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FOr.*AST: W ♦ . ♦ £*< ^=i£=5s| ummgnm untuuj s^iitr ' VOL, 81. NO. 91. __ • WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 ESTABLISHED 18$ Strike Riots Spread South Marseille Police Arrest 130 Persons For Dis orders; Two Killed PARIS. Dec. 4 — UR—Mar ble police arrested 130 per s c as strike violence, in stated by Communist-led un • n5 lighting a back-to-work movement among the nation’s 2 000 0 00 idle workers, swept tight through Southern France, including the fashion ,hk Riviera. Tv o men were killed at Val nce _ shot to death during a fight with police at the railroad nation, strikers said—raising to 24 the number of fatalities from France's wave of rioting and sabotage. The strikers drove police out of the station and re occupied it. Twenty-two persons were in jured at Nice where, as at Can nes police battled mobs at the post office. A general strike was called at Nice. A strike at Anti bes-Juan Les Pins closed al most all businesses and the city hall. Airmen Strike The Marseille arrests were made for a variety of disorders. the Marignane Aiport out line Marseille, a strike by Air France personnel halted service between Corsica and Marseille. Troops continued to unload wheat from ships in Marseille, however, and four postoffices reopened in the city, with army trucks carrying the mail be ; m Marseille and Lyon. The government claimed a y in Paris when a union ,.resenting 250,000 store clerks c;ncelled a strike, saying it had obtained some of its demands. The Interior Ministry said a laboteur had blown up a 150,000 volt high tension line at Pessac, near Brittany. THOUSANDS VIEW ‘FREEDOM TRAIN’ Charlotte Crowds Form ^our-Block Line To See U. S. Documents CHARLOTTE, Dec. 4 —OB— iuusands of Carolinians filed -lowly through the Freedom Train today to get a brief glimpse of the greatest treasure of historical documents ever gathered in one place. Thousands of others couldn’t :;et close enough to get even a good look at the exterior of the sleek red. white and bl >e •eamliner which played a one s tand in the Southern ght yards. At 4 p.m., the waiting line ex tended twice around a block. "It has been a jam every e we have been,” W. H. S. ien, director of the train, . “At Winston-Salem yester we had more than 11,000. is far we have had—up until 1 e time we started letting them ln here this morning — 663,537, virtually two-thirds of a million, 've clock ever person that goes in. And we have hardly got started. We have been in 14 states and we are going into all of them before we end the trip next September. Everywhere the people have stormed us and w* only wish that more persons could see it.” Greensboro Today The train moves on to Greens boro tomorrow and to Raleigh Saturday, At Winston-Salem ntore than 2,000 persons were unable to get aboard. Members of the sponsoring committee in Liarlotte were fearful that many more would be disap pointed tonight. Judge John J. Parker and As distant Attorney General Lamar THOUSANDS on Page Seven The Weather vr . forecast «*t«orologlcal data for the 24 hours 1 f - .30 p.rr,. yesterday. 1 w . TEMPERATURES 50; 7:30 a'm' 49> 1:30 Pm XT ' . P m’ 60 Wal Mm 67; Minimum «: Mean 58: . HUMIDITY 36;'7:30a”m7175.7:30 8'm- ”! 1:30 P m' Tnt=l PRECIPITATION 8 inches01 the 24 hours endin* 7:3° P ">• 0 Inches 5'nCfc lhc ,irst of the month fr„„ TIDES FOR TODAY I’. 51 "r h' Tlde Tables published by "a.st and Geodetic Survev. Wllffii„„„ HIGH LOW 8ton - 3:25 a.m. 10:37 a.m. Masonboro Inlet 3,:.5,9,Pm' 11:14 p m ljet - 1-32 a m. 7:36 a.m. lunrise ; • _ 1:53 p m' 8:16 p m Moonsei 3,:i4S pn“‘ 5:03; Moonri“ 3 V.rar Tsf.ee .at Fayetteville, N. C. at CAPPING DAYS LEff) Wilmington Greets Older Boys’J£$6’ay City To Play Host To ^&^*cnce For First Time In Histo. ^°^,Aayor White Will Extend Welcome BY ROBERT MILLER j Star Staff Writer Mayor E. L. White will wel come approximately 50 dele gates to the 29th annual Hi-Y Older Boys’ conference of the Inter-state Young Men’s Chris tian Association at the initial meeting of the three-day event tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the Gray Hall of the St. James Episcopal church. For the first time in the his tory of the Older Boys’ confer ence, Wilmington will act as host. Fepresenting Wilmington will be Malcolm Crawford and Floyd Williams, seniors; Larry Dagenhart and James Odham, juniors; Eugene Hicks and Ran dolph Lewis, sophomores. The representatives will regis ter at the conference headquar ters, YMCA, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. today where they will be assigned to various homes throughout the city. Paul L. Peterson, of Kannap olis, will preside at the opening session and introduce the repre sentatives. Malcolm Crawford, president of the senior Wilmington Hi-Y, will greet the State club repre sentatives after which Bob Linn of Kannapolis, will give the re sponse. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Henry Wright, Bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina, Friday night will deliver the keynote address, “Is A Christian World Possible?” Election of new officers will See WILMINGTON on Page 7. Johnson May Ask Board To Restore R. L. Fritz BERLIN BOOTY BERLIN, Dec. 4. —(&)— The American Military government said today it had estimated that the Russians removed from Berlin as war booty 85 per cent of all undamaged factory ma chinery in the two months af ter the war when they were the sole occupier of the city. The statement said factory machinery which remained when the three Western pow ers joined in Berlin’s occupa tion in July, 1945, was mostly damaged and burned out. GOVERNOR SCORES PUBLIC SPENDING Cherry Tells Citizens Asso ciation Tax Increase Unwarranted RALEIGH, Dec. 4—(&)—A tax conscious group of 40 business and profession members of the North Carolina Citizens Associa tion thrashed out the taxation problem here today and at a luncheon session attended by a crowd of more than 200, heard Governor Cherry stress that public spending must be held in check. North Carolina, Cherry told the Association’s annual assem bly, is “not in a position" to in crease our taxes, “nor should we be called on to do so.” The Association’s essay con test prize, $50 bonds for the best explanation by school youths of what the state should contribute to school building construction, was presented following Cher ry’s address to: Ida Moore of Oxford, El len Dupree of Smithfield, Mary Rose Hall of Kannapolis, Wil ma Broome of Mt. Airy, John Tayloe of Washington, Juanita Jordan of Massey Hill. Gets Cup Also Miss Dupree received in addi tion a silver cup. In its election of officers, the group picked Howard M. Wade, president of Wade Manufactur See GOVERNOR on Page Seven ICE STORM HITS PARTS OF KANSAS Great Bend Area Suffers Worst Condition In 75 Year Period By The Associated Press A severe ice storm, reported to be the worst in 75 years in some sections of Kansas, was centered in Southwestern Iowa Thursday night and moving Northeastward toward Northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan. The storm caused extensive wire breaks and crippled long distance lines throughout central and Western Kansas Thursday, and was expected to reach Northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan Friday. Snow was reported from sec tions of the Western mountain ous states and there was occa sional rain in the lower Missis sippi valley. In North Holly wood, Calif., rain up to 1.50 inch es broke the Southern Cali See STORM on Page Seven Gubernatorial C a n d idate To Await Outcome Of Court Case RALEIGH, Dec. 4 —Uf)—State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson said today that he will ask fel low members of the State Board of Education to restore the teaching certificate of R. L. Fritz, Jr., in the event the Cald well county jury clears the former Hudson school principal of charges growing out of pay roll padding activities. Fritz, president of the North Carolina Education association and a controversial figure in state education circles, goes on trial December 15 in Caldwell Superior court on charges of ob taining money under false pre tense. The money involved was over $1,600 in state school funds. Heretofore, Gubernatorial Can didate Johnson has steered clear of an active stand in connection with the Fritz case. At previous meetings wdien the Fritz matrer was discussed and acted upon by the State Board of Education, Johnson either was absent or re frained from engaging in the de bates. Breaks Precedent Shortly before the case was brought to the attention of the State Board last summer, Fritz broke precedent by announcing that he planned to support John son in the Gubernatorial race next year. Up until that time, no NCEA president had come See JOHNSON On Page Seven THIRDATTACK ON WOMEN REPORTED Mrs. Gertrude Jones Rob bed Of $55 By Negro Man For the second time in three nights and the third time in a week a Wilmington white woman last night was assaulted by a Negro man purse snatcher, local detectives reported. Mrs. Gerturde Jones was push ed to the sidewalk in front of her residence at No. 7 Sauth Fourth street by an unidentified Negro who grabbed her purse, contain ing $55 and ran, she told the po lice. Mrs. Jones sustained abrai sions of the forehead and lacera tions on the side of the head in the assault detectives said. She was just returning to her home after being downtown when she was attacked at around 7 p. m., police said. Local detectives, who under the direction of Captain L. A Teague were still working on the case and checking possible suspects at an early this morning, said that they believed that the robber was the same man who attacked Mrs. Lucile Cannady, 410 Grace street, with a brick Tuesday night Mrs. Cannady, who was as saulted about three door:, from her home while r”t iir from downtown and who was treated at James Walker Memorial hospi tal for 1 er injuries, said that her attacker fled with her purse con taining around $10. When apprehended the Negro maraud :r will face charges of highway robbery, since he vsed armed force in his assaults on the housewives, police pointed out. Betty Britt’s Service Bits Cover Many Things PETERSBURG, Va., Dec. 4— (U.R)—Ten-year-old Betty Britt got businesslike today when she set out to earn her Christmas money. She advertised “Service With A Smile—From A Child,” and listed her rates for “Betty Britts Service Bits:” Piano Music for programs and parties, 50 cents. Piano lessons, through the first book, 25 cents a lesson. Cup cakes, 30 cents a dozen. With frostihg, five cents extra. Baby sitting, 25 cents an hour. Leaves raked, 25 cents per “average yard.” Front porch and walk swept, 10 cents. Windows cleaned, 15 cents each, cleaning powder included. Arab World Intensifies C ampaign For Recruits To Fight Partition; New Food Conservation Drive On I-----—-. Meatless, Eggless Days To Continue Distillers, Brewers To Be Asked1 To Extend Grain Holiday WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 —(U.R)— An intensified voluntary food conservation drive to combat in flation at home and provide re lief for Europe was announced by President Truman’s food cabinet committee today coin cident with a government report showing average wholesale prices at a new Postwar high One of the primary features of the new campaign is continu ance of eggless and meatless days. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said this phase must prove effective or “I don’t see how we can avoid price control on meat.” The food committee said a “major objective” of the drive is to keep food prices from go jing still higher. It also calls for: 1—A reduction by distillers on I their use of grain after the vol untary 60 - day shutdown ends midnight Dec. 24. The Distilled Spirits Institute, representing about 70 per cent of the indus try, announced immediately that it will recommend a plan for reduced operations by distillers. 2 — The brewing industry will be asked to extend its conserva tion drive beyond Feb. 1. 3—The baking industry will be asked to take more vigorous ac tion to curtail consignment selling of bread. Trial Period Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman, who with An derson and Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett make up See MEATLESS on Page Seven ATTORNEY LAUDS TONNAGE REPORT Ports Authority Well Pleased Over Future Business Possibilities State Ports Authority Attorney J. Mefville Broughton yesterday praised the report on anticipated tonnage and business here if harbor and warehouse facilities are made available at the local port and said the report would be used as the basis for future harbor expansion. The result of several months’ work by the Frederick R. Har rison Engineeing company of New York, the report was given yesterday to Broughtpn, Execu tive Secretary J. T . Hiers of the Wilmington Port Commission; Henry C. Boyd, Sr., industrial traffic and rate expert in Wil mington; and R. B. Page, Sr., SPA chairman. Details of the report, financed by funds from the Federal Works administration, were not made public; but it was said that it disclosed innumerable possibil ities for increased tobacco, lum ber and other type tonnage to be handled through Wilmington and Morehead City. Supporting Data Declaring that “We’ll get the business if we can get the facil ities,” Broughton said of the re port, “It will be the supporting data for any state or federal appropriations we may ask for in the future. “There are some surprising things disclosed here, and J’m sure that if Wilmington and Morehead City can get the facil ities necessary for water borne commerce, North Carolina’s im port and export business will have its brightest future in his tory.” He said that the report would be disclosed in full when it is finally clarified in all phases by the State officials. _ THE FORMER GRAND MUFTI of Palesti ne, Haj Amin El Husseini, who fled to help Hit ; ler during the war, is shown at a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, with other Arab leaders. Their talk at the time centered around the future plans for Palestine, should the U. N. plan for partition go through. Pictured facing the camera are (1. to r.): Bishop Hakin of Haifa; the ex-Grand Mufti; Isa ! Bendak, Mayor of Bethlehem, and Emil Ghoury, representative of the Christian Arabs on the Arab j High Committee. ____ (International Exclusive) Nurses Answer Staff Doctors; Charlotte To Bargain Direct Memorial Director To Seek New Pay Scale, Holiday Schedule For Girls CHARLOTTE, Dec. 4—■(£>— Graduate nurses at Charlotte Memorial hospital have voted unanimously to deal personally with the institution in their re quest for increased salaries, Ad ministrator R. Z. Thomas, Jr., said tonight. Thomas added that he would make recommendations for pay increases and improved work ing conditions for the nurses to a special meeting of the execu tive finance committee of the hospital Monday night. The nurses’ action today ap parently removed the ' North Carolina Nurses Association from the picture as a bargain ing agent. Yesterday Mrs. Marie Noell of Raleigh, executive secretary of the association, said that she had tried to arrange a confer ence with Thomas to represent the nurses, but that Thomas had declined to see her. Thomas said he was confident that suggestions for improved salaries and conditions could be worked out directly between the nurses and the hospital, without See MEMORIAL on Page Seven NEWSPRINT PRICE BOOSTED $6 TON Canadian Producers An nounce Increase Ef fective January 1 NEW YORK, Dec. 4—(ffl—Abi tibi Sales Co., Ltd. today an nounced in Toronto an increase of $6 a ton to $96 in the price of newsprint effective Jan. 1, 1948. The company is the selling agency for Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd., one of the largest Canadian producers. Abitibi’s announcement fol lowed a statement in Montreal by Consolidated Paper Sales Ltd. that the latter’s price would be unchanged for t he first two months of 1948. The state ment said a future advance seemed unavoidable “because of continuing sharp advances in our production costs.” Consoli See NEWSPRINT on Page Seven Along The Cape Fear LIGHTS FOR CASTLE—For the first time in history Christ mas lighting will be extended to the Castle street business district with the erection of holiday lights between Sixth and Seventh streets, according to an announce ment yesterday by John H. Far rell executive secretary of the Wilmington Chamber of Co..* merce. The lights already are being erected and will be ready for illumination by Saturday, Far rell said. Merchants in the block are contributing to the cost of the holiday lighting project, he dis closed. The innovation will make the Castle street area one of the bright spots of the Wilmington holiday shoppers mecca. MAY MAKE HISTORY—His toric Wilmington, cradle of the American revolution and scene of the South’s gallant blockade running in the War Between the States, has a flare for his torical firsts in the documents of the Old North State and the current controversey over the recognition of the North Caro lina Nurses association as bar gaining agent for staff nurses at James Walker Memorial hos pital may set another historical precedent. Half a dozen or more hospitals in the state are eagerly watch ing the progress of the contro versey in Wimington, and edi tors of a number of North Caro lina dailies are asking to be informed of the latest develop ments here each day. 84 YEARS AFTER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — UP)— Eighty-four years ago the Riggs & Co. bank quickly hon ored a $5 check signed by Ab raham Lincoln and made out simply to a “colored man with one leg.” Today the Riggs National bank was not so gracious with another “colored man with one leg” who aimed a toy pistol at teller John J. Gor man, Jr., and demanded $1, 000. Gorman, noting that the pistol was as phoney as a $9 bill, summoned a guard who held the man for police. Book ed on a charge of attempted robbery, the man said he want ed money “for Christmas.” ZIONISTS SEEKING TO RECRUIT ARMY Rabbi Baruch Korff Says 250,000 Will See Palestine Duty BOSTON, Dec. 4—(U.R)—Rabbi Baruch D. Korff, 33, of New York said today that a Zionist organi zation was recruiting 250,000 Americans as a volunteer r ty to fight for the Jewish nation in strife-torn Palestine. Korff, co-chairman of the American Political Action Com mittee for Palestine said 'he vol unteers—to be known as the “George Washington Battalion” —hoped to win arms and sup port from the United Nations. Korff was in Boston visiting his father, Grand Rabbi Jacob L. Korff of Dorchester, after be ing cleared of French charges that he planned to shower Lon don with propaganda leaflets. However, a State .Department spokesman said passport: issued to any person in the United State- who signed up as a vol unteer to ght in Palestine or anywhere else in the world would be invalidated. “For several years,” the spokes man said, “American passports have borne the statement . . . ‘this passpo. is not valid for travel t' or in any foreign state for the purpose of entering or serving in the armed forces of such a state.” Statement Denied A statement by Korff that troops in the American occupa tion army have smuggled arms to the Jewish underground drew i See ZIONISTS On Page Seven Meeting Recalls Upholding Physicians When They Raised Call Fee The 38 resigned nurses of James Walker Memorial Hospi tal in a meeting last night took occasion to answer the staff doctors of the hospital in con demning their resignations as being “unprofessional.” The nurses said that they had upheld the doctors when the doctors raised their fee from $3 to $5 for day calls and $8 for night calls. “We remained loyal to the doctors as professional ethics require and made no comment unless it was in support of the doctors,” the nurses said. “Wherever we practice the pro fession of nursing we shall con tinue to be loyal to the doctors with whom we are working,” they added. The staff nurses made it clear that the economic security pro gram of their national associa tion is being put into effect all over the nation, and the issues have been settled in other hos pitals besides the North Caro lina hospitals recently in the news. “The economic security pro gram is national in scope,” the spokesman emphasized. ‘First launched in California, it is al ready a definite success there. After the California nurses per severed through a long cam See MEETING on Page Seven OHIOC i TAKES TOYI YD’S GUNS Ordinance Even Bars Side Arms From Colorful Cowboy Suits PAINESVILLE, O., Dec. 4 — UP)— The annual “disarmament” of Christmas toy displays in Painesville stores has been re sumed this year. Acting under regulations of a 45-year-old city ordinance, Painesville’s police department uncovered three miniature “de pots” of toy guns and pistols in local stores—and ordered them removed from the sight of ad miring youthful eyes. Police Chief John A. Barstow explained that the ordinance prohibits sale of toy guns ‘of metal or any hard substance” within the Painesville city lim its as a precaution against pos See OHIO On Page Seven 40,000 Football Fans Change Tenor Of Speech CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 4—— The course of autumn events spoiled the plans of James S. Childers, member of the Chapel Hill authors’ colony, had made in preparing a speech to be de livered before the University Club. Childers was scheduled to talk on “The Foundation And Opera tion Of a University,” and in the speech he prepared he plan ned to say that an ideal univer sity would have “no football team and no fraternities and would really be run by the faculty.” But before time for the speech to be delivered, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels defeated Virginia 40 to 7 before 40,000 fans in Chapel Hill. So when the faculty meeting was held, Childers made a speech about wild animals he had seen while hunting big game in Africa. Thousands Enlist To Battle Jews Riots, Property Destruc tion Spreads To Ara bian Sea Coast JERUSALEM, Dec. 4— Acceleration of the Arab world’* recruiting campaign for soldier* to fight the partition of Pales tine was reported tonight as armed riot arid destruction spread unchecked through the Middle East from the Mediter ranean to the Arabian Sea. Volunteers flocked to the Arab colors in many Arab state* and vague reports circulated in many places of an invasion of the Holy Land from otner coun tries to fight the Jews Bloodshed and disorders were widespread throughout the Mid dle East and in Baghdad, th® capital of Iraq, the office of the United States Information Serv ice was raided and wrecked. Itv Palestine, angry Arabs took their fight to the highways, ag a wall of encircling British troops and police kept apart would-be combatants in the ma jor cities. Two British soldiers tvere found seriously injured, un conscious and robbed of their Sten guns tonight on the bloody border separating Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Police said both Arabs and Jews lived in the streets where the soldiers were found and were unable to determine j which faction attacked the pair. score- wounded Aler tsecurity forces on 24 hour duty contained Palestine’*! major threats, but scores of Jews and Arabs were wounded in attacks on taxis and bus con voys and the Associated Press compilation of deaths for three days of rioting, arson and loot ing mounted to 20 Jews and 18 Arabs. The compilation listed hun dreds of injured. Hebrew news papers estimated damage in Jersualem alone at $4,000,000, only 15 per cent of the loss be ing covered by insurance. A Jewish-owne'-' coffee house in one of Jersaulems three safety zones was burned tonight and three children and one Arab were wounded when an Arab band ambushed a convoy of six Jewish automobiles in front at the Transjordan Consulate in the Holy City. The reports of a Palestine !n See THOUSANDS on Page Seven AMATEUR YEGGMEN DAMAGE OFFICES Swift Plant Food Division Building Entered Thursday Morning Amateur safe crackers made a vain effort to break open the six-foot safe at the offices of Swift and company’s Plant Foods division plant on the Nig ger Head road early yesterday morning, according to J. S, Zapf, manager of the plant. The bandits entered the build ing through a window and ap parently after an unsuccessful attempt to open the safe they broke into numerous desks and ramsacked the drawers. The combination of the safe was knocked off and the rob bers attempted to remove the heavy door by knocking off the hinges and removing the bolts. Harry Fals, city - county identification bureau chief and sheriff’s department officers in vestigated the breakin and re ported that foot prints found outside the window indicated that four men took part in the entry. The breakin was discovered by the nightwatchman shortly after dawn yesterday morning. Only a small amount of petty cash is kept in the office build ing, the manager told officer*. And So To Bed A Lake Forest woman driver yesterday backed her car from its parking place and ran into an object in the street. She stopped suddenly, got out and took a look at what she hit. Lying in the street under her car was an automobile battery. “Oh, my goodness,” she exclaimed. She picked up the heavy battery, placed it in the car and drove to a service station. “Please put my battery back in place,” she urged the bewildered attendant. “To' see,” she explained, “wb I was backing out of a p ing place it fell from the 4
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