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FORECAST: WILMINGTON and vicinity: Con tinued cloudiness today with little change in temperature; Wednesday rain and cooler. -VOL. 81.—NO. 76. Enforcement Plan Okayed Ufl Working Group Reach gs Agreement On Pales tine Partition Set-Up LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 17—W A U. S. - Russian-Canadian Guatemaia working group reach ed f;nal agreement today on a complete plan for enforcement of the proposed Palestine parti tion It would provide independ nce for new Arab and Jewish countries by not later than Oct. * The 4-power United Nations working group immediately turned over the long-awaited plan to a 9-nation Palestine sub committee for approval and thus oened the ossibility of a deci sion on the Holy Land problem next week. The new plan, based on a u.o. Soviet compromise, would pro vide that: 1 The date for terminating Britain's mandate over Palestine would be agreed upon by a U.N. commission and Britain, subject to approval of the Security Coun cil. The date would be not later than next Aug. 1. The date for independence of the proposed new Arab and Jewish countries would be two months after British withdrawal from Palestine—Oct. 1. Budget Approved The 57-Nation Budgetary com mittee, meanwhile, approved and sent on to the Assembly a bud get item of $1,047,875 to defray the extra cost of holding the 1948 regular session somewhere in Eu rope next fall. The 30-to-8 com mittee vote virtually assured that the meeting would be across the Atlantic next year. Paris, Gei eva and Brussels were looked upon generally as the main contenders in the race to be gee ENFORCEMENT On Page 2 BURGWYN DENIES NON-SUIT MOTION Attorney Goldberg Scores For Defense In Alexander Manslaughter Case _ Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn Mon day afternoon over-ruled a mo tion for non suit by Aaron Gold berg, defense attorney, in the case of Pleas Alexander, Negro truck driver, charged with man slaughter in the death of Joseph A. Mathis, Jr., Wilmington, from injuries sustained in the early morning hours of Novem ber 1 when Mathis drove his father's 1939 Chevrolet into the rear of a truck driven by Alex ander, stalled without warning lf^es on Highway 17 seven miles north of Wilmington. Goldberg argued that Alexan der’s negligence was sufficient to support a civil action but not See BURGWYN on Page Two CHEST CAMPAIGN TO BE EXTENDED Workers Will Continue So licitation This Week, Chairman Says Charier M. Harrington, gen eral chairman of the Commu nity Chest campaign to solicit (119,996, said yesterday that the workers will continue until the latter part of this week to solicit funds in an effort to reach the goal, which was scheduled to end today. Harrington said that cards are out that cannot be returned before the latter part of this week and he said there is no indication when the campaign will end. Of the goal, 59 per cent or (70,226.78 has been collected he laid. All reporters and campaign workers are urged by Harring ton to turn in their reports to See. CHEST On Page Two The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina—Increasing cdoudi Tuesday with rain beginning West portion in afternoon and East partion it night. Cooler in the interior. Wed iftsday rain and cold. North Carolina—Continued cloudi less Tuesday. Rain beginning extreme *est portion late Tuesday. Little change ft temperature. Wednesday rain and looler. FORECAST: Meteorological data for the 24 hours tiding 7:30 *). m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES a. m. 48; 7:30 a. m. 46; 1:30 p- m. »: 7:30 p. m. 52; Maximum 60; Mini 45; Mean 52. Normal 55. HUMIDITY a. m. —; 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. m. ’■ ? :30 p. m. 39. PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. * 0 inches. Total since the first of the month ,s7 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY ’From the Tide Tables published by ' S. Coast and Geodet{q Survey). HIGHH LOW Kington_1:13 am. 8:21a.m. . 1:44 p.m. 9:07 p.m r»onboro Inlet ^ 11:18 a.m. 4:50 a.m. e 11:30 pm. 5:44 p.m. n^nrise 6:48; Sunset 5:07; Moonrise jF7a: Moonset 9:55p. * ?r stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at f *n- Monday 29.0 feet. **»• WEATHEE On Pace Tw. Truman Asks J7ull Power To Restore Limited Wage, Ra*^?mg, Price Controls If Necessary; SPA Memoers Cite Need For Port Development Carolina, Georgia Getting NC Trade Facilities Necessary Now To Compete With Char leston, Savannah The immediate necessity of North Carolina developing its ports if it hopes to ever again compete with other South At lantic states in water-borne commerce was emphasized here yesterday afternoon by four members of the North Car olina State Ports authority fol lowing an inspection of deep water terminal facilities at Sa v. nnah and Charleston. Each said he was greatly im pressed by the tremendous post-War modernization and ex pansion programs at the other ports. And, they added, Savan nah and Charleston are now handling a great amount of North Carolina commerce. “If Wilmington and Morehead City had facilities comparable to those we viewed and studied at Savannah and Charlseton, this traffic would be moving through them,’’ R. B. Page, of Wilmington, chairman of the authority, said. “Not only are they attracting a great volume of commerce but with it is coming new indus try, which means hundreds of thousands of dollars in addition al payrolls at Savannah and Charleston,” he added. Members of the authority making the trip were Page, A. G. Myers, of Gastonia, vice chairman; W. O. Huske, of Fay etteville, secretary - treasurer, and T. Henry Wilson, of Mor ganton. “North Carolina’s ports should have everything Savan nah and Charleston have,” Myers declared, “and the now idle Wilmington shipyard is the key to the situation here. Its acquisition from the Federal government and converson in to deep-water treminals will provide the foundation for gen uine port growth. “Our potentialities are just as ; great as those of the ports we’ve just visited but they are making wonderful headway. And as they grow, they are bringing in allied industries,” the Gastonia textile industrialst and banker sad. | Huske also pointed to the ; strides being made along the Savannah and Charleston wa terfronts, and said he was es pecially impressed by the spirit of cooperating prevailing be tween the two cities and their state port authorities. Already the owner of considerable mu See CAROLINA on Page Two SECRET SERVICE NABS BOGUS CASH 13 Persons Held In Con nection With Active Coun terfeit Ring JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 17 —(U.R)—The Secret Service an nounced today the seizure of $68,000 in poorly done counter feit $20 bills and the arrest of 13 persons in connection with a bogus-money ring which oper ated “from New York to Mi ami.” Identify of only one suspect was announced. He was slim, 25-year-old Floyd C. Fallen of Jacksonville, described as the “Southeastern distributor” of the bogus twenties. Fallen waived a hearing be fore U. S. Commsisioner T. V. Cashen and bond was set at $17,500,—including $7,500 in con nection with a sugar coupon forgery case for which Fallen is due to come to trial in Janu ary. Secret Service and FBI agents were tight-lipped on their investigation but they brought to the hearing a packet See SECRET On Page Two TOUR COMPLETED—Arriving here yesterday afternoon afte r inspecting the ports of Savannah and Charleston, four members of the North Carolina State Ports authority agreed that North Carolina must place greater emphasis on port development or be lost in the competition with other South Atlantic harbors for water-borne commerce. Shown above, left to right, are P. M. Snell, of the Wilmington district of the corps of Engineers. War department: Col. George W. Gillette. South Atlantic division engineer; Col. Heston R. Cole, Wilmington district engineer; R. B. Page, of Wilmington, chairman of the authority, A. G. Myers, of Gastonia, T. Henry Wilson, of Morganton, and W. O. Huske, of Fayetteville,, authority members.—Staff Photo._ American Leaf Tobacco To Be On Even Footing With World Markets In Future MID-APRIL DATE SET FOR SURVEY Mass X-Ray Round-Up Will Be Sponsored By County Health Department The mass X-ray survey plan ned for New Hanover county will be conducted in mid-April by the State Board of Health,, assisted by funds from the Unit ed States Public Health service, Dr. A. H. Elliot, county health officer, announced yesterday. Exact date of the arrival of the five mobile units requested by the board of health here will be announced in the next few weeks, according to Dr. Elliot. The State board now has nine mobile units for work through out North Carolina, which has been designated as a proving ground in the technique of com munity-wide surveys, which are now being put into practice over the nation. “Cooperation among the USPHS, the State board of health and county health de partments, local tuberculosis See MID-APRIL on Page Two BOARD OBJECTION PROVES FUTILE Commission Has No Way Of Stopping Justice Of Peace Appointments Members of the New Hanover Board of Commissioners were told yesterday that there is noth ing they can do about the number of justices of the peace being appointed in New Hanover by Governor R. Gregg Cherry. Members of the board made an oral objection to the large number of justices being made as three more bonds were ap proved for payment yesterday, and County Attorney Marsden See BOARD On Page Two Faded Beauty Of Fabled Past, Happy On Birthday BREVARD, Nov 17. — W — “Aunt Liddie” Raines, a faded beauty of a fabled past, sat happily in a wheelchair today and celebarted her 103rd birth day. Telegraphy was a new fangled toy for the world, there were only 30 states in the union and North Carolina’s population was 753,000 when Lydia Glaxe ner was born in 1844 on a moun tain farm where the town of Rosman stands today. Great chestnut trees, some of them six feet through, adorned the Western Carolina mountains, and gold prespretors, with chis el-headed hammers and grub stakes in their knapsacks, hunt ed along the streambeds when “Aunt Liddie” was a girl. Blights killed off all the chest nuts, and the Western gold strikes sent the prospectors scourrying. “Aunt Liddie’s” span of life has touched the eras that brought the wagon and car riage, the railroad, the automo bile, and finally the airplane. See BEAUTY On Pa«e Twe HERE ARE SOME OF COMMODITIES FOR WHICH CONTROLS ARE HINTED WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. —<&)— Here are some of the com modities over which the administration may consider applying allocation or ration controls if such controls are granted by Con gress: Agricultural — Grains such as wheat, corn, barley, rye, oats and rice, meats, food fats and oils; eggs, poultry and dairy products. Other — Steel, coal, freight cars and other transport-tfon equipment; machinery for coal mining, power production, and oil production, building materials; fertilizers. These are the principal Items spoKen of either as scarce at home or needed abroad, or both, in the various advisory re ports upon which Mr. Truman based his message to Congress today. However, the President did not go into detail in his mes sage as to which commodities he may deem in the scarce cate gory to which the proposed controls might be applied. Christmas Street Lights Will Be More Attractive Christmas lights, which will be “much more attractive with better colored lights than last year,” are now going up in the downtown business areas of Wil mington, according to Chamber of Commerce Secretary John H. Farrell. Workmen began stringing the lights on Front street on Satur day of last week and before they have finished the brightly colored inchndescents will adorn Front from Dock to Red Cross and two blocks each mpyrate from December 2 streets from Market to Red Cross, inclusive, Farrell said. The lights will extend down Red Cross to Fourth street and along Fourth through the Brook lyn business district, taking in several blocks which did not have the lights last year. Wrapping Service Farrell said that the Chamber is at present devoting much of its time to preparation for its See CHRISTMAS on Page Two Freedom Train Program Includes Luncheon Here Setting Saturday, December 6, definitely as Veterans Day and Tuesday, December 9, as Wom an’s Day, the 15 members of the Wilmington Freedom Train program committee made addi tional plans yesterday for the week’s ceremonies centered around the train before its ar rival December 10. An historical exhibit, includ ing documents, will feature the opening of the Cornwallis house on Woman’s Day, which is planned through the courtesy ol the North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames.. Luncheon for the 40 or more members of the train’s person nel will be provided by the Red Cross, according to General Chairman Louis Moore. Along The Cape Fear DISAPPROVAL — The army engineers will have no part of Whiskey Creek. They said as much in disapproving a propo sal. to improve this waterway, near Masonboro sound. The thumbs down on the project was reported to Congress yesterday by Secretary of the Army Ken neth Royall. The Royall report called the creek “Purviance Creek.” But added that it was known in New Hanover county or Whiskey Creek.” The unfavorable report by the engineers was submitted after an investigation authorized by the recent Rivers and Harbors act. The project was inserted into the act by Representative J. Bayard Clark. Fishermen have complained that the creek “shoals” so much that they can not get their boats in and out of it safely. PAPER DRIVE — Final plans have been made for the Junior Chamber of Commerce third annual scrap paper drive. At their meeting last night, the Jaycees set Sunday, November 23, as the day and 1 o’clock as the hour when they will start canvassing the city for scrap paper. Last Sunday they collect ed five tons of the 80,000 pound goal, knocking 10,000 pounds off the total and making it second down with seven to go. T. B. SEALS TO SALE—Of ficials of the New Hanover county Tuberculosis association are getting ready to launch their 1947 Seal Sale campaign, despite the fact that he local See CAPE FEAR On Face Swo Canada, Australia, British Colonies To Cut Tariffs January 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. IT —UP) —American leaf tobacco will be on a more even footing in the United Kingdom with tobacco grown in the British colonies some time in the future under the general trade agreement announced by the State Depart ment today. And, after Jan. 1 tobacco tar iffs are going to be cut by Can ada and Australia and some British'colonies are going to re duce their tobacco preferences. The United Kingdom (includ ing Great Britain, Scotland and North Ireland) agreed to reduce the preference for British colony tobacco up to one-third. This preference reduction, of ficials said, “will take effect when the present abnormally high tobacco duties of the Uit ed Kingdom are reduced.” “It costs,” they added, “about one dollar to get a pack of cigarettes over there.” Reduction on leaf tobacco See AMERICAN On Page Two MECKLENBURG HAS ABC SALES EDGE Latest Of Wet Ceanties Rings Cash Registers for Record Sum RALEIGH, Nov. 17 —W—Lig uor consumers in newly wet Mecklenburg filled the cash reg isters with $878,607.60 last month, setting an all-time high among ABC store counties and sending total sales for the state to a record-breaking $4,257,638. 99. Brisk business at the seven Mecklenburg stores, opened late in September, toppled Durham county from the ABC sales lead it has held for nearly two years. October sales at all ABC stores in the state topped last month’s See MECKLENBURG On Page * President Urges “Short-Run Form Of Insurance” Agairt Inflation Hesitant Congress Hears Urgent Request For Steps To Halt Economic Disaster, $597,000,000 Aid For Europe BY MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Reporter WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. —(UP)—President Trwiia* asked Congress today for authority to impose 10 major inflation controls on the nation, including rationing a^d wage-price ceilings, to safeguard not only domestic proa pedity but his multi-billion-dollar foreign aid program. He requested the far-reaching grant of power from a Republican-controlled Congress which convened in emer gency session at noon, for a foreign and domestic policy de bate that will shape the extent and nature of the help thia 10-STEP PLAN OF PRESIDENT TO FIGHT HCL WASHINGTON, NOV. 17— (U.fi)— Here is President Tru man’s 10-step plan to fight the high cost of living: 1. Restore consumer cred it controls and curb infla tionary bank credits. Out standing consumer credit has jumped from $6,500,000, 000 in 1945 to more than $11,000,000,000 now, and the President called this ‘‘a dis turbing rate” of increase. These controls expired Nov. 1. 2. Authority to regulate speculative trading on com modity exchanges. Mr. Tru man told a recent news con ference that inflationary gamblers were responsible for fluctuating wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade and other commodity markets. 3. Extend and strengthen export controls. The SE regulations, administered by Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman, are due to expire Feb. 29, 1948. 4. Extend authority to al locate transportation fa cilities and equipment. See 10-STEP on Page Two TAFT HITS HARD AT TRUMAN TALK GOP Presidential Candi date Says Program Is Totalitarian WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—Mi Senator Taft (R-Ohio) tonight denounced, as “a step toward a completely totalitarian na tion,” president Truman’s pro posal for a revival of partial wage, price and rationing con trols. Taft, candidate for the Re publican Presidential nomina tion, took to the radio after Mr. Truman offered his proposals to Congress at an extraordinary session. “Reaction,” cried Taft of the President’s price and wage sug gestions. He said the President wants to “turn the clock back wards” and is advocating a re turn to the days of war, of the OPA, the War Labor Board and the War Production Board. Of Mr. Truman’s price-wage proposals, the Senator said: “He wants price control against the producer, wage con trol against the working man, rationing against the housewife and the restaurant, every kind of control over the businessman. Paints Dire Picture “It means the setting up of a federal bureau with liter ally hundreds of thousands of employes, and agents prying in to the daily lives of millions of people. “We know this is what it woud mean because we saw it happen here. Such a proposal is not progress, nor is it li See TAFT On Page Two Four Kings, Five Queens; Sounds Like Dirty Poker LONDON, Nov! 1? — Wl— Four kings, five queens and 10 princes and princesses were among foreign royalty in Lon don today for the wedding Thursday of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. These were among the glitter ing array: King Haakon of Norway; King Frederick and Queen In grid of Denmark; Queen Fred erika of The Hellenes; King Mihai of Romania and his moth er, Queen Helen; the dethroned King peter and Queen Alexan dria of Yugoslavia; Queen Vic toria Eugenie of Spain. Prince Charles, prince regent of Belgium; Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands; Prince and Prin cess George and Princess Eu genie of Greece; Prince John and Princess Elizabeth of Lux embourg; Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Crown Princess | Louise of Sweden. A member of English royalty not present was the Duke of Windsor, the former King Ed ward VIII. He didn’t get ao in vitation. country grants to Communist threatened nations abroad. The Chief Executive went be fore the joint houses at 1:30 p. m. and in a 4,000-word message broadcast nationally and televis ed, linked inseparably the war against inflation at home and the cold war against Com munism overseas. He asked an emergency ap propriation of $597,000,000 for stop-gap winter relief in France, Italy, and Austria and promised to submit “shortly” his detailed recommendations for the long-range European re covery program, which his aides have told Congress will mean an American investment of perhaps $20,000,000,000 in Eu ropean freedom over the next four years. The President moved swiftly over the emergency aid request, which apparently is assured bi partisan approval, and devoted the bulk of his address to the domestic inflation controls and hsi reasons for seeking them. He made it emphatically clear that he wants thfe powers as a club-in-the-closet persuad er to be brought into play only when and as they are needed to prevent an “economic catas trophe” which might plunge this country into depression and wreck all chance of a peaceful world recovery. On Selective Basis The wage and price ceilings envisaged, he said, would be applied on a selective basis, only when and where an acute need for them exists. And he assured the country that con sumer rationing can “largely” be avoided for the time being. See PRESIDENT On Page Twe TOBACCO PRICES STEADY TO FIRM Three Eastern Belt Markets Cut Down Buyer Set* On Monday By The Associated Press Tobacco prices were steady to slightly higher on markets of the Old and Middle belts yester day while on the Eastern mar kets some lower grades dropped sharply, the federal and state Departments of Agriculture re ported. Gains on the Old Belt ranged from $.50 to $4, but most were in the $.50 to $3 range. Fair orange leaf and low orange primings made the greatest gain of $4. There were a few declines in the leaf and lug groups, mostly of from $1 to $2. Sales on Old Belt mar kets were fairly heavy, end quality was improved over last Friday. On the Eastern markets, low er orange and red leaf dropped from $4 to $7. Lower grade lugs were down $2 to $3. A few med ium and better grades gained from $1 to $2. Volume Light Volume was light and quaBty was better than last Friday as See TOBACCO On Page Twa And So To Bed Mrs. Clyde Lane of Golds boro and Mrs. Florence Car hart of Wilminston, walked into a local dress shop yes terday with the intention of buying a blouse. The employe asked Mif. Lane what color she wanted. She replied, “Black.” There was only one blaek blouse in the shop and it was too small for Mrs. Lane. “If I were your siie I would buy that blouse,” wdd Mrs. Lane to the clerk. The sales girl tried the blouse on and it was a per fect fit. “If that blouse fitted ape like that I would bny Mrs. Lane repeated. “I believe I will,” said the sales girl. And she did.
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