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VOL. NO. 81—NO. 66. _____ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947 --RSTARTTSHRn ir«, '
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Farmer Will
Remain Busy
Secretary Anderson Sees
Four Full Years Of
Activity Ahead
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — UP)}
— The Marshall plan to help Eu-!
rope means full steam ahead fo”
the American farmer for four
vears.
That’s the way it looks to Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson.
He boils it down this way:
1. At least four more years of
full use of the nation’s agricul
tural “plant.”
2. Continued strain on our
grain producing areas and furth
er delay in needed shifts from
grain to grassland and Mvestock
type of agriculture.
3. At the end of the period, a
self-supporting European market
for American food products con
siderably larger than could other
wise be expected.
These results Anderson pre
dicated on funds being supplied
to finance foreign aid at the re
quested level under the Marshall
plan for economic recovery in
Western Europe. His views were
given in a speech prepared for
a dinner of agricultural officials
attending a department confer
ence.
Other Headlines
Food and grain also made these
headlines:
1. Heads of the three big grain
exchanges, at Chicago, Kansas
City, and Minneapolis, asked
Congress leaders in a letter to
investigate grain trading and the
grain situation in general. They
criticized the government grain
buying program.
At Tulsa, Okla., Senator Taft
(R.-Ohio) said that everything
the exchanges’ letter covered had j
been under investigation but that'
he will promise “further hear-j
ings” by the joint committee'
which he heads.
Chairman Wolcott (R.-Mich.)
of the House Banking committee
told reporters he does not “an
ticipate at this time” any such
inquiry by the House group.
“Any investigation of the grain
exchanges,” he said, “would be
incidental to consideration of any
program the President outlines
to Congress having to do with
prices or credits.”
Wolcott is vice chairman of
the joint committee on the eco
nomic report but he made it
clear he was discussing only the
program of his house committee.
Mass Campaign
2. The Citizens Food commit
tee. created to persuade Ameri
cans to save 100,000,000 bushels
of grain to help Europe, announc
ed a “mass promotion” campaign
to show people why they “must
help feed the hungry” and how to
do so. Its program is planned to
See FARMER On Page Two
ERWIN INTERESTS
SIGN WITH UNION
Durham Cotton Mills Agree
To Nine Per Cent Wage
Increase Now
CHARLOTTE, Nov. 5.—(*) —
The Erwin Cotton Mills and the.
Textile Workers Union of Ameri
ca (CIO) reached agreement on
a nine per cent wage increase to
day, following a pattern set last
night by the Big Dan River Cot
ton Mills in Virginia and leaving
only two textile chains still in
negotiation with the union.
R. Roy Lawrence, Southern
TWUA director, said here that
negotiations were continuing
with Cone Mills in Greensboro on
the subject of wages and contract
renewal, and with the Lowenstein
interests in Rockingham, Rock
Hill, S. C., and Huntsville, Ala.,
on the subject of wages only.
The Erwin Cotton Mills, with
headquarters in Durham, and the
union announced agreement on a
wage increase of nine per cent
for the company’s 5,000 employes
effective next Monday. The a
greement followed last night’s
announcement by the TWUA and
the Dan River Cotton Mills of
Danville, Va., of the same wage
increase terms for some 11,000
employes.
Lawrence said that a strike
deadline set for tomorrow was
See ERWIN on Page Two
The Weather
FORECAST:
South and North Carolina—Fair and
''uid Thursday and Friday, not so cool
Thursday night, Friday increasing
' * o'-id 1 ness and scattered light showers
West portion followed by cooler West
Portion Friday night.
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1:3ft a. m. 56; 7:30 a- m. 54; 1:30 P-.m
7:30 p. m. 66; Maximum 69; Mini
H'l'um 53. Mean 61; Normal 59.
HUMIDITY
. 1:30 a. m. t6; 7:30 a. m. 88; 1:30 p. m.
,0; 7:30 p. xr. 90.
PRECIPITATION
Total for tha 24 ..ours ending 7:30 p*
^ 0 inches.
Total since the first of the month
’G inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
./from the Tide Tables published by
s- Coast and Geodetic Survey).
... HIGH LOW
"’imington __ _ 3:39 a m. 10:57 a.m.
4:21 p.m. 11:40 p.m.
•Masonboro Inlet - 1:44 a.m. 7:51 a.m.
2 :12 p.m. 8 :41 p.m.
Sunrise 6:36; Sunset 5:15: Moonrise
Moon.set 2:06p. J „
‘ lVer stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8
m Wednesday. Report Missing.
HEATHER Oa F»f« Tw«
Byrnes Says Russia
Violating Pledges
Former Secretary Of State Tells Bishops
Japanese Still Prisoners Despite Solemn
Covenant Of Potsdam Declaration
WINSTON-SALEM, Nov. 5. _
W— Charging that Russia h^
violated “a solemn pledge,” Jp^jj^
F. Byrnes said tonight it^^.3
duty to demand that
Stalin “immediately ^
estimated 828,000 Jp r &
ers.
“Our good fa. zed,”
declared the form,. ^P'.cary of
state, because we toe che initia
tive in the Potsdam Declaration
that promised Japanese troops a
safe return home to encourage
them to surrender.
Russia adhered to this and is
bound by the pledge, but instead
of letting these prisoners of war
go home, they took hundreds of
thousands of them to Russia x x
x. Every day the Soviets hold
them as prisoners, it is an in
f\ "usable violation of a solemn
^e>” asserted Byrnes.
Not Condoned
must let the world know
S- this violation x x x is not
jndoned by the United States,”
he counseled in a speech prepar
ed for the House of Bishops of
the Protestant Episcopal church.
Under the Geneva convention,
governments should return pris
oners as soon as possible after
the fighting. But even now ‘‘the
ugly truth is that prisoners of
war are being held in Allied
countries in order to force them
to work,” Byrnes said.
France, Britain and Belgium
are moving to get their German
prisoners home, Byrnes said, but
See BYRNES On Page Two
Leaf Interests Unable
To Agree On Acreage Cut
SOME HUNTERS!
POPULAR BLUFF, Mo.,
Nov. 5—W—Capt. Dale Kirk
and Ralph Tuepker opened
the duck hunting season yes
terday under .difficulties.
After building a blind and
getting ready for the migra
tory waterfowl, they discover
ed:
Capt. Kirk had forgotten his
shotgun shells.
Tuepker had forgotten his
shotgun.
NAL FLIGHT FIFTY
DUE HERE TODAY
Company Resumes Four
Plane Daily Schedule To
North, South
National Airlines will resume
flights 50 and 51 at Bluethen
;hal airport today, James L.
Holomon, Wilmington manager
for National, announced last
aight.
Cancellation of the flights late
in July due to lack of Douglas
DC-4 transport planes after Na
tional lost the services of a
plane damaged by fire in Miami
caused a tempest in a teapot
here when some local officials
assumed that air service to Wil
mington had been permanently
reduced.
The resumption of flights 50
and 51 together with the contin
uation of flights 60 and 61 by
National will give Wilmington
four flights daily out of Blue
thenthal airport, two headed
north and two south.
New Schedules .
Flight 50 will leave Wilming
ton at 12:49 north to Norfolk at
1:58 p. m. arriving in Philadel
phia at 3:28 p.m. and in Newark
N.J., at 4:12 p.m.
See NAL On Page Two
COMMON OKAYS
BURMA FREEDOM
Government Bill Granting
Independence Carries;
Churchill Warns
LONDON, Nov. 5 — Ufl— The
House of Commons tonght ap
proved a government bill grant
ing independence to Burma de
spite a statement by Winston
Churchill that Burma, like India,
would be plunged into a “blood
welter” as soon as she is free
from British ties.
The vote on the decisive sec
ond reading was 288 to 114.
Three members of Churchill’s
Conservative party joined the
government in support of the
measure and a substantial num
ber of others abstained from
voting.
In his speech Churchill
declared he would be sorry to
bear what he said would be
Prime Minister Attlee’s respon
sibility for strife in Burma. He
repeated passages from a previ
ous address in which he said
the “British Empire seems to
be running off almost as fast
as the American loan.”_
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Four Hundred Growers,
Warehousemen Discuss
1948 Crop Quotas
RALEIGH, Nov. 5. — (IP) —
Speakers at a public hearing
here today were unanimous that
because of the loss in foreign
markets next year’s flue-cured
tobacco crop should be reduced,
but they disagreed as to how
large a cut should be made.
Some 400 persons, represent
ing growers, warehousemen, farm
organizations and state and fed
eral officials attended the hear
ing which was called by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture to
study tobacco acreage allotments
for next year.
Four of the speakers asked for
a 30 per cent cut in the crop
next year, five favored a 20 per
cent cut, one wanted not more
than 25 per cent, and one wanted
a cut between 20 and 30 per cent.
Charles Gage, director of the
tobacco branch of the Produc
tion and Marketing Administra
tion of the federal Agriculture
Department said that the 1948
acreage allotments would be an
nounced as soon as possible.
Gage was faintly optimistic
about the tobacco export situa
tion, saying “we have many un
certainties that suggest a con
siderable degree of caution, but
we think there is hope for im
provement in foreign conditions
over the next year.”
The 1947 quotas were set in ac
See LEAF on Page Two
PRICES IMPROVE
ON LEAF MARKETS
Most Cutters, Orange
Smoking Bring $1 Per
Hundred More Today
By The Associated Press
Generally improved prices
were reported on flue-cured to
bacco markets yesterday by the
State and Federal Departments
of Agriculture.
Leaf grades, which had shown
consistent declines since the mar
kets reopened Monday after a
sales holiday, moved up $1 to $2
per hundred pounds on the East
ern Belt. Most cutters and orange
smoking leaf were up $1, and
nondescript advanced $1.25 to
$4.25. Lemon smoking leaf and
lugs were down $1 to $2.
The quality of offerings was
lower than on Tuesday, but “still
held very good considering the
length of the season.” Sales were
lighter and most markets com
pleted auctions by noon. Sales
Tuesday totaled 7,860,014 pounds
at an average of $45.29, a drop
of $1.44 from Monday.
Cutters Unchanged
Leaf, smoking leaf and lugs,
which lost ground Tuesday, were
the leading gainers on the Mid
dle Belt. Most of these grades
were up $1 to $3 and common
$4. Most nondescript grades
orange smoking leaf advanced
were off $1.50 to $3. Cutters
were unchanged.
Although prices were irregular
on Old Belt markets, there were
more gains than losses. Gains
were from $1 to $3 mostly, but
See PRICES On Page Two
Treasure Troving Try
Takes Time, Tedium Too
BY ARTHUR EDSON
Associated Press Statf Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. —
It’s getting so a-body can’t do
buried treasure — without giv
the simplest thing—like go hunt
ing the government a cut of the
booty.
Let us assume that the price
of eggs is going up.
Let us assume ditto for milK.
Let us assume ditto for rent.
Let us assume you could use
more money.
Okay. What is more natural
than finding buried treasure, a
fine, old American custom, to
augment the family income?
At the indirect request of my
milkman, who has been drop
ping certain threats along with
his bill, I have just completed
a study of the buried treasure
situation.
Lovers of buried treasure, the
facts are discouraging.
You see, the best place to look
for buried treasure is on govern
See TREASURE on Page Two
Senator Claims Hughes, Company
Owe $5,919,921 More Income Tax;
Dewey Endorses Marshall Program
Governor Fires
Salvo At Russia
New Yorker Claims Mos
cow Now Counting On
U. S. Failures
NEW YORK, Nov. 5—W—Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey declared to
night “we have only one choice
on the European aid question
“and that is wisely to aid those
who stand with us in the world
in the hope that they will rise
again as bulwarks of the insti
tution of human freedom.”
In his first public pronounce
ment on the Marshall plan, the
titular Republican party leader
and prominent possibility for the
1948 G. O. P. Presidential nomi
nation gave full endorsement to
an aid-to-Europe program, as
serting “we have no choice.”
But, interspersing his prepared
speech with sharp criticism of the
Roosevelt and Truman admin
istrations on foreign as well as
domestic affairs, Dewey empha
sized he believed reconstruction
aid should be advanced “for busi
ness purposes” and administered
on a business-like basis.
“It is time,” he said, “we got
business men into a business
iob.”
Banquet Speech
He underlined this principle
by delivering the talk before the
30th annual banquet of Forbes
Magazine, held at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel to honor 50 men
selected as the nation’s foremost
business leaders.
The governor also aimed many
salvos at the Russians, charging
they “are counting confidently
on our failure” and “they believe
that their great allies, misery
and starvation, will bring Com
munist revolutions the world
over.
Picturing the alternative to a
successful American aid pro
gram for Europe, he said:
“If, as a mere 140 million peo
ple, we found ourselves in the
midst of a conquered world, from
France to China, we should find
more than a billion people in an
armed camp under the control
of an aggressive dictatorship ar
rayed against us.
Dollar Germs
“In terms of dollars, such a
condition would cost us in na
tional defense alone a great deal
more than any program of aid
to Europe and it would cost us
that annually for years to come.
“In terms of living standards,
we should sink to a level not
seen by any living person in this
country. In terms of our liber
ties, I find it difficult to see how
we could avoid a degree of eco
nomic control which would cut
the very heart out of our
system.”
SUPERINTENDENT
DENIES CHARGES
Sanatorium Official Says
Accuations By Escapee
Are False
SANATORIUM, Nov. 5—<£>)—
Superintendent R. A. Jones of the
prison ward of the North Carolina
Tuberculosis Sanatorium here to
day branded as absolutely false
the accusations of a recaptured
escapee that the prison was fil
thy, the service “no good” and
that inmates could buy whiskey
and narcotics.
Odell Holder, 34, of Greens
See “Superintendent” on Page 2
Navy May Close Testing Range
At Camp Davis In Near Future
Shortage Of Funds Causes Department To Seriously Consider
Curtailment Of Guided Missile Experiments Including
“Ram Jet Flying Stovepip e” At Former Army Base
By FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
Morning Star Washington
Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. —
Because of a shortage of
funds, the Navy is consider
ing closing its East coast
testing range at Camp Davis,
near Wilmington, where it is
testing guided missiles such
as the “ram-jet flying stove
pipe.”
The ordnance bureau is
making a survey of “areas
in which economies can be
effected with the least harm
to the nation and the navy,”
the navy said late today in
response to a query.
As guided missiles have
been hailed as the weapons
of the future, it is unlikely
that the navy will reduce
its research in that field any
more than absolutely neces
sary.
The tests now being con
ducted on both the East and
West coasts, could be consoli
dated, a navy spokesman
said.
The final decision about the
future of Camp Davis will be
made by the secretary of the
navy on recommendations
from the ordnance bureau,
which supervises research, he
stated.
The East coast testing range
was placed at Camp Davis
because the Army’s former
anti-aircraft artillery base
afforded plenty of room for
firing the new missiles out
to sea without danger to lives
and property.
The navy has been operat
ing the guided missiles base at
Camp Davis since June of
1946. No announcement , of
any decision to move the
base reached him, Lt. Ben
Baxley, commander of the
base, said tonight.
The base has operated with
a comparatively small Navy
personnel, most of the men
employed in the guided mis
siles research being civilian
technicians, Baxley said.
BISHOPS TO STUDY
PHILIPPINE CASE
Petition Presented To Pro
testant Episcopal Church
Of America
WINSTON-SAI.EM, Nov. 5 —
(iP)— The Philippine Independent
church’s request for a limited
union with the Protestant Epis
copal Church of America was re
ferred today to a committee for
study and a report back Friday
to the Episcopal church’s House
of Bishops, meeting here at St.
Paul’s Episcopal church.
The petition from the Philip
pine church was presented by the
Right Rev. Norman S. Binsted
of Manila, Bishop of the Philip
pines, and asked to use the pray
er book of the American Episco
pal church; have their applicants
for the American church,
the ministry trained by the
American Episcopalians and con
See BISHOPS On Page Two
FRANKLIN COUNTY
DRYS LOSE CASE
State Supreme Court Re
fuses To Order Closing
Of ABC Stores
RALEIGH, Nov. 5—(/P)—Frank
lin county dry forces lost in the
State Supreme Court today their
attempt to have ABC liquor
stores at Louisburg and Franklin
ton closed as public nuisances.
The Supreme Court, in an
opinion written by Chief Justice
Walter P. Stacy, upheld the ac
tion of Superior Court Judge Q.
K. Nimocks in dismissing peti
tions of the drys for court orders
to close the stores.
The drys asserted that acts
passed by the General Assembly
authorizing elections at Louis
burg and Franklinton on the
opening of city-operated liquor
stores were unconstitutional and
they sought to have the storer,
padlocked as public nuisances.
Stacy said that the court was
not deciding on the constitutional
question because “the courts will
not determine a constitutional
question, even when properly
presented, if there be also pres
ent some other ground upon
See FRANKLIN On Page Two
Along The Cape Fear
FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC
SCHOOLS—The story of the
naming of the Hemenway school
and some of the early history of
Tijeston school as recollected by
C. C. Chadbourn, already has
been recounted in this column.
The first change of sentiment in
New Hanover to favor free edu
cation was reported in the decade
of 1870 to 1880. Prior to that time
local historians record that per
sons usually designated as the
“socially prominent” and “well
to do” entirely ignored and dis
regarded the free public schools.
Prior to that time the free pub
lic school was associated with an
attitude of public reproach. In
sharp contrast the “pay school”
was considered to bear with it a
mark of personal distinction.
M. C. S. Noble was elected
during the summer of 1882 to the
responsible position of superin
tendent of the Wilmington public
schools. This year marked the be
ginning of an effective school or
ganization in the city under a
responsible executive head.
Before the election of Noble as
city school superintendent, the
city schools had been under the
control of the county superm
tendent who administered both
white and colored schools.
In the first district of the city
that year Donald McRae was
chairman of the school commit
tee which included William M.
Parker and Joseph E. Sampson.
James H. Chadbourn was chair
man of the second district with
Walker Meares and John G. Nor
wood on his committee.
Four years later the superin
tendent’s report shows a provi
sion for only six grades, and no
reference at all is made to a
high school in Wilmington in
1886. The advanced schooling
was still being taken care of by
private schools.
But in this decade the idea of
including high school subjects in
the public school curriculum
gradually began to take shape
and the Wilmington school pro
gressed toward a complete high
school currirulum in the public
free school system although at
Raleigh and elsewhere in the
state there was considerable op
position to the high school being
included in public school sys
tems.
DIVIDE CRUTCHES
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Nov. 5
—UP)—Jerry Casey, 31, and
his wife, Jean, divided a pair
of crutches today and observ
ed it had been a tough week
on their feet.
Monday Mrs. Casey shot off
the middle toe on her left foot
while wrestling with a jam
med rifle.
Tuesday Casey suffered
three broken toes on his right
foot in a power plant acci
dent.
NEW SHRIMP NET
WILL SAVE FISH
Morehead City Men Apply
For Patent On Device;
Tests Prove Worth
MOREHEAD CITY, Nov. 5—UP)
—Two Morehead City men have
applied for a patent on a shrimp
net that, according to tests by a
federal fish expert, may save
billions of game and food fish on
the South Atlantic and Gulf
coasts.
The net allows immature fish
to escape while retaining shrimp,
in the ordinary shrimp net, says
Dr. H. F. Prytherch, aquatic
biologist of the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife station here, “immature
fish are crushed to death as they
are hauled aboard.”
Prytherch said he had tested
the invention of Louis Guthrie
See SHRIMP on Page Two
PRESIDENT GREEN
1 FILS HIS OATH
AFL Leader Certifies Non
Communist Leanings
Under Labor Law
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 —W)—
AFL President William Green
today took the oath that he is
not a Communist and thus be
came the 19,307th union official
to file such an affidavit with the
National Labor Relations Board.
-Although the deadline was
Friday for submitting this docu
ment in accordance with the
Taft-Hartley law, Green was
granted an extension by the
NLRB. George Meany, AFL
secretary-treasurer, filed his pa
pers Friday and at that time
notified NLRB officials Green
was out of town and would turn
in his affidavit today.
CIO President Philip Murray
has refused to sign the affidavid
so his ClO-Steelworkers cannot
make use of the board’s serv
ices.
The NLRB disclosed that 19,
306 affidavits were received fcy
Friday’s deadline. These repre
sented 66 AFL unions, 14 CIO
and 30 unaffiliated unions._
METHODISTS OPEN
1947 CONFERENCE
Over 600 Ministers, Lay
Men Register For Eliza
beth City Meeting
ELIZABETH CITY Nov 5—(#)
—The annual North Carolina
conference of the, Methodist
church got underway here to
night with Bishop W. W. Peele
conducting the solemn rites of
Holy Communion.
The Bishop was assisted in the
service by district superinten
dents of the conference.
The vanguard of approximate
ly 600 ministers and lay dele
gates to the conference began
arriving early today for the ses
sions which will last until Sun
day when Bishop Peele reads
the list of appointments for min
isters.
A number of boards, commit
tees and commissions of the
conference held their prelimi
See METHODISTS On Page Twc
NEGRO SENTENCED
TOP SONTE M
James Robinson Gets 12 Tc
15 Years On Manslaugh
ter Guilty Plea
James Robinson, Negro, who
pleaded guilty to a charge of
manslaughter in the slaying of
Alma Lewis, wife of a Wilming
ton Negro preacher, was
sentenced to 12 to 15 years in
the state prison by Judge
Luther Hamilton in New Han
over court yesterday.
In accepting the plea of guilty
to manslaughter, tendered by
Attorney David Sinclair for the
defendant, Solicitor Clifton
Moore concurred in the opinion
that Robinson was guilty of
“about the strongest man
slaughter I ever saw.”
Judge Hamilton ordered Ted
Kypriss, son of a Greensboro
restaurant proprietor, to pay
$2 a week for the suport of his
wife and infant child. Kypriss
had apealed to the court from
a Recorder’s court conviction on
the charge of abandonment and
non suport.
Kypriss told the court he se
duced his wife while he was
stationed at an Army Air Field
near Washington, D. C. He said
he agreed to marry her only to
give the child a name, and ad
mitted he had never given her
a cent. He testified that he work
ed in his father’s restaurant for
$25 a week.
Refuses Suggestion
Under cross examination by
Aaron Goldberg, attorney for
Mrs. Kypriss, the former G. I.
admitted that he had refused to
See NEGRO On Page Two
Man’s Memory Muddled
About Marriage Matters
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 5 —UP)—
Wealthy 82-year-old Frank Maxa,
Sr., testified today that he took
“about six vacation trips” and
a “long taxi ride” with a pretty
22-year-old girl but did not re
call marrying her.
“I think that I was also in an
airplane,” the retired Miamian
said.
His testimony was before
Judge W. F. Blanton in a suit
seeking to have himself declared
“incompetent” preliminary >=
pursuing a marriage annulment
action.
Through his attorney, Jack
Moore, he told how he met the
girl, Hazel Rutherford, three
years ago in Aberdeen, Md., her
home. He said she was “always
asking me to marry her.” But,
he added: *
“I thought she was too young.”
He asserted, his memory was
hazy about a marriage at
Lawrenceville, Ga., on Septem
See MEMORY On Page Two
-- rJEEL-J
Williams Calls
For Payment Now
Tax Angle Enters Senate
Inquiry Into War Profits
At Capitol
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—(£>)-*
Senator Williams (R.-Del.) told
the Senate War Investigating
committee today that Howard
Hughes and his companies should
be called on to pay $5,919,921
more in taxes for the wartime
period of 1942-46.
Williams, a member of the
committee, said a “careful study’*
of accounts of the Hughes corp
oration and Hughes showed that
they had had profits of $15,526,
000 during the wartime period
after all taxes were paid.
Williams said that only $1,000,
000 had been paid to Hughe*
from these profits and the bal
ance was retained as undistri
buted profits by the Hughes Tool
company.
The Senator said a study of
company records and actual tax
returns of Hughes and the com
pany indicated a “tax deficiency
of $5,919,921.”
The tax angle entered the Sen
'ate inquiry in-late afternoon after
Chairman Ferguson (R.-Mich.)
of the subcommittee turned over
questioning to Williams. Fergu
son said that Williams and the
committee staff had made a de
tailed study of this matter.
Auditor Testifies
sworn as a witness to explain
tax details was Carmine Bellino,
auditor for the committee who
said he is a former certified ac
countant for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
Williams, in a prepared state
ment, recalled the “sworn testi
mony” by Hughes that for the
war period neither Hughes nor
his companies “made a profit as
a result of the war.”
At the time of this testimony,
Hughes explained that there had
been a “small profit” but it would
have been much larger if he had
not engaged in war contracts.
Williams said he based his “tax
deficiency” term on a federal
statute that taxed wartime cor
poration profits which were not
distributed to stockholders.
Earlier the committee had
heard:
1. Ralph R. Graichen, an Air
Force engineer, testify that El
liott Roosevelt, who recommend
ed government purchase of
Hughes photo reconnaisance
plane, was not qualified to do so.
Wilson On Stand
2. Charles E. Wilson, former
vice-chairman of the War Pro
duction Board, say that he
thought plans to build such a
photo plane so late in the war
were “silly”.
3. Wilson also stated that “out
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COURT WILL RULE
ON CLOSED SHOP
Attorneys For AFL, Stat®
Argue On Constitution
ality Of New Law
RALEIGH, Nov. 5— W—-The1
State Supreme Court today heard
Attorney General Harry McMul
lan defend and attorneys for the
American Federation of Labor
question constitutionality of the
state’s anti-closed shop law.
After hearing the arguments,
the court took the case under
advisement and probably will
hand down its opinion with
in two weeks. If the court up
holds the act, the defendants are
expected to carry their appeal to
the U. S. Supreme Court.
The law, which was passed by
the 1947 legislature, bans the
closed shop, union shop, main
tenance of membership shop, and
check-off of union dues, and is
being tested in two cases arising
in Buncombe county.
In one, an employer was char
ged with forcing a worker to
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And So To Bed
A Lake Forest housewife •
last night was listening to cne .
of those “Guess the name of
this song” programs on a lo
cal radio station. She com- 1
mented to her husband, “One J
of these days I’m going to get |
a telephone call to guess the
name of the song and I’ll bet
I miss it.”
She hardly had finished
the sentence when the phone
rang and it was the announc
er. He asked the usual: “Are
you listening to the radio, .
and what’s the name of the
song we are playing?”
You guessed it. She couldn’t :
name the song, and thereby '
lost Fifteen Bucks.
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