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I FORECAST: WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Fair and Slightly cooler today and considerably cooler tonight; Sunday partly cloudy with little temperature change. — ~ VOL. 81.—NO. 92. Lovett Hits Russian Acts Acting Secretary Says Moscow To Blame For Strikes In France ., sHINGTON, Dec. 5—— .-rotary of State Robert i “ clt asserted today that ff “Russia is promoting the ,,ts in France and Italy far attempt to “frighten” the fEuropean aid plans. ,,p ,,.id the Senate Appro committee that the "SS ostensibly led by native .V1 Italian Communists, Fref .. -mpear to be “an ex fcif of Soviet foreign policy.” Thus for the first time he tied Sally to the Kremlin the ! L oi work stoppages and dis 'Vr7ers that have swept France 3 Italv since Congress con cert in' mid-November to con fer an emergency relief grant those two states and Austria. “You can’t ignore it,” he said f the strike wave, “when it ffs at a time when the Con meets, committees go_ to frk and the council of foreign ministers meets in London. He urged the committee to ap nrooriate the money needed to f out the United States’ emer'ger.. ■•'•inter relief pro gram. , “At me point, we ve gui iu make up our"mind if we can go ■nto this thing (foreign aid) and not get frightened out by this ‘art of demonstration,” he said. Studying Bill The committee is studying leg jtion to finance the $597,000,000 diet program authorized by the donate Monday. The House, Meanwhile, wound ;n debate on its own version of the aid bill—a $590,000,000 pro gram embracing China as well as the three European states— and is expected to vote on it Monday or Tuesday. Strong sentiment appeared to developing in the House Re . jblicen bloc for drastic restric ameridments and perhaps a , cut in the size of the pro »;am, which would have to i e ironed out in conference with ■he Senate. Rep. Bartel . .'onkman, R., See LOVETT on Page Two FEDERAL JURORS INDICT WRITERS Eipihi Men Face Possible fai! Terms OL Two Years, Two One Year WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — Ten Hollywood writers and di rectors were indicted by a fed eral grand jury today for al leged contempt of Congress stemming from their refusal to tell a House Unamerican Activ ities subcommittee whether they were Communists. Assistant U. S. Attorney Wil liam Hitz said the defendants, including some of the highest paid scenarists in the movie col ony, would be arraigned here either Dec. 19 or Jan. 2, with nrospects that formal trials will start, in January. tignt of the accused men 1 ere indictedon two c ontempt counts, making each liable to hvo tears in jail and lines of '‘■000 if convicted. They had not only refused to answer the Com munist question but would not 'ell the House investigators if oey were members of the Teen Writers Guild. Tne other two, Writer John »tvard Lawson and Director fe FEDERAL on Page Two Ihe Weather V 1 OPECAST fa ; ./■ar0 :’2 *n<* South Carolina— cooler Saturday, consid er.'*',. ?00‘f" cast and central portions ;usht Sunday, -partly cloudy m0,; !:r 'cmperature changes, -^eoroirgicai data for the 24 hours '“® 1 pm yesterdav: TEMPERATURES ; ' a“ 1:30 am 56, 1:30 pm 72, ®» Maximum 72. Minimum 48. fan 60. Normal 51. HUMIDTY :;30 Pm V°' 7:30 am 80, 1:30 pm 60’ Tot , precipitation 24 hours ending 7:30 I ... since the first of the 'Fro.., , EIDKS TOR TODAY s' r ',*■ Tltie Tables published by '"t and Geodetic Survey.) "'aminctr.n ,ligh Low -4:28 am 11:38 am ■aa°»boro inlet 4:,37,pm ~ ~ pm 1-2.35 am 8:43 am . Sunrise 7 04 c 2;51 pm 9:14 pm • f|T am ’ ^uns€t 5:03; Moonrise w’5ta" n?V:44 Pro t» Fridas Fayetteville, N. C., at M. ,Qd7- 12.0 feet. >1—J HER on Page Two 3 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT) EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Pat Wall of Savannah, Ga., is shown with the Moses Trophy that she won when she wa's named Na tional Leadership Champion at the 1947 4-H Congress in Chica go. She also won a §200 scholar ship. (International) HOSPITAL BATTLE AT STATUS QUO Both Sides Standing Pat; j Nurses Reiterate Faith In Mrs. Noell — Staff nurses at James Walker, Memorial hospital here yesterday reported that every effort is be ing made to influence them to abandon their membership in their nurses association and abandon the security program of the association, but they assert they stand united in their deter-: mination to work “only where their association is recognized.’' Superintendent John Rankin at the hospital yesterday’ said: that the board of managers has no comment to make on the public statement issued by the James Walker staff nurses Fri-j day and that the management of; the hospital is standing pat and' contemplates making no further move “today or tomorrow.” j Nurses of the staff told a Star: reporter that physicians of the hospital staff have been ap-l proaching them in private con-j versations in an effort to induce! each nurse individually to cancel her resignation. The staff doctors have met with no success in this effort, the nurses report. They! issued the following statement yesterday: “The board has failed to break our organization, Mr. John Ran-: kin, superintendent, has failed, to influence us to give up our; security program, now the staff: physicians have been privately' trying to influence members of the nursing staff in confidential conversations to desert their or ganization. Demand Fair Deal “We are determined to carry out our resignation unless we receive a fair deal as a profes-j sional organization. “Until the association’s securi ty program was announced, eight months of individual efforts re sulted in securing only a few staff salary raises of $10 per month. After our program was announced the salary raises of which the board speaks in its official statement were granted. “The board states: “the board has declined to deal with Mrs. Noell because it knows no rea son w'hy she is qualified to act as the sole representative of our graduate nurses. Mrs. Noell is a See HOSPITAL ON Page Two SUC TURNS DOWN RAIL RATE PLEA WSSB, ACL Sought 139 Mile Charge For 39 Mile Haul RALEIGH, Dec. 5 —Iff)—Appli cation of the Winston-Salem Southbound railway company for rates based on round-about routing from Gravelton to South Albemarle was rejected by the State Utilities Commission. The petition sought a 139-mile charge for the 39-mile run, and the commission observed, “all the railways in the stare would have wanted to do the same thing.” The application of Winston Salem Southbound and its co-ap plicant, Atlantic Coast Line, was to base rates on mileage of an alternate rout* on grounds that revenue obtained from the direct-line operations was inade quate. _ Doggie Dan Drifts Down Charleston Way On Foot CHAPEL HILL Dec. 5—UR— \ Dan has been gone for several months, but he’s just turned up in Charleston, S.C. Dan is Chapel Hill’s famous dog who -*as followed the various athletic teams in their practices and workouts and who was almost adopted by the Navy Pre-Flight school here dur ing the war. At that time he deserted the home teams to follow the sailors. Although h* is owned by Dr. and Mrs. Lee Wiley, Dan, until his disappearance this fall, was almost community property. He was known by everyone, stu dents, faculty and townspeople alike. At mealtimes he haunted first one restaurant and then an other. A thoroughbred English Setter, his real name is Bowler Boy’s Dpnny, but to Chapel Hillians, he’s just plain “Dan” who, ap See DAN on Page Two I 5fg,')emand$ soviet Price Marshall Asks Molotov To State How Much German Unity Is Worth LONDON, Dec. 5 — UP)—U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall challenged Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov point blank today to state Rus sia’s price for German unity. Molotov replied with a new at tack upon the Western powers’ policies in Germany. The sharp exchange came as the Four-Power Foreign Min isters, in their tenth meeting for treaty discussions here, tackled the thorny issue of Germany’s economic future without agree ment — indeed, without sign of concession or compromise be tween the East and the West. In a long speech Molotov ac cused Britain and France of “actually hindering” the eco nomic recovery of Western Ger many, claimed greater ef ficiency in the Soviet occupation zone, and repeated his charge of a Western plan to set up a sepa rate regime over Western Ger many. Ernest Bevin, Britain’s sharp-tongued foreign secre tary, lashed back. He labeled Molotov’s arguments “the limit.” He termed Molotov’s contentions “a miserable way to treat the facts.” Bevin Blunt Bevin said bluntly that Molo tov’s remarks were designed “to convince the Germans that they have but one friend — the Soviet Union.” Marshall demanded that th e council “leave generalities and engage in discussion which will enable (it) to make some prog ress.’’ Informants reported the course of today’s meetings as: The American diplomatic chief had laid down his own specific proposals in a formal paper that favored the establish ment of a provisional govern ment reflecting the “free will” of the German people and func tioning “without outside inter ference” except for allied secur ity measures. But he said first must come agreement on such common principles as basic freedom for the individual; abolition of zonal I boundaries; free flow of per sons, ideas and goods through out all Germany, and clear de termination of the economic burdens the German people are to bear. He asked Molotov to be “pre cise” regarding the creation of conditions which would make a central German government “a living reality and not a pre tense.” Seeks Answer Still later, he asked Molotov if Russia still was insistent upon its demand for $10,000,000,000 in reparations from Germany as a condition to that country’s eco nomic and political unity. He didn’t get a direct answer either to the request for pre See DEMANDS on Page Two LUNCHROOMS^GET DRY FRUIT GIFT Approximately 1,750,000 Pounds Going To Schools Of State RALEIGH, Dec. 5— (JP) —Ap roximately one and three-fourths million pounds of dried fruits will be distributed by the North Carolina Department of Agricul ture to school lunchrooms and eligible institutions in the state, Jay P. Davis, marketing specia list of the State Department of Agriculture, announced here to day. The food contribution, Davis said, is a part of approximately ten and one-half million pounds of dried fruits being distributed in nine Southeastern states. The fruits were acquired by the U. S. Department of Agriculture through price supporting opera tions in the West. ^The North Carolina allocation otaling 1,733,970 pounds—twenty four and one-half carloads—in cludes 394,230 pounds of dried peaches, 67,500 pounds of dried apples, 637,740 pounds of dried prunes, and 634,500 pounds of dried raisins. Other USDA food contributions to the state in recent months have included green beans, sweet pota toes, dried eggs, and irish pota toes. Reign Of Terror Grips Arabian City Of Aden Over Arab Strike; U. S. Bans Arms Shipment To East Surplus Material To Be Controlled State Department Takes Action As Middle East War Quickens WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 —(U.R)— All shipments of American arms and ammunition to the strife torn Middle East were halted by the State Department today be cause of the Arab-Jewish disor ders. The ban extends not only to exports by private arms mak ers in the United States but to all American guns and ammu nition held abroad, including surplus and lend-lease equip ment in American depots over seas. Word of the arms embargo came on the heels of a State Department announcement that TJ. S. diplomatic and consular agents throughout the Middle East have been alerted to pro tect American lives and proper ty against possible violence such as the mob attack on the U. S. Information Service office in Baghdad yesterday. Shipmenst Halted The department said licensing of arms or munitions shipments to the trouble zone has been halted for the present “in view of the current disorders.” The ban affects Egypt, Le banon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Pala tine, which have been swept by rioting and in a few instances by anti-American outbreaks, since the recent United Nations decision to partition Palestine between the Arabs and Jews. Department spokesmen em phasized that the licensed arms trade to the Middle East up to now has been on a very minor scale, amounting to only about $7,000 for 1946 and the first 10 months of 1947. During that 22-month period, Lebanon was the biggest fisted buyer of American arms and ammunition, taking a total of $2,820, followed by Saudi Arabia with $2,406. and Egypt with $1, 440. Iraq was the only other of the Sec SURPLUS on Page Two 1 TO MORE WHITE WOMEN ASSAULTED Attacks By Negro Takes Place Only Fifteen Minutes Apart The fourth and fifth Wilming ton white women to be attacked by a strong-arm Negro purse snatcher within a week were as saulted last night in the down twon area of Third street with the robber escaping with one pocketbook containing $11, po lice reported. Failing in his first attempt as the victim fell on her purse and screamed for help when struck from behind, the Negro apparent ly decided to try again and knocked down his second victim 15 minutes later and only three blocks away from the first at tack, the reports showed. Miss Elsie Lewis, 215 Ann street, reported that she was hit from behind with “possibly a brick’’ and that the attacker snatched her pocketbook con taining $11. She was walking north on the west side of Third street toward the Bell Telephone company offices, where she is employed, when the assault oc curred, she said. She told police that someone stepped out of a dark alley run ning west from Third street and struck her. She was treated for a cut on the left side of the face, “caused by some sharp edge, pos See TWO MORE on Page Two Along The Cape Fear SEAL SALE SAILING - If everyone in Wilmington showed the interest in the annual TB Christmas Seal sale as one little old lady, there would be no ques tion of the unlimited success of the campaign, Miss Lucy Nash, secretary of the association, pointed out Friday. This lady walked four blocks from the post office to the TB association’s headquarters in the health department building to buy four Christmas seals to place on a package which she was mailing. “I have 200 of them that I got through the mail at home,” she explained, “but I forgot to bring any down with me, and I simply couldn’t mail my pack age with no seals on it.” WING SCOUTS-At their regu lar weekly meeting Wednesday Wing Scout “Amelia Earhart” Troop No. 2 of the Senior Girl fir. Scouts, were photographed in the first scenes of a motion pic ture they are making to show their various activities. The pic tures taken 'Wednesday show the girls washing planes at the Wil mington airport, a project they requested to be included in their service routine. The complete film will picture all of the activities of the girls through the fall and winter. Vis its to other airports, a trip to the weather station, investiture ceremony, awarding of wings, social activities, and the solo flight of one member who is tak ing flying lessons, will be part of the film. High light of the film and of the playground of the girl scouts will be pictures oi the trip to Winston-Salem where the girls will meet other Wing See CAPE FEAR on Page Two WITH OLD GLORY WAVING in the foregro und, the freighter American Leader arrives in New York from Philadelphia, laden with 3,000,00 0 pounds of food collected in the Quaker City for France’s needy. The ship will pick up an addition al 5,400,000 pounds in New York and then sail for France. (International) Mayor E. L. White Welcomes Members Of Hi-Y Boys Here i • - COLUMBUS DID NOT GO TOO FAR, OXFORD UNION DECIDES OXFORD, Eng., Dec. 5. —<JP>— The Oxford Union, which started as a debating society in 1823 when th% colonial revolt still rankled, last night approved the existence of the Western Hemisphere. The ballot was 186 against, to 184 for, on this resolution: “In the opinion of this house, Columbus went too far.” Samples of the debate: From an American, Morris B. Abram of the University of Chiiago and Oxford’s Pembroke college: “England’s dislike for America might be due to the fact Columbus discovered a land of turkey and tobacco, both of which are now in such short supply here today.” From an Englishman, Peter Kroyer of Christ Church Col lege: “There are those who say that, instead of the Puritans landing on Plymouth Rock, it would have been more appropri ate if the Rock had landed on the Puritans.” ROBBERS COOPERATE WITH VICTIM; TOSS HIM BACK ONE COIN SEATTLE, Dec, 5—W— “Now I’m broke. How’ll I telephone the police?” shout ed John Dozier, as two men sped off in a car after robbing him of his wallet on a Seattle street early thit morning. One of the ' — leaned from the window and flipped a nickle back to the victim. Dozier telephoned police that two 'tier menanced him with a revolver and took his wallet containing $14.89. Police blockade! nearby streets, but the pair escaped. FLYING SANTA PLANS LONG TRIP Edward Snow Will Carry Yule Gifts To 340 Light houses On Coast BOSTON, Dec. 5—(#)—Flying Santa Claus is loading his pack and his gasoline tanks for the longest Merry Christmas mission he has ever flown. Edward Rowe Snow, now pilot of the yule flights started 20 years ago, said today that this year he has set a course of 4,750 miles and has the names of 1,000 persons on See FLYING on Page Two LIGHTNING SETS OFF GAS BLAST One Man Killed, One Hurt When 462,000 Gallons Burns On Coast EL SEGUNDO, Calif.. Dec. 5 —(£)— An explosion, set off dur ing a severe electrical storm, touched off more than 462,000 gallons of gasoline in a storage tank at the Standard Oil Co. refinery today, kliling one man and injuring another. Three hours company of ficials pronounced the fire under control, although the flaming fuel was still billowing black clouds of smoke high into the air. Company workers, all espe cially trained in this type of fire fighting, prevented the flames from spreading to adjacent tanks, some of them holding as much as a million gallons of gasoline. They expressed belief that lightning caused the blast See LIGHTNING On Page Two FOARD RELEASES VETS PROGRAM Ex-Service Men Will Honor Rededication Week This Evening Charles Foard, Legion post commander here, yesterday re leased the program for the Vet eran’s Day rededication week to be held in Legion stadium this evening. The program includes: Assembly of military units at See FOARD on Page Two Singer Who Slings Mean Skillet Seeks Romance NEW YORK, Dec. 6 —(U.R)—“I just can’t get a man,” wailed one of the Metropolitan’s most operatic eyefulls today. ‘My love life is one continual frustration,” delectable dark haired and dimpled Blanche Thom sighed. ‘'I’m just condemned to the fate of mezzo-soprano. I always play the part of a scheming vil lainess and the blankety blank faced innocent coloratura al ways walks off with the man.” ‘‘On the stage, I mean,” she added hastily. But these unrequited love roles try more than the singing star's soul. There has been equal consternation in critic’s row. When the statuesque and shapely singer appeared in Aida clad in a very brief top and Set SINGER on Page Two By ROBERT MILLER Star Staff Writer One hundred and fifty-two dele gates representing 25 cities in the 29th Annual North Caro lina Hi-Y Older Boys’ Conference of the Interstate Young Men’s Christian Association were wel comed to Wilmington by Mayor E. L. White at the opening ses sion of the three-day conference held last night in the Great Hall of St. James Episcopal church. “I’m overjoyed at this oppor tunity to say welcome to our city and because of such organiza tions as the Hi-Y, we, the older generation, can look with confi dence to the future of America,” said White. In praising the work being done by the various organiza tions in North Carolina, White said, ‘‘the very fact that you are here tonight at this conference is proof enough that you possess lithat attribute so cammendable in young men, leadership; and never in the history of our coun try have we needed more such leadership.” Paul L. Peterson, Boy’s work secretary of the YMCA in Kan napolis, presided over the ses sion and introduced H. M. Angel, of the Cone Memorial YMCA in Greensboro who delivered the See MAYOR On Page Two TRAFFIC REPORT ON PORTS LOOMS — Chairman Page Says Sur vey Will Be Completed Early In 1948 RALEIGH, Dec. 5 —UP)—A re port on the possibilities for in creasing water-borne traffic through the ports of Morehead City and Wilmington will be completed in about a month, R. B. Page of Wilmington, chair man of the State Ports Author ity, said today. Page said the authority mem bers met here this week to con sider a preliminary draft of a report prepared by Federick P. Harris and Company, New York City engineering firm. Costs of the survey will be paid from a $90,000 allocation from the Federal Works admin istration for post-war planning The report contains a revenue and tonnage survev of the state. It was praised by J. Melville Broughton of Raleigh, Ports Au thority counsel and former gov ernor, as “the most comprehen sive ever made of traffic and facilities for a North Carolina port.” - I British Airborne Troops Take Over Over Two Score Killed Ilf Fighting; Palestine Toll Mounts JERUSALEM, Dec. 5. — (#) -» The toll from five days of riot and battle as the Arab world’* 40,000,000 Moslems violently pro tested the partition of Palestine mounted close to ln0 today with belated reports of a reign of ter ror in Arabia's Aden where 44 persons wee said to have been killed. Meanwhile in Jerusalem’s fiv® mile smoke-blackened “front" in the border area of Tel Aviv and Jaffa and Palestine’s death roll, by Associated Press count, mounted to 48. Elsewhere, in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon Arabs faced Holy Mecca and prayed to Allah for help against partition. Most of them then turned to peaceful pursuits on the Moslem sabbath, but in Aden, the British colony on the Arabian coast, seriou* disorder prevailed. The British Colonial office said the trouble started Tuesday after a partial Arab strike erupt ed into an invasion of the Jew ish “crater" quarter which re sulted in the deaths of 44 person* 25 Arabs and 19 Jews. Troops Flown In The British flew 300 troops ire to the town from Khartoum and two companies of infantry -wer* dispatched from the Suez Canal to support a naval landing party which was attempting to restore order. A curfew wa* clamped on the area. Reports from North Africa told of outbreaks in a new quarter when the Arabs of Der na in Libya stormed Jew ish metalsmith shops with guns, clubs and hand grenades. A number of shops where Ameri can soldiers once bought souve nies were leveled. Twenty - thousand Egypt ians gathered at A1 Azhar mos que in Cairo and broke through police lines at a threatening moment after hearing a fiery priest call for a holy war. But further demonstrations wer* curbed by the leaders. A government ban curbed fur ther demonstrations in Bagdad, Iraq, where a mob had sacked a U. S, Information office. Beirut, Lebanon, ancient capi tal of the Phoenicians, also wa* the scene of a peaceful demon* See BRITISH on Page Two PROFESSERWINS MAYFLOWER CUP Dr. Robert E. Coker * “Thii Great Wide Sea” Judged State’s Best RALEIGH, Dec. 5—'JO— Dr. Robert E. Coker, Kenan profes sor of zoology at the University of North Carolina, tonight was judged winner of the Mayflower Cup for his book, “This Great Wide Sea,” which was judged as the best book written Dy a North Carolina author during the past year. The Coker volume won over 28 other entries in the contest. Presentation of the honor was made by Ralph Coit of Greens boro, governor of the Mayflower descendents in North Carolina, at the concluding session of the State Literary and Historical As sociation. The cup is given annually by the society and the association. Tonight’s meeting climaxed « series of meetings by the state’s seven cultural societies which began sessions here Tuesday. Meeting here this week were the State Literary and Historical Association, The North Caro lina State Art Society, The North Carolina Society For The Pre servation of Antiquities, The North Carolina Folk Lore So ciety, The Archaeological Socie ty of North Carolina, and The Executive Committees of the North Carolina Symphony Socie oy and The North Carolina So. ciety of County Historians. Governor Cherry presided ai tonight’s session of the State Lit See PROFESSOR on Page Tw# And So To Bed A member of the Boy’s HI Y Conference here was dis cussing the conference of the Girls’ Hi-1 conference being held in Rocky Mount. Paul Peterson, of Kannapo lis and who presided at th# conference, suggested a com mittee to send a telegram to the girls. One delegate spake up and said, I had rather be there." i
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