I Wilmittgimt fUnntutij VOL. NO. 81.—NO. 67. WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1947 " ESTABLISHED 1867 Polio Drive Given Boost Representatives 01 South eastern Carolina Chap ters Meet Here Representatives of seven South eastern North Carolina chapters 0f the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis made plans for the 1948 March of Dimes cam paign and heard three James Walker Memorial staff members discuss the hospital’s treatment facilities in a dinner session at the Friendly last night. "A great deal of interest in what is being done in the fight against polio was shown by the chapters in Southeastern North Carolina, and I’m sure it will re sult in the greatest March of Dimes we have ever had,” de clared Mrs. Philip Russell, direct or of organization of the North Carolina foundation from Chapel Hill. Mrs. Russell was accompanied to Wilmington by Philip S. Ran dolph, eastern North Carolina representative who is liaison agent between the national foun dation and hospitals and county chapters. All 01 me iiicuiucis ai mai right’s session are representa tives of counties' which are par ticipating in the James Walker Memorial treatment center. They heard Dr. Joseph C. Knox, pediatrician at James Walker, describe treatment in the various stages of polio. Miss Jean Bailey, physical therapist, talked on therapy treatment of polio myelitis. John Rankin, superin tendent discussed the financial end of the treatment and ex plained the services supplied by James Walker. Equipment Secured “For the last year we (the southeastern chapters) have been trying to insure the best serv ice and treatment possible for this area,” Randolph declared. “This we have done by getting equipment for James Walker, in cluding the first physiotherapy unit in the history of Wilming ton.” The state representative also pointed out that the southeastern chapters had interested Dr. Joseph C. Knox, in taking a special refresher course in polio treatment and had made the course available for him at Knick erbocker hospital in New York. He said that they also had in See POLIO On Page Five TOBACCO PRICES VEER DOWNWARD Eastern Markets Report Declines, Middle, Old Belts Irregular By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS General price averages on the Eastern North Carolina flue cured tobacco belt veered down ward yesterday and those on tbe Middle and Old belts were irregular, the Federal-State De partments of Agriculture re ported. Most grades on the Eastern North Carolina Belt were steady to $2 cheaper, with some of the inferior qualities of leaf and smoking leaf off $4 per hundred. Cutters dropped $1 and $2, and some grades of non descript were off 25 cents to $3. Volume of sales remained fairly heavy, with quality some what improved. Principal change on the Mid dle Belt was in smoking leaf grades which slumped in almost all instances. Lemon and orangeside of smoking dropped $1 to $2, and redside dropped S4 to $5. Leaf also showed some weaknesses, with some of these grades dropping $1 io $3. Prices on the Old Belt for the second straight day continued to be irregular, with gains and losses almost equally divided, the marketing service said. Changes varied from 25 cents to S3 per hundred, with the ma jority running from $1 to $3. Demand was strong for a few baskets of wrappers, and indi vidual baskets of choice lemon wrappers being sold for $81 per hundred. Quality of offerings continued to decline, with sales running fairly heavy on hte larger markets. The Weather FORECAST: , North Carolina and South Carolina — Mostly cloudy and mild Friday. Showers 'Test portion in afternoon showers and cooler Friday night and Saturday. Meteorological data ior the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 a. m. 61: 7:30 a. m. 58. 1:30 p. m. 7:30 p. m. 60; Maximum 71; Mini mum 57; Mean 64; Normal 59. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 100; 7:30 a. m. 100; 1:30 P m- 44; 7:30 p. m. 86. PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 P* hi; 0 inches. Total since the first ol the month “ <0 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by u- s. Coast and Geodetic Survey). w.. high low Wilmington _ 4:46 a.m. 11:58 am ,, 5:23 pm. - P-m. Masonboro Inlet . 2:50 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 3:14 p.m. 9:42 p.m. Sunrise 6:37; Sunset 5:14; Moonrise :(ua, Moonset 2:40p. U'vpr stage at Fayetteville, N. C- at 8 • hi. Thursday 17.0 feet. WEATHER On Page FIT* EARLE C. CLEMENTS —The State of Kentucky returned to the Democratic column again when it elected Rep. Earle C. Clements of Morganfield as the State’s Chief Executive. Cle ments’ opponent for the gover norship was Attorney General Eldon S. Dummit of Lexington. (International Soundphoto) HUGHES FACTORY LABEED “CLUB” Discharged Plant Manager Says He Was Unable To Speed War Work WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 —(^)— A discharged plant manager to day called Howard Hughes’ air craft plant in California a “country club” in which he was unable to speed production on $40,000,000 worth of wartmie contracts. Charles W. Perelle, the air plane production manager, also told the Senate War Investiga ting subcommittee he personal ly fired John W. Meyer, Hughes’ free-spending publicity man, by letter in September, 1945. Meyer, however, has been shown to have stayed on the payroll. But by December of the same year, Perelle said, he himself had been discharged from his $75,000 job by Hughes for “in subordination.” Perelle’s long recital of “in ternal bickering” in the war time aircraft effort came after the Senate group put aside for the time being a committee contention that Hughes and his companies owe a “tax deficien cy” of $5,919,921. Tom Slack, Hughes’ attorney, protested to newsmen that he and Noah Dietrich, executive vice president of the Hughes Tool company, were being denied a chance to answer the tax issue. JTlil V A1ISWC1 AiftlCl Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich) said the committee must main tain its witness schedule and that Hughes or his aides will get a chance to explain the tax and profits angles later. Ferguson said he considered these angles “material” to the committee’s general inquiry as to what the government re ceived for $40,000,000 in con tracts for a huge wooden fly ing boat and a photo reconnais sance plane. Perelle said Hughes himself also used the term “country club” in describing his Califor See HUGHES on Page Five WAGE AGREEMENT CANCELS STRIKE Cone Mills Interests, Union Reach Accord Before Walkout Deadline GREENSBORO, Nov. 6. — t»proval Of “Little Assembly”; Battle Looms Over Aid Program _ l----1 _ Republicans Ask Full Disclosure Secretary Marshall Urged To Appear Before Groups On Monday WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—(#)— Congress squared away today for a big battle over methods of aid ing Europe, as Republican lead ers called for a full disclosure of facts and scored the Truman ad ministration for “incompetency’’ in handling foreign relief bil lions. Secretary of State Marshall was asked to appear before Sen ate and House Foreign Affairs committees next Monday and ex plain “in detail” the program for emergency aid this winter. Con gress members specified the right to question him Tuesday and Wednesday. Earlier, President Truman tag ged the matter of stop-gap help the No. 1 priority when Congress returns Nov. 17, giving it pre cedence over inflation control. But the whole question of bil lions - for - Europe threatened to boil over into a protracted wrangle even before the lawmak ers’ return as evidenced by House Speaker Martin’s (R.-Mass.) dic tum that his party will stand for no “rubber stamping” of the ad ministration’s plans. vemanos ueiau Rep. Halleck (R.-Ind.), House Republican leader, issued a state ment accusing the administra tion of “incompetence” in handl ing funds, and declaring Con gress must “spell out in detail exactly how the aid-to-Europe program shall be carried out ” One report circulated on Capi tol Hill that a powerful move ment will be launched to re strict emergency aid as much as possible to goods — and hold down on the overseas shipment of American dollars. One member of the Special House Foreign - Aid committee See REPUBLICAN on Page Five CHERRY APPEALS FOR NEW CROPS Tobacco Growers Urged To Diversify To Offset Ex port Market Losses RALEIGH, Nov. 6—W—Gover nor Cherry today appealed to tobacco growers in North Caro lina’s 48 flue-cured tobacco coun ties on the necessity of diversi fying crops and livestock pro duction at once to compensate for loss in income with reduced 1948 acreage. He said that he had called on Dean I. O. Schaub of N. C. State college extension service to arrange meetings in the lead ing tobacco counties and to im press upon farmers their prob lem. “Tobacco is a great money crop,” the governor said, “but our farmers will be able to make up some of their income by raising small grains, soy beans, hogs and going in for livestock production and dairy ing.” Dean Schaub earlier told a meeting here of agricultural leaders that reduced tobacco and peanut acreages would pose a serious problem on the econo my of North Carolina. Reduction Figures He said the tobacco acreages would be reduced from 106,000 to 150,000 with the peanut acre See CHERRY on Page Five Molotov Tells Russian Nation Atomic Bomb No Longer Secret BISHOPS APPROVE PHILIPPINE PLEA Committee Votes Unani mously In Favor 01 Limit ed Church Union WINSTON-SALEM, Nov- 6—(ff) The petition of the Philipine In dependent church for a limited union with the Protestant Epic copal church of America was approved today by the Ameri can church’s House of Bishops. Only one vote was cast against the approval. It was by the Right Rev. Henry Wise Hob son of Cincinnatti, Ohio, bishop of Southern Ohio. He explained later that he was not against the granting of the petition but had voted “no” only because he thought the matter had been given insuffici ent study and that the House of Bishops was acting too speedily. The Philippine church had asked that the American church convey valid orders to their bishops and clergy; train their applicants for the ministry; and allow them to use their prayer book. The petition was referred to a special committee Wednesday for study. This committee—com posed of the Right Rev. F. P. Ivins, bishop of Milwaukee chairman; The Right Rev.; Theodore -Russell Ludlow of Newark, Suffragah bishop of Newark; The Right Rev. Ed mund Pendleton Dandridge of Nashville, Tenn., bishop of Ten nessee; and The Right Rev. Lewis Bliss Whittemore of Grand ilapids, Mich., bishop of Western Michigan—was sche uled to report back to the House of Bishops tomorrow, but finished its study early and re ported today. Unanimous Report It recommended unanimously that the petition be granted, and that the presiding bishop, The Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York City, be requested to proceed to work out details for conveying valid orders to the Philippine church, See BISHOPS on Page Five ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREA GETS SNOW First Storm Of Winter Leaves Plain Region Under 8’ Blanket By The Associated Press The first storm of the winter brought snow and cold Thurs day to Rocky Mountain and plain regions and was moving into the midwest. After falls of snow from one to eight inches in the Rockies the storm moved slowly Northeast ward. Some snow fell in Min nesota, the Dakotas, Western Iowa and Kansas. The U. S. Weather Bureau said the snow and below normal temperatures should let up in the Rokies and Western Plains states Saturday and that temper atures would begin to rise. The cold weather was expect ed to reach the Great Lakes area Saturday night. Predictions were for freezing weather in Illinois See ROCKY on Page Five Along The Cape Fear FIRST WILMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL— Planning soundly for the future, the Wilmington school committee devoted their attention to closing the gap be tween the grammar school educa tion and the state university. They purchased a lot at the corner of Third and Market streets, and moved the advanced classes from the grammar schools into the little one story school house just south of the court house on Third street. The little schoolhouse was the Wilmington high school until 1897 when the graduating classes from the Hemenway, Union, and Third street schools, numbering 100 in all, moved into the Tileston normal school building under the tutelage of four teachers. This building had been leased through th efforts of James H. Chad bourn. The first high school graduating exercises were held the following May with certificates awarded to three girl graduates. In the fol lowing years the numbr of gradu ates increased until 1914 the grad uating class numbered 30, rais ing the total ol Wilmington mgn school graduates to 315. In 1910 nine rooms had been added to the high school building and 14 teachers and a principal composed the faculty. M. C. S. Noble was succeeded by John J. Blair as Wilmington school superintendent on January 5, 1899. In 1901 the city was deed ed the Tileston building and half of the city block it occupied as a Sift In 1904 four rooms were added to the Union school and Hemen way had already been enlarged by the addition of eight rooms. A local tax of 15 cents on $100 valuation was voted by the coun ty in 1909, and New Hanover be came the first county in the state to establish a special tax district. By an act of congress in 1910 eleven city blocks of land behind the Marine hospital were secured by the board of education for school and park- purposes. The public school system was the beneficiary in 1911 of a gift of a brick school building from Sam Bear, affording a valuable and needed addition to the equipment of the city’s facilities for public education. RT. REV. KARL M. BLOCK BISHOP TO OPEN MISSION SERIES Rt. Rev. Karl Brock Of California To Preach First At St. James Recognized as an eloquent speaker and much in demand all through the Episcopal church, the Rt. Rev. Karl Mor gan Block, bishop of California, will open a week’s mission in Wilmington Episcopal churches Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at St. James church. Concluding service of the mis sion will be preached by the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Episco pal church in the United States, at St. John’s Episcopal church at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Novem ber 16. Bishop Sherrill was elected in 1946 to the highest office of the church, after serving as the bish op of Massachusetts from 1930 1946. In commending the week’s mission, of Bishop Block, in the Wilmington churches to the Episcopalians in his diocese, Bishop Thomas H. Wright, of southeastern North Carolina diocese, said, “It is my earnest hope and sincere prayer that, not only will every Episcopalian in Wilmington attend this mis sion at every opportunity, but that you will bring others each day and each night, that this may be an uplifting experience for our entire community.” Schedule Released a Bishop Block’s schedule in Wilmington has been released as follow: Sunday, November 9, 11 a.m., St. James Church, 8 p.m., Churcji of the Good Shepherd; See MISSION on Page Five DAWSONRENAMED BY BROTHERHOOD Dr. Roy A. Short Featured Speaker At North Caro lina Conference ELIABETH CITY, Nov. 6—(ff) —The Conference Brotherhood of the North Carolina Methodist Conference today reelected R. G. Dawson of Raleigh as president C. S. Meedins of Manteo was named vice-president and H. F. Surratt of Edenton, secretary treasurer. Dr. Roy A. Short, editor of the Upper Room, a Methodist de votional periodical, was the featured speaker at the Con ference this afternoon. He based his sermon on the text, “Lord Save Me,” words spoken by Peter as he attempted to walk on the sea to his Lord. See DAWSON On Page Vive Foreign Minister Says U.S., Britain Preparing For Aggression MOSCOW, Nov. 6. -m— For eign Minister V. M. Molotov told . the Soviet Union tonight on the eve of Russia’s most sacred holi- ; day that the “secret of the atomic bomb ceased to exist a long time ago” and that the United States and Great Britain clearly were making “a preparation for ag gression.” Prime Minister Stalin was ab sent from the Bolshoi theater, evidently still on his annual va cation at a Black Sea port, when ■ Molotov keynoted the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolutionary victory over Czardom by attacking the United States for hiding its atomic knowledge. Although Molotov gave no de tails to back up his statement that the bomb was no longer secret, the Russian notables who attended the theater celebration took his declaration at face value and, after a breathless hush, greeted it with tumultuous ap plause, leaping to their feet and cheering wildly. To Calm Fears (U. S. officials in Washington, however, expressed the convic tion the speech was intended to calm fears among Russians about their ability to produce an atomic bomb. A Polish official at the United Nations Assembly said the secret had been known for some time, but not the technique of the bomb’s assembly.) Another notable absentee in ad dition to Stalin was Col. Gen. Andrei A. Zhdanov of the Polit buro who told the world’s Com munists last month Russia would take the lead in attempts to wreck the Marshall plan. (At that time, Zhdanov was quoted in a Warsaw dispatch as saying the Soviet Union was not yet in pos session of the atomic bomb.) Delivering the main policy speech of the celebration from the theater stage, which was adorned with the Soviet coat of arms and a huge portrait of See MOLOTOV On Page Five POLITICOS FIGHT IN GEORGIA COURT Contest For Party Control Winds Up In Fisticuffs At Augusta AUGUSTA, Ga„ Nov. 6. — — A contest for control of the Democratic party in Georgia boil ed over today in a courtroom fist fight between two of the state’s top political leaders. Veteran Politician Roy V. Har ris of Augusta attacked State Democratic Chairman William S. Morris when the latter cursed him a few moments before the hearing on a suit for party pow er began. Morris asked Harris if he pub lished the Augusta Courier, a weekly tabloid devoted mostly to caustic criticism of Gov. M. E. Thompson, his administration, and supporters including Morris. “Yes, Bill, I do,” Harris re plied as he talked with a report er. “Anybody who published the Courier is a — — - —Mor ris said. Harris landed one blow, bowl ing Morris over into the jury box and then jumped on him. They wrestled on the floor before lawyers separated them. Back on their feet with the attorneys restraining them, Harris declar ed nobody could call him what Morris did. Morris retorted he had just See POLITICOS On Page Five Elephant Accidentally Tramples Man To Death ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 6. —(U.PJ — A 4,500-pound circus elephant fatally trampled its aged keeper in a baggage car today but as the dying man was carried to a hos pital he said it was an accident and asked that the animal be spared punishment. William Brown, 79, of Trenton, N. J., died at Grady hospital an hour after two railway station employes, J. G. Green and J. W. Cheek, dragged him from the car. His hip had been crushed and he suffered internal injuries. Green and Cheek were work ing nearby when Brown enter ed the baggage car to look af ter three elephants which had been brought here for the Shrine Circus this weekend. A few minutes later they were attracted by a thudding noise and Brown’s screams. They slid the (far door partly open and saw Brown lying with one of the elephant’s ponderous feet on his body. They dragged him out and summoned an ambulance. Al though he was dying, Brown managed to say that while walk ing between two of the elephants he brushed against one and fell under the feet of the other. It was an accident, he said, and the elephants did not attack him, Soviet Bloc Will t Session Forty-Three Nations Ap prove Plan Advanced By Sec. Marshall LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 6—(*) —An overwhelming majority of the United Nations approved Secretary of State Marshall’s “Little Assembly” plan today and the Soviet bloc promptly announced it would boycott such a year-around session. Thus, 51 nations instead of the full membership of 57 would at tend the “Little Assembly” body which would sit between regular fall sessions of the As sembly. This was the fourth an nounced Soviet boycott of a ma jority-approved body. It drew an emphatic protest from sev eral delegates. Britain chal lenged Russia to take the issue to the International Court of Justice. The vote was 43 to 6 in the regular Assembly’s Political committee, for a watered-down “Little Assembly” plan written by a sub-committee on which Russia and Czechoslovakia de clined to serve. The six-mem ber Russian bloc voted against it. The plan now goes to the Assembly for final action in plenary session probably late next week. This wider split in the cleav age between the Russians and the Western powers came as Foreign Minister V. M. Molo tov, of Russia, announced in Moscow that the secret of the atomic bomb has “ceased to exist.” Molotov also declared that the U. S. and Britain “hamper the United Nations from adopting a final decision . on the prohibition of atomic weapons.” | U. N. delegates after ex See SOVIET On Page Five i __ WAITER MUST PAY OR GO TO ROADS Judge Hamilton Orders Ted Kypriss To Give Wife $1,250; Jail Alternate Judge Luther Hamilton yes terday in New Hanover Supe rior Court ordered Ted Kypriss, Greensboro waiter, to pay $1, 250 for the benefit of his wife on or before November 20, or serve two years on the roads. Kypriss was reported by his attorneys to have gone xiome to Greensboro to see if he could raise $25 a week to pay his wife and child as ordered yesterday by Judge Hamilton in the aban donment and non-support suit brought against Kypriss by his wife, Janice L. Kypriss. In court Wednesday, Kypriss expressed willingness to pay $10 a week to support his child but refused to make any payment for the support or expenses in curred by his wife. David Sin clair, attorney for Kypriss, indi cated today his client would be glad to pay $10 a week. “If he does, we will indict him,” retorted Aaron Goldgerg, attorney for Mrs. Kypriss, who maintained $15 a week was not sufficient to support a child at the present cost of living. Judge Hamilton sentenced Willie Farrow, Negro, to 12 months in the county jail assign ed to work for the sheriff about the court house, after the de fendant was found guilty