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uSss] ilmtngtmt Ulnntmg Star _ VOL. 81—NO. 106. _ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1947 ESTABLISHED lSgf First Of Trader List Names Edwin Pauley California Oil Man Only U.S. Employe Among Hundreds Of Big Time Market Operators Named By Anderson WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — (U.PJ Secretary of Agriculture Clinton p Anderson published the names f several hundred big - time ® dec in grain, cotton and other commodity markets today and promised new lists identifying ,11 such operators. He Said Edwin W. Pauley, ipecial assistant to the secretary f Army, was the only govern ment official on the “sample” list, which showed who had large holdings on Oct. 31 of this year, jn(j on the same date last year. A former government official, Ralph K, Davies, was on the list. Davies, a California oilman like Pauley, was deputy petroleum co ordinator during the war. Anderson, Clayton & Co., Hous ten, Tex., was listed for “hedg ing,” or non-speculative, trans actions, in cotton. Will Clayton, retired undersecretary of state now heading the U. S. delegation to the World Traders Conference in Havana, was and presumably still is'a large stockholder in the company which is often described as the biggest cotton firm in the world. Clayton once told a Senate committee that his only con nection with the company was a stockholder, and that he had not attended a stockholders meeting since he resigned as chairman of the board in 1940. Delivers List Secretary Anderson delivered SEE TRADER ON PAGE TWO v ' stem Allies To Stay In Berlin, Clay States CAPITAL WRITERS SEE GOP VICTORY T Tjht Correspondents ost Unanimous On Truman Defeat WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—<U.R>— Top-flight Washington corres pondents are almost unanimous in the belief that President Tru man will be defeated by a Re publican in the 1948 elections, i Look magazine poll said to day. But th. 57 writers polled by the magazine were sharply split on who the victorious GOP can didate will be. Twenty picked Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, while 13 named Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and 12 gave the nod to Sen. Robert A Taft of Ohio. Only five newsmen flatly pre dicted the re-election of Mr Truman wrhom all the writers regarded as certain to be the Democratic candidate. Three ot hers picked the President to sue See CAPITAL On Page Two COURT HANDS MEE SLAYER 15 YEARS Patricia (Satira) Schmidt Collapses On Enter ing Prison HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 22. —(&) - Patricia (Satira) Schmidt was jentenced today to 15 years in prison for the yacht slaying of her lover, John Lester Mee of Chicago, and then, her warden said, was taken to the infirmary of Guanabacoa prison in a state of collapse. The Audier.cia Court tribunal, whose judgment described the 22 year-old night club dancer as a “Nymph,” also ordered her to pay $5,000 indemnity to the heirs of the Chicago attorney and poet. Warden Carmelina Guanche of the women's prison said Patricia “broke down” when informed of her sentence. Earlier she was re ported to have sent word to her father that she was prepared to accept a prison term. The first visitors to see her af ter the sentencing were repre sentatives of the United States Embassy in Havana who refused to comment on the case. The Weather *outh Caroline and North Carolina ^■increasing cloudiness and a little 'firmer Tuesday with a few light ■flowers over East portion late Tues followed by clearing and cooler ’tesday night. Fair and continued cool Wednesday. . FORECAST •Meteorological data for the 24 hours 7:30 p. m. , TEMPERATURES V J- ra. 45 7:30 a. m. 36 1:3C p. m. Vi.i';3fl p m. 50 Maximum 67 mum 36 Mean 46 Normal 48 HUMIDITY ii' .1. ">• 69 7:30 a. m. 83 1:30 p. m. * ':36 P- m. 64 . PRECIPITATION t maik£or tlie 24 hours ending 7:30 of a 0 lilches- Total since the first m ln« month 4,60 inches, tr-ok, . TIDFS F0R today u ' 'oe Tide Tables published by Coast and Geodetic Survey). Ollnun,, R*Kh LOW “ft““ 5:45 a. m. 12:27 a. m. Masr.nK 6:02 p. m. 1:05 p.m. bo,'° Inlet 3:19 a. m 9:52 a.m. $ , , 3:35 p. m 10:0^5 p.m. l:5jn Sunset 5:08 Moonrise lW.-Konset 2-32a River stage at 12.7 feet l€> ^ ’ at 8 a' m' ^on<*ay More v\ FATHER on Page Two dj^OPPlNGTDAYS LEFT) American, British Military Governments Will Not Withdraw BERLIN, Dec. 22. — VP)— The U. S. and British military gover nors of Germany declared today the Western allies had no inten tion of withdrawing from Berlin and that they hoped for contin uance of the four-power allied control council for Germany. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the American ■ governor, and Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, the British commander, made their views known at separate news confer ences. Clay said American and Brit ish authorities planned immedi ate steps to strengthen the ec onomic unification of their zones, but that any political un ification would wait upon ap proval from the German people. The Soviet newspaper Taegli che Rundschau here carried an editorial last week to the effect formation of a separate govern ment in Western Germany might lead to a request that the West ern allies leave Berlin, which is surrounded by the Russian zone. Takes No Notice Asked about the editorial, the British general said: “If it is a threat I can only say that I take no notice of it. I’m certainly not going tv> allow myself to be rattled by such statements.” He added that he did not be lieve any ally “would be so un wise” as to seek the breakup of the four-power administration in Berlin. He said he regarded Ber lin and the allied organization as “a most important bridge spanning the differences which unfortunately still exist between the allies, and a bridge between Eastern and Western Germany,” Clay said the United States would consider it “a very seri ous step if one power seeks to withdraw from agreements which brought us to Berlin.” He added “I do not, at the present See WESTERN On Page Two COL. ROSSER ASKS CAREFUL DRIVING Motor Vehicles Commis sioner Points Out Danger1 At Yule Season RALEIGH, Dec. 22. — <*) — Col. L. C. Rosser, commissioner of motor vehicles, today called on all North Carolina motorists to exercise special care in the.r holiday driving. He said that in November 78 persons were killed in 65 fatal traffic accidents, as compared with 90 killed in 84 fatal acci dents during November, 1946. Col. Rosser added that the Christmas - New Year holiday season is the most hazardous single period of the year. He said that “heavier travel and the festive spirit of the season increase the normal winter haz ards, such as bad weather, slip pery roads, and more hours of darkness. During December of last year. 103 persons lost their lives in traffic accidents in North Caro lina. Sixteen of these occurred from Dec. 23-25, and 11 oersons met their deaths in traffic ac cidents on Christmas Day alone. Frontiers Facing Palestine Are Virtually Close Arab Nations ‘Gird’ For War; GOP May Introduce Own ‘Marshall Plan’ Yandenberg Hints At Senate Action Foreign Relations Chair man Says Over-All Aid To Be Studied WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. — (U.R) — Senate President Arthur H. Vandenburg, chief Republican foreign policy spokesman, hinted today that the GOP may come up with its own “Marshall Plan” in the next session of Congress. He told a news conference that he was “emphatically commit ted” to the general objectives — but not to the details — of Presi dent Truman’s four-year, $17,000, 000,000 program for aiding Eu ropean economic recovery. He added that his Senate Fo reign Relations committee would make a “most complete” study of the plan. And he made it plain that he personally was “open minded” about how much should be spent, how the program should be administered, and whether it should be for four years or less. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., chairman of the Senate GOP Policy committee, has criticized Mr. Truman’s figures as “too high,” and has come out in fa vor of putting the plan on a year-to-year basis. Vandenburg called newsmen to his office to clear up his views a short time before the Citizens’ Committee On European Re covery issued an appeal to Con gress to grant aid promptly, to d) it on a basis of “mutual re spect and honor,” and to avoid burdening war-shattered coun tries with “a hopeless load of debt.” Patterson Chairman This organization, known of ficially as the Committee For The Marshall Plan To Aid Eu ropean recovery, is headed by former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and former Under secretary of State Dean Acheson. Patterson published the appeal in New York, and Acheson un folded it to a news conference here. Acheson, calling his group “a See VANDENBERG On Page 2 ACL DISCONTINUES TRAINS ON JAN. 5 Passenger Runs By No. 45 46 North, South Will Be Cut Off Soon Atlantic Coast Line Railroad trains 45 and 46, operating be tween Rocky Mount and Wil mington, will be discontinued pursuant to authoritv of North Carolina Utilities Commission with last trips Sunday, January 4. according to statement issued here today by James B. Sharp ton, passenger traffic manager. Coast Line several months ago applied to North Carolina Utilities Commission for per mission to discontinue trains 48 and 49, now operating between Wilmington and Rocky Mount, because of the heavy financial losses sustained by the Coast Line in the operation of those Itrains. The Commission denied _ . . I !_A_J tnat application «uui, authorized withdrawal of trains 45 and 46 pursuant to under standing had with the Commis sion at the wartime period when the trains were inaugurated. Trans 48 and 49 are local trains, handling coach passen gers between Wilmington and Rockv Mount, and to and from intermediate stations, with no direct connection with through train service at Rocky Mount. Pullman Off, Too Trains 45 and 46 at present connect at Rocky Mount, with the Coast Line’s Havana Special, trains 75-76. and pro vide northbound service leaving Wilmington 4:00 pm, and arri ving New York the next morn ing 7:00 am. and southbound service leaving New York 9:50 nm, and arriving Wilmington 1:* 15 pm, the next day. Through See ACL On Page Two Man Who Stole Bridge Should Get 1947 Oscar By WILLIAM D. CLARK United Press Staff Correspondent HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 22— (U.R)—If the underworld award ed “Oscars” for the best per formance of 1947. the man who stole a 20-ton bridge at Gooding, la., probably would win it. ITe just purloined the bridge ore night, and that was the end of it. if Runnerup would be the thief who stole a brick wall from in front of a Del Mar. Calif., resi dence, while honorable mention undoubtedly would go to a ’ess ambitious operator who was sat isfied with hauling away a tele* phone pole at Palm City, Calif. These were among the many odd crimes which called for a payoff by the Travelers Insur _See MAN on Page Two— . .. » . ... iih-. ......Mini , .... .. PRINCIPALS AT STAR-NEWS CARRIER’S CHRISTMAS PARTY—Approximately 135 carriers of the Morning Star and the Wilmington News held their annual Christmas banquet as the guests of Publisher R. B. Page at the Famous Club last night. Shown above, left to right: Wallace E. Pruett, circulation manager; James L. Allegocd, advertising manager; Mrs. Mary Priest, circulation bookkeeper; The Rev. Walter B. Freed, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church; R. B. Page, Star-News publisher; Mrs. Lois Jeffords, circulation cashier; Miss Evelyn Futrelle, circulation secretary, and A1 G. Dickson, editor of the News. (Staff Photo) CARRIERS ENJOY ANNUAL BANQUET Star-News Circulation Workers Guests Of Pub lisher R. B. Page It might not have been the bigest Christmas party in the county, but without a doubt it was the loudest and gayest as ap proximately 147 Wilmington Star and News carriers and their guests attended the publisher’s annual Yule party at the Famous club last night. The meeting was opened with the Rev. Walter B. Freed, pastor of St. Pauls Lutheran church giving the invocation. R. B. Page, publisher of the papers and host to the youngsters, acted as mast er of ceremonies. The Rev. Mr. Freed read the “Christmas Story” to the boys, who sat in silence, but shortly after he completed his talk, the room shook from the noise of horns ,noise makers of all types and the shouting of the happy youngsters. “You boys have restored my faith in young America,” the Rev. Mr. Freed said. He recalled that for the past 10 years he has had the pleasure of attending the an nual Christmas parties. He used the gala colored Christmas lights to illustrate his message. “Those lights,” he said, “Carry the mean ing of Christmas — Love, toler ance and Freedom.” He urged the youngsters to “Keep the lights burning and America will always be strong.” Page congratulated the boys on the faithful performance of their duties during the past year. “You carrier boys are the salesman of the papers and it’s your job to contact the public, and you have done a swell job,” he said. Guests attending the party in cluded A1 G. Dickson, editor of the News; Roy Cook, sports ed See CARRIERS On Page Two GEN. MYERS PUTS UP $2,000 BOND Former Air Forces Buyer To Stand Trial For Per jury January 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 22. —WP)— Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, 51-year-old wartime Air Forces purchasing officer, put up bond today to assure his appearance before a federal court in Wash ington Jan. 7 on charges of per jury and inducing others to swear to falsehoods. Meyers, calm and smiling, waived hearing before Federal Commissioner Martin C. Epstein in Brooklyn federal court and posted a $2,000 bond. Meanwhile, in Dayton, O., Bleriot H. Lamarre, 33, posted a $1,000 bond in U. S. District court for his appearance in See MEYERS On Page Two Court Unanimously Denounces “Blind Alley” Illinois Laws REAL DOLL SHOW SENDS PROUD MOTHERS HOME WITH RED FACES • WOODLAND, Calif., Dec. 22—W—There are dolls and dolls and this city was abuzz today over the difference. A sorority, whose membership is composed of socially prominent young women of the community, gave a doll show Saturday for the kiddies. There were shouts of joy when Santa Claus arrived and passed out gifts. Then the room was darkened and the happy youngsters— and their proud mothers—sat back to enjoy a movie. Amazement suddenly gripped the women, the movie was stopped and the parents gathered up their youngsters and went home in a hurry. “It was all a mistake,” someone explained rather lamely. It seems the films had gotten mixed up and the operator starr ed to show a real doll show—a strip tease act. CANADIAN CHRISTMAS KISSES WILL HAVE NO MISTLETOE BLESSING OTTAWA, Dec. 22. —-«P) — Canadian kisses this Christmas will be without the benefit of mistletoe. / Not a sprig of the tradi tional yuletide plant is on sale in the capital today. Supplies are generally flown in from Florida, Texas, Mexico and California but new restrictions to conserve U. S. dollar exchange prevent such imports. The meager amount of mistletoe grown in British Columbia is not nearly enough for demand. CLOSED SHOP MAY BE “LEGALIZED’ GOP Committee Chairman Says Group Will Con sider Recommendation CHICAGO Dec. 22 — ttJ.B — Rep. Charles J. Kersten, R., Wis., said today after the first session of a Congressional hearing into the Chicago newspaper strike that information gathered at the session may result in legalizing of the closed shop, now banned by the Taft-Hartley law. Kersten made the statement after he and other members of a house fact - finding committee heard testimony of publishers’ and union representatives, includ ing Woodruff Randolph, presi dent of the AFL International Typographical Union. The information, Kersten said, “may result in modification of the union shop provisions of the Taft-Hartley lay or perhaps legal r"aft-Hartley law or perhaps le galizing the close shop. His statement was one of the highlights today in newspaper strike developments which in cluded : 1. The ITU defied the Nat ional Labor Relations board at Washington hearing and refused SEE SHOP ON PAGE TWO Along The Cape Fear LIBEL SUIT — Since this col umn has been having something to say lately about ships that plied the Cape Fear, the writer has come across a copy of the old Daily Journal, published Dec. 24, 1859, in which is an account of the libel filed against a schooner towed into port. According to the notice in the Journal, The Wilmington Steam Tug company and Capt. Jacob A. Price, commander of the steam tug Equator filed the li bel against the schooner John. John Burton, the ship’s master, and the boat’s cargo. The libel was filed, and al leged on the grounds that on the 23rd of November, 1859. Jacob Price hitched his boat, the Equator, to the John, towed her over the bar so that she might sail for New York. But after she had been set 1 free, she was unable to proceed (the trouble was not stated) and the Equator again hitched on to the John the following Friday while the schooner was in a helpless condition about 18 miles at sea. The John was towed into Southport, the notice reads, at the risk of great peril to the Equator because of high winds and its own engine not properly working. The two boats spent the night at Southport and the following morning the Equator towed the schooner John on into Wilming ton. Because of this, the master of the tug filed its claim upon the schooner for salvage pur poses. The outcome of the suit, 'of course, cannot be determined since papers of a later date are 1 See CAFE FEAR On Fage Two FOREIGN WRITERS HELD AS COMMIES Secretary Lie Of UN Files Formal Protest Against Arrests NEW YORK, Dec. 22 —(U.R)— The United States has arrested a second foreign newspaperman accredited to the United Nations headquarters, it was revealed today, while UN Secretary-Gen eral Trygve Lie formally pro tested the arrest of the first, a Greek journalist held by Imi gration authorities as a “Com munist alien.” Syed S. Hasan, representative of the peoples age of Bombay, India, arrested some time dur ing the week-end for “political reasons” and Nicolas Kyriazi dis, 26, the Greek, who was ar rested Dec. 17, were held at Ellis Island for deportation hearings. Lie told Warren Austin, U. S. chief delegate to the UN that he would appreciate prompt U. S. See FOREIGN on Page Two DEALERS CHISEL ON FRUIT SALES Weights, Measures Men Find Short Weights In 1 Small Retail Stores RALEIGH, Dec. 22. — (£>) — Inspectors for the division of weights and measures of the State department of Agriculture have found that some dealers in Christmas fruits are selling short measures, C. D. Baucom, superintendent of the division, announced today. Baucom said most of the chis eling was limited to small re tailers. He added that common practices are to remove one orange from a bag containing eight pounds, and two or more oranges from 16-pound bags. Baucom said every inspector in his division had been in structed to devote full time to examining fruit bags and bas kets during the Christmas sea son. As a further precaution, he warned purchasers to insist that fruits and nuts be weighed in their presence. Supreme * Bench Orders New Hearing1 For Italian “Lifer” WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. —(U.PJ — Wrathfully denouncing the State of Illinois for its “blind al ley” justice, the Supreme Court loday ordered a new hearing for an Italian immigrant who was condemned to prison for life in 1925 on a guilty-of-murder plea entered without his knowledge by an interpreter The tribunal ruled unanimous ly that Illinois justice was “ab surdly : blind in the case of rony Marino, who has been in Joliet prison for all but two of the 24 vears siuce lie came to this country as a 16-year-old im migrant. It ordered the Winnebago County, 111., court to reopen hearings on Marino's applica tion for a writ of habeas corpus. The county court then will de cide whether he is to go free or bt tried again on the 1925 mur der charge. Tony was a scared kid of 13 when the county judge sentenced him on April 24, 1925, less than two months after he had been picked up for the murder of a 77-year-old man. The policeman who arrested him had to translate the judge’s words, because Tony didn’t un derstand English. The officer told him he had waived a jury trial and pleaded guilty to first degree murder. The sentence was life imprisonment. Appeals Denied Without friends, it was 22 years before the outside world heard from Tony again. Then, last spring, he appealed to the Winnebago court. His appeal See COURT On Page Two RUSSIAN WRITER KILLS AMERICAN Army Man Dies Following Brutal Kicking Episode In Vienna VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 22. — (U.R)—The U. S. Army Provost Marshal’s office charged tonight that the kicking and beating to death of a five-foot three-inch American soldier by a six-foot Russian was a plain case of murder. The American soldier was identified today as Pfc. Samuel Gearhart, 23, of Allentown, Pa. He was beaten and kicked by Stephan Ingrin, 23, a Russian “Newspaper C o r r e spondent,” last Thursday about midnight and died Friday. Ingrin was turned over to Russian military authorities, who have questioned him. The U.S. Army said its investigation was still in the preliminary stages, but there was “no doubt” it would advise Russian authorities that Ingrin should be charged with murder. A spokesman for the Provost Marshal said Gearhart was fatally injured in the Lugeck See RUSSIAN On Page Two White House Decorated As Truman Clan Gathers WASHINGTON, Dec. 22— LB—The White House is deco rated and the Truman clan is gathering there for Christmas. There are lighted trees on the Pennsylvania avenue portico, red poinsettias in the foye- and holly on the mantel in the state d ning room. Already here are the Presi dent’s sister. Miss Mary Tru man of Inde-enderce Mo.. - 1 Mrs. Truman’s brother, D. F. Wallace of Denver and his fami V ly which includes youngsters Marion, 10, and David, 13. Two other brothers of Mrs. Truman, George P. Wallac, and Frank G. Wallace, both of In dependence, and their wives are expected by Christmas. Two Treams The President and the family plan to open gifts after break fast Christmas morning in the upstair West hall where the Sm DECORATED Oa Pa*e Two People’s Army Being Recruited Consulates In Jerusalem Refuse Travel Visas To All Americans JERUSALEM, Dec. 22—VP) — Frontiers facing Palestin. vir tually were closed tonight to all non-Arabs as Middle East na tions adjacent to the Holy Land intensified their preparrtions for war against Zionism. Inside Palestine, where Chris tians face the prospect of a Christmas celebration in a troub led land, fighting broke out south of Java. Transportation between the countries of the Middle East was hampered not onl> by the anti partition fervor of the Arabs 1 it also by the threat of a cholera epidemic in Syria. Syrian sources said three deaths alread: had been reported out of seven chol era cases in their count* y. Consulates in Jerusalem flatly refused visas to Americans serv ing to travel in the Middle East outside Palestine except on direct appeal to the various capitals of the Arab countries. All of these capitals reported that recruiting was continuing for the Arab “people’s army” to fight in Palestine. In Cairo po lice hunted for a “Zionist radio" station which was broadcasting Jewish views apparentl; from a mobile transmitter. uun name Kages In the Jaffa sector on the Pales tine coast Hagana defenders of Bat Yam engaged in a gun bat tle with Arabs in the village of Yahelia. Jewish sources said the Arabs killed one Jew and wound ed two others before Havana’s warriors repelled the attack. AraJj informants said one Arab was killed and three were wounded in the engagement which began near Yazur on the highway connecting Jerusalem with Jaffa and Tel Aviv. An official statement confirm ed only the death of the Jew and said another Jew and an Arab were wounded. Since the United Nations de cided on Nov. 29 to partition Palestine 301 persons ha\ been killed in communal strife in the Holy Land, an unofficial tabula See PEOPLES on Page Two HOUSE OF SAVOY REIGNS NO MORE Assembly Approves Con stitution For Republic Of Italy 453 To 62 ROME, Dec. 22—UP)—1The Con stituent Assjmbly approved to night a constitution for the Re public of Italy, thus formally ending the reign of the House of Savoy. The vote, which marked the conclusion of 17 months of work on the charter, was 453 to 62, wtih most of the monarchist* and nationalists casting nega tive ballots. Enrico De Nicola, who under the constitution becomes the first presiden^ of the Republic, told the deputies in a message that they had completed an “historic document” upon which “the judgment of history would be serene.” De Nicola has been serving as provisional presi dent. Italy actually was proclaimed a republic on June 9, 1946 after a plebiscite on the issue went against the monarchy. The last king, Umberto II, subsequent ly went into exile in Portugal. Orlando Speaks Today’s action was carried out solemnly and with emotion. The deputies cheered when Vit torio Emanuele Orlando, Italian premier in World War I and the last surviving member of the Big Four of the Versailles treaty, spoke of the work the Assembly had done and ended with the words: “God Save Italy.” Two other elder statesmen, Ivanoe Bonomi and Francesco Saverio Nitti, also were present. See SAVOY On Page Two And So To Bed Unusual home Christmas decorations pop up occasion ally. Last night a lady called the And So To Bed editor to report one out in Oleander Court apartments. She said she thought it war unusual that Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Evans decorated the back door of their apartment * as well as the front. The idea not only is novel but one which might be more widely observed since folk do see the back doors of our homes.
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