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WEATHER --| wlminctom AND vicinity: cioudy MB B m Served By Leased Wires termitten t” tSday and^nfghf c^rl' II M B KB B K BKB ol the inU°THdayAND SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 U |i F III F ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain today cloudy B B B B eK BKB B| HK ^BBB an<* 1110 continued cool and windy, followed by B B B B B ^B ^B ~ B UNITED PRESS tCinuSingCOTrWMond"yW€St P°rti°n' Con' " ^ ____ .--- _ _ | ^ |bBI W W With Complete Coverage of _ '_htwe e»@i3t <gaw©FPB?®i§isiii~AM[ij) EiLigA&niiBin?^ I—su“ -——I VOL.J9.—N0. 44.___ _ WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1947. “-^FTTION A—PRICE TEN CENTS flew Sheriff Of Brunswick Takes Oath g J. Holden, Assistant Court Clerk, Of ficiates ISSUES STATEMENT flew Official Thanks Peo ple, Promises Good Work SOUTHPORT, Nov. 1.—Wal ter M. Stanaland, Shallotte vet eran, was sworn in as sheriff of Brunswick county late Fri day afternoon. He took the oath before assistant clerk of court, B ‘ j Holden. He started his tenure of office immediately, succeeding the late Sheriff 10hn White, according to an of ficial announcement Saturday. Immediately after the cere mony, Stanaland through attor ney Alton Lennon and Issac C Wrights issued a statement in which he expressed his apprecia tion tor his appointment In a signed statement the new j sheriff said: •‘I wish to express my thanks for my election as sheriff of Brunswick county, and I assuie the commissioners and citizens of the county that I will en deavor to serve them as sheriff to the best of my ability, and in a way to bring credit to the county, ' I shall try to perform the duties of the office without fear or favor, and will try to properly enforce the law. I will appreciate your help and call on aii good citizens to help enforce the law.” WIFE RENOUNCES j ILL WAR HERO] Malaria Victim Tries Sui cide As Way Out DETROIT, Nov. 1 — — Johnny Yaksich, a hero in war , Johnny Yaksich, a hero in war and a failure n ipeace, fought, a lonely battle tonight to stay in a world that had proved too tough for him. Yaksich, who singlehandedly wiped out a Japanese machine gun nest to win the Navy Cross, lay on a hospital bed, a self ir.flicted bullet wound in his stomach. Racked by recurring attacks ' of malaria and “war nerves I unable to work and faced with divorce, the 25-vear-old ex-Ma rine shot himself with a .45 cali bre pistol yesterday. But today hsi pretty, d a r k eyed wife, Anne, said that “if he can’t help himself, no one can. I can’t say what will hap pen when he gets better.” John went to Los Angeles a month ago to “try to straight en out his nerves.” Yaksich's mother, Mrs. Mary Yaksich, said. “When Anne wrote him that she was getting a divorce,” Mrs. Yaksich said, “he came right home. He talked to her, but she said, ‘what’s the use?.” Anne said John used to leave her and their two-year-old-son 1 and “wander off for a month at a time. Nobody knew where he 'vas until he showed up in a hospital with malaria again.” { The Weather FORECASTS UNTIL 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY for Wilmington and vicinity: In creasing cloudiness today and tonight, flowed by occasional light showers »unday; lowest temperature tonight 50 degrees, highest Sunday 68 degrees; moderate to fresh northerly winds. North Carolina: Mostly cloudy, f scattered showers Sunday, begin fg in west portion; not much change m temperature. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ding 7:30 pm yesterday: temperatures am 54, 5:30 am 49, 1:30 pm 62, p»’ >8 Maximum 63. Minimum 48. Mean 5a. Normai 61. HUMIDITY 0 am 58, 7:30 am 87, 1:30 pm 64, pm 85 ,, PRECIPITATION L, ,orJ*'ei horns ending 7:30 pm! r<Jtal since the first of the' '•'nth 0 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY : .°” the Tide Tables published by •woast and Geodetic Survey.» -12:24™ 6:3°6Wam Masottboro Inlet _ ,^72 am S^am, S i, .. 10:24 pm 4:31 pm 3 28 n,-u8133, Sunset 5:19; Moonrise I 1 Moon»* 10:41 am. 8 a -:' ;e st Fayetteville, N. C., at *• Sat. 10.3 feet. Btom;uH^GT.0N' Aug. 1—(#)—'Weather I fall «nr •por!„ o£ temperature and rain tbe Dr,,„!!'e, 24 hours ending 8 pm in else w;V,! . cot£on growing areas and STATION ‘ WIUliNGTnv HIGH LOW R’FALL Alpena 0 - 63 48 -00 Asheville- 53 43 00 Atlanta ” 51 45 .00 Boston 55 52 -84 Charlotte J' 40 38 .00 Chicago ’ 55 47 .00 Denver ' 55 52 .00 ?! Paso ' — 86 SO .00 ?EJ' West 76 41 -00 Us Am i-86 24 -02 MemS - 70 53 •<» Miami - 62 58 .42 , v°rtgomery- 84 75 -02 Jew Oriel - 64 58 .67 Mew Yor“ - 70 58 00 Morfolk - 56 45 .06 Bichinond - 59 54 .00 San A - 56 47 .00 SarFm,’10 - 78 51 .00 Savanna.'-""10 - 60 54 .24 Seattle -.. 68 57 .01 "UshiMiai -- 59 48 .70 '« 57 47 .00 Trumans’ Bridal Gift To Elizabeth THIS ENGRAVED bowl with cover is the wedding gift of President and Mrs. Truman to Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. It is made of lead crystal and is entirely hand-blown. The bowl is 10 inches high and is engraved with five sets of characteristic riders and figures on a merry-go around at a country fair. The bowl was designed by Sculptor Sidney Waugh, and was made by Steuben Glass of New York. (AP Wirephoto). Huge Navy ‘War’ Nears Off Coast WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — (J-P) — Two long-range B-29 bomb groups, about 60 aircraft, will attempt to intercept and ‘ bomb” a navy carrier task force now steaming in from a practice s’trike at the island of Bermuda. This was announced tonight by the strategic air command. It and the navy officially de-1 scribed the impending engage ment—probably on Monday and Tuesday — as a training opera tion. However, it may figure in the long standing argument be tween the bombing command and the sea servcie over the ability of heavy bombardment aviation to damage or destroy a large naval force. General George C. Kenney, chief of the strategic air com mand, said his force was alert ed last night. He reported that after a three and one half hour search by three B-29 recognnais sance aircraft from the 307th I bomb group, operating from \ MacDill Field, Fla., the “enemy j task force was located in the dark and stormy Atlantic at 1:30 A. M., EST, today. It has been kept under continuous sur villance since then. The Naval force is headed by the huge 45,000-ton carrier Mid way. Other units of the force include the light cruisers Fargo and Huntington; the anti - air craft light cruiser Spokane; and an unspecified number of sub marines, destroyers, mine sweepers, mine layers, tankers1 and amphibious ships. The commander is vice Ad miral A. W. Radford, command- ] er of the second task fleet, an element of the Atlantic fleet under the over-all command of Admiral W. H. P. Blandy. WILLETTS BUYS j STATION WGNI Sale Price Reported As Near $80,000 Mark Purchase of radio station WGNI here from General Newspapers, [nc., of Gadsden, Ala., by Fred erick Willetts, Sr., prominent realtor and building and loan association executive, and his son was announced yesterday after noon by the new owners of the property. Willetts said the purchase price was “in the neighborhood of $80,000.” They have taken complete charge of the station and filed necessary application for Feder al Communications Commission approval of the transaction. Re ceipt of this will permit complete consummation of the deal. Pointing out that the move gives the station complete local ownership and man a g e m e n t, Willetts said considerable change is planned in its management and that changes in present policies will be effected as the situations [•rise in the future. The resignation of James Stew art, general manager of the sta tion since construction of its fa cilities was begun last year, has been accepted, Willetts said. He added that Robert Howard, who has been connected with WGNI, lias been appointed acting mana ger. “It is my intention.” the new owner stated, “to continue WGNI’s pleasant relations with all other mediums of public ex pression in the community. It is also my desire to see it become a greater factor in the develop (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) AMERICAN-BACKED FOREIGN OIL FIRMS PAY NO TAX, REPORT WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — MB— American-backed foregin coop erations have netted $117,000,000 in profits from an Arabian oil concession without paying Unit ed States taxes on those earn ings, the Senate War Investiga ting committee was told today. After hearing the testimony, Senator Brewster (R-Me), com mittee chairman, denounced “foreign flag corporations” as a device for evading taxes and said he would ask congressional tax bodies to study the situation. Conservatives Win Support In England With 606 Gain; Labor Loses 633 In Voting Restaurants Defy Truman Association Head Says Will Disregard Meatless Days HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Nov. 1.—(jP)—Declaring that the “pub lic will not be dictated to,” a spokesman for the West Virginia Restaurant association said to night that the state’s restaurants will abandon their attempt to go along with President Truman’s food-saving program. H. C. Phillips of Charleston, general chairman of the 15th an nual convention to be opened here bv the association tomorrow said the restaurant operators instead will “let the public ration itself.” Phillips said the group will re solve to end formally what at tempts have been made to com ply with President Truman’s re quest. Citing increasing opposition to the plan, Phillips said: “The entire plan is not working because the public will not be dictated to. We will, of course, ; cooperate wherever possible, but from now on our menus will, on .Tuesdays, contain both meat and I non-meat dishes. Let the public | ration itself.” ANNETTE ISLAND CRASH GIVES UP 18 OF THOSE DEAD - KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, Nov. 1 — (iT) Search parties on An nette Island’s snow - capped Mount Tamgas, hampered by a heavy gale and falling snow, worked today to recover the bodies of 18 persons from the scattered wreckage of a Pan American World Airways plane that crashed into the mountain last Sunday. The Coast Guard reported in midafternoon that 12 of the ! bodies had been found near the wreckage, and that all could be identified. •••••* The searchers planned to re main on the mountain overnight. Man O’War Dies Body Embalmed LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 1—W —Man O’ War, world’s greatest race horse, set another record in death tonight, becoming the first thoroughbred to be embalmed in preparation for burial. The great animal died today at 30. D. M. Lowe, Lexington mor tician, said he used the same method and fluid used to pre serve human bodies. But, he add ed, it took 23 bottles while an average of two is used for per sons. (A bottle of fluid, Lowe ex plained, is put up in concentrated form and when diluted equals about one gallon). Lowe said the operation re quired about two hours, only slightly longer than the average embalming time of humans. The big horse’s eyes and mouth were closed and he “looked just like he was taking a nap.” Dr. William McGee, Lexington veterinarian who attended Sam uel D. Riddle’s famed thorough bred, said he directed the pre servative measure. He added: “Mr. Riddle always ordered the best of everything for the horse. I know he wouldn’t have wanted anything else.” McGee said it was the first time he fever heard of a horse being embalmed. (See details on this greatest of all racing horses in sports sec tion). _ SIKES SUGGESTS SWAP PROPOSAL Would Have English Give Scotch For Tobacco By JOHN SIKES WALLACE, Nov. i —This item might well be filed in the Ear-to-the-Ground drawer. A Wilmingtonian pundit sug gested to me today while I was visiting our neighborly Port City, that perhaps the farmers of our territory over here might like to chip in and get up a pot of gold to send Princess Eliza beth as a wedding present when she gets married this month. We were discussing the re opening Monday of the Wallace Tobacco Market. Always anxious to be of as sistance, I took the matter up with some of my farmer friends who’re planning to offer their laboriously produced week on our market Monday. I’m sorry anyone ever egged me on into essing so foolhardy a task. It seems that a good dead of our tobacco growers over here (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Probable Winner—And Cherry DR. MOTLEY GOV. CHERRY DR. ELLIOTT MOTLEY, left, Charlotte, gazes lovingly at the rod and reel which boated the huge sailfish, still leading the Fall Fishing Rodeo entries for the $5,000 first prize money, and Gov. R. Gregg Cherry, right, who has announced his intention of coming to Wilmington for the annual SENCBA banquet. Cherry will award the top prizes. __ (Photo by Hugh Morttli.) Cherry To Award SENCBA Prizes Governor R. Gregg Cherry will award prizes to the Southeastern North Carolina Beach association sponsored Fall Fishing rodeo winners at the annual rodeo banquet, a SENCBA spokesman reported last night. A definite date for the ban quet has not been set, pending a study of the governor’s sched ule of appearances, but John Hardin his secretary told SEN CBA Cherry would be able to attend the banquet here within two weeks. Meanwhile, SENCBA judges were to complete study of en tries . in the $15,000 rodeo by Thursday night. Dr. Ellliott Motley, Jr., of Charlotte looms as the $5,000 grand prize win ner. His catch of a seven foot, inch sailfish was still leading. Should Dr. Motley win the top award, the 1,000 boat captain’s prize will go to Capt. Hulan Watts, Southport party boat skipper, from whose craft the fish was caught. SENCBA voted last week to hold the banquet at the Ocean Plaza hotel at Carolina Beach after director Frank Collier said the hotel would be available for the program. The governor would award all major prizes, it was said. Week ly awards will be made prior to the banquet. State officials, sports writers, and other North Carolina notables will be invit ed to attend, the SENCBA of ficial sail. TEN THOUSAND SYRIAN TROOPS AT PALESTINE HUNETRA, Syria, Nov. 1.—UP) —Ten thousand Syrian troops, ; articipating in army maneuvers, camped tonight within sight of the Palestine border. All day their small tanks and armored cars carrying 20-mm guns zigzagged across plowed feilds and rock-strewn heights looking down on the fertile fields of Jewish settlements. 5,000 ARMENIANS TO LEAVE THE U. S. FOR SOVIET HOMES NEW YORK, Nov. 1 —UP)—One hundred and fifty three Arme nians, most of whom came to this country three decades ago, tonight left for the “home of our forefathers”. Szot I. Chepurnykh, Soveit vice consul in New York, said they were the first contingent of about 5,000 Armenians expected to leave the U. S. under a world wide repartiation program being conducted by the Armenian Re public of the U.S.S.R._ Judge Flops As Cupid In Case Of 16-Year-Old Bride And Vet ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 1—<U.R) _A judge attempted to smooth the way for true love today, but his efforts were side-tracked when the parents of a bobby soxer refused to let her see her 19-year-old bride-groom, even in the company of a chaperone. District Judge Gustavus Loe vinger had looked with sympa thy on the youthful elopers, handsome ex-soldier Don Atchi son and pretty, blonde Carol Jean Hying, 16, both of St. Paul, although they lied aboi ueir ages when they were rr ned at Stillwater, Minn., Sept. 15. “They haven’t disgraced any one by their marriage,” he said. Loevinger, hearing a request for a restraining order to keep Carol at home and Atchison’s counter arguments, ruled that the young husband could date his wife tonight, provided her parents didn’t object. He advised Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Hying, that it might not be a 'bad idea to accept the youth as their son-in-law. But the Hyings did not agree. They said they wanted the mar riage dissolved right now, and they did not want Carol to see Don again, with or without a chaperone. Mrs. Hygin said she objected ! to Atchison after the first date, “because he brought her in at 4:30 in the morning.” Judge Levinger said he sym pathized with the couple, although they were quite young for marriage, “Carol,” he said, “you as sumed responsibilities of a wife and married life when you made this serious step. I’m sure you are very serious, but the relationship of parent and child cannot be divorced as a relation ship between a husband and wife.” UN AGAIN CALLS SOUTH AFRICA Wants Government To Place Territory In Trusteeship —~—— NEW YORK, Nov. 1 -The General Assembly tonight again called on the government, of South Africa to place the ter ritory of Southwest Africa under United Nations trusteeship. South Africa did not comply with a previous appeal from the 1946 assembly. The vote was 41 to 10. Britain was the only big power to op pose the move, with the United States and Russia joining in sup port. Australia voted against the resolution after deputy prime Minister Herbert V. Evatt told the delegates: “This amounts to a censure on a member government.” The ballot came after a Da nish amendment to water down the proposal was accepted. The modification struck out a one year time limit for compliance and left the assembly merely expressing “hope’’ that South Africa would submit the agree ment by next fall. Other developments: 1. Britain was reported to (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Liberals Remain Even; Reds Lose Nin e In Ballo ting Figures Are Nets; And Are For Town Coun cil Seats; Churchill’s Party Claims ‘Overwhelming’ Victory LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 2—</P)—Winston Churchill’s Conservatives claimed an “overwhelming” victory early to day over Prime Minister Attlee’s Labor party on the strength of nearly complete returns from yesterday’s mu nicipal elections in England and Wales. Both parties in heated campaigning had called the elections a test of popularity for Attlee’s government, which replaced Churchill’s after a landslide parliamentary victory more than two years ago. The voting apparently was the heaviest for any local elections in upward of 10 years. YOUNG YI( RATS'1 RAP R JB CANS Hoover Taft, N. C. Club, Urges Organization Now SOUTHERN PINES, Nov. 1— <#>)—Hoover Taft, president of the North Carolina Young Dem ocrats club, told the club’s execu tive committee tonight that “it is up to us to organize” and see that the wishes of the people are regarded. “The people do not want re publican reaction,” Taft declared. “They want Democratic action. We need to get the spirit of or ganization. Our party has slipped from the leadership which it should have in this country.” Edward Parler of Lancaster, a ranking member of the South Carolina Young Democrats, was a guest speaker. He advocated backing the Tru man policy and the Marshall plan to aid starving Europe. “Our nation escaped the hor: rors of war,” Parler said, “and is now enjoying the most pros perous period in its history. We should therefore not hesitate in helping our allied friends if we wish to establish a permanent peace.” Taft announced that W. A. Le land McKeighan of Pinehurst had been appointed a director of the Democrat club. Fred Campbell of Waynesville was named organizer for the Young Democrats club in Western North Carolina. NEW STORM DEATH MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 1—(TP)— Moseph Evans, 49, who suffered a fractured spine when he fell from a tree during the Sept. 17 hurri cane, died today in a Miami haspital making the toll 23. Artist Robbed $31,000 Jewels PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Nov 1— (U.R) —Surrealist Galvadore Dali drew color pictures for the cops today, not to hang on the police station wall but to aid them in solving the burglary of his cabin where thieves list night stole $31,200 worth of jewelry and furs. The sneak thieves who pried open a side window of the ec centric painter’s cabin on the grounds of Del Monte Lodge got away wtith serpent and lizard bracelets, brooches shaped like cats, grapes, flies, and bees, his wife’s fur coats — everything but a limp watch. The excitable Dali, “devas tated at this loss”, stayed up most of the night sketching the jewelry designs from memory so the police could identify them if and when they show up through some “fence”. Lt. ‘Gene Trenner of the sheriff’s office said that the drawings would help a lot be cause the jewelry, most of it unique pieces, would be easy to identify. Dali itemized the stolen arti cles today, fixing their total value at $31,200. He said they included a $4,000 serpent brace let, a $1,000 lapel pin shaped like a cat and with a large diamond, a $400 lizard bracelet, an $800 brooch with three grapes in a cluster, a $400 collection of jeweled insects, 10 lapel pins shaped like various bugs and valued' at $5,000, an $800 gold bracelet, a $5,000 brooch with diamonds and rubies, a $3,000 spray of gold flowers, a $3,000 | Chinese solid gold basket. RHODES SUES FOR $100,000 Asheville, Hendersonville Accused In Son’s Death The cities of Asheville andj Hendersonville and Henderson county today were named de fendants in a $100,000 suit brought by N. C. Rhodes, Wilmington, father and administrator of the estate of his college student son fatally shot at the Asheville-Hen dersonville airport Aug. 7. A complaint filed with the clerk of Henderson Superior court al leged that N. Cecil Rhodes, 16, the son, a Mars Hill cellege sum mer student, was shot to death by J. R. Calton, a night watchman at the airport. Calton is under grand jury in dictment for murder. The crimi nal case against him is scheduled for the March term. The complaint described Cal ton as an agent for the defen dants, and alleged the shooting was “wrongful, unnecessary and felonious.” The defendants were described in the complaint as owning the airport and operating it through an airport board that employed Calton. The watchman told a coroner’s jury he shot when Rhodes did not heed his order to keep away from a plane. Balloting was lor J,/do council seats—one third of each borough council—in 392 cities and towns, not including London. Returns from 376 of these lo calities showed: Conservatives gained 623 seats, lost 17; Labor gained 42, lost 675, Liberals gained 46, lost 46; Communists gained none, lost nine; Independents gained 170, lost 134. Labor’s setbacks were reflect ed in such labor strongholds as servatives gained eight seats to wipe out Labor’s majority on the municipal council. The new strength is Labor, 68, Conserva tives 65, Independents three. Labor also lost control of the Manchester city council, although in industrial Sheffield the gov ernment party gained four seats from “Progressives” and strength ened its topheavy majority. While the conservatives failed to win control of many large industrial cities, Labor’s vote was cut to such an extent that the Attlee party lost previous ma jorities in Rugby, Lincoln, Read ing, Rochester and the London suburb of Wemley. Less than an hour after mid night, Conservative party head quarters issued a statement which said: me results so xai a»<uuu« disclose an overwhelming Con servative victory. Although the returns from some large borough* still are awaited, the wholesale rejection of Socialist doctrine throughout the country indicate* a complete swing of public opin ion.” The British Press association said: “The final returns may show 8 switchover of public opinion in the country almost as dramatic as when Labor swept into office in the general election more than two years ago.” Since coming to power in Brit ain, labor has nationalized a series of key industries but has been beset increasingly by economic difficulties that have caused adoption of more and more aus terity measures. Only today Britons were deprived of gaso line for pleasure driving. This year’s municipal elections will be completed next Tuesday in Scotland. Local elections in Britain normally do not carry the weight in national affairs they do on the continent, particularly in France, but this time spokes men for both parties conceded that national issues were a big consideration. Of the seats at stake, 1,478 have been held by Laborites, 1, 032 by Independents, 618 by Con servatives, 131 by Liberals and 10 by Communists. Practically all the “Independents” were con veded to have Conservative sym pathies. Some 12,000,000 voters—about half the number eligible for na tional general elections—had the right to ballot yesterday. LONG-SOUGHT CONVICT CAUGHT WITH FRIEND AND CRIPS NEW BILLS BOSTON, Nov. 1.—(U.R)—A long sought escaped convict, who packed two loaded pistols, was seized today, along with his ex convict pal and two girl friends, in connection with two Boston payroll holdups that netted nearly $140,000. Detectives reported that between them the two men had $2,745 in crisp new bills—money that might link the pair with Thursday’s $107,997 robbery at the B. F. Sturtevant Co. plant in Hyde Park and yesterday’s $29,248 robbery at the American Sugar Refining Co. Plant in South Boston. IKE HONORS ROGERS FORT WORTH, Tex., Nov. I— (TP)—General Dwight D. Eisen hower will arrive here Monday night to participate in the un veiling of a statue of the late Will Rogers.