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- YOL. 81—NO. 96. WIHS***^*1^ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947
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U. S. W:arns Russians
To End German Loot
Marshall Demands That Soviet Quit Grab
Of Reparations From Productions By
December 31; Asks Answer Now
: oNDON. Dec. 10—(U.R)—Sec
;;rv. of state George C. Mar
ks'demanded in the Big Four
Ministers conference to
‘ that Russia stop grabbing
“D.,,,\i, ms from current Ger
man industrial production by
'!.jfinight Dec. 31.
, p po' that Russia was
'log to w. rck German
conom! and drag all Europe to
oiJking its occupation
at"an estimated rate of more
:tn $500,000,000 a year vehile the
rn%d States and Great Britain
are pouring $700,000,000 a year
]nt0 their zones, Marshall form
's- proposed:
Jan 1, 1948, no ' ing
,hal] be taken out of Germany
except for a fair economic value
jn rnonev or goods which can be
■mrnediately used to sustain Ger
pian economy.
"-This decision shall stand until
further action by the Council (of
foreign ministers) or pursuant to
a peace treaty.”
Marshall said that if the Big
Four could not act immediately
—and favorably—on th' propo
sal which he described as of “im
mediate vital signif'cance,” then
“we are wasting our time where
there is no time to waste.”
He demanded the Russia For
eign Minister Viacheslav Molotov
gi. - the Big Four a “positive
answer” and said he wanted it
“now.”
But Molotov flatly refm d to
discuss the reparations question
until other German anomic
problems had been ' dered.
Molotov’s attitude, including
his refusal to tell what Russia
is doing behind the iron urtain
obscuring her occupation zone,
See U. S. on Page Two
A mb-Jewish Death Toll
In Middle East Now 245
CONVENES JAN. 5
, dereiary-Genera! Lie Of
UN Makes Announce
ment Of Meeting
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec.
:n 'U.R'—The newly - created
United Nations IJttle Assembly,
;SR Isiewhhu
-,-hich Russia and her satellites
have threatened to boycott, will
hold its first meeting Jan. 5, UN
Secretary-General Trygve Lie
announced today.
Lie said he had sent official
notice of the opening date to all
UN members, since neither
dussia nor anv of the five UN
a. rubers in her orbit—Ukraine.
Byelo - Russia, Yugoslavia, Po
: and Czechoslovakia — has
mi :med the UN officially that
it will carry through the boy
a threat.
The new organ was proposed
by the United States and ap
proved at the recent General
Assembly session as a means of
short-circuiting the Soviet veto
and bolstering the UN as a
whole. It will debate world
problems during a test period
between now and the convening
See ASSEMBLY on Page Two
SLASH IN POTATO
PRODUCTION OFF
erson Cancels Sched
?d Reduction In North
Carolina
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
Dec. 10 —W—Secretary of Ag
riculture Anderson announced
today cancellation of a sched
uled reduction in 1948 potato
production goals in seven East
ern states and West Texas.
The commercial early potato
states are South Carolina, New
Jersey, North Carolina, Virgin
0. Maryland, Delaware and the
Long Island section of New
York.
Anderson said that Dec. 1 the
■ght states were notified that
See SLASH on Page Two
The Weather
. ^ SUB FORECAST
^ CAROLINA—Cloudy and cool
j.""" occfi;A)-d light rain, occuring most
Pri ?Ver Soutil Portion Thursday follow
ri_. ■ ra ■ ■ d continued cool Thursday
nign;. and Friday.
ROUNA—Mostly cloudy
co°* Thursday with light drizzle in
‘ ■'•-3Rg» followed by light rain
pri(i contlnu«d cool Thursday night and
Meteorological data for the 24 hourf
,,dmg 3:30 p. m. Yesterday
, TEMPERATURES
. r *• ™ 48 7:30 a. m. SO 1:30
100 3:30 p. rn. 97.
3>or”na j,n‘ Minimum 41 Mean 55
. HUMIDITY
•*' i m. 83 7:30 a. m. 100 l:3t
P m. ioo 7:30 97.
T PRECIPITATION
° fur the 24 hours ending 7:3C
P’ n; . 93 inches.
= ' nee the First of the Month
s" :nche
tides for today
V ^ Tide Tables published by
u and Geodetic Survey.)
1, : h1GH LOW
• " gton 9:05 a. m. 3.26 a. m.
Ma 9:15 p. m. 4:03 p. m.
- let 8:25 a. ir. 12:23 a. m.
s . 9:07 p. m. i:06 p. m.
S n. . ‘ 13 Sunset 5:03 Moonrise
’Onset 4:23 p.
•—L EATHER or. Page Two
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High Commissioner Warns
Of Drastic Measures For
Palestine
JERUSALEM, Dec. 10. — OB—
The death toll in 11 days of Holy
Land violence climbed to 131
tonight and Sir Alan Cuning
ham, the high commissioner,
warned Jews and Arabs that un
less the bloodletting ceases
“severe measures” would be
taken against both communities.
A British police officer and a
territorial soldier died from
wounds, bringing to 19 the num
ber of deaths reported today. It
was one of the worst days of
scattered violence since the
United Nations decision to par
tition Palestine.
The Jewish - Arab warfare
spread to the Southern desert,
where 10 deaths were reported.
Eighteen Arabs smashed their
way out of Acre Prison in the
Far North.
An Associated Press count of
deaths in Palestine included 78
Jews, six British and two Ar
menians. The total for the en
tire Middle East was 243.
A dispatch from Ade said
two Arabs were killed by local
police in an attack upon a Jew
ish shop. This would bring cas
ualties in that Arabian port to
114 and raise the Middle East
figure to 245. The dispatch ad
ded that many Jews were leav
ing the city in the wake of the
Jew-Arab strife.
(Representatives of the Arab
League held their third session
in the current meetings at Cairo
for organizing their forces to
oppose the U. N. de c i s i on
for Palestine. The Arab leaders
were in touch with the Syrian
delegate to the United Nations
Security Council in New York.
They made arrangemets also
to confer here with an Iraq of
ficial who Arab inform, its said
had been in consultation with
American and British officials
on Palestine.
WIRE EMPLOYES
FAVORING STRIKE
Western Union Telegraph
ers, Messengers Rolling
Up Big Majority
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -(/Pi
Western Union employes were
reported rolling up heavy mar
gins today in favor of a pre
Christmas strike for higher
wages.
Three AFL unions—the Com
mercial Telegraphers Union,
the Telegraph Workers Union
and the Telegraph Employes
Union—laid plans for the walk
out unless a deadlock with the
Western Union Telegraph co.
over the wage scale can be
broken.
The three unions claim to rep
resent 50,000 employes in 3,000
telegraph offices from coast to
coast. Only New York city
would be unaffected by a strike.
The employes’ bargaining agent
See WIRE on Page Two
Army C-5 21 ransport With 29 Men Aboard
Crashes, Burns On Sub-Arctic Wasteland;
Rome, Italy Crippled By General Strike
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Efforts To Avoid
“Walk-Out” Fail
Communis t-Controlled
Unionists, 50,000
Strong To Leave Jobs
ROME, Thursday, Dec. 11. —
(U.R) — Bus and street car service
halted early today when Rome’s
first general strike in 26 years
got un derway despite futile gov
ernment - union negotiations
which extended nearly two hours
beyond the midnight strike dead
line.
The Communist - controlled
Rome Chamber of Labor order
ed the strike of more than 500,
000 workers, even though union
officials discussed a compromise
offer from Premier Alcide De
Gasperi’s government until 1:45
A. M. — 105 minutes after the
strike officially began.
A government spokesman said
negotiations would be resumed
at 11 A.M. (5 A.M., EST) and
''we hope to settle the strike by
noon ” But labor officials indi
cated that the strike would con
tinue for at least one day re
gardless of the negotiations.
How successful the strike
would be was a question mark.
Transportation workers quit al
most immediately after the mid
night deadline, but it would be
mid-morning before the total ef-j
fectiveness could be assessed.
Strike Denounced
Officials of the minority
Christian Democratic Union—
the labor segment of the pre
mier’s governing party—de
nounced the strike as a “Com
munist imposition” and appeal
ed to its members to work. \
Communist leaders said they
would post shop committees in
all plants to prevent any back
to-work movement. They also
warned the city’s two largest
evening newspapers, Giornale D
‘Italia and Giornale Della Sera
—both pobaicially independent—
that they woud be “suppressed”
See El~0"TS on r..^c Two
DECISION UPHOLDS
ASSEMBLY ACTION
Supreme Court Says Legis
lature May Favor War
Veterans
RALEIGH, Dec. 10 —(/P)—The
State Supreme Court today up
held the right of the General As
sembly to pass legislation con
ferring special privileges upon
war veterans “who have fought
in defense of their country and
in the preservation of its insti
tutions.”
The court’s ruling came as it
upheld constitutionality of a law
of the 1947 General Assembly
which permits war veterans
with three years of experience
to obtain licenses to barber
without taking an examination
from the State Board of Barber
Examiners.
Associate Justice A. A. F.
Seawell wrote for the court:
“From the beginning of civi
lization and before written con
stitutions were conceived, na
tions and governments have
recognized and obligation to
those who have fought in the
armed forces in defense of their
country and in the preservation
of its institutions.”
Public Concern
“The rehabilitation of the re
turned soldier is a matter of
public concern throughout the
nation. . . Justice Seawell
continued. “Practically a 11
states in the union . . . have
given veterans preferential
treatment in many instances of
a more discriminatory charac
ter than the privilege conferred
by the challenged statute.”
Constitutionality of the law
was challenged by W. E. Motley
of Raleigh, operator of a bar
ber shop, and Willie Cox and R
D. Ellington who secured
a temporary order restraining
See DECISION on Page Two
High-Priced Barbecue,
i Filing Fees Hit Boyd
RALEIGH, Dec. 10. — 0J.R> —
North Carolina’s hog-raising gu
bernatorial candidate, Olla Ray
Boyd, studied the horns of his
hog dilemma today and admit
ted the barbecue situation was
serious.
The Pinetown pig - breeder,
tree surgeon and self-styled in
ventor for war said costs were
catching up with the candidates
—particularly the cost of hogs.
The Honorable Olla Ray, as
his stationery proclaims him,
said the filing fee for the gov
ernor’s race used to be $105, and
pigs suitable for political barbe
cues sold at a top of $14.55 per
hundred pounds under the OPA.
Now the pigs sell for $18 to
$20, with top quality at $25 to
$28, which was fine for his
career as a hog rancher but
hard on his political aspira
tions. Noting that the filing fee
had also gone up to $150. Boyd
complained that candidates
would run through their alloted
campaign funds in a hurry.
He forecast that barbecue pigs
—and those destined for pork
chops and sausage—would grow
scarcer because reduced tobac
co acreage would turn more
farms to livestock raising. They
would save their pigs for breed
ing stock, he said.
Nurses Flatly Reject Hospital Board’s
Latest Offer Of Terms For Settlement
COURT OVERHAUL
URGED BY HELMS
Charlotte Attorney Ad
dreses Meeting Of New
Hanover Bar
Calling for the overhauling of
the North Carolina Superior
court system, Fred B. Holmes,
immediate past president of the
State Bar association and promi
nent Charlotte attorney, declar
ed here last night that “rotation
of judges is one of the biggest
millstones arcund the necks of
lawyers.”
fo stop Communism and all
the other “isms,” “we must make
Americanism work better,”
Helms said, adding th • “we
can’t do it permanently by guns
or by other methods.” He spoke
at the quarterly meeting of the
New Hanover Bar association at
the Cape Fear club.
Stating that making American
ism work to a large extent is the
responsibility of lawyers, Helm.es
saipl that “If we don’t make law
work effectively iq its practice
in America, then this democracy
of ours is going by the boards,
and the law must be made to
work by lawyers.”
Attacking the present judicial
set-up in the State, Helms said,
“Law in North Carolina today
cannot be administered properly
with machinery for administra.
tion that is 100 years old. The
public has lost confidence in our
businesslike administration of the
law. We have antequated ma
chinery to work with.”
“We stand or fall in North Car
olina on the efficiency of our
Superior court system,” he said.
“That system is woefully anti
quated and woefully inefficient.
No matter how efficiently our
bar operates, you can’t operate
efficiently under machinery that’s
100 years old.”
Court Wait
Pointing out that much of the
business formerly handled in the
court is being settled outside
through arbitration (he estimated
this at 90 per cent) ,he said that
businessmen are finding them
selves unable to wait for court
procedure in settling their dis
putes and problems.
The businessmen are estimating
their losses in time and fees, he
said, and settling their cases
without recourse to courts.
Suggesting that time could be
saved and efficiency stepped up
by having the judges assigned
to their home districts perma
See COURT On Page Two
mhjtaryflTers
DITCH TRANSPORT
North Carolina Among
Crew Which Parachuted
To Safety
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 10—
(IP)—Four members of the U. S.
Military attache’s office at Bag
dad, Iraq, flying froi- Rome,
became lost last night over West
ern Turkey, ditched their C-47
military transport plane and
parachuted to safety.
Their fuel supply was almost
gone.
Lt. Col. James F. Coward, of
Erwin, Tenn., air attache at Bag
dad, was piloting the plane.
He said tonight that his radio
was blacked out by ./eather and,
seeing the situatio. was grave,
ordered the craft ditched after
setting it on the automatic pilot.
See MILITARY on Page Two
GOVERNOR ASKS CONCILIATION
SERVICE AID IN JWH DISPUTE
RALEIGH, Dec. 10—VP)—Governor Cherry today requested
the Conciliation Service of the State Department of Labor to
“make its facilities available” in the dispute between nurses
and the James Walker Memorial hosptial of Wilmington over
working conditions.
After the hospital had refused last week to recognize the
State Nurses Association as bargaining agent for the nurses,
some 38 of the hospital’s nurses handed in their resignations to
become effective on Dec. 18.
The governor expressed the hope “that the Conciliation
Service can be of assistance in ironing out the difficulties at
the Wilmington institution.”
House Rejects Efforts
To Slash Aid Bill Funds
M VlCAL SCHOOL
MERGER PLAN OFF
Committees Unable To
Reach Accord On Trans
fer To Greensboro
RALEIGH, Dec. 10. — At:
a meeting in governor Cherry’s
office today it was decided that
“no satisfactory plan” for the
merger of the University of
North Carolina’s four-year med
ical school and the Moses H.
Cone Memorial hospital at
Greensboro. can be worked out.
The decision was reached at
g meeting of the executive com
mitee of the University trustees
with the University’s medical
school committee and a commit
tee representing trustees of the
Cone Memorial hospital.
Negotiations have been under
way for several months between
the two committees on the pos
sibility of working out a plan
for combining the proposed
four-year medical school and
training hospital of tire Univer
See MEDICAL on Pa„i Two
IRANIAN PREMIER
MUST NOW RESIGN
Ahmad Ghavan Loses Vote
Of Confidence I n
Parliament
TEHERAN, Iran, Dec. 10. —
(U.R)— Premier Ahmad Ghavam
lost a vote of confidence by par
liament tonight and under the
Iranian constitution he must now
resign.
Ghavam’s cabinet quit several
days ago over his failure to carry
out domestic reform measures.
At that time he turned down op
position deputies who informed
him he no longer had a majority
in parliament and should there
fore resign.
In a long speech in parliament
today Ghavam described his
services to Iran and warned that
there was a well-organized plan
for revolution in the Northern
provinces.
“It is a pity that I cannot re
veal alarming secrets,” Ghavam
said. “I depart proudly and
leave to history the verdict of
my services.”
At the stormy session Ghavam
said he had forestalled the Sep
aratist movement in Azerbaijan
province but it had “not yet end
ed.”
Ghavam imposed virtual mili
tary law on Iran when his cabi
net walked out. He forbade
meeting of more than three per
sons and increased the guard at
his residence and around govern
ment buildings.
Along The Cape Fear
DATS OF SAILING—Yester
day Along the Cape Fear began
the first of a series of articles
about sailing and the Carolina
Yacht club. This morning we
continue with the story.
If by chance you happen to
meet one of the older members
of the Carolina Yacht club,
which by the way, is the second
oldest club on the Atlantic
coast, he will probably tell you
about the races between the La
[Favorite, purchased in 1855 by
] Richard Brantley, and the Jen
nie Q. sleek craft of Parker
Quince. This was a memorable
race, the rocking chair Ad
mirals will tell you. Of course
none of them saw the race, but
all have heard the story from
their grandfathers and fathers.
Those were the days of sail
ing, the Admirals will tell you.
; There weren’t any moth boats
• in which the youngsters could,
learn to sail safely and alone.
There weren’t any spinakers or
Genoa jibs or any fancy para
phernalia but it was the time
of sailing.
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TWILIGHT WINS—Such sail
ing, the old timers will recall
as that in 1856 when Daniel Bak
er, then commodore of the club,
was defeated in the La Favorite
by the Twilight, of Masonboro.
The Twilight was owned and
sailed by John Quince. It was
a craft that brought envy to the
eyes of many a yachtsman at
Wrightsville. The Twilight was
said to be able to actually go
dead to windward. They don’t
build boats like that now, but
the Twilight could really sail
close to the wind.
The Princess was another
craft the weather beaten rock
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
Chamber Also Shuts Off
Help For Nations Going
Communist
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—(^P)—
The House rejected decisively
tonight all efforts to slash its
$590,000,000 bill authorizing
emergency aid to France, Italy,
Austria and China, and final ap
proval of the bill in substantial
ly its present form appeared
likely to come tomorrow.
Representatives voted down
147 to 97, an amendment by Rep.
Lawrence H. Smith (R-W i s)
which would have trimmed the
aid figure to $500,000,000 a pro
posed $300,000,000 cut was re
jected by an even wider margin,
171 to 78.
But the House also turned
down an amendment, sponsored
by Rep. Merrow (R-NH), which
would have raised the total to
$661,000,000) so as to give the
three European countries as
much help as the Senate has au
thorized and to add some $60,
000,000 for China.
The vote against Merrow’s
proposal was 165 to 24. It fol-i
lowed a last-ditch fight against
the entire relief program by Re
publican and some Democratic
opponents.
Rep. Jonkman (R-Mich) de
clared “there is no excuse for
this bill” and Rep.Short (R-Mo)
backed him up with a slashing
sneech, telling the House: “In
stead of bleeding ourselves
white, which is what Russia
wants, we might better spend
the money to build up our own
defenses.”
Urging that the relief sum be
increased, Merrow said: “If we
keep on cutting, we might as
well pick up our playthings and
pull out of Europe. Then we can
sit down and wait for the first
atomic bomb.”
The chamber recessed in the
See HOUSE on Page Two
NINE HOSPITALS
WILL GET FUNDS
Federal Cash Assured For
Proposed 'Project In
North Carolina
MORNING STAR
WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Fed
eral funds are assured to cover
one-third of the cost of building
nine North Carolina hospitals,
with a total estimated expense
of $6,284,250, the Public Health
Service said today.
The nine hospitals, which will
have 535 beds, will be construct
ed under the Hill-Burton act,
which authorizes the federal
government to underwrite one
third of the cost while the re
maining two-thirds will be
shared by the state and local
communities.
Several other applications
from North Carolina probably
See HOSPITALS on Page Two
Answer To Proposal Dis
patched To J. W. H.
Chairman Dan Penton
The staff nurses of James
Walker Memorial hospital here
last night flatly rejected the hos
pita board’s latest offer of
terms in the controversy over
working conditions at the insti
tution.
The nurses dispatched the
lowing letter to Dan Penton,
chairman of the hospital’s board
of managers, last night:
“The James Walker staff
nurses find the working condi
tions outlined in the latest offer
of the Board of Managers indi
cate a shift of the managers’
opinion in the proper direction.
But since this proposition makes
no attempt to get to the root of
the misunderstanding, we find it
completely unacceptable.
“The latest terms offer sala
ries and working conditions un
deniably generous compared to
those now in force at James
Walker. This fact inescapably
points to but one conclusion: it
is a public admission that until
now the nurses at James Walker
hospital have been exploited.
“Notice that these terms defi
nitely are not offered in the form
of a contract. The staff is not
anxious to settle this controversy
on any “here today—gone to
morrow” basis.
“Even more fundamental is
the refusal to recognize the
nurses associaion and our right
to bargain collectively. We re
peat that recently proposed
working conditions by their com
parative generosity compel t he
conclusion that James Walker
nurses currently are being ex
ploited.
“The refusal of the board of
managers even to recognize the
association and to allow the staff
to bargain collectively—as is a
basic human right—compel" the
alarming conclusion that the
board seeks to continue to ex
ploit the nurses in the future.
“For this reason 36 staff
nurses are unanimous in their
decision to resign from the hos
See NURSES on Page Two
THOUSANDS VIEW
FREEDOM TRAIN
Dozens Of Buses Bring
Hundreds Of Visitors To
City For Occasion
The Freedom Train pulled out
of its berth at the shipyard here
last night and headed for South
Carolina where it will show its
cargo of precious documents af
ter exhibiting them here yester
day to an estimated 15,000 rain
soaked spectators.
Buses and automobiles loaded
with school children and i 'ults
began to converge : this city
shortly after daylight yesterday
morning, and a long line had
formed at the train’s entrance
door before the 10 o’clcvisit
ing hour rolled around.
The train was thrown open to
newspaper reporters and city of
ficials at 9 a. m. When they had
passed through the cars, it was
then opened to the general pub
lic on a first come, first served
basis.
City buses did a landslide busi
ness during the day hauling city
residents to the shipyard, and
cars from throughout the south
eastern section of the state jam
packed parking facilities at the
yard.
The train contained documents
- -priceless in valuation—symbols
of American heritage from the
time of the founding of this na
tion through the last world war.
It contained the secret message
of General Jonathan Wainwright
notifying the high command of
the imminent surrender of Cor
See THOUSANDS on Page Two
Soviet “Secret Weapon”
To Thaw Out Speakers
KILL DEVIL HILL, Dec. 10
—(U.R)— Russian-born Igor Sikor
sky, inventor of the helicopter,
can toast the 44th anniversary
of delight next Wednesday with
a slug of Premier Joseph Stal
lin’s vodka, Alpheus W. Drink
water said today.
The colorful aircraft designer
will speak at the towering shaft
which caps the hill where the
Wright brothers new their first
plane, while a mass flight of
helicopters spins overhead.
To get into the spirit of things,
Drinkwater, program chairman
of the Kill Devil Hill Memorial
Assn., will have his treasurered
Vodka on hand. He saves the
fiery equalizer to thaw out dis
tinguished guests at the annual
ceremonies.
Drinkwater said he got the
Vodka from Gen. H. H. Arnold,
wartime chief of the Army Air
Forces. Stalin gave the Ameri
can general a case of Vodka
after the Teheran conference.
Arnold, wary of the Russian
‘secret weapon,” left a bottle
here after a visit, t
Sikorsky, now an American
citizen, fled from Russia in the
Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
See SECRET on Page Two
Helicopter Will
Aid Rescue Task
Royal Canadian Fliers As
sisting American
A. T. C. Detail
WESTOVER, Mass., D-c. 10—
(U.R) —An Army transport plan*
.xving a helicopter landed at
Goose Bay, Labrador, tonight,
but officials said they would
wait for daybreak to continue
the search fjr survive s of a
C-54 that crashed and burned
with 29 peisons aboard.
C round _rew worke at the
Royal Canadian Air Fi field
at Goose Bay worked with the
\merican rescue fliers ft a sem
'-le the helicopter whic1, is sche
duled to take off at 7:00 a.m,
tomorrow.
Meanwhile, grourd ui. carry
ing food, clothing and medical
supplies, battled through dense
growths of scrub pine d over
ockv slopes to reach the isolat
ed sub-Arctic wasteland where
the plane crashed shortly before
midnight last night.
However, the Army public re
lations officer at Westover eld,
an Air Transport command cen
ter, said the last mo-snge from
the ground units said they prob
ably would make camp for the
gilt c n the north bank of Goose
Bay river and continue on at
dawn.
19 Passengers
Army officials said the per
sons aboard the downed plane
had been identified as *1 crew
members and 19 passengers and
that telegrams had been sent
their next of kin listing them as
“missing.”
Because the crash occurred on
foreign soil, th Army spokes
man said, the names n those
aboard fhe plane would not be
made public for 48 hours under
a wartime ruling still in effect.
R. C. A. F. planes made re
peated flights over the area hop
ing to spot some indication of
life on the ground below, but
Ihey reported no movement and
no camp fire in the vicinity of
the downed plane.
One radio nr je intercept
See HELICOPTm oi. Page Two
CHORUSES^ PLEASE
LARGE AUDIENCE
Benefit Concert For CatK
erine Kennedy Fund
Proves Success
The Atlantic Coast Line Male
and Women’s choruses gave so
fine a performance in Handel’s
Hallelujah chorus last night that
Wilmington ought, in all serious
ness, to organize an orchestra
to accompany this s pendid
group of vocalists in this a nd
other masterpieces.
Surely, since the railroad’s of
fice staffs have made such
great progress, careful search
among other employes would
uncover enough instrumen
talists to form a little symphony
orchestra. What a contribution
the Coast Line could make to
the cultural development of this
community by sponsoring it.
Last night’s concert before an
audience that packed the high
school auditorium marked the
premiere of the Women’s chorus
which, besides sharing the suc
cess of the Hallelujah chorus,
was also heard in two groups
of songs to excellent advantage.
The male chorus, revived last
year after disbanding when
World War II came, also sang
two groups, and the male en
semble one. Time forbids full
discussion of the separate num
bers. Suffice to say all showed
marked improvement over last
year’s initial concert, given for
the benefit of the Grace church
rebuilding fund.
Soloists Charm
The two soloists, Emerson
Head and J. E. Rose, Jr., boys
See CHORUSES on Page Two
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