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mmsas tlmiwjtmt iUitntuuj V0L- 81—N°- 63. _ WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1867 "* lax Cut Plan To Be Pushed Rep. Knutson Will Proceed Despite Economic Ad visers Report WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — W— tun Knutson (E.—Minn.) said ZLv he will proceed with his Ip for a $4,000,000,000, tax “ t notwithstanding the recom Jd,.»n by President Tru .n-s economic advisers that * be held where they are to l‘lp nay the bill for aid to Eu rope and to curb inflation. .■The tax cutting bill will be nnafiv for introduction when the Si session convenes,” he old a reporter, adding: “I hope it will be the first major piece of legislation passed at the spe-1 cial session.” Knutson heads the House Wavs and Means committee. fhe President's economic | council reported last night that bv continuing present federal tax rates, and a partway return j to wartime inflation controls, the United States can safely -upport the Marshall aid to Eu rope plan and still reduce the national debt. Knutson commenieu. '•I'm afraid the President’s advisory committee is as badly confused as he is. "Even a grade school student knows that, all the money we advance for relief and rehabili tation will be spent in the American market, in competi tion with domestic buyers, the net result of which will be fur ther price increases all along the line. The whole thing looks to me like trying to put out a fire with fuel oil.” “The council’s recommenda tions to the contrary notwith standing, will in no way deter us from going ahead in our fight to give the harassed tax paver relief.” On the other hand, Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) told report ers: 'If we are going to aid Eu rope, let’s pay for it. To the extent we cut tax rates, along with an aid program, there will be more inflation. “The administration is up against the cold steel of infla tion, and all this maneuver ing is whistling in the dark, they've either got to put the money in the tax box to cover this appropriation to Europe, or finance it through deficits v/hich are strictly inflationary.” Mr. Truman twice used his veto power earlier this year to See TAX on Page Two TEXTILE UNIONS THREATEN STRIKE Thirty Thousand workers May Be Called Out November 6 DANVILLE, Va., Nov. 2—(A?)— Officials of the CIO Textile Workers Union of America voted today to call strikes Nov. 6 in Southeastern cotton mills unless the textile industry makes “an acceptable offer” to a 15-cent-an-hour wage increase demand by that time. A spokesman at the strategy meeting of top TWUA men said that more than 30,000 mill work ers in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Tennes see are involved. The union did not define what !* considered “an acceptable of ■er and said this and the exact hour of the projected walkouts 'v ould be left up to the local unions. It was announced, how t'lat *ocal negotiations the mills would be con tinued this week. Highest Offer ... e highest counter-offer to ,e union’s 15-cent demand dis used thus far has been that of ne Lowenstein mills with plants y.L; ?rn Carolina and Alabama Proposed a seven and naif cent hourly increase. The. ^an River Mills here offered ive per cent wage increase j:j hut in neither case ance Union indicate aceept Dan\ine CIO Director Lewis dav'1 Sa*^ • decisions of lo (Q ‘ ,s session would be carried unilf men}bership of the local ns within the next few days. The Weather c°o1 ahrriCa'?liT]a~~Cloudy and continued n>ght, oora^ ndy Monday and Monday °ver v onal ^Sht rain Monday and d»y partivh!?esh Monday night. Tues North c ,udy and warmer. lviMv rah1arA0/rIina ~~ C1°udy, cool and ra*n over p onday and occasional light I>5nlv , st -Monday night. Tuesday y and warmer. ®4ins 7.y?eical data for the 24 hours ' 1 P ni. yesterday. 1:30 . TEMPERATURES ,:3|) P m. 68 58 ; 7:30 M; 1:30 pm- 70; 72; Minimum 58; Mean 65; . 1:30 a„, , HUMIDITY *' !83.:30 a'm- n’ 1:30 p'm' Total « PRECIPITATION "lot 20 'inches* 24 h0urs ending 7:30 F inches”0' Tp,r Firs* °* the month .fftoia ,Tn)5,s F°R today S. c V1* Tide Tables published by ^ast and Geodetic Survey). High Low - 12:34 a.m. 7 35 a.m. <iionboro t„i . 1:19 p m- 8:43 P-m. Inlet . 10:58 a.m. 4:36 a.m. I-S^nrise r.oa P-m- 5:28 P-m. p.rr, Sunset 5:18: Moonrisc * Moonset 11 ;54 a.m. 0Jliii WeatHEE on page two Lovell Turns Down Plea Of Ousted Men -—-* Six Former Employes^ •>?' Department Lose Appeal F^ %J&^iement; Group Were Dismiss Security Reason WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(£*)_. Undersecretary of State Lovett today rejected the appeal of six former State Department em ployes for a hearing on charges for which they were dismissed June 23 “for reasons of national security.” Lovett, in a letter to lawyers representing the six unidentified workers, declared, however, that the Civil Service Commission will consider the cases if requested. He aded that the State Depart ment would supply the commis sion with the information which was the basis for the ouster pro cedings, although it is beinng withheld from the individuals concerned. The six were among a group of ten who were released by the State Department following a loyalty test. Congress empower ed the Secretary of State to dis miss any workers before June 30, 1947, if he “deemed it necessary or advisable in the interests of the United States.” The Civil Service Commission was designated as a virtual ap peals court in such cases, to de termine whether workers thus dismissed were eligible for em ployment in any other govern ment agency. The petitioning group was rep resented by three former high administration officials: Thur man Arnold, Abe Fortas and Pa '.1 Porter. HughesTakes Big Flying Boat Off Water In Tests TRAGIC ENDING MCKEESPORT, Pa., Nov. 2. — ’) — Robert Swalwell Jr., 5, liked his Halloween cowboy costume so well he put it on again yesterday. And because Rebert knew real cowboys cook over open fires on the “range” he and a on the “range” he and a playmate built a bonfire on a hill near his home. A short time later, neigh bors said Robert run scream ing down the hill, his cow boy suit in flames. They beat out the fire with their hands but Robert died today. EXPORT CONTROLS EXTENSION URGED Secretary Of Commerce Harriman Cites Danger Of Further Inflation _ WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—W— Extension of export controls be yond their scheduled expiration next Feb. 29 was recommended to President Truman by Secre tary of Commerce Harriman to night to protect the domestic economy and promote Ameri can foreign policy. “Export control permits us to direct exports of critically need ed commodities to countries where the need is most urgent, and where they can be most ef fectively used to speed the eco See EXPORT on Page Two CIO DRIVES FOR ! PRICE CONTROLS Union Quickens Pace Of Campaign To Win Con gressional Support WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(£>)— The CIO quickened its cam paign today to win Congression al support for price controls, rationing, excess profits taxa tion and development of the “Marshall idea” for aiding for eign nations, i Rallies, petitions, wires and letters to the Congressmen and to President Truman—all were proposed in a call to members for emergency action sent out by Nathan Cowan, legisla tive director, and John Brophy, director of the hundreds of city and state industrial union coun ties. | “Little time remains before i Nov. 17. (when Congress con venes) to guarantee that Con gress hears the people’s serious , demands for leadership and act ion,” Brophy and Cowan assert ed in a letter to CIO unions which was made public. “Congress must be made to understand that the needs of the American people and the world do not permit the play ing of petty politics i nthe spe cial session and the regular ses sion which follows in 1948.” Wooden Plane Taxis Down Harbor At Speed Of 90 Miles Per Hour LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 2 —W—Howard Hughes today hurtled his giant flying boat at takeoff speed 30 feet above the wave tops of the Los Angeles Long Beach harbor in the first of a series of pre-flight tests. Hughes said he was “thoroughly satisfied” with the performance of the craft which at one time attained a speed of 90 miles an hour. The $25,000,000 wooden plane was literally airborne during some of the earlier taxiing runs. Observers in boats alongside the course in the outer harbor said they could see daylight un derneath the keel between the choppy waves. Hughes at the controls throughout the test said he be lieved he could have taken the craft off if he had been pre pared to do so. The Civil Aeronautics Author ity was represented by George W. Haldeman in charge of flight testing on the West coast, who said he was on board at the request of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The RFC handled the govern ment $18,000,000 contract with Hughes for construction of the plane. Hughes has put more than $7,000,000 of his own ’mon ey into the project. Hughes had not planned to take off today. Today’s test was scheduled to be merely taxiing runs. On the first run he attained a speed of 45 miles an hour, jp the second 90 mph. He lifted the plane 30 feet above the wa ter on the third run at a speed of 65 miles an hour. It had been estimated that takeoff speed would be some where in the neighborhood of 95 mph. RESERVE PILOTS KILLED IN CRASH ___________— Former Navy Men Collide Above Albemarle Sound; One Ship Explodes NORFIOK, Va„ Nov. 2—W— Two Navy Air Reserve pilots were killed today when their Gruman Avenger torpedo planes collided 500 feet above Albemarle Sound, 15 miles south o£ Eliza beth City, N. C. The planes plunged into the sound. One exploded and both sank instantly. The fliers whose bodies were not recovered were Lieutenant Vic Dean McGinley, Jr., Virginia Beach, Va., and Ensign Jimmie Wright, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Both men were separated from the Navy about a year ago but had enrolled in the Norfolk Nav al Air Reserve unit. They were on i routine gunnery training flight when the collision occurred. -—- 3 Doughnut Hole Inventor Honored By Fisher-Foik —ROCKPORT, Me. Nov. 2—<£> —Sea Captain Hanson Gregory, who poked the soggy center out of a fried-cake 100 years ago, was commended today to pos terity on a bronze tablet as in ventor of the hole in the dough nut. The joint Camden-Rockport ceremonies opened with the singing of “America” by about 1100 Gregory kinfolk and onlook ers and ended with doughnuts and cider for all hands. Charles Gregory, a second cousin of the captain, and First [Selectman Arthur Walker I placed the 12-by-14-inch plaque on the seaward wall of the lit tle White Glen Cove house where Gregory said both the mariner and the modern doughnut wete born. The doughnut-hole was in spired, Charles Gregory told the assemblage, by difficulties Cap tain Gregory’s mother met in producing old-style fried-cakes. Young Hanson Gregory, he said, saw that the cakes weren’t cooking in the middle and with one epic thrust of kit chen fork, he created the life ring pattern of today’s “sinker.” See DOUGHNUT on Page Two Jubilant Conservatives Demand General Election For Britain; Assembly May Dodge Veto Issue Little Assembly Still On Agenda Aranha Seeks To Sidetrack Controversy To Allow Early Adjournment NEWYORK, Nov. 2 — UP)— The United Nations Assembly may sidetrack debate on the controversial big power veto in efforts to reach adjournment by Nov. 25, an authoritative source said today. Assembly President Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil called the As sembly’s 14-nation Steering committee to meet tomorrow to discuss progress and meth ods of speeding conclusion of the current session. The Assem I bly has been under way seven weeks and only one major item —establishment of a U.N. bor der commission in the Balkans —has been cleared. Such proposals as Secretary of State Marshall’s suggestion for a year-around Little Assem bly and the issue of Korean in dependence still are under dis cussion in the Political commit tee or its subcommittees. It was understood that pro posals would be made to the Steering committee, which de termines the Assembly sched ule, to put off the veto and sev eral minor items until after the current Assembly session or un til the 1948 meeting next fall. Under this plan the veto could be taken up in the “Little As See LITTLE on Page Two LOCAL TEACHERS ON SEDT PROGRAM Miss Emma Lossen, Others To Lead Group Dis cusions Friday Wilmington teachers are slat ed to play an important part in the Southeastern District Teach ers meeting opening at Fayette ville, Thursday evening, Novem ber 7, at 6:30 p. m., with a dinner meeting for local unit NCEA presidents in the cafeteria of Fayetteville high school. Dr. Ralph McDonald, execu tive secretary of the National Education association, will ad dress 2,000 teachers, pricipals, and superintendents expected to gather at the first session in the high school auditorium Friday at 10 a. m. Departmental meetings in the afternoon will be presided over in several instances by Wilming ton teachers. Miss Emma Lossen will preside over the art depart ment meeting, and Mrs. E. P. Brock has charge of the Council for Social Studies. Mrs. Mary E. Hood will pre side over the meeting of Busi ness Education teachers. A fea ture of this meeting will be the discussion of “What the Employ er Expects from the High School Graduate,” by three business men. Other meetings and the Wil mington teachers who are sche duled to preside ever them in clude: English Teachers, Miss Frances Sutherland; Home Economics, Miss Ruth Blackman; Health, Physical Education, and Recre ation, Miss Gertrude Moore; Li brarians, Miss Martha Cromartie; and Science, J. W. Batten. BEACHES LITTERED WITH DEBRIS—Except for minor damages such as are show to the houses in the above picture, Wrightsville and Carolina Beaches escaped high tides yesterday with out serious effect. The above picture was made yesterday morning at Wrightsville when the morn ing’s high tide had gone out. The disturbance may have been caused by a Peruvian earthquake Saturday, observers believe. (Staff Photo by Roy Cook) Heavy Seas, Rain Lash Nearby Beaches, Little Damage Done EVICTED PROFESSOR PLAYS HOST AT “PRE-EVICTION” HOUSE PARTY LANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 2—(A5)—An English professor at Franklin and Marshall College today took a philosophical view of his impending house eviction. The professor,. Kenneth D. Longsdorf, was host to 300 col lege faculty members and students at a “pre-eviction house cooling” party, entertaining the folks with movies, songs, and tricks of magic. He said he was able to take a philosophical view of the situation since he had already found another place to live at $30 a month cheaper rent. He urged only that his guests refrain from damaging the property and that they conduct themselves with decor, saying: “Though we want joy to be unconfined, we do not want un duly loud noise or disorder to disturb Lancaster’s Sunday.” TOBACCO MARKETS READY FOR SALES Warehouses On Eastern, Middle, Old Belts Will Re-Open Today RALEIGH, Nov. 2 -After a three-day sales holiday caused by decision of the Brit ish govenrment to halt the im port of American tobacco, auc tion sales will be resumed to morrow on markets of three flue-cured tobacco belts. Prices, which dropped sharp ly after the British announce ment and then recovered some what before sales were halted last Tuesday, are expected to be near the levels which have prevailed all season. The prices will be bolstered by a govern ment tobacco buying program under which the Commodity Credit Corporation will enter the market to purchase the tobacco which has been going to British buyers. Re-opening of the flue - cured tobacco markets will be follow ed Wednesday by a hearing to be held here by the U. S. De See TOBACCO on Page Two Along The Cape Fear BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS —The early history of education in the Cape Fear valley is the story of the determination of the citizens to extend the advantages of education to the masses. The gradual develpoment of many free public school systems from a few privately controlled in stitutions extended over a period of generations. In pioneer days public opinion did not call for mass education. Residents of the lower Cape Fear region led in the campaign for popular education, and the battle extending over a period of several score of years was vic torious in uniting public opinion behind the denmands and in in augurating the free public school system. That there were some educa tional facilities along the lower Cape Fear river from the first s ctlement, may be gathered from the will of John Baptista Ashe, dated 1734, in which he directed that his sons should have a liberal education. A school was opened in Brunswick in 1745 and four years later the legislature appropriat ed funds for the purpose of es tablishing a free school. The oc currence of the Indian War caus ed the funds to be diverted to military purposes, however. ENGLAND BALKS AT AP-1 PROPRIATION—In 1754 another appropriation was made, but the second effort came to grief when the act was not approved in En gland. Frequent applications and communications with the English government on the subject dur ing the next decade came to noth ing. A Presbyterian minister, the Reverend James Tate, opened a classical school in Wilmington in 1760, and the Reverend William Bingham began his famous school here in 1785. The Rev. Dr. Hailing was the first teacher in Innes academy which was completed in 1800. The first faculty at Innes acad emy included the Rev. Mr. Lath rop, Captain Mitchell, and instruc tors Hartshorn, Lowry, Joy, Wilkes, and Burke. Shortly before the War Be tween the States there had been established in Wilmington Ma ginney’s Institute, Radcliff’s Mili tary Academy, and Jewett’s school. Girls’ schools included a high school in charge of the Rev. Mr. Blackus and a school con ducted by the Misses Burr and James. PHILADELPHIA DADDY CELEBRATES NEW SON-' IN EXPLOSIVE MANNER PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2— (#)—William Cooper “Cele brated” the birth of his sec ond child early today with a bang that literally shook the foundations of his home. He had just lighted a hot water heater in the base ment when he got a hurry up call from Jefferson hos pital. At 12:30 A. M. his wife gave birth to a boy. Three hours later, Cooper’s neighbors were startled out of their sleep by a thudding explosion. Cooper, in his excitement, had left the house forgetting to turn out the water heater —and said the pressure built up until it exploded. FIRST SHIPMENT OF GRAIN READY SS Julian Poydras To Sail Saturday With 349,000 Bushel Of Wheat PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2—(ff) —One of the first shipments of grain under President Tru man’s emergency food program will leave Philadelphia this week bound for food-starved Europe. With members of the Presiden tial Food Conservation commit tee expected to look on, workers will begin to pour 349,000 bushels of wheat into the holds of the S. S. Julian Poydras on Thurs day morning. The ship, moored at the Port See FIRST on Page Two High Tides May Have Been Caused By Peru vian Earthquake Torrential rain beat down the waves in the vicinity of Wrights ville Beach at high tide Sunday night, reducing damage from the pounding surf to a minimum, but some damage from the high water of Wrightsville sound which flooded several blocks of Lumina avenue hub deep may be reveal ed this morning. Occasionally, a big wave would wash over the beach and overflow rn the streets to join the water '• om the sound, but the piers and he cottages reached by the surf eemed to withstand the pounding without sustaining noticeable damage. Marina restaurant and several ther business establishments on Wrightsville sound were sur ounded by the rising water of the sound. Crews of men who spent Sunday afternoon securing See HEAVY on Page Two 80 GERMANS OIL IN MINE ACCIDENT AmericanControlled News paper Reports Disaster At Uranium Mine BERLIN,~Nov. 2 —Iff)— The American-controlled newspaper Neue Zeitung said today 80 Ger man workers were killed Oct. 22 in an accident in the Russian controlled Uranium mine fields in Southern Saxony. The accident occurred in a shaft about 250 feet deep, the newspaper said. This shaft near the Saxony-Czechoslovak border was so abrupt, the newspaper continued, that the workers could descend only by ladder. “Safety measures were inade quate,” the Neue Zeitung said, “and details about the accident are impossible to obtain be cause the authorities are seek ing by all measures to keep the secret.” The Russians have been re ported working the Uranium mines in the Erz mountains of Southern Saxony at top speed to advance the Soviet Union’s atomic research. The city of Aue is near the center of the so-called “forbidden area,” where this activity is said to be taking place. Bloodhound Makes Good Again As Woods Sleuth HARRISVILLE.'N. H„ Nov. 2 —(If)—Queenie did it again to day. A little less than a month ago Sheriff Arthur N. Jennison’s three-year-old bloodhound led a posse through a mile and a half I of swamps and woodlands at 'Fitzwilliam to find three-year old Louis Dunton, missing since the evening before. Today, in her second test at tracking a human, Queenie pi loted another search party to Anthony Leoni, 28 - year - old South Boston war veteran, found unharmed after a night in the freezing woods. Leoni, a patient at Aldworth Manor, a private sanitarium, dis appeared yesterday afternoon. Queenie found him in dense woods a half mile from the hos pital. Sanitorium doctors said that although recuperating from a regent brain operation, Leoni went through the experience in good condition. The Dunton baby unwittingly made Queenie a headline hound. When Queenie led Sheriff Jenni son and Trainer Jack Green up to the youngster, a camera caught him sitting naked in the underbrush an hour after mid night. Jennison said later the youngster apparently figured it was time to go to bed when dark ness fell. Labor Government Loses 683 Seats Churchill Hails Victory Iq Municipal Elections As “New Day” LONDON Nov. 2 —(fl—Jubi lant Conservatives called to* night for a general election to bring the day of “liberation’* from the labor government—as the result of a smashing labor defeat in the national election for municipal councillors be came more evident. With results from only two boroughs missing out of 392 the Conservatives had won a net gain of 617 seats in English and Welsh borough councils and the Laborites had lost 683. The importance of the Con servative victory was increased by the fact that the entire cam paign was waged on national issues which would be the basis for a parliamentary election fight. Winston Churchill said “this splendid victory of Conserva tive and Liberal minded men and women over the inept and wrong-headed forces which al ready have led us far along the road to ruin at home and abroad is the best thing that has happened t o our country since the electoral disaster of 1945. Wipes Out Mandate “The result deprives the Socialist government of any mandate it obtained at the gen eral election. Henceforth it will govern without moral support and against the will of the peo ple.” The independents are as a rule affiliated with the Conser vatives. In a statement after long study of the returns, Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phil lips admitted the results wer* ‘‘disappointing.” “But this is no political land slide,” he said. See LABOR on Page Two PERUVIAN QUAKE TAKES 42 LIVES Satioo In Andes Mountains Hardest Hit With 40 Dead, Many Injured By The Associated Press .... LIMA, Peru, Nov. 2—Official dispatches said today the little Andes mountain town of Satipo 165 miles East of Lima, was the worst sufferer in the Peruvian earthquake, with at least 40 kill ed and many injured. The deaths at Satipo brought the total from Saturday’s tre mors to 43. The shocks were severest in the isolated moun tainous region East of Lima, but were felt 650 miles North east at Iquitos and 200 miles Southeast at Ayacucho. (The Rev. Joseph J. Lynch, seismologist of Fordham Uni versity, said fairly severe earth quake shocks were recorded at 2:00.04 A. M. and 2:14:13 A. M. Sunday. He estimated the dist ance at 2,700 miles, but was unable to determine the direct ion.) . Planes Dispatched __ The Peruvian government dis patched planes with nurses, medicine and food to Satipo and other stricken areas as fresh news of the disaster filtered in to the capital. Poor communi cations with the isolated mountain area prevented offici als and newspapermen from gaining a detailed picture of the disaster. See PERUVIAN on Page Two And So To Bed Three sailors were discuss ing the weather in a restau rant last nikht and they de ciided to bet on who knew when the first hurricane was bom, One of the bellbottoms dated his storm in the catas trophe of 1935. The second sealubber went back 70 years in history to tell of a storm that his grandfather had told him. The third sailor, not to he outdone by the other two, said: “Fellows, let’s go back to the beginning of the world.” Remember Adam and Eve’s two children, Abel and Caine, The other fellows said yes, and the sailor said well they were watching over their sheep one day and had started home that night for supper. Apparently they were late and so Abel looked back and ealled, Hurry-Caine.
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