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WEATHER ~ ' " ~~ wilmington and vicinity—Fair ■■■ ft H'l^n __ -' Served By Leased Wires srjfTfr: tue 6i iu mIwv** ctad-mewc -“ss— I I I §L II 111 I :::|:^^ •-I'TJA W% m 111 f* Mil united press m ™ ViV V^P ■ lft ftP'C ft ft*. IN IfcW'ft ft ■ W WBV With Complete Coverage - — ^As?luirP r-, — r-^CT—~nc-,n„ _ "1 _ C— ** ™ ™ ~ " ^ W W State and National New* . — -- --^jflTlnlli P@ffiT (gflW ©P PIs?@@®[IIir&Mr5) PfLfgAgy taii^ -— V0I; l!)-~7l^l5jl_ ... _____ WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1947 SECTION A—PRICE TEN CENT! GOP Outlines 25 Point Plan In Next Session WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—(/P)—Senator Taft (R-Ohio) ga. today the Senate Republican Policy committee will coivider, along with anti-inflation and foreign aid proposals, s0jne 25 other issues. They include such controversial domestic issues as tax reduction, anti-poll tax legislation and proposals to raise the minimum wage rate. Taft supplied the following list of measures which he said are being pressed on the committee, which he heads, bin explained that the decision on their disposition v^ill be Jti 1 I tliC \*vjxxxxxxx v • ] \ Civil Service retirement } Vl'ii, w! he said he personally woiild “like to get out of the v.ay " by an agreement on the {urn. of the bill. 2, The House approved Mundt bill 10 authorize the foreign in formation service in the State Department. 3. A House approved anti-poll tax bill. 4 A proposal for statehood for Hawaii, which Taft said will be covered by specific recommen dat; ins by Senator Cordon (R Ore) when the latter returns from Hawaii by January 20. 5. Federal aid to education. 6. A Housing bill on which Taft said he hopes to get all elements to agree, and which he thinks should be passed in the new session. 7. The railroad reorganization bill now on the Senate calendar. 8 A measure creating a de partment of health, education and security, also on the Senate calendar. 9. A long range agricultural program to supplement the price support law which expires at the end of 1848. 10 Proposals for compulsory military training. 11. Federal aid to states for health programs. 12. A Fair Employment Prac tices Act, on which Taft said the Senate Labor committee will re sume hearings January 16. 13. A minimum wage increase proposal on which the labor committee also will hold hear ings 14. Income tax reduction, which must start in the House. 15. General revision of the tax laws, also starting in the House 16. Social security expansion, on which the House must act iirst. 17 Extension of military trade to Latin American govern ments. 18. Proposed extension of tl]e Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. 19. The Urossrr Din 10 revise the Railroad Retirement Act. il). Legislation for the admis sion oi European displaced per sons. 21. A measure returning to the states title to tidewater oil lands. 22. Anti-lynching legislation. 23. The regular series of ap propriation bills. 24. The legislative budget. 25. Extension of controls over grains used for distilling. Taft omitted from his list leg islation to approve the St. Law rence seaway pact with Canada but Chairman Vandenberg (R Mich) of the Foreign Relations committee already has said that issue will be brought to the Sen ate floor early in the session. The Weather Forecasts Until 7:30 P.M. Sunday VOR WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Fair and continued cold today and to riowest temperature 33 degrees in city. 28 to 33 degrees outside; Sunday fair and somewhat warmer, highest tem perature 54 degrees; moderate northwest winds today, diminishing tonight and becoming westerly Sunday. FOR NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy today, tonight and Sunday; warm er Sunday. for SOUTH CAROLINA! Fair and wanner today and tonight; Sunday part ly cioudy and warmer. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7 ;30 a.m. today Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 40; 7:30 a.m. 33; 1:30 p.m. 48; <:30 p.m. 46. Maximum 52; Minimum 32; Mean 42; Normal 48. Humidity . 1;30 a m. 58; 7 ;30 a.m. 69; 1:30 p.m. 33; 1'30 p.m, 42. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. 0-00 inches. Total since the First of the month— 5-50 inches. Tides for Today {From the Tide Tables published by 4‘ Coast and Geodetic Survey) Dec. . High Low "igton _ 10:13 a.IV. 4:36 a.m. 10:24 p.m. 5:26 p.m. Ma-y-nboro Inlet 7:55 a.m. 1:35 a.m. 8:17 p.m. 2:23 p.m. be 7:17; Sunset 5:11; Moonrise ;l; m.: Moonset 8:17 a m. j i{ * stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 5 r.' , Saturday,-feet. ml temperatures for the period ,,. ii-,30 p m. last night. JII-MING TON _ 52 32 ““'kngton _ 22 18 0.12 ,f)tte _ 52 23 -:,ago __ _ 42 24 'A e- _ 69 27' orth__ .77 38 11' a on_ 72 36 Ja oneiile _ 62 40 J City_ 55 33 West _ 68 62 J\''"-<viiie _ 52 24 f-'tti,- Bock _ 70 35 Angeles_ 83 58 Vs■■■■Phis _ 66 27 ,!r: o'ian_ 69 27 - _ 64 52 Aev. Orleans _ 67 36 York_ _ 34 25 0.12 S' ‘Ik _ 63 32 £! ‘‘adelphia _ 37 30 n1 '.'urgh _ 31 26 ‘J: ‘‘load, Me. __ 27 22 0.08 {fK ntond _ 46 26 ?a’ Antonio__ 72 32 rr- Francisco_ _ 59 38 5’ amah _ _ 62 36 • £ean|e - ... 51 40 0.85; va M - _ 66 45 'ok .burg _ 69 26 ''Arlington . 42 32 ITALIANS SIGN CONSTITUTION Ceremony Heldin Palazzo Giustiniani Saturday * ________________ ROME, Dec. 27 —(&)—Presi dent Enrico De Nicola signed the constitution of the Italian Republic today in the library of the palazzo Giustiniani. The charter will become effective as Italians welcome tne new vear. After De Nicola signed, Um berto Terracini, communist president of the constituent as sembly, and Premier Alcide de Gasperi added their signatures All members of the govern ment except white-Deardei 71 year-old Ludovico D’Aragonu, minister of posts and telegraph, were present. De Nicola came to Rome from Torre Del Greco on the bay of Naples, where he had been spending the Christmas holi days. De Gasperi, who was suf fering yesterday from a slight attack of influenza, rose from a sick bed to be present. While the signing ceremony was in progress communists mobilized their forces through out Italy for a new assault on De Gasperi’s middle-of-the-road government. Italy has ex perienced two months of almost incessant communist - inspired violence and strikes. The communist-led “congress ol congresses’’ met today. This session brings together execu live bodies elected in recent longresses which have laid plans for revolutionary move ments in factories and on the and. Tomorrow the national coun cil of the communist-dominated general confederation of iabt.r will meet in Rome. There wil oe a simultaneous gathering of mmmuList party card holders m Rome province. TRUMAN SIGNS HOUSING BILL Appropriates $750,000, 000 To Insure Loans 7 ASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—'A5) - ^resident Truman today signed Leg -.at:on increasing oy 4><rt, 399 000 the authority oi the Fed enl Reusing administration to insure loans on housing con struction. The loans are made under title VI of the Federal Housing Act. Federal housing adminis tration officials said that the new authorization will make pos sible immediate resumption oi ‘effective aid to private indus try in providing urgently needed housing for veterans.” The measure, passed in clos ing days of the special session of congress, increases the in surance authorization $250, 300,000 at once and makes another $500,000,000 available up to March 31 at the discretion of President Truman. FHA stopped processing title 71 applications from home build ers when the original $4,200,000, 300 authorization ran out in late November VET ENGINEER KILLED BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 27. —(U.R)—Roy W. Stone, 77, retired locomotive engineer with 53 years of service in the cab, was struck and killed here last night by a fast passenger train as he crossed the tracks.__ !Fifty-l*|s*s£ Persons Die In Snow Storm That Sweeps New York And Northeast; 10,000 Turkish Students Protest Reds Police Save Red Embassy From Mobs Five Professors Forced To Resign From Ankara University ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 27 — (U.R)—An anti-communist mob of nearly 10,000 led by angry stud ents clashed with police and firemen today in a pitched street attle which forced the resignation of five university professors. Only a firm stand by a hastily-mobilied force of 500 po lice and firemen prevented the mob from attacking the Soviet embassy. The demonstration, climaxing a week-long anti-communist campaign in the Ankara news papers, compelled the dismissal of four allegedly communistic Ankara university professors and the resignation of Dean Sev ket Ai Kansu. The demonstration began in an Ankara suburb, where mem bers of the National Students’ league assembled a crowd and started a march through the city, carrying banners denounc ing red college teachers and George Dimitrov, communist premier of Bulgaria Growing in sie and fury as it progressed, the mob surged to ward the Soviet embassy Police cordoned off the street, protecting the embassy from the mob. The rioters then nade for the university, where they smashed windows and marched on the dean’s office, where a (Continued on Page 2; Col. 7) GREEKGUERRILLA BATTLE RAGES Konista Is Center Of Bit ter Fighting Last Night ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 27 — (U.R)—The battle between guerril la and government forces for Konitsa raged without decision through its second day today, as the government prepared more stringent curbs on Communism Neither side succeeded in gaining a significant advantage in the battle for the key Greek road center near the border of communist - dominated Alba nia, reports in the Athens press indicated. The Greek army announced that 102 fighters on both sides were killed in the first 24 hours of the battle, and added hat civilian casualties of the gerril la bombardment of the town were “considerable” Meanwhile, government au thorities closed down ihe com munist weekly Rioslast Red newspaper published in Athens —while the cabinet debated a proposed law which would make Communism a crime. The new law being considered by the cabinet would outlaw communist - controlled organi tions such as the leftwing po litical coalition EAM and the Communist-controlled organiza Communist party youth move ment pron, and authoried the discharge of Communistic gov ernment employes. The measure, proposed by Justice Minister Christos Ladas, 'was considered certain to be ap proved by the cabinet. After that, only the signatures of Premier Themistocles Sofou lis and oher government lead ers would be required to make it a law. Thirty-Two Said Missing In Typhoon MANILA, Dec. 27 —UP)—'Thir ty-two persons from the sunken Danish liner Kina were counted as missing tonight in the after math of a typhoon whose full toll still was hidden by wide spread destruction C? communi cations throughout the central Philippines. The total dead and missing in the storm stood at. 49, but might go higher as isolated areas re ported. Twelve passengers and 17 crew members of the 9,823-t o n motor vessel were named by the agents as safely ashore at Calbayog and Dinalio point on the west coast of the island of Samar after taking to life-boats and rafts before dawn Friday when the ship broke up on rocks five miles offshore. Capt. Aage Hjernum, 30 of his crew and one passenger were still missing. Some may have reached safety, but several days will be required to check "Sea side villages afoot. Among those saved were three American women em ployes of the U. S\ War Depart ment in Japan, who had booked passage for Europe in Shang hai. They were the Misses Ada Espenshade of Chicago Anne Malek and Louise S. Rosso. PICKETS FOR AMNESTY PICKET THE WHITE HOUSE BPO^\r‘.7 ..• ..r.ir'iiim MEN DRESSED IN STRIPED UNIFORMS march in front of the White House in Washington, urging general amnesty for violators of the Selective Service Act. The demonstration was sponsored by the Comm ittee for Amnesty. (AP Wirephoto). Airlie Mansion Reported Sold To W.A. Corbett; He ‘Denies’ It -1 _ __ __— SOME 3,500,000 CHILDREN FED! UN Agency Report Made Public Last Night LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„ Dec. 27.—(ff)—Some 3,500,J00 of Eu rope’s hungriest children art. now getting some food through the United Nations International Children’s Emergency fund, the agency ^reported today. Children are now being fed in Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslova kia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Rumania, said Maurice Pate, executive direc tor of the fund. Food also has been shipped to Albania and Yugoslavia, he said in a statement, for child feeding in 1948. Plans also are being made to get aid to some 290,000 French children “for whom an urgent appeal has been made.” , Aid also will be sent to chil C en in China and other Far East ern areas, Pate said. Operations are being financed by contributions, principally from governments, of approxi mately $39,000,000. The United Nations appeal for children will sponsor a world wide fund raising campaign in 1948. Pate urged public support for it. Funds raised through the appeal will go principally to the child feeding project, he said. By PHIL WRIGHT Staff Writer In spite of persistent rumors to the contrary in circles supposedly in the know, W. A. Corbett, Wilmington in dustrialist last night would not deny or admit that he was purchasing the Airlie mansion, adding “nothing will be confirmed concerning the deal until the latter part of hext week.” It was said in authoritative circles that Corbett was pur chasing the mansion as a gift for a daughter. Corbett said “I have what information there is about the purchase in my pocket, but I’m not ready to talk” as he refused to confirm the report. According to informed circles, negotiations between Corbett and owners of the estate, are “practically completed.” Meanwhile Bud Taylor, who for years has served as superin tendent of the large estate which embodies a grand Ante-Bellum mansion, showplace, and former home of the late Mrs Harry Walters, said that he would not be at liberty to tell anything about the reported transaction. However, reliable sources ad mitted that “several interested paries have obtained, over the past several weeks, private en tree into the estate where they stayed for hours, apparently (Continued on Page 2; Col. 6) City Plans To Back ACL Train Petition Unless an earleir session of the city council is called, City Manager J. R. Benson said last night that the local governing body would act Wednesday on a resolution urg ing that the Atlantic Coast Line railroad be allowed to dis continue its Wilmington-Portsmouth train, which the rail road said is necessary if it is to continue the present Wil mington to Rocky Mount schedule. Meanwhile Peter B. Ruffin, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said that the Wilmington Merchants associ ation and the Chamber have already drafted letters to the North Carolina Utilities Com mission, which previously denied the ACL the right to stop trains 48 and 49, the Wilmington-Ports mouth run. ACL officials have said that both trains 48 and 49 and traing 45 and 46, the Wilmington-Rocky Mount run have been operating at a loss, but they said they wanted to continue the operation of 45-4 and discontinue 48 - 49 because fewer passengers use the latter train and because it has lost more money than the Wilmington-Rocky Mount sched ule. Schedule 45-46 was placed in operation during the war as an emergency service, the officials said, and the company was al lowed to discontinue the run when the war ended. But because the Wilmington Rocky Mount train allows local businessmen to travel to N e w York Ciyt for buying and to re turn to Wilmington within 48 hours, Ruffin said “it is in the interest of local merchants that Chicken Raised In A Bottle At Kannapolis KANNAPOLIS, Dec. 27.— W—People who are puzzled by miniature ships in bot tles would go to see Vic Har rington and Buford Efird at Landis. They have a chick en—a real live one—in a bottle. They put the chicken in the bottle when it was tiny and when it grew up it be came happy in its unusual home. ..Two vents provide plenty of air and the chick en rests on a wire on which are placed food and water. the train be allowed to continue operation.” The railroad petitioned the commission to discontinue the Wilmington - Portsmouth run, planning to keep trains 45-46 in operation. However since it was not allowed the petition, the ACL officials said they will be forced, because of financial losses on both schedules, to discontinue the Wlmington - Rocky Mount train. HIGHWAY DEATH RULED ACCIDENT Lejeune Marine Held Blameless In Jack sonville JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 27.—Of ficers tonight held blameless M Sgt. J. B. Nelson, Camp Le jeune Marine whose auto struck and fatally injured a 25-year old Onslow county man, Friday | night after two women, com panions of the dead man told how he insisted on “walking in the middle of the highway at night.” Investigating officers said that dark clothing worn by Sam Hen ry Jenkins, nearby resident of Jacksonville, prevented Nelson from seeing him in time to avoid hitting him with his automoble as Jenkins walked with two women companions on the high way near Holly Ridge. The accident occured about 9:30 o’clock as Jenkins and Mrs. Edith Rochelle and Miss Thelma Shepherd walked on the road about a mile north of Holly Ridge, according to the two women. They told investigating officers that Jenkins “insisted on walking in the middle of the road” while they clung to the outer edge of the four lane high way. The women were residents of Folkstone. Nelson was said by officers to have been alone in the automo bile when the accident occured. NEW BERN FARMER' CONFESSES IN DEATH OF WILLIAM NORRIS NEW BERN, Dec. 27.—(U.R)— Police said today they had ob tained a confession from Earl Humphrey, Vanceboro farmer, in the axe-killing of William C. Norris. Officers quoted Humphrey as saying he struck Norris in the head in self defense after his neighbor attempted to attack him with a knife. Police said the killing took place Dec. 20. FREEDOM TRAIN MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 27. —(U.R)—The Freedom Train stood on a siding here today only a few blocks from the Alabama capital where Jefferson Davis, in 1861, took the oath of office as president of the Confederacy. New Record Set As 25.8 Inch Fall Cripples Services 300 Funerals Postponed; All Buses Stopped! Thousands Of Cars Snowed Under; ‘Grav est Emergency’ Reported Last Night By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 55 persons perished in Friday’s great Atlantic seaboard snowstorm, which crippled New York city with & 25.8-inch mantle it was disclosed last night. The storm’s human toll was counted Saturday as thou sands of workers toiled to remove deep drifts from rail and highway thoroughfares and the storm moved out over the ocean toward Canada’s maritime provinces with a final light sifting of snow over the New England coastline. Packing of the snow reduced somewhat its depth in many areas, but made more difficult the job of cleaning important arteries. In the most severely hit area—south eastern New York and Connecticut—thousands of automo biles remained embedded in drifts, and only tentative re sumption of bus and interurban train service was achieved SPECULATOR’S NAMES DEMANDED House Investigators Seek Names From An derson WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.— (U.R) —House investigators demanded tonight that the Agriculture De partment produce the names of 200 federal employes the depart ment supposedly investigated last fall for speculating on the commodity markets. The demand was made in the name of a special house com mittee looking into commodity market speculation. It also asked for specific information on charges that federal em ployes in Chicago have set up a “speculative pool” for dealing in commodity futures. The requests were made in a letter to Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton P. Anderson by Rep August H. Andresen, R., Minn., chairman of the special com mittee. Andresen told reporters this information concerning the 200 federal employes came from a “very reliable source.” CLAIMS SOVIETS PLAN NEW FIGHT Marshall Plan Said Target In Europe During March PARIS, Dec. 27—OT—Well-in formed political sources said to night the communists are pre paring a new coordinated move against the Marshall Plan in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Austria and the French gov ernment is expecting the action to begin in March. The formation of a communist state in northern Greece was the preliminary move for more serious action coordinated by the cominform (communist in ternational information bureau), said this informant who is close ly linked with the French gov ernment. The form the communist drive will take was still a mat ter of conjecture, he added, but it may be a new widespread ef fort to tie up France and Italy wave in an effort to hinder Eu ropean recovery and neutralize especially with a new strike the effects of American econom ic aid. Iron Lung Salesman, Cash Still Missing Mystery continue! last night to cloak the whereaboms of C. D. Crump, r. ;ssing irui lung sales r.an and $4,000 he .s reported to have on his person following his checking out of a Wilmington hotel last Monday. Crump came to Wilmington and with police approval wras to set up an iron lung here and so licit funds for the purchase of two lungs for use by the fire and police departments. His brother, V. C. Crump last night told the Star-News that the missing man had $3,200 he had A collected in other cities toward iron lungs and $800 of his own when last seen. Crump was to have driven to Charleston from Wilmington in his 1940 Cadillac club coupe but according to the brother, V. C. Crump and police, he did not ar rive there. Meanwhile police are continu ing their search. The brother here said he fears foul play and that he is a partner of the missing man in the iron . business. He came to Wilmington from Fayetteville last night to press the search, For New York City, the snow fall was the heaviest on record, eclipsing the famous blizzard of 1888. . By Saturday afternoon, the 26 mch depth measurement at La Guardia field had shrurk to 23 inches, and Boston, despite ad ditional light snow, reported a depth reduction from nine to NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—W) Edward J. Delvin, presi dent of a large New York funeral concern, estimated today that some 300 funerals had to be postponed because of the city’s record snowfall. Devlin said, however, some cemeteries are expected to be open for burials tomor row, but funeral corteges will be limited by agree ment of funeral homes to a hearse and one automobile. eight inches. However, ths storm’s final fall added an inch to the cover at Eastport, Me., bringing it to 11 inches there. The storm’s aftermath include ed serious fires in Portland, Maine, Philadelphia, Pa., and York, Pa., where firemen were hampered by snow-clogged streets, and all firemen in New York city were kept on 24-hour duty in what officials termed the “gravest emergency” in the fire department’s history. At one time, all New York city bus transportation was at a stand-still, and suburban train* stalled, marooning passenger* in many instances. Air travel in and out of New York ceased completely for many hours, and trains to and from other parts of the country were delayed in arriving and de (Continued on Page 2; Col. 2) PALESTINE DEAD NOW TOTALS 500 Arab, Jewish War Rages Atop Mount Of Olives JERUSALEM, Dec. 27 _ Hagana, the Jewish defens* army, lashed back at the Arab* today and Palestine’s sputtering communal warfare claimed lit more lives — eight Arabs and four Jews. The day’s killings brought to 379 the Associated Press death count in Palestine since the Nov 29 United Nations decision to partition Palestine. The tally for the entire Middle East was 500. Palestine police, in their first public count of casualties, said 316 persons had died since Deo ls but added all deaths may not have been reported to them. Violence actually began on Nov. «Uv7. In today’s action a Hagana striking force raided the Arab village of Silwan on the famed Mount of Olives, police said. Two Arabs were killed, two were wounded and five houses were destroyed. Hagana clashed with 10 armed Arabs in a house in the strife-torn area between T e l Aviv and Jaffa and the body of an armed Arab was found after the firing ceased. In Jerusalem a groUp .*£ Arabs attacked a orphanage, throwing ”ana grenades and firing small arms. Hagana sped forces K g! S’ bg P^/Hdarglnaffluad Arabs before re no easual arrived There orphanage, b t ties inside b was wounded Jewish Pais« by the Arabs t
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