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FORECAST: <+ \ <+ ^ ^ tluttitjgitmt mituuj lyfttr VOL. 81. NO. 60._ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947. ESTABLISHED 1867 Aid Piogram Nearly Ready Lovett Expects Marshall Plan Can Be Submitted In Ten Days WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—(UR)— • he Marshall plan for Europe an recovery will be ready for presentation to Congress within 10 days, and will include pro posals for outright gifts as well a5 loans to needy countries, it was disclosed officially today. Undersecretary of State Rob rt A. Lovett told a news con ference that administration leaders will reach final deci sions next week on a number of still-unsolved questions, in cluding : 1, The amount ^f money Con gress will be asked to appropri ate. and how it should be di vided between repayable loans and direct grants-in-aid. 2. Whether foreign aid should ] be handled by an existing gov ernment department, or a new i agency created especially for! the purpose. Marshall In Charge He said that Secretary of State George C. Marshall is re turning to the capital tonight, after six weeks ot the United Nations Assembly in New York, to take personal charge of the conferences which will climax months of preparation. Borrowing a phrase from col legiate fraternity-hazing, Lovett described the forth-coming week of decision as “Hell Week” for administration officials. He said that one big problem is already out of the way. The administration’s proposals for emergency or “stop-gap” aid to France. Italy and occupied areas have been put in final form and will be formally sub mitted to the Bureau of the Budget Friday. While a number of major de cisions remain to be made on (he long-range recovery pro gram, he said, a speeded-up time-table has been fixed undtw which full details on the Mar shall plan will be ready for pre sentation to the White House on Nov. 7, and to the Senate and Houe Foreign Relations com mittees on Nov. 10. CORONER TO HOLD INQUEST TONIGHT Official Probe Into Death Of Brunswick Sheriff Set For 8 O’clock An inquest into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the sudden death last week of Brunswick County Sheriff John White will be conducted tonight ft 8 o’clock in the courthouse at Southport by acting coroner G. C. Kilpatrick. A number of witnesses-includ ing Dr. F. M. Burdette, who performed the autopsy on White’s body; Dr. M. H. Rourk, White’s personal physician; Mrs Burt Jacobs, at whose home in Shallotte White died on Wednes day afternoon, and her mother, a Mrs. Robinson; and Captain Edward I. Conway, the Wilm ington Maritime fleet, now held under $5,000 bond on an open charge of murder—will be heard. Coroner Kilpatrick said last week that White died of a hem crhage at the base of the brain. , Acting Sheriff John G. Caison has said that the late sheriff had complained of severe head aches since arresting Captain Conway on a reckless driving charge the Monday before his death. Deputies reported that Conway scuffled with the sheriff as he was arrested. tonway has maintained that he did not touch the Sheriff. Dr. Rourk has been quoted as sa.ving that Sheriff White came to him for treatment for a pain ln the side of the neck, which he said he first noted when get and hitting at a peculiar angle ' mK out of his car on Monday uuh his foot. Meanwhile, a number of citi zens of Brunswick county have expressed themselves as dis pleased with a decision of the eounty commissioners on Mon °f this week in naming alter M. Stanaland, a man ■ .in a prison record and one !jno was forced out of office as ;unswick recorder during a s« CORONER On Page Two The Weather FORECAST: ( ' jn Carolina and North Carolina— >, fair Thursday, followed by cloudy weather Friday, no im . changes in temperature. ^ • teorological data for the 24 hours ng 7:30 P- m. yesterday. PRECIPITATION otal for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. ™ inches. oun since the first of the month ®-19 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY rrom the Tide Tables published by Coast and Geodetic Survey). w HIGH LOW • hmngton _10:00 a.m. 4:32 a.m. 10:12 p.m. 5:13 d m. as°nboro Inlet .. 7:34 a.m. 1:32 a.m. <. 7:56 p. m. 2:06 p.m. sunrise 6:30, Sunset 5:22; Moonrise ^P: Moonset 7:13a. » {1Ver stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at a- m. Wednesday Missing feet. WEATHER Ob Fagi Two WHO KNOWS what personal message of farewell passed be tween these two as “Chuckie” Datz, 3, of Chicago, kissed his pet, “Quack,” goodbye. The boy received the duckling as a gift last Easter, but now that winter is coming and there’s no place in doors for the pet, “Quack” is go ing to someone who can care for him. (International) ‘BLITHE SPIRIT’ CAPTURES CROWD Tkalian Players Handle Coward Comedy In Fault less Manner The current Thalian Associa tion season was opened last night in the New Hanover High School auditorium with Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” before the larg est audience that the Thalians have had in many a moon. The play reading committee who selected this comedy hand ed the Thalians a decidely dif ficult assignment from every point of view-acting, lighting ef fects, special effects and lots of other things of the theatre. These difficulties seemed but to stimu late them, as all credit must be given for last night’s perform ance. This credit has to be spread around all the way from the di rectors on down the line. The Association was most fortunate in having for the title role, Ruth Caplan, whose inter pretation of the behaviour of a disembodied spirit was splendid in every detail, and whose diction was most refreshingly clear and vivid. How she managed to glide silently and gracefully around the stage like Quicksilver is her secret, but it was the audience’s delight last night. Her grey cos tume and makeup lent verisimili tude that was uncanny and eery. Aldyth Carrell and Robert Red mayne as Mr. and Mrs. Condo mine, made a convincing couple of married folk who spoke their minds in no uncertain fashion. They were keenly alert to Mr. Coward’s lines, and handled them intelligently. Frances Edmonson and Clifford J. Watts as Dr. and Mrs. Bradman added clear and resonant voices to their acting abilities, with the result that they gave sterling performances. Difficult Role Elizabeth Pearsall had a diffi cult role entrusted to her care in the character of Madame Arcati, See BLITHE on Page Two FORMER RECORDER WILL SERVE TERM Joe Dawson Loses Appeal From Sentence Before Supreme Court RALEIGH, Oct. >9—<£>)—Joe Dawson, former judge of the Kinston Recorder’s court, must serve a three to five-year prison sentence for involuntary man slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled today. The court found no error in Dawson’s conviction in Lenoir Superior court last April. The trial grew out of an automobile accident near Kinston on Oct. 13, 1946 in which Robert Bruce Johnson, Navy chief petty offic er was killed and his wife was seriously injured. In the case, the court overruled contentions by defense attorneys that Judge Q. K. Nimocks had erred in his charge to the jury and in admitting evidence that Dawson had been drinking at the time his car collided with Johnson’s machine. “The state’s evidence tends to show that the defendant had been drinking prior to the time of the collision, and was drunk at the time of the collision and for some time thereafter.” Wrote Associate Justice E. B. Denny. _ DECISION IN AIRLINE ^ i CASE 10 B,-'"’".«rtD| Counsel For Piedmont Ridicules State’s Claim That CAB Erred In Awarding Certificate To Winston Firm MORNING STAR Washington Bureau 1 WASHINGTON,O ct. 29 — Fi nal decision in the Civil Aero nautics Board hearing today in the cases of State Airlines and Piedmont Aviation, for the right to serve Wilmington and inter mediate points to Cincinnati, Ohio, may not come for the next two or three weeks. Meanwhile, counsel for Pied mont Airlines, Inc., of Winston Salem, branded as “utterly un . realistic” and “of no merit whatever” the claims of State Airlines, Inc., of Charlotte, that the Civil Aeronautics Board erred in awarding to Piedmont a series of “feeder” air routes, j one of which would connect j Louisville and Cincinnati with Wilmington. Phil Schleit, Washington at torney for State, told the CAB in an oral argument that the Charlotte concern was “the only legally-qualified applicant” for the routes, because, he con tended: 1. Only State applied for al most exactly the routes grant ed Piedmont, which had not proposed so extensive a system. 2. State had no adequate le gal notice that Piedmont would be a competitor for the routes. Hence did not challenge the Winston-Salem firm in earlier hearings. 3. Piedmont should have been excluded from consideration for the same reason that South East Airlines, of Gastonia, and other applicants were ruled out; in the original Southeastern See AIRLINE On Page Two FLUE-CURED LEAF MARKETS MAY REOPEN ON MONDAY BORROWS WAY OUT 1 CINCINNATI, Oct. 29—<U.R) —A federal prisoner walked out of U. S. District court to day to make a telephone call and never returned. And to make matters worse, I the prisoner, John A. Combs, I 25, of Norwood, O., borrowed the nickel to make the call from an assistant U. S. dis trict attorney, William Dam marell. Court was adjourned for 30 minutes while deputies search ed for Combs, who was charg ed with violation of the na tional motor vehicle theft act When the deputies returned empty handed, Judge John N. Druffel ordered Combs’ $1,000 , bond forfeited. U.S. BRITAIN SIGN NEWTA FFPACT One Hundred Trade Agree ments Will Be Ratified By 23 Nations LONDON, Oct. 29—(>P)—Brit ain announced today a new '■ Anglo -Amercian tariff agree ment embodying “concessions” on both sides and called for a reinvigorated campaign to sell British goods in the United States. Boards of Trade President Harold Wilson told the House of Commons that tariff pacts also have been concluded with 14 other countries during six months of international trade negotiations just ending in Ge neva, Switzerland. Details, he said, would be disclosed about Nov. 18. See U. S. On Page Two ENGINEER BLAMED FOR SHIP BLAST Death Of 19 Persons Laid To Negligence Of Island Queen Officer ST. LOUTS, Oct. 29—i7P,>— The explosion and destruction by fire of the excursion steamer Island Queen at Pittsburgh on Sept. 9, when 19 persons died, was at tributed to negligence on the part of the chief engineer, the St. Louis Coast Guard office dis closed today in releasing the report of Capt. Ross Willoh, St. Louis, marine inspector and head of the investigating board. The Coast Guard said Capt. Willoh’s investigation, held in Pittsburgh the day after the dis aster, disclosed that Chief En gineer Fred Dickow of Cincin nati, who was one of the victims, was welding a loose deck stan chion on a metal brace running from deck to ceiling, in the vi cinity of fuel oil bunkers con taining approximately 27,000 gal lons of fuel oil. HALLOWEEN MARDI CRM TO HAVE PUMPKIN MOTIF _ _ m WINCHESTER, Ind., Oct. 29. _ (/P) — The county courthouse square will be jammed with pumpkins Hallowe’en night, but they won’t be there to scare peo ple. They’ll be for sale to raise money to support Randolph coun ty’s campaign against rheumatic fever — called the “have a heart, save a heart” campaign. Every farmer in the county has been invited to contriibute a pumpkin to be sold at the Hal lowe’en Mardi Gras, and the courthouse already is running over with them. The idea started recently with E. Wright Buckmaster, business manager of the Winchester News, and was taken up by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Word of the pumpkin sale has spread and now even national medical authorities and radio stars have been telling of the pupipkin sale Friday night to help fight the disease that strikes so many children. Fred Royster To Poll Committeemen Today On Question Of Date WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—W— Tobacco men and federal offi cials made plans to open flue cured tobacco markets in North Carolina and Virginia next week. Markets were closed Tuesday as a result of the British ban on American tobacco imports. Conferences on reopening the markets began immediately after the Agriculture Depart ment announced a program of Commodity Credit Corporation purchases of tobacco for Great Britain. Fred S. Royster, of Hender son, N. C., chairman of the to bacco marketing committee, told a reporter today he exjpects the markets to open next Mon day. •nuysier saiu me aecision on the exact date must be made by the marketing committee, which he heads and which in cludes warehousemen, growers and buyers from the tobacco states. He said he will poll the committee by telegram tomor row from his home at Hender son. “Announcement of the open ing,” he said, “can be expected not later than Friday.” Royster said the markets to reopen will include the Old Belt, the Middle Belt and the Eastern Belt. He said the Boe der Belt completed business be fore closing this week. Charles E. Gage, director of the Agriculture Department’s tobacco branch, said the CCC purchase of tobacco for Britain likely will restore prices “par tially” to the level existing be fore Britain stopped buying, but will not put prices up as much as they were a year ago. Federal tobacco experts also indicated that growers of flue cured leaf can expect cuts in quotas for 1948 planting — at least 30 per cent from the 1947 quotas. They say the British ban has accentuated a trend toward lower quotas. Hearings on quo tas will be conducted for the flue cured area in Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 5 before an an nouncement of the 1948 pro gram. UNITED STATES DENIES "INVOLVEMENT" IN ALLEGED ROMANIAN CONSPIRACY; SCREEN WRITERS DEFY COMMITTEE Contempt Charges Feature Hearing Chairman Thomas Prom ises Real Fire Works Are Due Today WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.— (UP)- -Four more prominent Hollywood movie-makers defied the House Unamerican activities cimmittee today and were charg ed with contempt of Congress for refusing to sa> whether they are or had been Communists. That raised to eight the num ber of movieland luminaries who have chosen to risk jail rather than divulge their political al legiance. Today’s reluctant witnesses were Writer Samuel Ornitz, Di rectors Herbert J. Biberman and Edward Dmytcyk, and Writer producer Adrian Scott. The Congressional CED-hun ters wasted no time in. citing them for contempt and in pro ducing Communist party mem bership cards alleged to have been issued to each. Only two of six witnesses cal led at today’s hearing proved willing to talk about Hollywood Communism and their own poli tical beliefs. President Emmett Lavery of the Screen Writers Guild, who was listed by the committee as one of the “hostile” witnesses, refuted any pos.-ible suspicion that he was connected in any way with the Communist party He said he was a Democrat and opposed to Communism, but didn’t like the tactics employed by the committee in its investi gation. Equally willing to talk was Dore Schary, RKC executive in charge of production, who also registered his oppositiion to Com munism but scoffed at the idea that the Reds h. ve gained a major foothold in Hollywood. Communist efforts “to domi nate any organization or guild (in Hollywood) have been de feated,” he said. See CONTEMPT On Page T-o MRS. T.J. PRESTON TAKEN BY DEATH Widow Of Grover Cleve' land Dies At Son’s Home In Baltimore BALTIMORE, Oct. 29 — (IP)— Mrs. Thomas Jex Preston, Jr., widow of President Grover Cleveland, died unexpectedly here today at the home of her son, Richard F. Cleveland. She was 83. Cleveland, Baltimore attorney and civic leader, said his mother had come to Baltimore from her home in Princeton, N. J., to help him celebrate bis fiftieth birthday. Last night, she joined in a -aAaxo Axjed Axiuiej jainb land home. She died about noon while sleeping, her son said. Mrs. Preston married Presi dent Cleveland at the White House when she was 22 and he was 49 years old. Five years after Mr. Cleve land’s death in 1908, she was married to Thomas Jex Pres ton, Jr., a retired professor of archaeology. Along The Cape Fear DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMA — The development of drama in Wilmington is one of the in teresting stories in the cultural history of the Cape Fear val ley. In 1768 Governor William Tryon wrote from Brunswick to the Bishop of London recom mending for ordination orders a talented young actor named Gif fard, who gave as his reason for desiring to enter the ministry, “that he was most wearied of the vague life of his present pro fession, and fully persuaded he could employ his talents to more benefit to society by going into holy order and superintending the eduCation of youth in this Province.” The records indicate that Gif fard and his company offered performances of a high order. The governor concluded his' let ter: “If your Lordship grants Mr. Giffard this petition, you will take off the best player on the American stage.” COLONIAL THEATRE—There is evidence that Wilmington en joyed theatrical performances during the Colonial period. James Iredell in 1787 refers in a letter to “our players,” which is presumed to connote a company of players here. There are rec ords of plays presented here as early as 1797. Thomas Godfrey came to Wil mington in the spring of 1759. Archibald Henderson in his in troduction to “The Prince Of Parthia,” says that a conspicuous instance of the neglect of our native drama is afforded in “The Prince Of Parthia” publish ed more than a century and a half ago. Although there was no scarcity biographical and encyclopedic re ferences to Thomas Godfrey, no where was significance attached to the fact that this noteworthy beginning of American drama was made in Wilmington. It was here the first American tragedy was completed ana from Wil mington the manuscript of “The Prince Of Parthia” was dis patched to Philadelphia, God frey’s native city for its first production. The Philadelphia production of the native tragedy was the first native epic of the theater to be produced on the American stage, Henderson points out, and ironically adds that it is in Wilmington where “Godfrey sleeps unsung in an unmarked grave.” Since Henderson wrote his complaint, the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America have erected a gran ite monument in the corner of St. James graveyard, where God frey if buried. PRINCESS ELIZABETH of England walks through a lane of blind people during her visit to the picturesque city of Durham. There she visited Durham Cathedral and the new St. Mary’s College, under construction. The Princess is accompanied by Col. R. Chapman. (International) DEMOCRATS TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. WRONG CAP-FIRE ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 29—(AP)—Abe Alianell 5-2, took a lighted candle with him when he went under his house today to turn off a water pipe. At Atlantic City hospital I where he was treated for sec ond and third degree burns of the arms, face and chest, he told officials he opened the wrong cap—the one on the gas pipe. 1 Firemen estimated S 2 0 0 damage was caused to Alian ell’s home in a fire that result ed from a flash explosion. OREGON GOVERNOR BELIEVED KILLED Wreckage Of Plane In Which Snell Was Passen ger Sighted From Air KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. 29—(/Pi—A plane which crashed in fragments over fog-bound Lake Mountain was identfiied by a license number today as the craft in which Oregon’s gov ernor, secretary of state, and state senate president vanished on a hunting jaunt last night. Oregon’s acting Adjutant Gen eral Raymond F. Olsen said pi lots flying overhead reported “the plane so badly damaged that no one could be alive.” He said they saw no sign of life, and were able to read the li cense number on the wreckage. Aboard the plane when it took off from here last night were Governor Earl Snell, 52; State Senate President Marshall Cor See OREGON on Page Two SON FLIES NORTH TO FIND FATHER Wesley Monson Starts Hunt For Lost Pan-Am Plane In Alaska Wilds KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 29 — UP) —A pilot son today flew North to join a search for 18 persons missing on a Pan American World Airways plane piloted by his father. Wesley Monsen, co-pilot in a rare father-son commercial air line flying team, left Seattle to fly to Annette Island. It was from the Annette vicinity that pilot Alf N. Monsen, veteran Alaska flier made his final ra See SON On Page Two 1948 Convention City Chosen After Election Of McGrath WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —Iff)— Both Democratic and Republi ;an national conventions will be neld at Philadelphia in 1948. The Democratic National com mittee unanimously selected that city today as San Francis co “reluctantly withdrew” its bid. The date for the conven tion was not set but it probably will be early in July. Republicans previously hac decided to meet there, beginning June 21. In a spirited session today the Democratic committee in stalled Senator J. Howard Me Grath of Rhode Island as new national chairman and whoop ed it up for re-election of Presi dent Truman in 1948. McGratl succeeds Robert E. Hannegan who resigned because of il health. The comittee rejected a re solution bitterly condemning the Republican-controlled 80th Con gress for placing “partisan poli tics above love of country.” Asks Withdrawal McGrath told reporters he hac asked that the resolution b« withdrawn because it might jeo pardize non-partisan action or emergency legislation at the special session of Congress starting Nov. 3.7. Committeemen from the solic South, bidding for a bigger saj in the national convention, re ceived a measure of solace un der a new “bonus plan” for delegates to the 1948 conclave Under it each state which voted or the party’s Presidential nominee in 1944 will receive four extra delegates instead ol two as at present. Albert M. Greenfield, chair man of a Philadelphia citizens committee of 100, clinched the 1948 convention site by the same tacticsu sed in winning the Re Greenfield presented a certi $200,000 Check publicans. fied $200,000 check, promised another $50,000 for entertain ment of delegates, a free con vention hall, television facilities and first choice of 6,000 hotel rooms. Mayor Bernard Samuel, a Re publican, won cheers from the Democrats when he promised them to “fix any ticket” if they have trouble with policemen. Adjourning, the 108-member committee hurried to the White Blouse to attend a tea given by the President and Mrs. Truman. See DEMOCRATS On Page Two PRESIDENCY HAS NO LURE FOR PRESENT FIRST LADY WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—<U.R) Mrs. Harry S. Truman expects to attend the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia next summer, but she doesn’t want any delegates nominating her for the Presidency. In fact, she revealed today in written replies to a series of questions from newswomen, she not only doesn’t '/ant to be president but she wouldn’t want her daughter Margaret to be a president’s wife, and if she had V a son she wouldn’t want him to be president. She answered “no comment” to 11 of the 30 questions sub mitted, but returned a flat “no” to a query whether she would ever want to be president. Apart from not wanting Mar garet to be first lady, Mrs. Tru man said her daughter’s future was “entirely up to Margaret,” who must decide for herself if she wants to be a career singer or a wife or both. Charges "Hurled" In Trial Court Indictment Alleges Diplo mats Plotted With Mania For Overthrow WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—HP)— The State Department denied to night that the United States gov ernment “was in any way involv ed in any conspiracy” in Ro mania, as charged, at the current trial in Bucharest of political leader Juliu Maniu. The indictment alleged that Maniu discussed with American diplomats plans for the violent overthrow of the Communist regime in Bucharest. Maniu was leader of the National Peasant passaiddns sbm qaiqM. X}ied earlier this year. In response to inquiries about the case, the State Department made this comment: “The State Department denies the over-all assertion that this government was in any way in volved in any conspiracy.” Meanwhile department officials said that approval had been given for proposed visits to this coun try by two former Romanian foreign ministers reported to b« in Switzerland. The two are Grigore Nicules cu-Buzeti and Constantin Visoia nu. Both were foreign ministers in the latter half of 1944. On another aspect of the Maniu trial, State Department officials said that the American ministers in Bucharest, Rudolf E. Schoenfield, had reported here that after several weeks of per sistent requests he had received permission to have members of the legation staff attend the trial. Three seats were assigned to the legation. BIG CARGO PLANE FOUND IN HILLS Bodies Of Three Occupants Of DC-3 Being Brought To Sylva SYLVA, Oct. 29—(#) —Rescue teams were working tonight to bring out from the 4,000-foot Smoky Mountains near here the bodies of all three occupants of a big cargo plane found wreck ed today after it disappeared from Charlotte almost two weeks ago. Two officials of the Civil Aeronautics Administra 1 tion from Charlotte were at the crash scene starting an exami nation. The DC-3 two-engine plane was found this morning in the mountainous Caney Creek re gion of Jackson county, 19 miles west of Sylva, by Sheri dan Phillips, who was hunting bear. The discovery ended a search described by Capt. R. M. Howard of the Army Air Search Rescue Service, based at Pope Field, near Fayette ville, as the most extensive ever conducted by air in the Southeast. The wrecked plane .ras identi fied by its registration num ber ar. ’ by the remains of the baby chicks that were its cargo as the ship operated by Strato Freight, Inc., of Pitts field, Mass., that left Charlotte for Gainesville, Ga. the raii.y night of Oct. 16. Strato officials identified the dead as Saul E. Kornish, Otis, Ind., pilot; Robert Piper, Pitts field, formerly of Osawatomie, Kans., co-pilot; and Dwight Coulter, Pittsfield, a company executive. And So To Bed An ardent rodeo prize seeker was busily angling for a big one on the Atlantic View pier at Wrightsviile Beach yesterday. His luck had not been too good, and all he had was one small mullett. One of those very talka tive women sight-seeing on the pier buttonholed the fish erman, who was fully occu pied in minding his own bus iness and said, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? A great big fellow like you might be better occupied than in cruelly catching this poor little fish.” “Maybe you’re right, lady,” replied the exasperated an gler, “But if this fish had kept his mouth shut, he wouldn’t be here.”
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