case in v'hich he was charged with malfeascance in office, a check of the Superi or court clerk’s records last night revealed. Stanaland, who according to re cords in the office of the deputy clerk of U. S. District court with offices here, served a term in the federal prison at Atlanta in 1927 28, was charged in 1942 with withholding judgements. The evidence in the case ten ded to show that the Record er had at that time withheld judgements in 74 cases in which evidence had been presented be fore him in court. The grand jury returned a true bill against him in May of 1942, and the case was heard later in the year by Judge Leo Carr. In the midst of the trial, before See BRUNSWICK on Page Two HANDBAGS FOR MEN LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27. _(>P)— Men’s fashion expert Bert Bacharach of New York says men simply must stop going without hats, “a pract ice started by college men.” “Why it can mean a general breakdown in the appearance of the American male,” Bach arach told a Style conference. It might even lead to a shirt less fad.” Nobody seemed very ex cited about the prospect at the conference, so Bert vol unteered the prediction that new hats would be so light they’d be pleasure to wear. Suits, too, he said, will be lighter weight. They’ll still have pockets and men won’t be carrying handbags. That’s something! Master Of State Grange Es timates Severe Loss Over Import Ban RALEIGH, Oct. 27. — (/P) — North Carolina is faced with the prospect of losing between $75, 000,000 and $100,000,000 in farm income next year if the tobacco crop is reduced as much as 20 pgr cent, Harry B. Caldwell, mast er of the State Grange, told a meeting of the Grange’s Tobac co committee here today. The committee, which met to study how to meet the situation caused by the British ban on im ports of American tobacco, pass ed resolutions: 1. Urging the governor im mediately to appoint a committee of agriculture leaders to study the possibilities of developing new sources of farm income. 2. Endorsing a proposal under which the Commodity Credit Corporation would be authorized to loan money to underwrite to bacco purchases by British buy ers. 3. Asking that tobacco be in cluded in assistance provided to European nations under the Mar shall plan. Caldwell pointed out that the loss of $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 in farm income would occur if tobacco acreage is cut 20 per cent and prices remain at their present level. The loss would be even greater if prices decline, he warned. One resolution pointed out that the state’s economy would suffer a heavy blow if such a loss in farm income is realized, and that ultimately the state’s ability to pay for its public services might be affected. The committee recommended See ONE-FIFTH On Page Two ARMY WIFE SHOT AT BERLIN HOME New York State Woman’s Husband Held Follow ing Her Murder BERLIN, Oct. 27. —OJ.R)— An American Army wife was shot to death in front of her Berlin home early this morning. Army agents placed her husband under obser vation in a military hospital in connection with the slaying. The dead woman was Anna May Calder, Lancaster, N. Y. Upon returning to her home after a party, accompanied by an Amer ican soldier and a German, she called out to her husband: “Here I am, honey.” She was greeted by a burst from a carbine, at least one bullet ripping her head. Military police and an ambulance rushed to the scene. Master Sgt. William Cald er, 31, the woman’s husband, was taken into custody. Mrs. Calder died on the way to the hospital. Quarrel Between Sisters Ends In Death Of Eldest CHICAGO, Oct. 27—(U.R>—'Two attractive teen-age sisters quar reled today over boy friends and over which should wear ceratin dresses in their ward robe. Irene Zawsitowski, 16 and brown-haired, and Adeline 18 and blonde, began the argument in their room. Their mother, Margaret, heard the quarrel. She told police that Adeline accused Irene of wearing her colthes. She said Adeline also had twitted Irene about her young boy friend being unem ployed. The argument became more bitter. Then Irene picked up a pair of scissors and hurled them at her sister, nine feet away. The L’ade struck Adeline :n the chest and she dropped to the floor. She was dead by the time she was tak;i to a hospi tal. At police headquarters, Irene was near hysteria as police Sec QUARREL On Page Two - Peace Publicity Will Be Fostered C o m p r o mise Resolution Receives Unanimous Vote Of Delegates LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y„ Oct. 27. —(U.R)— The United Nations Political committee, handing Rus sia a moral victory, today con demned all forms of war propa ganda wherever found. The committee, composed of all UN members, voted 56 to 0, for a compromise resolution deploring war propaganda and calling on all governments to promote pub licity for peace. The compromise was a far cry from an original Russian resolu tion which would have named the United States, Turkey and Greece as centers of propaganda for a new war. But the United States had opposed even a compromise for fear that any type of anti propaganda resolution would be interpreted in Europe as accept ance of Russo’s warmongering ;harge against leading Americans. The compromise was hammered out in a three and one-half hour session that forced the committee to ballot 13 times. The United States faced with overwhelming defeat if it persisted in opposing every compromise, reluctantly joined Russia and the rest of the committee in voting for the final resolution. Unanimous Vote Every UN member except Haiti, which was absent, voted “yes.” The ballot marked the first time that conciliation-minded little countries have forced Russia and the United States — usually at opposite extremes on every ques tion — to get . vgether on a mid dle-of-the-road program. As the ballotting progressed, both Russia fend the United States • avered. Russia first dropped the clause in its resolution which would have branded the United States, Turkey and Greece as warmongers. The committee then rejected the rest of the Soviet resolution in a series of para graph-by-paragraph votes, 23 to 18, 29 to 18, 42 to 6, and 40 to 7. When the committee moved on to a compromise written by France, Australia and Canada, the United States prepared an amend ment that would condemn gov ernment-controlled newspapers — a direct slap at Russia. But when the time came to introduce the amendment, American dele gate Warren Austin sat silent. The chance to amend passed. See PEACE On Page Two BUSINESS TO CEASE AS LAKE WACCAMAW HONORS WAR DEAD WHITEVILLE, Oct. 27. — Lake Waccamaw business houses will close for one hour tomorrow dur ing the funeral of Henry W. Car roll in tribute to the municipali ties war dead. Last rites for Carroll, who lost his life in an accident at Pearl Harbor in 1945, will be held at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at Lake Waccamaw Baptist church. Rev. Ed. Ulrich will conduct the service. Other Lake Waccamaw boys who died during the war here were Gunners Mate Jason Stan ley, Pfc. Cicero D. Moise and Pfc. James Wilbert Collins. Mayor Clyde Wayne said busi ness in the community would be at a standstill for an hour in re spect to the memory of the entire group. And So To Bed When a man knows his own shortcomings, he is wise. But when a man knows his shortcomings, and ad vertises them publicily to many thousands of his fel low citizens, then is caught by said advertised short comings, what then? That is what befell the Star’s sports editor, Roy Cook, this week. Having recognized publicly that he is not qualified to predict the outcome of fottball engage ments, Roy stated his belief that Goldsboro high would defeat the Wildcats by 13-6 last Friday. A fellow staffer im mediately offered to wager that, not only would the Goldsboro team not defeat NKHS, but would not score 13 points. Roy took both wagers of one dollar on each score. And speaking of Score, everyone knows that Wil mington won, 1-1. J
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