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FORECAST: Wilmington and vicinity: Clearer and cooler tooday preceded by showers in morning, lair and cooler at night; Sun day lair and cool. yph. 81. NO. 68.____ WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1947 ESTABLISHED 186t " Deadlock May Join Germany U S. Britain Tentatively Agree To Unite Western Part Of Nation LONDON, Nov. 7—Ufi—Author ,tative government quarters ‘ id today that Britain and the United States have tentatively agreed to unite Western Ger mane politically as well as eco nomically early next year if the Four-Power Foreign Ministers Council fails to settle the peace terms . . These informants said it was “virtually certain” that the French zone would be brought ,nto the already economically merged British and American zones and that a “provisional parliment” would be appointed bv occupation officials if Russia continues to balk at an agree ment Earlier, a Foreign Office spokesman declared Britain is "particularly anxious” for Suc cess of the Four-Power Coun cil which convenes here Nov. 25 to take up the German and Aus trian treaties. He refused to con firm or deny that British-Ameri can talks had taken place on the subject of a separate German government, limiting himself to the statement that he did not know of any “formal discus sions.” Little Hope Looms Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov’s Moscow speech yesterday seemed to offer little hope of agreement on Germany, Other sources noted, unless the Western powers are prepared to abandon some of the views they held to most stubbornly throughout the abortive Moscow conference. jvioioiov again auuuseu cmaui and the United States of violat ing the Yalta and Potsdam de cisions on such questions as de militarization of Germany and payment of reparations by Ger- ( many. This speech, a Foreign Office. spokesman said, was “rather anj unfortunate onslaught” on An- j g!o-American policy, especially i on the virtual eve of the Coun cil meeting and while the De puty Foreign Ministers actually were sitting down for a series ol meetings to prepare the btt DEADLOCK on Page Two VFW WOMENREADY FOR POPPY SALE Mayor White Opens Annual One-Day Drive By Buy ing First Flower Today is “Buddy Poppu” day in Wilmington as the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with the co operation of civic organizations, conduct their campaign of sell ing the little red flowers for the purpose of aiding disabled war veterans. The first of the small flow ers, which are made by the dis sbled veterans in hospitals and other recuperation points, was sold to Mayor E. L. White yes terday in State pre-sale cere monies. The mayor purchased the flower for his lapel from Mrs. Alberta Varner, Greensboro, state president of the vt w aux t iliary. Mrs. Varner, who chose ■ Wilmington as the scene of the | pre-sale ceremonies for 1947, pinned the flower on Mayor White. Mrs. Varner was welcomed to Wilmington by Mrs. Katherine Zatkiewicz, sales campaign chairman, and Mrs. Mabel Langley, local auxiliary presi dent. She was accompanied by them and by VFW Commander Ken Noble in making the first sale at the mayor’s office. State VFW Commander E. C. 1 Snead expressed himself yester day as pleased with the cooper ation afforded by civic groups *n the campaign. The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina — Clearing Saturday Receded by showers East portion Sat u'-day morning, in South portion fair aJtd cooler Saturday night with frost North portion. Sunday fair and cool. North Carolina—Clearing and cooler Saturday preceded by showers in East Portion Saturday morning. Fair and cooler Saturday night with frost in in terior Sunday fair and cool. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 a. m. 55; 7:30 a. m. 57: 1:30 p. m. 1:30 p m. 89; Maximum 70; Mini 54; Mean 82; Normal 58. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 83. 7:30 a. m. 87; 1:30 p. m. ON 7:30 p. m. 74. PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7.30 p. rn 0 inches. : Total since the first of the month ' ’I inches. , TIDES FOR TODAY 'Trom the T.de Tables published by - *• Coast and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW w>lmington _ 5:51 a.m. 12:34 a.m. u 6:22 p.m. 12:57 p.m. •“aeon boro Inlet _ 3:52 a.m. 10:04 a.m. ■ 4:13 p m. 10:35 p.m. Sunriit 6:38; Sunset 5:14; Moonrise Moonset 5:10p. "ore WEATHER On Page Two Committee Releases “Poultry lessj^/s” Luckman Announces Follow ing Approval By Pres Of New In dustry Program; Eggless Thursdays ----- i WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 —w— The Citizens Food Committee announced today tna% a "mora torium” on poultryless Thurs day will become effective im mediately. The action followed a “Hens For Harry” campaign started by angry chicken raisers, who sent crates of birds here, ex plaining that they couldn’t sell them and couldn’t afford to feed them. A joint announcement by Charles Luckman, chairman of the President’s food committee, and Secretary of Agricu.-jre Anderson, said it is estimated that 56,000,000 bushels of grain will be saved by a new gram saving program for the noultry industry which has been p proved by President Truman. “This is by far the largest saving from any single part of the current conservation drive thus far pledged,” the Luck man - Anderson statement aid. Consumers will still be asked to forego the use of eggs on Thursday, the committee sa.d, but it continued: “All restrictions on the con sumption of alj types of poultry are suspended while tl e new program is given a chance to show that it can bring about the substantially increased grain savings which are plan ned.” Group Makes Pledge , Under the newly negotiated program, the statement said the poultry producers and ' — ma jor farm groups have pledged themselves: See COMMITTEE on Page Two Leaf Purchase Program May Not Be Carried Out I___. -- TOWNS GONE LIMA, Peru, Nov. 7 —(#)— Thirteen small Peruvian settle ments were washed away by high waves from the swollen Rio Pangoa river caused by landslides resulting from last week’s earthquake, a photog rapher sent by the Associat ed Press reported today. The number of deaths was unknown. The villages, popu lated chiefly by seasonal agri cultural workers, were named as Bellavisia, San Pedro. Co mircale, Rio Negro, San An tonio, La Victoria, Mariposa, Santa Ana, Santa Liviana, San Dionisio, Santa Rosita, Cala baza and Coyobaro. FLANDERS FAVORS MEAT RATIONING Vermont Senator However, Would Shun Price Con trol At Present SPRINGFIELD, Vt., Nov. 7 —(#1—Meat rationing without price controls was proposed to day by Senator Ralph E. Fland ers (R-Vt) as the only way he knew to check spiraling prices. Flanders, who headed a Con gressional inquiry into high liv ing costs in the East, said meat was the “key” to the whole sit uation. “Food,” he said in an inter view, “should take up about one third of the total income in the family budget, but now is eat ing up as much as 40 to 60 per cent of the low and middle class family incomes.” GEORGIA LAWYER KILLED IN FALL Charles S. Reid, Former Chief Justice Plunges To Death In Atlanta ATLANTA, Nov. 7—t^P)— Charles S. Reid, 49, former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme court, plunged to death from a downtown office building. A few hours earlier, Fulton county court records showed he had been served with a suit charging he mismanaged an estate of which the Georgia Bap tist Children’s Home was a bene ficiary. Reid’s body landed on a second floor wing of the building in which he had a law office on the 12th floor. His office window was open. F. E. Huckaby, life insur ance agent whose office is on a lower floor, saw the body hur tle past shortly before 9 A. M., and summoned police. A coroner’s inquest was set for tomorrow morning._ Department Of Agriculture Has Not Secured Dealer Cooperation WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — UP)— The Agriculture Department said today there is a possibility that its flue-cured tobacco buy ing program, as announced Oct. 28, may not be carried out. Officials made this disclosure today after insisting earlier that the program would stand. Keith Himebaugh, chief of the department’s office of informa tion, told newsmen last night, after conferring with top rank ing officials, that the program would stand as it had been an nounced, and that there were were no conditions yet to be filled. Himebaugh said today he had been informed later that the fu ture of the program now hinges upon action of tobacco dealers See LEAF on Page Two AMERICAN DENIES PLANE OWNERSHIP Customers Inspector Says Ships Were To Be Used In Revolt Attempt SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 7 —(#)—Luis Bordas, 28, former U. S. infantry lieutenant serving in the pacific, denied to newsmen today that he was the owner of two surplus heavy bombers seized at Ponca City and Tulsa, Okla. U. S. Attorney Robert E. Shel ton appiled in federal court at Oklahoma City yesterday for a warrant to detain the Ponca City plane pending its legal dis position. He named Bordas as the legal owner. Customs Inspector O. C. Milli can of Kansas City named Bor das as the owner also of the plane held in Tulsa. Millican said the planes were intended for use in a short-lived expedition against the Domini can Republic organized in Cuba last summer. When that expedi tion failed, Millican said, “we got word that they might be used in another revolution brewing in South America, and we decided to seize them.” Bordas who said he was born in the Dominican Republic, told newsmen he had no idea why he had been named the owner of the planes “as I definitely am not the owner.” He added he had no knowledge of any South American country which might have been planning to use the planes in a revolution. Bordas said he served five years in the U. S. infantry and used his experience to help the Dominican expedition by giving technical aid in planning and training which took place at Holguin, Cuba. Light-Fingered Limies Lift Loot In London LONDON, Nov. 7— (U.R) — Smash-and-grab looters operated in force against store windows and show cases today, virtually unmolested in an inpending fog. Thousands of persons spent the night in automobiles, sub way stations or wandered blind ly through the “pea soup” fog which blanketed London and Southeastern England for 8 hours before an unseasonably warm sun broke through at 9 a. m. Old residents classified it street—London’* shopping cen ter—and the tinkle of falling glass signalled that they had made their choices. Furs sports jackets, dresses, socks, ties—all disappeared into the enveloping mist with the audacious looters. There was no question of pur suit by harried policemen and watchmen. The culprits simply disappeared inches from the scenes of their crimes. Entire store windows were emptied of their high ration as one of the worst in years. point mercnanaise. it was a Looters went “window shop- field day for London’s under ping” blithely along Oxford i world._ Retired Air Force General Denies Asking Hughes For $50,000 Loan; Cabinet Checks Final Aid Report Douglas Returns For Conferences Data On Possible American Help To Europe To Be Released Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 —OP)— President Truman checked over final details of the billions-for Europe program with his cabi net today, with emphasis on the critical question: how much can the United States spend on for eign aid without jeopardizing the American economy? In an hour-long session, the President and his inner circle scrutinized a report on this key phase of the proposed $22,400 000,00(T Marshall plan. The re port was submitted by Secre tary of Commerce Harriman. Cabinet members, who car ried copies of the report with them as they left the White House, withheld comment. The report will be made public at 6 p.m. (EST) tomorrow. With Secretary of State Mar shall and other top administra tion officials scheduled to out line their foreign-aid proposals before Senate and House com mittees on Monday, the tempo of fitting the huge and compli cated pieces of relief machinery into place quickened percep tibly today. Major developments in cluded : 1. Secretary Marshall called home Lewis Douglas, U. S. am bassador to Britain, who has See DOUGLAS on Page Two FRIENDSHIP TRAIN STARTS JOURNEY Hollywood Notables Take In Cerem°nies As Cars Move Off HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 7 —W— In a spectacular gesture of American good-will to less fortu nate lands beyond the sea, the Friendship Train leaves here amid traditional Hollywood cere mony tonight on a cross-country journey to collect food for starv ing Europe. The train, expected to com prise eight f ood-laden boxcars and 15 flat cars bearing gay floats, will chug down Hollywood Boulevard. After being speeded on its way in a program which scores of film notables will participate. It heads for the union termin al where the float cars will be uncoupled, and the actual start made at 11 p.m. (PST). Film Producer Harry M. Warner, chairman of the Friendship Train committee, said early response indicates the plan may raise 200 or. more carloads of food for shipment abroad. Among those participating in the send-off will be Gov. Earl Warren of California; Gov. In gram Stainback of Hawaii, May or George Welsh, Grand Rapids, Mich., president of the Ameri can Mayors’ Conference, and Charles Luckman, chairman of See FRIENDSHIP on Page Twc Along The Cape Fear SCHOOL SYSTEM GROWS— School enrollment increased with the growth of the city so that in 1910 the grand total was approxi mately four thousand students of which 75 per cent were white. In 1915 the new Hemmenway school was completed on fifth and sixth streets between Chest nut and Grace streets. During the same year the William Hoop er school was erected on Fourth street in the Southern part of the city and the Cornelius Har nett school was put into service at Sixth and Harnett Streets. 1920 to 1927. New schools added plified by the consolidation. The old Union school building on Ann street was abandoned in 1921 when the new high school building, on Market street was completed. Union school gram mar students were then trans ferred to the Tileston school building, where the high school students had studied for several years prior to 1921. The period of World War 3 saw 12 schools added to the pub lic school system in Wilmington and New Hanover county. They were: Delgado, Winter Park, Castle Hayne, Myrtle Grove, Williston Industrial, Isaac Bear, HIS ARMS FOLDED UNDER seven-inch beard, Amish Bishop John Helmuth (left) sits in a Wooster, O., court after answering charge brought by a fellow churchman, Andrew J. Yoder, that Helmuth and three others “ruined” the latter’s health by “shunning” him from their church. Seeking $40,000 in damages, Yoder told the court the “boycott” started when he purchased a car, against Amish rules, to take his invalid daughter to a doctor. Pictured grouped around table are (1. to r.): Solly Schlabach; witness, unidentified; Joe Yoder, father of plaintiff; Dan Yoder, brother; Sarah Yoder, wife of Andrew; Andrew J. Yoder and Judge C. Jones, Yoder’s coun sel. Helmuth said: “The Scripture put the shun on him—I didn’t.” He was awarded $5,000 dam ages by a jury yesterday. (International Soundphoto) Episcopal Bishops Unanimously Condemn Un-American Hearing NON-RESIDENTS WILL BATTLE FOR JOB AS KNOXVILLE MAYOR KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 7—W—1Two non-residents of Knoxville will be in the Nov. 20 run-off election for the four year, $15,000-a-year office of mayor. They are George R. Dempster, a resident of adjoining Blount county, and Knox County Judge James W. Elmore, who lives six miles from the city in the Mt. Olive community. A 1947 legislative act changing the city government from city manager-council to mayor-council provided that any per son over 25 years of age could run for mayor “regardless of residence.” The new government takes office next Jan. 1. Complete unofficial returns from yesterday’s primary gave Dempster 10,041 votes to lead a field of eight mayoral candi dates. Elmore was second with 7,186. TORNADOES LEVEL LOUISIANA HOMES Three Killed, Many Hurt When Two Different Twis ters Strike Towns NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7 — (U.R) —Tornadoes striking at widely separated points in Louisiana left three persons dead, two missing and at least a dozen injured today and disaster crews were clearing wreckage in search of possible other vic tims. One tornado struck late last night in Galiano, La., deep in LaFourche Parish, about 50 miles south of New Orleans. It smashed through the homes of fishermen and trappers and killed two women. An infant and an elderly woman were missing. The other twister slashed through Red Bayou, La., some 300 air miles Northwest of Gali ano, near Coushatta, La. It took a toll of one life, injured two farmers, and flattened 15 houses, mostly occupied by Ne gro families. In the Galiano tornado, an 18 month old infant was believed See TORNADOES on Page Two Wrightsboro, Wrightsville, Sea gate, Middle Sound, and Mason boro. The question of consolidation of the city and county schools was studied during the adminis tration ,of Major W. A. Graham, 120 to 1927. New schools added to the system after consolidation were Wrightsboro, Bradley s Creek, Forrest Hills, and Sunset Park, Consolidation brought with it the elimination of one and two teacher schools, which were re placed by standard schools with seven or more teachers. The problem of transportation of school students was greatly sim plified by the consolodation. The next step in improving the public education system was standardization of elementary schools to meet the requirements of standard Grade A schools. Additions to the high school and the Isaac Bear school were com pleted during the administration of Oscar Hamilton from 1927 to 1932. Hamilton was succeeded by Ray Funderburk as superinten dent of schools in 1932 and he held the office until 1936 when the present superintendent, H. M. Roland, took office. MCDONALD PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE Former Winston Educator Says Educational System To Grow Worse FAYETTEVILLE, Nov. 7 — (#> —Dr. Ralph McDonald, who twice has been an unsuccessful candidate for governor, told a teachers’ convention today that the educational situation in North Carolina “is bound to grow worse.” He told the Southeastern dis trict of the North Carolina Edu cation Association that “the leg islature does not meet in regu lar session until 1949, and by that time our public school sys tem may be wrecked beyond re pair in our generation.” Dr. McDonald, a former in See MCDONALD on Page Two VETO SQUABBLE TOPS ONCE MORE Demands For Admission Of Italy, Austria To UN Membership Acute LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 7—(^P)— Demands by the United States plus small and medium powers for admission of Italy, Austria, Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Trans Jordan to membership in the United Nations revived to day the U. N. squabble over the veto privilege of the Big Five. Argentina, Sweden, Brazil, Iraa Lebanon and Chile joined in calling on the General As S„e VETO On Page Two Liquor Cargo Vanishes; SHP Sergeant Resigns RALEIGH, S#»v. 7— (ff) — State Highway Patrol Sgt. V. R. Mallard of Smithfield resigned following a probe by the State Bureau of Investigation concern ing the disappearance of con fiscated whiskey, Motor Vehicles Commissioner L. C. Rosser and Patrol Commander H. J. Hatch er confirmed today. The SBI investigation was set off by an anonymous letter to Governor Cherry, who first turn ed the matter over to the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for action. The ABC Board pointed out Winston-Salem Gathering Assails Casting of “Pub lic Suspicion” WINSTON-SALEM, Nov 7—m The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, at its closing, session today, condemned the House in vestigation of Un-American ac tivities for the manner in which the probe is being conducted. “The casting of public suspi cion” “the Eishops said in a res olution, “on the fellow citizens un der the protection of Congres sional immunity can readily be come an offense against God’s commandment, ‘Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor.” The resolution was adopted unanimously on motion of the Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington. It said: Resolved: That as bishops in the Church of God we call up on the people of our churches See EPISCOPAL on Page Two ARMY GETS READY FOR UT SCHOOLS Eduactional Facilities Be ing Circularized As To Courses Taught WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—OT— The Army, looking to possible adoption of universal military training is circularizing school systems over the nation for in formation on their ability to help in the educational phase of such a program, it was disclosed tonight. Copies of letters from the Ad jutant General’s office have been sent state departments of education and other organiza tions. The letters point out that one of the options under the pro posed plan would allow selected trainees to attend trade and vo cational schools instead of spending the second six months of the one-year training period in military activities. Trainees generally would be sent to schools near the areas in which they reside. The Army wrote that it -"is interest in obtaining informa tion, including names, num See ARMY on Page Two that under the law its agents lacked authority in dry John ston county where the alleged disappearance of whiskey oc curred. The governor then called upon the SBI for aid. SBI Director Walter F. Ander son later admitted that his agents returned “no evidence to war rant prosecution of Mallard for illicit liquor operations. However, Rosser said the Ser geant, who was a veteran of 16 years on the patrol, decided to See LIQUOR an Page Two Witness “Cites” Arnold Pressure Bennett £. Myers TeHt Committee Plane Buildef Had “Friends” _ • I WASHINGTON, Nov. T—W-* A fast talking retired Air Fore* general vigorously disputed today testimony that he tried during the war to borrow $50,000 from plane-maker Howard Hughes. H« did say he tried to borrow this amount from him earlier this year. The general, Bennett E. Mey ers, also told a Senate War In vestigating subcommittee that while he was on an official in spection of Hughes’ California plant in 1944, Hughes offered him a postwar job in which ha “could write my own ticket" as to salary. “People offered jobs to me all the time,” Meyers said. “They didn’t mean a damn thing to me. I was only interested in winning the war." The witness also testified—and his petite blonde wife backed him up—that Mrs. Meyers slipped an envelope containing $900 into the pocket of Johnny Meyer, Hughes’ public relations man, in repayment of travel and hotel expenses. But Meyer took the witness stand briefly and flatly contradicted them both. Hughes In Town Today’s developments earn* thick and fast, with Hughes in town again to resume his testi mony, probably next week, in the investigation of his wartime contracts. Before getting to the jobs-loar expense testimony, Meyers testi fied that: 1. He opposed the granting el a $40,000,000 contract to Hughes in 1944 to build photo planes but See WITNESS On Page Two FIRST1947SNOW CLOSES SCHOOLS Blinding Storm In Minneso* ta Slows Air, Bus Traf Fic, Fells Lines MINNEAPOLIS, Nov 7 —«!-. Minnesota’s first taste of 1947-48 winter weather ca. •> today in m large helping of blinding snow and high wind which slowed traffic, closed sc. schools and disrupted communications. Winds ranging up to 45 mfleB an hour drove the storm in 0 Northeasterly direction across the Eastern half of the state. Snow ranged in depth from four to siv inches. Drifting was re ported at numerous points. In Minneapolis and St. Paul the storm struck at 8 a. m. CST and so increased in fury that within an hour visibility was re duced to 150 yards. It began to pass into the Lake Superior re gion shortly after noor. and by mid-afternoon the snow had di minished to flurries. Similar conditions prevailed all along the 100-mile swath the storm cut across the state from the Iowa line to the Canadian border. Air and bus lines halted operations during the height of the storm out several com panies sent buses onto the roads late in the afternoon and air lines prepared to resume sched uled flights tonight.. Pupils Sent Home In St. Paul pupils were sent ho'me from school during the morning. Minneapolis schools remained in session. Thomas O. Larson, 65, col lapsed on a St. Paul street while bucking the storm. He died be fore an ambulance could reach him. And So To Bed A young lady on a city bus yesterday was discussing her physical strength with an elderly gentleman. “I feel badly today because j I have an ACHOO! cold, and | my feet hurt,” said the young lady. “Well, what did you do to get a cold and to have your feet hurt?’’ asked the quiet old man. The girl replied, “I went dancing in pumps last night.'* “Dancing in pumps,” said the astonished man, “it’s a wonder you don’t have pneumonia.” Remember A Buddy - Buy A Buddy Poppy T oday
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