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FORECAST: * 4 + ^ ^ y ~-si#== untiu$imt nrtmtg tytctr V0L- 81—NQ. "• WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1947 ESTABLISHED 186? ' I). S. Answers Soviet Blast Marshall Says America, Britian Haven’t Got Pen ny From Germany LONDON, Dec. 14. — (JF) — •Cretan' of state Marsha11 told jflja tonight that neither the f-nited States nor Britain has cketed “one penny” from the > of German exports, and ap 1 led anew for big power co „P' ration in reviving Germany’s economy and foreign trade. This was Marshall’s answer to ceviet Foreign Minister V. M. Motors angry charge Friday Angio-American profiteering °t Germany’s expense. Ike answer was issued mid v in a weekend cooling-off t-iod in deliberations of the Big Lr Foreign Ministers Council. In an atmosphere made tense bv the knowledge their decisions u:ill shape Europe’s economic fu (ure for years to come, the dip lomatic chiefs will resume their deadlocked discussions tomor roW An American challenge for a Russian accounting of Soviet reparations removals still stands .< the immediate issue. Five lomts In a formal statement distribut ed in advance of tomorrow’s meeting to the Russian, British and French delegations, Marshall put the American case on record. He made these points: The United States “long ago proposed a moratorium” — with out success — on acquisition of foreign ownership or control of property in Germany. It attempted in vain to obtain factual statements” on the changes in foreign ownership in each of the zones of occupa tion. It has scrupuously carried out in its own zone the moratorium it proposed. There has not been a single case of American acquisition of See ANSWERS On Page Two BANDITHOLDS UP RAIL PASSENGERS Three Judges Among Vic tims Of Negro On Chica go-Sound Train CHICAGO, Dec. 14. — <U.R) — G-Men, police and railroad agents searched today for a bandit who boarded a New York Central train on Chicago’s South side last night and held up 14 per sons, including three judges, be fore the train pulled into its downtown depot. The bandit, a young Negro, obtained about $1,500 in cash and a quantity of jewelry as the Buffalo-to-Chicago train the "Interstate Express,” moved slowly from the Englewood station at 63rd street toward the LaSalle Street station. He jump ed off and fled as the train approached the downtown dis trict. He threatened to shoot some of his victims, including the judges, but he fired only one shot into a wall during the hold up. When he boarded the train he waved a nickle-piated revolver at H. E. Grice, a porter, and said “this is a stickup.” He handed Grice a shopping bag and ordered him to “start collect ing money.” Grice collapsed on a seat and 'he bandit proceeded without help to hold up passenges in the last Pullman car, including J group returning from conven tion of the National Law Insti tute at South Bend, Ind. The Weather south Carolina—cloudy and con ‘n.UeJ c°o1 with occasional rain Monday ana Tuesday. Mn CAROLINA—Cloudy and cool V, ;;day Tuesday; occasional rain .Gay ni8hi and Tuesday, and over >• and South portions Monday after noon. 'le.eornlogical data for the 24 hours ndm8 7:30 a.m. Yesterday. . Temperatures - r0am- 25. 7:30 a.m. 31; 1:30 p.m. 47; ‘•w P-m. 43. 5°’ Minimum 30I Mean 40; «... Humidity ;.,7° a m. 58; 7:30 a.m. 88: 1:30 p.m. 54; '•u0 P m. 55. T Precipitation n.on 24 hours endin8 7:30 a.m. ToLlli since the First of the month — ^ inches. Tides For Tomorrow U. c01p ,ne Tide Tablets published by Coast and Geodetic Survey) "'Kington-21:49 fm. 677a m, Inlet. ^ JjK Sunr . 9:34 P-m- 3:43 P-m 5 4 lui Sunset 5:04; Moonrise S,. ~;i, 'lIo<>nset 7:45 p.m. : .e.TH* WEATHER on Page 2 Emergency Aid Bill Faces Drastic Cut House Appropriations Sub-Group Reported To Have Reached Tentative Agreement For Slash Of 50 To 100 Millions ---—_ WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—(/P) — Emergency aid for Europe faced the prospect today of an other slash of $50,000,000 to $100, 000,000 or more efore it pas* es Congress. This possibility arose as an i, fluential sub-group of the House Appropriations committee was re ported toda> to have reached a tentative decision reducing the $597,000,000 measure — with its work unfinished and subject change. The preliminary agreement was said to be this: 1. Removal of China from the bill. 2. A cut of $50,000,000 to $60, 000,000 France, Aus trT'3^^ > .■&* <\ .ion remaining: jther $60,000,000 or cfd off because China is -Jded *e subcommittee, which has > !ot disclosed any results of its closed-door deliberations, will continue tomorrow. Its decisions must go before the full commit tee later, but Chairman Taber fR.-N. Y.) is in charge of both groups and committee approval is therefore likely. A bill authorizing the program which is designed to supply See EMERGENCY on Page Two Duck Hunting Trip Ends In Death Of Local Men “ICE” METERS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 14 — (JP) — Parking problems have grown at this city 100 miles south of the Arctic circle. Parking meters, guaranteed to operate at temperatures down to 35 degrees below zero, will be installed as soon as possible. “When it gets colder than that, our parking problems are somewhat diminished,” City Manager Louis D. Kelsey said. STANLEY BALDWIN 1 N BY DEATH Man Who Broke King Ed ward VIII, Dies In Sleep At Stourport LONDON, Dec. 14. — (JP) — Earl Baldwin, 80, the Briton who broke one king and made another, died in his sleep dur ing the night at his home in Stourport, Worcestershire, it was announced today. As Stanley Baldwin he served his country three times as prime minister, but nothing in his long political career approached the decision he and another man forced upon Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor, in Dec ember, 1936. Baldwin and the late Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, told King Edward then that he had only this choice —abdication or renunciation of Wallis Warfield Simpson. Ed ward chose abdication and marri ed the twice divorced American George VI, Britain’s present monarch, then succeeded to the throne. Baldwin’s death came 11 years after the abdication of King Edward. For two weeks before that event, Baldwin, a friend of Edward, had worked night and day behind the scenes. Then on Dec. 10, 1936, he stood See BALDWIN on Page Two O’CONNOR NAMES POSTER CHILD Mississippi Boy Will Be Featured In March Of Dimes Drive NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — Vt) — Terry Tullos, 3-year-old golden haired polio victim who lives at Laurel, Miss., will be the poster child for the 1948 March of Dimes campaign for funds to fight poliomyelitis, it was an nounced today by Basil O’Con nor, president of the National sis. Foundation For Infantile Paral.y Terry, youngest child ever chosen for the March of Dimes poster, will symbolize the thou sands of persons stricken with polio. The appeal for funds will be made Jan. 15 to 30 and O’Con nor said $30,000,000 would be needed next year as a result of the increase in polio cases dur ing the last five years. The child, stricken with polio in 1945 before he learned to walk, is expected to regain full use of his legs. He is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Tullos._ Zachary Pae Albert Jones Die Of Shock, Exposure In Marsh Water Two Wilmington men died of shock and exposure after walk ing into a marsh near the Rocks at the foot of Kure’s Beach when the boat from which they were duck hunting was swamped, and a third man was recovering from shock and exhaustion at James Walker Memorial hospital last night after a gallant but un successful attempt to save them. The dead were Zachary Thom as Pae, 34, 318 Red Cross street, and Albert Jones, 27, 518 Daw son street, according to Coroner Gordon Doran. Avery Herring, 20 - year _ old brother-in-law of Jones, also of 518 Dawson street, was in a “fair condition” at James Walker last night. The three men were duck hunt ing near Zekial’s Island in Buz zard’s Bay when their boat was swamped at about dark Satur day evening, according to Her ring’s story told to investigating officials. Walk Into Marsh Thinking they were walking toward land, the hunters walked directly into the Marsh, Doran said. After they had been walk ing a few minutes Jones’ boots were pulled off by the sucking action of the marsh bottom, and he walked on barefooted, sustain ing cuts on his feet which crip pled him, Herring related to the coroner. As the men continued to walk See HUNTING On Page Two DE GASPERI MAY REVISE CABINET Italian Premier Plans In cluson Of Moderate Left ist Parties ROME, Dec. 14—W—'Well in formed sources said today Pre mier Alcide de Gasperi, facing new threats of trouble form Communist labor leaders, has presented informally to President Enrico de Nicola a revised cabi net list including moderate Left ist parties. Rome’s Communist press said a communique issued last night from de Gasperi’s office, denying claims from the Communis* led Chamber of Labor that the gen eral strike Thursd, anc Friday had won major concessions for unemployment relief, indicated the government would renege on points the chamber insists the government granted. (In Moscow, the Soviet press carried front-page headlines say ing the 48-hour general strike in Rome was a “victory for the striking workers.”) Reports here said that after long negotiations, five men from Giuseppe Saragat’s anti-Com munist Labor Socialists and the old line Leftist Republican party had been picked to join the cabi net of de Gasperi, Christian Demicratic leader. The unofficial sources said an announcement of the cabinet changes would be made later. Broadening his government has been one of the premier's cher ished ambitions since he exclud ed the Communists and pro- m munist Socialists from his cabi net in May. French Children To Get Friendship Train Food PARIS, Dec. 14. —UP)— Friend ship Train donations will feed 320,000 needy French school children a major portion of one warm meal per day during the coldest part of this winter. I aders of the four Ameri can relief agencies to distribute the cargo aboard the U. S. Lines’ Amc 'can Leader, expected at Le Havre Tuesday, said the mani 1 test arriving today revealed there I are 3,200 metric tons of wheat, I flour, macaroni, spaghetti, dried beans, pea, and tinned food aboard. Divided among children in pub lic and private schools were noon lunches are served, this allows 10 kilograms, or about 22 pounds per child. The food will be dis tributed in eight war torn areas where school cafeterias find it difficult to make rations go around. It is believed now that another 500 tons aboard a second ship will be distributed among the aged. House Republicans Set To Force Own Anti-Inflation Bill Passage; Arabs Mow Down Jewish Refugees Fourteen Killed On Tel Aviv Road British-Trained Trans Jordan Soldiers Fire In-. To Convey JERUSALEM, Palestine, Dec. 14. —(U.R)— Fourteen Jews were killed today when the British trained Arab Legion opened fire on a truck convoy of Jewish ref ugees traveling from Tel Aviv to the settlement of Ben Shemen, official reports said. Nine Jews and two British soldiers were said to have been injured in the clash. One of the Jews later died. An official version said eight of the Jews were wounded when Arab snipers along the route fir. ed on the trucks. When the con voy drew abreast of an Arab Legion encampment Jews in one of the trucks hurled grenades into the camp. The Legionnaires “in self defense” blasted away at the convoy, killing 12. Another Jew, walking along the highway, was killed by a stray bullet. The death toll rose to 14 when one of the injured died. British troops were not involv ed in the fight, but two soldiers were wounded as they tried to aid the injured Jews. The violence followed a mas sacre of Arabs yesterday by Jewish dynamiters. The official 24-hour casualty toll prior to to day’s clash showed 28 dead — 24 Arabs, three Jews and one British soldier — and 111 in jured, including 103 Arabs, two Jews, five British soldiers and po licemen and one “local police man.” Since the first of the month, 190 persons — including 93 Arabs and 84 Jews — have been killed, 174 seriously injured and 361 slightly hurt. Twelve of the Jews killed to day were victims' of the battle between the Arab Legion and a police convoy bound from Tel Aviv to Ben Shemen. The thirteenth was killed in a battle on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. An Arab attempt early today to loot the Palestine police arms depot at Ramleh was only part ly successful. Troops of Britain’s crack Coldstream Guards captur ed two of the three trucks used by the Arabs, after an inter change of shots in which one British soldier was wounded. DEMOCRATS WILL GUN FOR TAEFT McGrath Says Party Will Fight Ohioan In Or Out Of Presidency WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-(U.R) Sen; J. Howard McGrath, new ly elected Democratic national chairman, made it clear today that his party will be “out to get” Sen. Robert A, Taft in 1948 even if the Ohio lawmaker fails to win the Republican President ial nomination. “Whoever receives the Re publican nomination will be challenged on whether he is for or against the Taft economic po licy,” McGrath said in a frank discussion of Democratic strat egy for the approaching Presi dential campaign. At the same time the Rhode island Senator voiced concern over the growing split between Democrats and left-wing Labor elements in New York, a pivotal state with 47 electoral votes. He admitted freely that it could have “serious effects” on Presi dent Truman’s chances in that state unless it is healed._ J W Nurses Agree To Defer Date Of Their Resignations With the 36 resigning nurses of the James Walker Memorial hospital staff agreeing to defer the effective date of their resig. nations from Wednesday until the conclusion of negotiations, both the nurses and management of the hospital expressed confi dence last night that an agree, ment in the dispute will be reach ed. In a joint statement issued by representatives of the nurses and the hospital after their first con ference together, they declared that “we feel greatly encouraged by the progress of this first con ference and believe that substan tial headway has been made to ward a mutually satisfactory and permanent understanding.” This was the first optimistic note in the dispute between the hospital nurses and management since the nurses turned down a 12-point program offered by the board of managers last Wednes day on the grounds that it did not include contracts and recogni tion of their rights of collective bargaining. The proffered wage increases and betterment of working con ditions, including more free hos pitalization and a promise of a 44-hour work week, were looked upon with favor by the nurses. In their statement last night both sides promised that there will be other conferences between the nurses and hospital manage ment in the near future. Mean while, the State’s labor concilia tory service, asked by Governor Gregg Cherry to help settle the situation, was scheduled to ar rive in the city tomorrow to meet with the two factions. The full statement issued by the representatives of the two groups following their meeting last night follows: “Representatives of the hospi tal nursing staff and the board of managers have engaged in a most cordial and satisfact ry conference discussing at some length mutual problems at issue during recent weeks. We feel greatly encouraged by the prog ress of this first conference and believe that substantial headway See JW NURSES on Page Two ARABS TO FIGHT FOR PALESTINE One Hundred Thousand Stage Wild Demonstra tion At Cairo CAIRO, Dec. 14. —CU.R)— One. hundred thousand shouting, fist clenching Arab demonstrators held a mass meeting today and cheered wildly as their leaders pledged to fight until Palestine has been united into an inde pendent Arab state. The seething mob of Egyptians plus Moslems from the seven Arab states, and from Parkistan, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Af ghanistan marched through Cairo from Alazhar University to the continental Savoy Hotel terrace to dem nstrate against partition of the Holy Land and in support of Palestine Arabs. Catholics, Orthodox Egyptians and Coptic priests marched be side the Moslems in the parade which at one time extended for See ARABS On Page Two MURDER SUSPECT IN POLICE TOILS Alleged “Trigger Man” Of Gangland Killing Orgy Surrenders CHICAGO, Dec. 14. — <U.R) — James Morelli, 20, identified by a “pal” as one of the trigger men in a week end killing spree in which four persons were slain and two wounded serious ly, surrendered at police head quarters today. Morelli, who had been sought since the gangland slaying late Friday night and Saturday, was turned over to police by his attorney, Roland Libonati, and taken immediately to the detec tive bureau for qeustioning. Denies Killing Morelli denied that he had killed anyone and said he had fired only one wild shot—and that one accidentally—during a skirmish when the first victim was killed Friday night. He said he went along on the killing rampage only because he was “scared” of the gang leader, Thomas Daley, 42. Morelli’s surrender completed the roundup of the three hood lums sought for the slayings. Daley was shot and killed by police early Saturday. Lowell Fentress, a scrawny, 19-year old gunman, was captured at his home shortly after the kill ings, which police described as “the worst orgy of gang kill ing since the St. Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929.” Along The Cape Fear REALTORS - Mr. C. C. Chadbourn, a valued contribu tor of many interesting bits of history about the Cape Fear areas to this column, today delves into the history of the real estate business and comes up with an explanation of how the term “Realtor” was made to apply to that business. He writes as follows: “Back in 1915 a screaming head line in a prominent paper read “Real Estate man swindles poor widow.” This rankled in the mind of a leading real estate operator in Minneapolis and pro voked him to action. “He was Charles N. Chadbourn, a cousin of writer. With other mem bers of the Minneapolis real es tate board, Chadbourn devided real estate men should not only be of good reputation and live up to a code of ethics but should have a distinctive title which would indicate their standard. The expressive and appropriate word Realtor was the result. “In 1919 Chadbourn and a delegation of Minneapolis real estate men attended the con vention of Naional associaion of Real Estate Boards in New Orleans. They secured adoption of the word Realtor and defined it as a’ member of the real estate boards affiated with the Na tional Association. 2 2 2 “Many court decisions have since confirmed the associa toin’s executive control of the title. This means that no person not a memberof the Associa tion or of one of its const;tuent parts as a local Real Estate Board belonging to the Natoin al Association has any right to call himself a Realtor. “In confirmation of this story, H. L. Mencken, the well— known writer, in his book the American language telling how See CAPE FEAR On Page Two ASHEVILLE NAMED RALEIGH, Dec. 14— m — Next year’s state American Legion convention will be held in Asheville, September 10-13, North Carolina Department Legion Commander Ray Gal loway of Wilmington announc ed today. Announcement of the con vention dates was made fol lowing a conference between Galloway and leaders of the Rockwell-B a 11 e w American Legion Post No. 2 in Ashe ville. RUSSIA TO ISSUE INFLATION CASH New Currency Will Be Ex changed On One For Ten Ruble Basis MOSCOW, Dec 14—0U9~The Soviet Union announced tonight it would begin issue of new cur rency on Tuesday and simulta neously abandon all food ration ing in a program to combat in flation. The announcement was made to the nation by the Moscow Ra dio in a decree of the Council of Ministersr (Cabinet) and the Communist party. It was signed by Prime Minister Stalin and Andrei Zhdanov of the Com munist party central com mitte. The action by the Soviet gov ernment was the first admission that post-war inflation had af fected the controlled Russian economy. It followed by 10 days the statement in Washington by Undersecretary of State Robert Lovell that something “in the nature of panie buying” had hit Russia over rumors of devalua tion of the Ruble). Ten For One The decree for currency re form provides that Rubles brought to banks for conversion will be exchanged at the rate of See RUSSIA on Page Two WIRE UNIONISTS MAP STRIKE PLAN Date Of Nation-Wide Walk Out Will Be Announced Today WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — m — Plans for a nationwide strike of Western Union employes at the height of the Christmas sea son were developed today by leaders of three AFL unions which threaten to quit over wages. Local and regional chiefs of the AFL’s Commercial Tele graphers Union, Telegraph Em ployes Union, and Telegrapher Workers Union gathered at a strategy meeting here on the eve of completion of a cross country strike ballot. The union heads said the vote, See WIRE UNIONISTS on gage 2 EXTRA SESSION MAY BE CALLED Cherry Says He Will Give Teachers Request ‘Every Consideration’ RALEIGH, Dec. 14.—UP)—Gov ernor R. Gregg Cherry said here tonight, when asked if he would call a special session of the leg islature,, as requested by the board of directors of the North Carolina Education association, that “I have not receved a forma! noice of their actions but I shall give them every consid eration.” The governor emphasized that he had not made up his mind about a special session, but add ed that teachers had been given consideration in the 1947 legis lature. “I have not made up my mind about this matter at all,” the governor said, who had just re turned from a trip to Waynes ville, where he spoke at a Hay wood county celebration. The chief executive empha sized that he would hear all cases, and that he had not read the resolution passed by the board of the NCEA. The governor’s tone was amended, however, from what he said repeatedly several times recently: that he would not call now a special session of the leg islature. This time he said that he would review and consider a good argument. LAST OF TROOPS SAIL FROM ITALY Sixteen Hundred U. S. Soldiers Leave Before Treaty Deadline Rome, Dec. 14—(U.R)—Sixteen hundred U. S. soldiers sailed for home today aboard the Army Transport Amiral Sims, ending the armed occupation of Italy’s mainland which began when G. I.’s splashed ashore on the bloody Salerno beachhead four years ago. The people of Italy bade them a cordial farew.ell, reassured by the fact that their own govern ment has been able to maintain internal order, and that U. S. president Harry S. Truman has promised his country’s support of a “free and independent Italy.” Formal military ceremonies and speeches by American gen erals marked the departure of the Admiral Sims from Leghorn in Southern Italy, carrying the last troops of the U.S. occupa tion forces out of Italy in ad vance of the midnight deadline set by the Italian peace treaty. The men who turned happily homeward today were the sur vivors and the successors of the 33,000 Americans who died in the allied onslaught on the “soft un derbelly of fortress Europe." Legal Voluntary Death Sought By Physicians NEW YORK, Dec. 14. —(IMS More than 1,000 physicians have signed a petition asking the,New York Legislature to legalize voL untary death for those who suf fer from incurable illness, it was announced day. The Euthanasia Society and a committee of 1,776 physicians for legalization of voluntary Euthar. asia demanded in a petition sent to all legislators that Euthanasia j be brought into the open and “safeguarded against abuse.” Many incurable sufferers now seek release by suicide, the phy sicians said. They added that others “are secretly put out of their misery by relatives who can no longer stand the sight of their pain and are willing to render themselves liable to the penalty of murder.” The physicians proposed a plan under which Euthanasia would be authorized by a court. Under the plan, the court, on receipt of a signed petition from the suf ferer, would appoint a me”cal committee to investigate and make its recommendation. Martin Predicts Final Vote Today Halleck Charges Adminis tration Piays Politics With Prices WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—(^Pi Speaker Martin (R.-Mass.) said tonight the Republican-backed “voluntary” anti-inflation s ib stitute President Truman’s stand by prive-wage and rationing pro gram will pass the house tomor row,^ with votes to spare.” Meanwhile, Houes Republicans leader Halleck, of Indiana, said in a statement that the Truman administration is not as interest ing in bringing down prices as it is in “playing politics with the subject.” If the G.O.P. bill fails of passage, he said, democrats “will have to take the responsi bility for defeating all legis lation at the special session. And in the widening economic breach between the White Hause and the Republican majority on capital hill, Senator O’Mahoney fired back an accusation that the GOP has offered the country a “big business” and “pro-mono poly” rather than an anti-in flation bill. Meanwhile, House Republicans tentatively scheduled a “this or nothing” procedure for their sub stitute program. Under this take it or leave It" maneuver a motion would be made to suspend the House rules to bar amendments to the G. O. P bill, introduced by Rep. Wol cott (R.-Mich), and debate would be limited to 40 minutes. This requires a two-thirds vote and Republicans are counting on sup port of Southern Democrats to swing the tally, if this maneuver is adopted. House Democratic Leader Ray burn, of Texas, cried “outrage-/ ous” and “strongarm” against such a procedure. Martin said Republican strat egy will not be inaily decided un til tomorrow morning. He emphasized to a reporter that the Wolcott bill, which in cludes authority for the Presi dent to suspend anti-trust laws where industries get together on cost-of-living agreements, “is only a part of the Republican program,” he added: “But it’s about all we can do at the special session. We will tackle the rest when we get back in January.” FRITZ CASE GETS UNDERWAY TODAY Trial Of NCEA President Will Open In Caldwell Superior Court LENIOR, Dec. 14 —(41— An other chapter in the months long Fritz case will unfold in Caldwell County Superior court here tomorrow. The state charges that R.L. Fritz, Jr., president of the North Carolina Edecation Asso ciation, obtained some $1,600 from the State Board of Educa tion under false pretense. The charge was first made unofficially during the summer. Fritz said the money was used to relieve an acute teacher shortage in the Hudson school district near Lenoir, where he was principal last year. The State Board of Educatioi) ordered a hearing in the case late in the summer and revoked Fritz’s teaching sertificate. Fritz repaid the money and said he had to borrow to do it. Teachers Back Him His fellow teachers rallied to the cause throughout the state, demanding a rehearing of the case, and his reinstatement. Fritz considered court action to force the board to return him to good standing. The board met again, decided SEE FRITZ on Page two And So To Bed A couple of grandparents went to visit their son and daughter yesterday afternoon in the southern part of the city. When they arrived at the son and daughter’s home, their little grandson met them at the front door crying. “What in the world are you ci-ying about?” they an xiously asked the boy. Between sobs he blurted out that his mother and dad were in the garage, and had been for an hour and wouldn’t let him come out there. When the grandfather and grandmother investigated, they found their son and daughter playing with the boy’s Christmas present: an electric train.