—“Mis® llKturtttttii ^tttr VOL. 81.—NO. 65._ ' WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1947. ' Milk Control Laws Lauded Public Health Association Speakers Cite Protection To Consumer CHARLOTTE, Nov. 4 —UP)— ThP control of milk for the pro jection of the health of the Le>s consuming public occupied L attention of the North Caro ' pubhc Health Association at today’s sessions of the 36th an nual convention being held here. An eight-man panel discussing ,he new milk control program which became effective Septem ber i generally agreed that the1 "minimum standards” being en forced jointly by local health de partments and the State Depart ment of Agriculture will protect lhe public from “doctored” and unsanitary milk if education and control are applied together properly on the local level. But one of the biggest prob lems, it was pointed out, is the proper control of the more than, 65,000,000 pounds of milk im- j ported into the state annually, j Dr. E. W. Constable, state | chemist with the Department of! Agriculture, said the $15,000 which the Genral Assembly ap-j preprinted for enforcing milk; regulations from the state level each year of the current bienni um "does not seem a particularly imposing coverage” when spread over the 100 counties. Small Operators C. W. Pegram, chief of the dairy division of the agriculture department, said that eight hear ings have been held since Sept. 1 with producers whose milk samples indicated watering. They were “mostly small operators,” he said. Pegram pointed to the need of “more adequate supervision of the finished milk product” — ice cream and milk drinks which he said are often kept in refrigerat ed water which in effect consti tutes a “bacteria broth.” Though the General Assembly killed the State Health depart ment’s bill to control milk state wide, Robert L. Caviness, the Doard’s sanitary engineer, told the convention “we will get what we desired in that bill See MILK On Page Two ROTARIANS HEAR CIGARETTE STORY Ralph Hanson Gives Facts, Figures On Growing Part Of Leaf Industry Consumption of cigarettes in the United States doubled dur ing the war years and a pre dicted postwar decline has not yet been noted, Ralph Hanson, representative of the Philip Morris research department from New York City, told local Rotarians at their luncheon meeting yesterday. According to Hanson, 181 bil lion cigarettes were consumed in this country in 1940, and that number had increased to 324 billion by 1945. Last year Unit ed States smokers consumed 35 lbillion cigarettes. “In that shortage year when you wid remember that there were long lines and we all stood in them to get cigarettes,’’ he said, “there were actually 30 billion more cigarettes con sumed in the United States than in the year before.” Pointing to the cigarette as the junior member of the enor mous tobacco industry in the size of unit. Hanson declared that it is junior in size of unit only having “reached a position of dominance in the tobacco family after being originated as late as 1850. Hanson traced briefly the processes of tobacco raising, harvesting and curing, bringing in both flue cured and air cured tobaccos and including also Turkish blending tobaccos, which he explained are cured m the rafters of the homes of Syrians by smoke from the cooking and household fires. Until the advent of the last war, he said the United States was dependent on a French monopoly for all cigarette paper This, he said, was overcome on the day the war started, Sep Sec ROTARIANS on Page Two The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina and North Carolina — Increasing cloudiness and mild Wednes n ■ night. Scattered showers Wednes night beginning in Western section ‘Wednesday afternoon. Thursday c.earing and slightly cooler. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES „ I‘30 a. m. 58. 7:30 a. m. 54; 1:30 P- m. '"MO p. m. 63; Maximum 71; Mini murn 53; Mean 62; Normal 60. PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p m. 5 inches. Total since the first of the month ^ 1 * 0 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY Tro mthe Tide Tables published by S Coast and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW WHmington _% 2:33 a.m. 9:51a.m. 3:17 p m. 10:42 p.m. Masonboro Inlet _ 12:34 a.m. 6:40 a.m. 1:07 p.m. 7:36 p.m. Sunrise 6:36; Sunset 5:16; Moonrise ‘]-22P: Moonset l:27p. Hiver stage at Fayetteville, N. C , at 8 6 m. Tuesday 18.7 feet. Here WEATHER On Page Iwi ORCHESTRA LEADER Eddy Duchin smiles at his son, Peter Oelrichs Duchin, 10, kisses his new stepmother, the former Mrs. Maria Teresa Winn. The pianist and Mrs. Winn were married at the New York home of Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Har riman. Peter’s mother died in 1937. Bride is daughter of a former British diplomat. (International,) Sales Tax To Stay Johnson Predicts WHAT? NO BULLETS HARLAN, Ky., Nov. 4—(VP)— Election day in Harlan coun ty was once an occasion for shooting and violence. The only rumpus reported today, however, was caused by a goat that bucked two women and a child, blocked the door of the polling place in Tway precinct and held up voting for two hours until a deputy sheriff corailed him and re stored order. TEXTILE WORKERS READY TO STRIKE Three Thousand At Greens boro Will Heed Call For Thursday GREENSBORO, Nov. 4—UP)— Six local unions representing approximately 3,000 workers at Cone mills here and in Haw river, Gibsonville and Reids ville have voted unanimously to follow strike orders Thursday. The declaration was made here late today by Bruno Rantane of Textile Workers Union of Amer ica (C.I.O.). “Any strike at the Cone mills will be called not only on the question of wages,” a union spokesman added, “but will al so involve renewal of contract.” Once called, the strike would not be ended here without agreement as to contract as well as on T.W.U.A.’s demand for an hourly wage increase of 15 cents, Rantane, manager of Greensboro — Burlington joint board of T.W.U.A., stated. The industry crisis developed following a meeting in Danville Sunday, at which C. I. O Textile Union officials voted to strick Thursday if demands for the 15 cents hourly increase had not 'then been met. ASHEVILLE WETS SCORE VICTORY I ABC Forces Carry 19 Of City’s 24 Precincts; Outstanding Vote ASHEVILLE, Nov. 4. — W— The City of Asheville today voted in favor of the establish ment of legal whisky stores, complete but unofficial returns early tonight showed. Unofficial returns from all of the city’s 24 precincts gave 8, 852 votes for and 6,143 votes against the stores, a majority of 2,709 for the ABC proponents. Election officials reported it was the largest vote cast in the city’s history. ABC forces car red 19 of the city’s 24 precincts. Asheville was the fifth West ern North Carolina area to vote on the ABC issue during the past six months. Rowan and Al leghany counties and the city of Hickory voted dry but Meck lenburg county favored the stores. In the last referendum of the question held in 1939, voters of the city favored the stores but their vote was nullified by a heavy dry vote in rural areas of Buncombe county. The vote today was restricted to the city itself. Gubernatorial Candidate Promise To Pr o m o t e Ports Of State NO Charles M. Johnson, candi ate for governor in the 1 9 4 8; Democratic primary and cur-' rently State treasurer, promised to “do all in my power” to help promote development of the Wilmington port and stated his opinion that the State sales tax “will never be repealed in North Carolina”. Addressing the Junior Cham ber of Commerce at its dinner session at the Friendly, last night Johnson brought in his promise to promote port devel opment at the close of his gen eral discussion of the State gov ernment and State finances. “I think the one thing that could do more for North Caro lina today is a port system in Wilmington and Morehead City,” he said. “This is not just a Wilmington proposal as it has got out all over the State, but is for the whole State. I intend to do all I can to see that it is carried forward. It could not help Wilmington if it did not help the whole state.” See SALES On Page Two HIGH1X PMDREDS TO GO ON STAND Thomas Promises Holly wood Communists Will Be Questioned Shortly WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 —Ml— “High salaried Communists and fellow travelers from Holly wood” will be subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un American Activities when it re sumes its movie investigation “in a few weeks,” Chairman Thomas (R-NJ) announced to night. Recently completed hearings held here, Thomas said in an address prepared for an ABC network, were “only the begin ning.” “We are exposing Com munism in Hollywood,” he said. “They would like to think that this is the end of this hearing and this investigation. their activities are going to be exposed and they are going to be exposed for what they are.” Thomas accused “the Com munists, their dupes and the high paid apologists of certain interests in Hollywood” of seek ing to discredit the committee by attributing to it a desire to censor he films. NEGRO NEGUGENT JURORS DECLARE Truck Driver To Face Man slaughter Charge In Highway Death A coroner’s jury in the New Hanover Superior court room Tuesday night found that Joseph Mathis, Jr., came to his death as a result of driving his automo bile into the rear of a truck driv en by Pleas Alexander, Negro, and stalled on highway 17 some six miles north of Wilmington early Sunday morning, Nov. 2, and found Alexander guilty of See NEGRO On Page Two Hat-Loving Harry Hep To Higher Heraldries BY ARTHUR EDSON Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. - Yes, sir, Harry Truman has come quite a way since he was known as the lad who could plow one of the straightest fur rows in Jackson county, Mo. For instance, he’s not hep to heraldry. And that takes consi derable hepping. An executive order, setting up a seal for the Department of the Air Force, just flew in. It says, among other things: “Shield: per fess nebuly Etbased azure and argent, in chief a thunderbolt or inflamed proper. “Crest: On a wreath argent and azure an American bald eagle, wings displayed and par tially elevated proper in front of a cloud argent.” This was signed, “Harry S. Truman.” Well, it turns out this isn’t really doubletalk at all. People interested in heraldry talk like that, all the time. Hughes Plane Orphan Child Huge Flying Boat May Go To Surplus As Services Don’t Want It WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 Howard Hughes’ $25,000,000 wooden flying boat, target of a Senate war contract investiga tion which resumes here tomor row, may have to be sold as government surplus because the Army, Navy and Air Forces ap parently do not want the huge ship, it was disclosed tonight. A spokesman for the Recon struction Finance Corporation, which spent $18,000,000 on the experimental, eight - engine flying boat and holds title to it, said that none of the armed services has shown any interest in taking it off RFC’s hands. Unless they come forward with an offer by the time tests have been completed on the plane, the spokesman said, it probably will have to be turned over to the War Assets Admin istration and disposed of as sur plus property. Hughes, millionaire movie producer and plane-builder | demonstrated Sunday that the 200-ton plane could fly, but the military services had no official observers on hand for the tests and they indicated that as far as they were concerned RFC could keep it. Navy Department spokesmen said they have “no professional interest” in the Hughes plane. Keeping Tabs The Air Forces said they had never had any connection with the flying boat contract and had opposed it from the beginning. They said they were interested in the tests only to the extent that they keep tabs on all air craft developments. Hughes originally went into the project with industrialist Henry K. Kaiser with the an nounced intention of mass-pro ducing plywood flying boats as cargo or troop carriers. Kaiser withdrew later, however, when the government cut back the or der to a single experimental plane. Hughes testified at the initial Senate hearings last summer that he never had guaranteed that the plane would fly. Hughes, who claims he poured $7,000,000 of his own money into the design and con struction of the aerial boat, has been recalled to Washington for the second round of the Senate inquiry into his wartime air plane contracts. Chairman Homer Ferguson, See HUGHES on Page Two VA GROUP MOVES TO SOUTHPORT Inspection Board Views Three Sites Here For 1,000 Bed Hospital Having seen three more pos sible sites in Wilmington for the proposed 1,000 bed neuropsychi atric hospital, the Veterans Ad ministration’s inspection board moved on to Southport at lunch time yesterday, where they in spected government property at Fort Caswell and other possible sites. The four Va representatives saw a total of six sites in and around Wilmington. They had the cooperation while here of a Wilmington hospital committee composed of Chamber of Com merce Secretary John Farrell; City Manager James Benson; County Commissioners Chairman Addison Hewlett; City Engineer M. Von Oesen; Commander Charles Foard and Larry Sch neider of the American Legion; VFW Commander Ken Noble; realtor Hugh Morton; Star - News Publisher R. B. P a g e See VA GROUPS on Page Two Truman Will Get Marshall Plan In Detail By Friday; Democrats Take Kentucky Stennis Has Lead For Bilbo Mantle Republicans Reelect Phila delphia Mayor: Labor Loses Seats BULLETIN ....JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 4. — (U.R) — Circuit Judge John C. Stennis, the most conservative candidate in a field of five Demo crats, was apparently winning the late Sen. Theodore G. Bil bo’s place in the Senate tonight and Rep. John E. Rankin was running fifth. By The Associated Press Circuit Judge John C. Stennis, who soft pedalled the race issue in his campaign, pulled into a narrow lead yesterday for the Senate seat of the late Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi. And in the Border state of Kentucky, the Democrat trying for the Republican-occupied governor’s chair pushed ahead in early returns. The Mississippi Senate and Kentucky gubernatorial races rated top national interest in scattered off-year elections. In New York, a smattering of early returns gave the expected support for a $400,000,000 bonus for veterans. And in New York City, first tabulations raised an 8 to 5 edge against keeping the present method of choosing city councilmen. Rain held down the balloting in some parts of the East and Northeast. With the help of votes from ms home county, Judge SteAnis led I five other candidates in the bat j tie for the Bilbo Senate seat. Trailing him were U. S. Rep resentative William M. Colmer, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., Forrest Jackson, U S. Representative John E. Rankin, and the only Republican, L. R. Collins. Clements Takes Lead The Kentucky gubernatorial scrap saw U. S. Rep. Earle C. Clements, shove into an early lead over Republican Eldon S. Dummit. The present Republican governor, Simeon, S. Willis, is ineligible for a second term in a row. Clements increased his mar gin as the returns came in from Jefferson county (Louisville), which the GOP had claimed in advance. And he even led Dum mif in the latter’s own county, Fayette. . Kentucky’s Republican Nation al Committeeman Jouett Ross See STENNIS on Page Two GROWERSMSCUSS 1948 CROP TODAY Flue-Cured Acreage SiZe Cut Will Be Main Meet ing Topic RALEIGH, Nov. 4. UP>—'Tobac* co growers, confronted with a drastic reduction in their foreign markets, will assemble here tomorrow to present their views on how much flue-cured tobacco they should raise next year. The public hearing was call ed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to study the ques tion of tobacco acreage quotas for next year, and will be at tended by farm organization leaders, representatives of to bacco warehousemen, and state and federal agricultural officials in addition to the growers. Along The Cape Fear DR. ALVIN WILEY — During the decade of 1850 to I860, edu cational developments in Wil mington centered around the ac tivity and character of one man, Dr. Calvin H. Wiley. He inaugu rated many needed reforms and made provisions for preparing teachers for their work and giv ing them some guarantee of se curity. The culmination of his efforts was the emergence of a new school system which gave some promise of stability and ac complishment. In addition to the Wilmington schools at that time, New Han over county boasted such schools as New Hanover Academy found ed in 1833, Rock Fish academy, 1834, Black Creek Female insti tution, 1846, and Topsail, Union, and Rocky Point schools at Rocky Point. A free school was opened in the old Union school house on South Sixth street between Nun and Church streets during the winter of 1865-66, supported by the Soldiers’ Memorial society, of Boston Under the auspices of the American Unitarian association and the Soldiers’ Memorial so ciety, Miss Amy M. Bradley came to Wilmington in December of 1866. On January 9, 1867, she em barked in the Union school house upon educational work which was within a few years to develop into the Tileston normal school. After the Civil war George W. Jewett re-opened his school in Wilmington again, and a classical school was opened here by Ham ilton McMillan in 1866. An aggressive opposition to the promotion of public schools de veloped during the decade. Op position became so determined that in Raleigh a law was passed forbidding the teaching of high school subjects in public schools. In spite of this opposition Ra leigh academy eventually gave way to a public high school and the principal of the academy ac tually became the principal of the high school. Soon after the schools were set up in the Hemenway and Union school buildings in Wilmington, high school subjects were added to enrich the course of study as the idea of a public high school education found favor with the superintendent of schools. THE ONLY WOMAN “SPELUNKER” in Pittsburgh is at tractive Mrs. Norma Lee Fisher who is getting a bit of hat-fitting aid from her two-year-old son, Freddy. Her husband is Robert Fisher, head of the recently organized Grotto of the Speleological Society, which majors in cave hunting and exploring. The chapeau she is trying on is fashioned for a forthcoming expedition of the group. (International Soundphoto) Laymen Start Move To Unite Classes SOME WOMAN DES MOINES, Nov. 4—OT —A woman who police said admitted shoplifting such ar ticles as a ..wardrobe., trunk, combination radio-phonograph, delicate dishware and wear ing apparel was charged with larceny today. Dective Chief Paul Cast elline said Ann B. Baity, 27, five and a half feet tall and weighing 126 pounds, signed a statement telling ..how., she carried the radio-phonograph, and later the trunk, down., a flight of stairs, out of the store and then hailing a cab. CHEST CAMPAIGN . DRIVE UNDERWAY Leaders Address Final Kickoff Group Meeting; $119,996 Needed The Red Feather campaign of the 1947 Community Chest to solicit $119,996 before November 18, officially began yesterday after the joint kickoff meeting of the Residential and County and the Men’s Downtown divisions. The three divisions completed the 10 meetings of the pre-cam paign which were held separate ly because of the size of the campaign. The Rev. Walter B. Freed, pastor of St. Paul’s Luthern church, addressed the members of the Women’s Residential and County division joint kick off meeting at 11 o’clock yesterday mrning in. the Luthern church. Their goal was $6,000 and $3, 000 respectively. Charles M. Harrington, gen eral campaign chairman, gave the members a brief resume of the Community Chest work. Chairmans Mrs. Berenece Stell ing and Mrs. Harry M. Wellott presided. Marks Speaks H. A. Marks, chest president, spoke to the Men’s division members yesterday in the Tide Water assembly hall. Marks was introduced by chairman Gardner Greer and their goal is $6,000. Harrington stressed the im portance of closing the cam paign on time this year and add ed that the past two campaigns, although successful, did not close on the scheduled date. “Because of the needs of vari ous organizations affiliated with the Community Chest, we must go over the goal and we plead for help and increases from the people who gave money last year,” Harrington said. He added that unless the busi nessmen contribute freely, that it will be necessary to call on See CHEST On Page Two Spot Has Taken His Last Engine Ride-He Missed BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 4 -Spot, a little five-year-old mongrel, has ridden^his last switch engine. The shaggy dog was owned by the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., but he belonged to everybody. His main delight was in rid ing switch engines on the for ward foot-board at terminal station here. Few railroad men passed through here without getting to know him. Yesterday, Spot was dashing I Federation Of Men’s Bible Study Groups May Be Launched Here A meeting of Christian laymen, for the purpose of organizing a Federation of Men’s Bible classes, will be held here in the First Baptist church, November 23, ac cording to an announcement last night by Otto Pridgen, associate teacher of Dr. Smith’s class. The Federation of Mens’ Bible classes, Pridgen said is a national interdenominational organization of Christian men. “The plan and purpose of the organization,” Pridgen said, “is to create and promote mutual understanding, good will, Christ ian friendship and fellowship be tween men of our established , churches, assisting each other in proving ways and means for en couraging and enlarging the teaching and studying of the Holy Bible.” Monthly Meetings Pridgen said that the program would include “monthly meet ings which have proven in other cities to be great instrumentali ties for community worship and Christian brotherhood.” He stressed the fact that “this is strictly a layman’s movement and we are looking forward to the whole-hearted cooperation of Men’s Bible classes throughont the city.” See LAYMEN on Page Two U.S. CITIES OFFER A-BOMB TAR !TS Census Bureau Warns Of Vulnerableness Of Metro politan Areas WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 —l/FI— The United States is increasing ly vulnerable to atomic bomb warfare because of the growing concentration of its population into large cities, the Census Bu reau warned tonight. Assessing the danger to tne 40 per cent or more of the na tion’s population which is clus tered around 140 cities of over 100,000, the bureau said: “The physical structure of such cities is, with few excep tions, ideal for destructions by A-bombs.” The bureau’s comments were made in a 60-page analysis of the growth of metropolitan areas from 1900 to 1940.—The trend toward concentration of population appears to be con tinuing, the bureau said, on the basis of a sample census sur vey last April. One observation on which the bureau laid stress was that the native white population in large cities “is not reproducing it self,” hence failing to do its part in maintaining the size of the population. about the yards as he has done for several years. A switch en gine lumbered toward him and Spot jumped for his perch on the footboard. But this time he missed and the engine passed over his body. A veterinarian built a special casket and today Spot lay in state in the Sloss-Sheffield lab oratory. Five floral wreaths were placed on the casket. Spot will be buried tomorrow in a grave near the main Sloss office building, $6,000,000,000 First Year Goal Broad Outlines Of Euro* pean Aid Program Al ready Achieved WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. —