mM Wtlmmrjtn tt iHnrnttuj Star YOL. 81.—NO. 79. _ WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947 State Board Subpoenaed Education Members To Be I„ Court When Fritz Trial Opens Monday LENOIR, Nov. 20 —UP)—-All members of the North Carolina ?Ld of Education were sub J0°;naed today to appear before r Caldwell county grand jury Monday when it begins consid ;,Hon Of the case of R. L. rritz Jr . tomer principal of iuds'on school accused of pay 101 two^ek term of criminal "rior court opens next Mon day morning with Judge Allen g Gwyn of Reidsville pre 81 District Solicitor James C. Farthing today declined direct comment upon the case, but did v that he felt that a state ' L he and Attorney General o3rrv McMullan jointly issued l Raleigh on September 20 covered his position in the mat ^Their joint statement had laid: . . “After carefully reviewing the facts presented from a study of the file in this case, we have TParhed the conclusion that the milt or innocense of Mr. Fritz of obtaining state school funds tv false representations. should He passed upon by a jury in Caldwell county. Up To Court “Whether or not he . has been guilty of any crime depends upon whether the court finds that the unearned salary checks which were issued were ob tained by him with the intent to defraud the state.” The State Board of Education revoked Fritz’s teacher certifi cate because of irregularities disclosed by an audit into the Hudson school records. Fritz ad; mitted making “a mistake, *nd the board accepted his pay ment of approximately $1,600 The audit said this approximate gum was paid to persons who endorsed the sum back to the ichool. which in turn paid school personnel during a short age of teachers. In October, Solicitor Farthing asked the State Board of Edu cation to agree with him in any steps looking toward criminal See BOARD on Page ive ALLEGED ROBBERY GUNS RECOVERED Highway Patrolmen Reveal Getting Possession Of Two Revolvers Two revolvers reportedly used in the robbery and assault on a local taxicab driver early last Friday morning and the watch stolen from the driver were in the haisds of highway patrolmen last night. Patrolman Roy C. Duncan revealed. Meanwhile, John Ftabe, 19 year-old Marine private from California who allegedly drove the car involved in the hit-and run accident which brought about apprehension Wednesday night of the foul men charged with the robbery and attempted murder, was arrested on charges of receiving stolen property. Rabe pawned the watch stolen from J. H. Irving, J., at a lo cal pawn shop for $10, accord ing to Duncan, who said that Cecil R. Hosmer, one of the prisoners, had been afraid to pawn the watch because he thought that he might be rec ognized. cer.tly discharged from the Ma Hosmer, 17-year-old youth re fines for bad conduct after al legedly stealing money and military supplies, was arrested *t a hotel here Wednesday n>ght after being implicated by Marines Carl Steinert and Ger ald Lee, ivho were identified by Irving, as an accomplice. The fourth prisoner. Marine C. Ed. Wilson, was being held by mili tary authorities at Camp Le jeune. Describes Guns ^ woman Duncan said tnat °f the revolvers picked up South Fourth street, where the Marines had staved or‘ visits to this city from Le See “ROBBERY” on Page Seven The Weather Meteorologicrai data lor the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. !nnrUth Carolina end North Carolina — Kv „ea.slnS cloudiness Friday followed ain Friday night and Saturday. Not t\.i j change in temperature Friday and y night. Cooler Saturday. FORECAST . TEMPERATURES 4fa 7-in*™- 46: 7:30 a m- 44; 1:30 P-m do! V* p m- 49; Maximum 50; Minimum ’ Me«n 47. Normal 47. , _ HUMIDITY as- 2 ,a-m. 93, 7:30 a.m. 98; 1:30 p.m. ' ' ;30 p.m. 83. , precipitation ,ii °fal *or the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. I incnes. 5 on0 f} since the First of the month ^ inches. T tides for today 0. *he Tide Tables published bj • Coast and Geodetic Survey. tyilmi HIGH LOW Kington-3:41 a.m. 10:56 a.m 4:09 P-m. 11:34 p.m °nboro Inlet _ 1:18 a.m. 7:30 a.m, e!lw„. 1:46 p.m. 8:20 p.m 137 r.JSe 6:50; Sunset 5:06; Moonris* 1 vPm" Mor® WEATHER On Page Tw* I REV. B. C. REAVIS REV. B. C. REAVIS ARRIVES IN CITY New Pastor Of Fifth Ave nue Methodist To Preach Sunday Morning The Rev. B. C. Reavis, new pastor of the Fifth Avenue Me thodist church, arrived in Wil mington from Hertford last eve ning with his family and made ready to deliver his first ser mon to his new congregation on Sunday morning. “I have heard so many nice things about...the congregation at Fifth Avenue Methodist church there it causes me to look forward with fond anticipa tion to seeing and working with you,” the Rev. Mr. Reavis wrote officials of the church. Educated at Rutherford col lege, Duke university and Em ory university, the Rev. Mr. Reavis was licensed to preach when only 16 years of age and conducted four revival meetings that year. During the vacation months each year while he was in college he was engaged in evangelistic work. “Pastor Evangelist” He is still often referred to as “pastor evangelist.” Following his graduation from the universities, he served as pastor at Weaverville station, four years; First Methodist church, Asheboro, four years; First Methodist church, Morgan ton, four years; College Method ist church, Greensboro, five years. All of these churches are in the Western North Caro lina conference. He also has served in tne North Carolina conference the First Methodist church, Hender son, three years, and the First Methodist church, Hertford, for the last five years. Likes Youth Work The Rev. Mr. Reavis has al ways taken special interest in young people, two of the church es he has served having been colleges were in the congrega “where faculty and students of collebes were in the congrega tion.” He has conducted religi ous emphasis week in many col leges and preached a number of baccalaureate sermons. JAYCEES REPORT GOOD SEAL START Chairman Broadfoot Says Buyers Are Doubling Amounts Over 1946 Chariman W. G. Broadfoot, Jr., of the Junior Chamber of Commerce’s committee con ducting the annual pre-Christ mas Seal sale bond drive re ported yesterday that the Jay cees made considerable prog ress in the first two days of their campaign. “In every case persons who purchased the tuberculosis seal bonds last year bought larger ones this year,” Broadfoot de clared. Assisting him as sub-chair men in charge of the bond sale are R. B. Howard, Aubrey Thompson, Corky Fountain, Wallace West, Rodney Breece. George Tenuta, Ernest Lane and Hal Love. The bonds are for persons and firms willing to purchase seals in lots of $5 or larger. Meanwhile, volunteer workers were busily preparing for the ushering in of New Hanover county’s 38th consecutive annu al TB seal sale on Monday of next week, November 24, ac cording to Miss Lucy Nash, executive secretary of the New Hanover County Tuberculosis and Health association. On Monday, the 7,000 letters See JAYCEES on Page Five Royal Couple Start I Quiet Honeymoon 1 Weds Prince Philip In Of Breath-Taking Beauty ^0pp to to its present status. Officials said last night that the full details and meaning of the series of meetings would be di vulged at the conclusion of the conferences between the county and federal government repre sentatives. The property, now in the need of some rehabilitation, has been the subject of much discussion among officials during the past several months. The clarification of the title to the property may culminate in the work under dis cussion. TOBACCO LEADERS FORMULATE PLANS Industry To Seek Law Change To Facilitate Export Of Leaf WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — UP) —Tobacco leaders in industry and government formulated plans today to increase future yearly tobacco exports 25, 000,000 pounds over prewar averages of about 840,000, 000 pounds annually. Exports last year totalled 650.000. 000 pounds, including 550.000. 000 of flue-cured. Esti mates are that this year’s ex ports will be about 50,000,000. J. B. Hutson, president of To bacco Associates, Inc., an or ganization of growers, deal ers and warehousemen formed to boost exports, told reporters after an all-day conference of federal officials and tobacco men: “It’s imperative that some ar rangement be made that tobacco continue to flow to Western Eu rope, where three-fourths of Am erican tobacco exports have gone previously.” Hutson, formerly undersecre tary of agriculture, added “no new machinery is needed to provide tobacco markets in the 16 countries for which foreign aid is proposed under the Mar shall plan.’’ Plans Considered Inclusion of tobacco in prod ucts supplied Europe under any See TOBACCO on Page Seven Along The Cape Fear .. .MOTTE TO RETIRE—After more than 49 years of service with the North Carolina division of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, Clarence E. Motte, native of Wilmington and new Operations manager of the state division of the company, will be retired on December 1, officials of the company announced in Charlotte. Motte began his service with the company here in Wilming tion as an office boy in 1398, and he was transferred to Char lotte ir 1908. He will be the twenty-third 60-year mao to De retired by the Standard Oil I company. Charlotte officials 'disclosed that the company i plans to honor him at a dinner at Charlotte this evening. LARGEST CHRISTMAS TREE—Wilmington’! commu nity Christmas tree—the largest living Christmas tree in the world—will glitter and glow with holiday cheer for Wilniing tonians, Southeastern North Carolinians, and tourists, for some two weeks before Christ mas. John Farrell, executive secre tary of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, allayed the fears of some local residents that the tree would not be lighted until Christmas eve, when he report ed that the tree will be lighted See CAP! FEAR oa Page Seven I L. S. Jeffords, above, newly appointed general man ager of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. L. S. Jeffords Gets High ACL Position I _ GIFT DUE SOON BALTIMORE, Nov. 20. —(ff>) — A $100,000 planetarium is expected to arrive here from Sweden Sunday aboard the S. S. Bloomington Victory, en route to the University of North Carolina. The equipment was purchas ed for the university by John Motley Morehead, former Unit ed States minister to Sweden, who also plans to erect a build ing to house it at Chapel Hill. The planetarium was pur chased from the Zeisj Glass Works by the Astronomical Society in Stockholm, and originally was on display in that city. More recently it has been open to the public in Gothenburg. DELEGATION ASKS HOUSING TRANSFER Marshall, Campbell, Yopp Urge FHA To Turn Hill crest Over To WHA Morning Star Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 —A three-man delegation from Wil mington, N. C., requested today that the government-owned Hill crest housing development there be transferred free to the Wil mington Housing Authority for continued use as low-rent homes for Negroes of low income. The net income from the pro See DEI 3ATI0N on Page Two HOUSING ACT NOT CONSTITUTIONAL Federal Judge Paul Jones So Declares In Cleve land Case Opinion CLEVELAND, Nov. 29—W— Federal Judge Paul Jones today held the housing and rent act of 1947 unconstitutional, declaring it was beyond the power of Con gress to enforce local rent con trols under the cloak of war em ergency when peace had return ed “in fact.” The senior judge of the North ern Ohio district delivered the opinion in the case of a Cleve land Heights landlord, Cloyd W. Miller, who challenged the new rent law. Federal rent authorities last See HOUSING on Page Seven General Manager Elected Vice President-Opera tions By Directors General Manager L. S. Jef fords of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company yesterdaj was elected vice president-oper ations, which post he will hole in addition to his present posi tion, it was announced fron Coast Line general offices here yesterday. Jeffords will fill the vacancj created by the recent death o L. F. King, of Wilmington. Members of the Coast Line board of directors also electee L. F. Ormond, camptroller o the road since March 18, 1943 assistant vice - president-ac counts. A. S. Trundle, Jr., as sistant comptroller since Octo ber 1, 1941, was named to the position of comptroller. A native of Florence, S. C. Jeffords was educated in thi Florence public schools and a Clemson college. He entered the service of the Coast Line Marcl See JEFFORDS on Page Twc LIONS HEAR PLEA FOR CHEST FUNDS Chairman Marks Tells Clubmen Future Of Pro gram At Stake Now “Unless the 1947 Community Chest campaign is successful Wilmington in all probability will no longer have a Com munity Chest,” emphasized H, A. Marks, president of the Chest, at the Wilmington Lions club Thursday. "In no year since Wilmington has had a community chesi have local contributions failed tc finance local agencies. In 194C out of $117,000 raised the local contributions were only $90,000. In 1947 we now have $79,000 on a goal of $120,000, “Marks said. “We cannot maintain a Com munity Chest on a $90,000 basis. If we really want a Community Chest, if we really want one campaign rather than twelve in dividual campaigns, we must raise the amount needed. Other wise each of the twelve member agencies must conduct its own campaign. Up To Businessmen “The answer lies with the bus iness and professional men ol the city. They can increase their contributions. They can see to it that the Chest is explained intel See LIONS on Page Five Plaudits For Princess Paralyze Pickpockets LONDON, Nov. 20—09*)— Even London’s thieves be haved themselves today in apparent observance of Prin cess Elizabeth’s wedding. Scotland Yard, which nor mally receives about 30 calls between 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. daily reporting crimes, got only two calls between those hours today. And both were * complaining of minor of fenses. Only a few pockets were picked despite the huge throngs o nthe streets which offered golden opportunities for light fingered thieves. “Maybe the thieves took a day off to pay homage to Elizabeth,” a Scotland Yard inspector said. “After ail, she’s their princess, too.” Decision Upsets Partition Plans Rule Of Palestine Must End Suddenly, Cadogan Declares LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Yov. 20—(U.R)—Great Britain, warning anew that it will not enforce the partition of Palestine, rejected a Soviet-American program for a gradual transfer of British au thority in tl Holy Land today. British rule of Palestine must end completely and suddenly— and preferably at “a very early date,” Sir Alexander Cadogan told a United Nations committee on Palestine. Cadogan said that the plan for step-by-step British withdrawal, a key part of the general Soviet American blueprint for Palestine partition, “would obviously have disastrous consequences.” He in vited UN to give special attention to the problem of enforcing the proposed partition of Palestine, because British troops will not undertake the task. The UN Palestine committee, racing to reach a decision on tha Holy Land so the current Gen eral Assembly session can end by Thanksgiving, was stymied by the new British objections. Tha committee promptly adjourned, and a subcommittee sat down to revise the partition proposals to meet the British complaints. Call For Delay Both Russia and Poland called for a delay to let delegates con sult their governments. Sesemyon Tsarapkin o. Russia said the British statement would force “serious alterations” in tha partition pla which the United States and Russia wrote, with t’ help of Canada and Guate mala. Under the British time-table, London would announce a data • for the end of Britain’s old Lea • gue of Nations mandate over Palestine. All civil responsibility i for ruling the territory would 1 fall to UN on that date. British troops later would with draw from Palestine gradually, f forming their own “rear guard’’ against the violence which tha , British expect. The British felt that the troop f withdrawal would take some time. During this withdrawal period, the British would rula • under “military law” the shrink ing areas which their troops still : occupied. The British felt that it would be up to UN to keep peace ( in the rest of Palest5 n-.. But so . far UN has not agreed on a mili ; tary force capable of fighting off gee UPSETS on Page Five GUARD LIFEBOAT RESCUES YACHT Miamian, Crew Of Two On Disabled Ship, Towed To Southport Harbor A Coast Guard motor lifeboat from the Oak Island lifeboat station Thursday afternoon went out into a rather rough sea and towed a disabled 43 foot auxiliary yawl-type yacht to safety in Southport, according to Chief Boatswain, Harry E. Johnson, commander of the sta tion. The yacht Blue Heron had ra dioed she was having engine trouble after putting out from Morehead City, later adding that her batteries were low and failing and asking the eoast guard to fix her position. A Coast Guard plane located the boat hove to some 10 or 12 miles from the Cape Fear light house, Johnson explained, and a motor lifeboat commanded by William C. Kincaid, boatswain’s mate first class, put out from the Oak Island station to eon tact the disabled vessel. They found the Blue Heron’s master and owner, Edwin A. Link, of Miami, and a crew of See GUARD on Page Two And So To Bed Three gentlemen sat hi a eafe booth last night discus sing the Duke-Carolina foot ball game. One of them puU ed out a roll of bills amount ing to approximately fifty dollars. “HI just bet any part of this that Carolina will win,” the man with the moola said, The second man, who bad been shouting the praises of Wallace Wade’s players, looked at the money, rubbed bis bands and said. “ITl toko ten bucks of that.” “This is no bet,” he added, ‘ “I just want to borrow ten doUars until payday,” >4/ - y ^