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. ♦ FORECAST: ^ ^ + j^w^s.'ssr^ 11 titfttrlTilti 4ifi 1 ilM't tl't ri " _V0L“ 81—N0- 10L __WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1947 ESTABLISHED 18dV GOP Senators Take ‘Water’ Appropriation Committee Members Sidestep An derson Challenge WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 —(U.R) j ^Republican members of the1 Senate Appropriations commit tee tonight sidestepped a chal enge from Secretary of Ag riculture Clinton P, Anderson to ush through Congress a reso LJon authorizing publication of th'e names of big-time traders in the commodity markets. Anderson told the committee bv letter that it would tfe illegal for him to publish the names without specific Congressional sanction, and he implied that if they were published they might contain Congressional names. Chairman Styles Bridges, R., fji h., called a hurried confer ence of GOP members of his committee and said afterward "that we intend to get all the names in some manner.” While he did not elaborate, [ there "-ere indications the com- | jnittee might serve a subpoena- j on Anderson to try and pet the confidential list maio” mar-1 Icet operators. 1 Anderson told Bridges in his letter that he considered him jelf prohibited by law from di vulging such data, but that this barrier could be removed if Congress would pass a joint resolution reauestinn it. T>,uman May Approve -‘id he nad consulted dent Truman and was ■ nfident” the Chief Executive would approve the resolution in order “stop loose talk about Inside. > profiting by knowledge of government plans.” Meeting with Bridges were JOP Senators Homer Ferguson of Michigan, C. vVayland Brooks of Illinois, and William F. Knowland of California. As spokesman, Bridges said “we still believe that (Ander son) has the full legal authority to give out the names to a Con gressional committee. That be lief . . is based on competent legal advire. We intend to look further into the situation.” One source said the commit t' I* on Page Two GILLETTE TAKES OFFICE ON JAN. 1 State Ports Authority Di rector Will Make Future Home Here Col. George W. Gillette, form erly Division Engineer of the South Atlantic division of the Corps of Engineers, has arrived in Wilmington and will assume his duties as Executive Director of the North Carolina State Ports authority on Jan. 1, R. B. Page, chairman, said yester day. Col. Gillette, who retired from the Army on Dec. 15, nas been busy for the past few days re establishing residence here. He bas been living in Atlanta since h's appointment as division head on Aug. 1, 1946. In his new position, he will be responsible for executing the Policies and aims of the authori jv for developing North Caro lina s port and waterway re sources and promoting their greater use by all the state. The authority has been functioning j’nce its establishment through HMc'ati°n enacted during the 945 General Assembly. During ne last session of the Iegisla ^ee GILLETTE on Page Two The Weather CAROLINA AND SOUTH 1 TA; hair Wednesday and ceo* * S. Cooler Wednesday ex *'“e cosst- Rather cold again cioudiiIes7 ni5ht- Thursday Increasing t^^Perafur and no*" much change in p: dinff°r-log!Ca^ data *or the 24 hours, 8 1 !l p m. Yesterday, i.n. Temperatures PjOp^'T 7:30 a.m. 56; 1:30 p.m. 59;, Xo^a‘im^n 70’ Minimum 54; Mean 62; | • Humidity 7:30 rjan^ 9)!' 7:30 a m- 88J 1:80 P-m. 65. i Tr i Precipitation ‘c 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. inches06 lhC first °f the mon^ — iprn *<des For Today l’ s " Tide Tables published by ^0a" and Geodetic Suvey). *lon - 12:42 a.m. 7:47 a.m. 1:11 p.m. 8:31 p.m. nilet _ 10:41 a.m. 4:19 a m. j Sunriso - io 10:55 p.m. 5:08 p.m. I V1*-' Sunset 5 ;05; Moonrise1 See :?onset 9:40 p.m. ' FATHER on Page Two) L .< Conciliators Fail In WU-W orker Snarl -^>0 Government Efforts To Strike! Of Telegraphers Union Leaders Sa,T Coming _ PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16. , (ll.R)— Government efforts to he^„ off a threatened strike of 50,000 Western Union tele, aph Bm p’ s broke up in complete dis £greement tonight and union leaders announced the strike definitely would be called next Tuesday unless the company makes a suitable settlement of fer. A six-hour negotiation confer ence, called at the request of the Federal Conciliation Service, end ed with AFL union representa tives flatly refusing a company offer of a singje $1,000,000 bonus payment. W, L. Allen, international president of the Commercial ^clegraph Union (AFL), said the offer, which union officials said would amount to about $20 for each employe, “added insult to injury.” “Western Union consistently has trailed behind in wages and this offer is simply impossible to believe.” Allen said. Plead Inaability The union leaders said that throughout the conference the management representatives re peatedly tried to prove the com pany is not able to afford a wage increase. Allen also said the unions turn ed down an additional offer of See CONCILIATORS On Page £ Davis Plans Inaugural Flight After Christmas MEAN THIEVES SIOUX CITT, la., Dec. 16. ('!') —Thieves have dimmed the prospects of a joyous Christmas for needy children here. They broke into the court house basement and carried S500 worth of toys bought with publicy donated fnuds | and assembled for distribu tion. Items taken include 68 teddy bears, 36 wooden rifles, i and hundreds of games, dolls and other articles. HOSPITAL VOTE FAILS TO CARRY Only Two Precincts Yet To Be Reported On In Yesterday’s Election , ELIZABETHTOWN, Dec. 16— j With returns from two townships still not in, it appeared here to ’ night that a Bladen county bond ! issue of $100,000 to insure estab 1 lishment of a 50-bed 8500,000 hospital in the county had failed to carry a county-wide election by about 30 votes. Election officials said that Turnbull and Lake Creek returns still had not been received when ! counting was closed for the night, i but that the vote in those two townships was not expected to be heavy enough to carry the bond issue. To carry the election, a total of 1,321 of the county’s 2,640 registered voters would have had j tc vote for the bond issue. Each registered voter who failed to vote was counted in the “no” bracket. Had the bond issue carried, an See HOSPITAL on Page Two EXPRESS AGENCY TO RAISE RATES I - j Interstate Commerce Com mission Will Allow 10 Per Cent Boost — ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—UP)— The Interstate Commerce Com mission proposed today to allow I the Railway Express Agency to raise most express rates by 1C pesr cent. The Commission emphasized, however, that its action is not final and is subject to review if shippers file protests. 1 The effect is to authorize the i company to file the increased | rates and to put them into ef i feet 30 days later if no protests are filed. 1 If protests are filed, the Com | mission can suspend the higher I rates and conduct a formal in j vestigation as to their reason I ableness. The increase is designed | chiefly to cover a 15 1-2 cents an i hour wage increase recent I ly granted to express company See EXPRESS on Page Two Piedmont President Un worried Over Threat Of Court Action WINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 16 —UP)—Tom Davis, president ' of Piedmont Airlines here, said to day upon his return from Wash ington, D. C., that the newly authorized airlines company would not be ready to start op erations before Christmas, but | that he hoped to hold the in j augural flight “soon after thai.” I Piedmont Airlines received the word “go” from the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washing ton Monday. The local company had previously been granted 1, 700 miles of routes in five states by the C. A. B. last April but I operations were stalled when j State Airlines of Charlotte pro testing the awarding of these routes to the Winston-Salem company. The C. A. B. has for several weeks been reconsider ing the case and on Monday fi nally gave its final decision, throwing the Charlotte protest out and awarding Piedmont the original routes that had been giv en them in the first place. Meanwhile, H. K. Gilbert, Jr., president of the State Airlines, announced after the C.A.B.’s fi nal decision that State Airlines See DAVIS on Page Two DR. J. W. FARRIOR DIES AT WARSAW N a t i v e Of Kenansville, He was Well Known Throughout State — WARSAW, Dec. 16. —James William Farrior, 65, prominent physician of Warsaw, died Tues day afternoon at his home after a short illness of several days. He was the son of the late Henry and Amelia Archer Far rior, of Kenansville. He was a graduate of State college, Cor nell University and the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. I He began his practice in medi i cine soon after his graduation in Kenansville but mo^ed to War saw in 1918 and has continued his practice here since that time. ; He served as Captain in the I medical corps in World War One and has been very active in curch and civic affairs, having served as elder and Sunday school superintendent in the local Presbyterian church for many years. He was president of the local Rotary club, a member of the town board of commissioners and a member of the State and National Medical association r unerai services win De neiu m the Warsaw Presbyterian church I Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 : o’clock by Rev. Eugene H. Clark, Pa: tor. Burial will be in the family plot in the Kenansville cemetery. 1 He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Sloan of Garland. ! one daughter, Mrs E. C. Thomp son of Chapel Hill; two sons, Henry Farrior, student at the Uni versity of NdPth Carolina and William Farrior, student at i Davidson college, one brother, I Henry Farrior of Warsaw. j Postoffice Loses Cash Getting Gift To Auntie WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—(/P>— This gay, festive, Christmasy season brings only gloom to the post office people. For they know that every time you mail a package to Aunt Nettie, they lose money. Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson told a House Post Office subcommittee today that his department is losing $48,500, 000 on its package-carrying this year. He’s sorry. It also will lose another $74, 000,000 on its circular mail. Don aldson is sorry about that, too. The subcommittee also seems to be sorry, for it’s considering legislation to set up a board to fix mail rates—instead of leav ing the job to Congress, as is done in most cases now. This red ink talk so depressed me—my Christmas duns having come in—that I readily fell into conversation with one of the wit nesses, Nathan Boone Williams. Williams, a local lawyer, has been interested in the post office for 40 years—back to the time when everyone was won dering whether the department should embark on the bold ex periment of carrying packages. Williams wrote a pamphlet, The A m e r ican Post Ofice.” Here are a few things from it See POSTOFFICE On Page Two Marshall Commences Negotiations To Unify German Western Zones; U. S. Senate Gets Anti-Inflation Bill * _ - ■— -1 Committee Okays Measure By Taft Martin Says House Will Act Promptly On New Legislation WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. —OP) — A new Republican drive de veloped today to pass anti-infla tion legislation before the special Congress session ends Friday. Working against time, the Sen ate Banking committee approved a three-point bill and the Senate agreed unanimously to consider it tomorrow. On the Touse side, Speaker Martin (R.-Mass.) told reporters “we will d everything possible to put it through the House dur ing the special session if the Sen ate passes it and it arrives in the House in time.” The banking committee’s ap proval was by voice vote at the end of a hearing at which Sena tor Taft (Ohio), chairman of the GOP Senate Policy committee, appealed for fast action. Taft told the committee that if the Senate gives unanimous ap proval, the measure can be call ed p for debate there starting tomorrow. He added that the Democrats could block this if they want ed to, and that such action prob ably would eliminate any chance for action in the House before the Friday adjournment goal. No Agreement Taft had told reporters earlier that he had no agreement with House leaders for action there. T’ e Taft measure is identical to the House-spurned bill intro duced bv Rep. Wolcott (R.-Mich), chairman of the House Banking committee, except that it does not contain the section requiring larger gold reserves in federal reserve banks. It calls for volun tary industry-wide agreements to distribute scarce commodities un der temporary suspension of anti trust laws and extension of ex port controls and authority over transportation. The Senate Banking commit tee wrote in two amendments to the Taft bill. One would restore the President’s wartime powers to restrict the use of grain in liquor production. This is now being done by a voluntary agree ment of the industry. The other agreement removes See COMMITTEE On Page Two NAVY PHYSICIANS WILL SPEAK HERE J. S. Brown, Frank T. Nor ris To Be Guests Of County Medical Men Two Navy doctors, who have outstanding war records and who are now stationed at the Naval hospital at Camp Le jeune, will be the principal speakers at the final meeting of the year for the New Hanover County Medical society at the Cape Fear club tonight at 7 o’clock. Both speakers — J. S, Brown, Jr., captain, MC, USN; and Frank T. Norris, Commander, MC, USN—are natives of North Carolina. Captain Brown, a graduate of Davidson college and the Tu lane university medical school, is now chief of surgery at the Camp Lejeune hospital, having held that position since the fall of 1945. He was transferred from the reserve to the regular Navy in 1946. After serving as chief of surg See NAVY on Page Two Along The Cape Fear LONG LIVE THE ATLANTIC —The ‘Queen of the Cape Fear’ stood with bowed head yester day, her brass aglow in the ''e cember sun, her decks polished to a spic-’n-span cleanliness. It was taps for the Old Gal. She was being replaced by a much younger princess in the household .of the city fire depart ment with the arrival Sunday of her successor—yet to be named. But it is doubtful if .he su~ cessor will bow out of service, with a more brilliant career than the . Atlantic. Her master recalls many events which stand out in the life of the Cape Fear waterfront dur ing the 35 years she has seen river service. He says she av eraged answering approximately 35 alarms a year. One of the mo§t recent dramat is calls came during the recent war when the oil tanker “Oleney” limped into port with a jagged hole in her bottom. The tanker had rammed a sub marine, her crew revealed, not far out of the mouth of the Cape i Fear. For 10 hours the Atlantic stood guard over the crippled tanker and pumped water from her hold. Another war incident in which the Atlantic figured was the day following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This time a tanker put into the Cape Fear with fire threatening thousands of gallons of oil which the boat was carry ing. It took the Atlantic only 45 minutes to set things aright on the tanker and save the ship from exploding. The Atlantic likewise has seen service as a life-saver. She has been used to recover bodies from the waters of the Cape Fear. Those are just a few of the in cidents in the life of this old boat dear to the city’s firemen and her genial chief. Chief Croom once said that she had saved the city untold thousands of dollars and had re paid her keep a thousand times. But time moves on. What can be made of her successor remains to be seen. . ■- 'wrtwv. . • .;..y■ ■ ■ ■ — 1 ■■ -' NEW FIRE BOAT—Pictured above is the city’s “new” fire boat, which arrived at her berth at the foot of Grace street Sunday afternoon. After she has been over hauled, she will replace the Atlantic in the city’s fire-fighting brigade. New Fire Boat Shows Wear, Tear Of Hard Life, Reporter “Finds” Russia To Furnish Army Aid To China Communists SMART PIGGIE RICHMOND, Va. Dec. 16. (U.R)—The pig was taking no changes, not around the champion chitterling eater— governor or no governor. Police today were looking for an eight-weeks-old pork er awarded to Gov. William Tuck yesterday for eating the most at a chitterling break fast. When the breakfast spon sors reached for the pig it had disappeared. JURY SEES AUDIT ON HUDSON FUNDS -— Prosecution Presents Five Witnesses Against R. L. Fritz, Jr. LENOIR, Dec. 16—(#)—A de tailed audit into payments of teachers at the Hudson school was presented to a Caldwel. coun ty superior court jury late today by prosecution attorneys who are i attempting to convict R. L Fritz, 'Jr., on charges of obtaining money from the state under false pretense. Theaudit, transcribed for the convenience of the jurors on a big blackboard, was prepared by E. W. Smith, a Lenoi certified public accountant who said that at one time he had referred to fiscal records at the school as “in adequate and poorly kept.” Smith was the last of five witnesses called today by the pro secution in pressing its charges that Fritz, former Hudson prin cipal and spirited champion of higher pay for teachers, obtain ed approximately $1,600 from the state through payroll irregulari ties. Testimony by the four brought these developments before more than 350 spectators who packed the Caldwell courtroom for the second day: 1— Luther B. Robinson, Cald well superintendent of educa tion, testified that an acute teach er shortage forced his office to ignore certain state laws in the employment of teachers, includ ing those at the Hudson school. 2— Smith, the CPA, said that See JURY on Page Two Hong Kong Newspaper Says Pact Includes Equipping Army HONG KONG, Dec. 16. —OJ.B — The newspaper Wahkiu Yat Pao reported today that Russia had agreed to furnish military and economic aid, including the training and eqi ipping of 11 army divisions, to the Chinese Communists to hasten formation of the “New Republic of China.” The usually-reliable newspaper said that a six-point agreement, covering long-term relations be tween the “Republic” and the Soviet Union, had been conclud ed by Chinese and Russian rep resentatives in Moscow last month . (A well-informed source in Shanghai said that there was no way of checking the accuracy of the Hong Kong report “until Rus sia makes a formal announce ment, or until there is a report broadcast by the Chinese Com munist radio. (“Russia has never acted open ly to help the Chinese Commu nists,” this source said. “If this report is true, the situation is more serious than most people throughout the world realize.”) Wahkiu Yat Pao said that the Sino-Soviet agreement provided for: 1. A priority to Russia in the exploitation of mineral resources, See RUSSIA On Page Two CHARLOTTE SEEKS FUEL OIL RELIEF Tar Heel Congressmen To Consider Situation At Meeting Today CHARLOTTE, Dec. 16— W— A prospect of relief for “dis tress case” families stricken by the fuel oil shortage was seen today in a proposal that major oil suppliers in the Charlotte area pool part of their stocks for immediate distribution to neediest victims. The idea was one of many pre sented at a meeting of oil men and city-county officials called by Mayor Herbert H. Baxter to plot means of alleviating the shortage. Should the scheme fail, Bax ter said, both he and City Mana ger Henry A. Yancey will ask the city council to authorize the immediate purchase of 100,000 gallons of fuel oil by the city government for allocation to hardship cases. Baxter did not See CHARLOTTE on Page Two $13,500 “Buy” Turns Up With Shedding Paint, Potted Planking BY ROY COOK Star Staff Writer A “new” $13,500 fireboat, or what is supposed to be convert ed into a fireboat, was towed in to Wilmington late Sunday after noon. Yesterday afternoon, this re porter went aboard the craft for ar “unofficial” inspection. First, I would like to make it clear that I am no authority on boats and know nothing about them. But, from all I could see the city of Wilmington is stuck with a $13,500 pile of floating junk. The craft was built in 1943 and has enjoyed a very hard life and no care, at least it’s appear ance would so indicate. The thick coats of Navy grey paint have buckled and cracked and can be pulled off in sheets. That, I was told, can be fixed. One side, and not being a sea dog, I can’t say which side, was ripped and torn and rotten in several places. Plenty of places on the bow were rotten and will disintegrate with the lightest touch. The windows on the cabin See NEW FIRE on Page Two AIR SHOW MARKS WRIGHT PROGRAM Forty-Fourth Anniversary Of First Plane Flight To Be Celebrated MANTEO, Dec. 16.— M>) —The 44th anniversary of the Wright brothers first fl’ght in a heavier than-air-craft at nearby Kill Devil Hill will be celebrated to morrow when helicopters, Navy fighters and jet nlanes converge on that dune in the North Caro lina outer sandbanks. The lights on the granite me morial pylon atop the hill will be switched on for the first time since a banks storm in 1944 damaged the electrical equip ment. Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born aircraft designer, and Lawrence E Bell, president of the Bell Aircraft Corporation, arer sche duled to land on the hill in heli copters during the ceremonies. Designers and manufacturers of many types of rotary wing air craft are scheduled to be on hand and demonstrate their machines. Official Luncheon An official luncheon will be held here, with Sikorsky a prin cipal speaker. A contingent of Representatives and Senators, nicluding Herbert C. Bonner, whose first district includes the (See SHOW on Page Two) Cold War Rages In Town Over Slacks In School CAMDEN, N. Y., Dec. 16—(U.R) —A cold war raged tonight in this quiet rural village as the second student participant in the “Battle Of The Slacks” studied conflicting orders. Gertrude Ackley, 15 year old sophomore student at Camden Central school, was sent home from school today for wearing slacks which she said, “my father told me to wefir.” The pretty sophomore wore the slacks through one class—in the gymnasium—but when she tried to wear them to a second class she was sent to the principal. Principal Donald Barker gave her the choice of taking special | instruction in a class composed of herself and a teacher or going home for a dress. He said she she could not wear the slacks to regular classes. Gertrude reflected on her fath er’s instructions, went home and didn’t come back. Rule To Stand It all started last week when Jeanette Delahunt was sent home from school for wearing slacks to class. Her father, Thomas Del ahunt protested and was told by the school board and Principal Barker that the no-slacks rule would stand. Today. Delahunt said he wrote a formal protest to the school See WAR on Page Two Diplomatic War Will Be Bitter Bidault Reported Ready To Merge French With U. S., Britain LONDON, Dec. 16. — OJ.PJ — Secretary of State George C. Marshall opened negotiations to night to unify the three Western occupation zones in Germany. Making the first move in the bitterest diplomatic battle since the war as the result of the break-up in failure of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Confer ence, Marshall started unification talks with French Foreign Minis ter George Bidault at a private dinner at the French Embassy. Hours earlier, Russian Foreign I ’ .ster Viacheslav Molotov and his Big Four delegation had slip ped silently away in two special planes bound for Moscow, to re port to the Kremlin on the break between East and West. As he left American, British and French diplomatic quarters said that the Council of Foreign Ministers probably never will meet again as it is now constitut ed. They believe that future Big Four talks will be held on the diplomatic level—among special ly appointed deputies — and that the Foreign Ministers will not meet themselves until a firm groundwork has been laid for agreement on German and Aus trian treaties. New Developments Developments in the first day of an intensified cold war, in which Russia was expected to go all out to wreck the Marshall Plan for the recovery of Europe, included: 1. — Marshall, realizing the gravity of the diplomatic fight now developing, sternly forbade his delegates to discuss the moves which the Western allies may make in Western Germany. 2. — It was reported that Mar shall and his colleagues decided finally that the three Western zones in Germany must now be See DIPLOMATIC On Page Two i ATLANTIC STORM TAKES LIFE TOLL Giant Waves Capsize Fishing Boat Seeking Haven Of Inlet MANASQUAN INLET, N. J., Dec. 16—UP)—Seven persons were lost in the gale-swept Atlantic today as the fishing boat Para mount V capsized 500 yards from shore after battling stormy seas in a race towards the safety of Manasquan Inlet. Caught in a rip tide just as it was about to nose into the in let, the ship was toppled by a giant wave which crashed into its side. Nine survivors were rescued from the icy waters. Three bodies were taken from the sea, and the Coast Guard said the four still missing prob ably had been trapped in the ship’s cabin. The Coast Guard identified the known dead as J. Simonair, 48, of East Orange; James Wells, 50, Pennsauken; and Richard And erson, 61, of Montclair. Still listed as missing were the ship’s captain, Charles Fuchs of Point Pleasant; Walter Beck of Union City, Joseph Ondorf (address unknown), and one un identified person. James Bogan, who operates the Paramount fishing fleet, said there were a total of 16 persons aboard. Forced To Return The fishing vessel left Brielle early this morning but was forc ed to head back to port shortly before noon because of the heavy seas, Bogan said. Captain Fuchs had informed the passengers they would be given half their fares back because of the cur tailed fishing. Seaman 2nd Class Reinhardt Striepzel of Sandusky, Mich., I said he was in the tower watch at the Manasquan Inlet Coast Guard station when he saw the vessel approach. He said he was watching the boat come around See ATLANTIC on Page Five And So To Bed A tip to future speakers and a vote against the “New Look” was written in the Dec. 15 issue of the Civitan News for members of the club who are scheduled to meet this afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Crystal res taurant. Written on the program was: “After dinner speeches should be like a woman’s skirt—long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.”