North Carolina Newspapers

Itettitersmt Bally Btsrraixh THIRTY-THIRD YEAR ' 5t,M.WD^>, v, - . ""? assi"'IATKI. PUKSS. HENDERSON. N. C? MONDAY AKTRRMnnw UI?ptomdlm) H ...... ijM-ii. x ? -uHUM ,.>JJ.|:j.VI:^i|yNIAjy kknim >N HVE CENTS COP 1 Rails For Belgrade Protested Sen. Bric'ges Asks State Department To Explain Action Washington. Sept. 9.?i/l?i?Senator Bridge.. of New Hampshire pro test t I t ? the State Department today ;l rep- l? <1 UNHHA dccirion i:? divert to I ivia $450,0110 worth of steel rails i .. :inaliy destined for China. The New Hampshire senator "told a re;oiler he also is asking the Unit ed N; t'oils Relief and Rehabilita tion Adminittration for an cxplana tion. Sayi'i? he believe? this conntry ought t > shut off supplies t< the Belgrade government until further amend: have been made for the shoot i lit down c-r two Amerivan tran i i t planes last month, Bridges addei I. Ships In The Ni-li'. -While ships are crossing the ocean brain : the ..u lies ot American boys slu t down by the Yugoslavs, they're pa?u t ? hi" : hips carrying goods to Yugo !avia just as if nothing had h;i|ip< tel." Bridges said his information is that the rails were obtained after I General George C. Marshall special L'. S. envoy to China, made arrange ments in March to have them de clan d surplus from army supplies. The senator added that in taking over the task of procuring the rails. UN UK A obtained a special priority from the War Assets Administration "with .oc understanding i.iey were to he sent t< China and nowhere else." and proceeded t.? freeze all other available supplies. AFL Seamen Won't Load Relief Goods Now Y<?rk, Sept. 9.?t/lb?Joseph Ryan. president of the International Longshoremen's Association (AFL.) said today longshoremen would not load any relief supplies for Yugo slav ai "until proper action is taken against those who were responsible for six otir.j down our planes" in that country. I'ne American airmen were killed when the transport plane in \niieh thev were flyinjc over Yugoslavia was shot down. Another transport previously had been forecd down without loss of life. Ryan asserted that even if the strike of AFL seamen were to end today, there still would be no load ing i any vessel with cargoes bound fir Yugi -lavia. F II. LaGunrdia. general director ot L'N'llllA, said ye. ter.hiy that Jo seph Currant, president of the Na tional V iril'iuo Union (CIO) had agreed t > order his men to sail UN I! It A relief ships to any '.ounlry provided they were fully loaded. LaGuardia said Ihere were 37 UK It A ships now in the nation's jrorts, sol- e of them partly loaded. It was in - di.-t'lrucrt how many were des tined for Yugoslavia. I. S. Planes Form Initials F. I). R: In Athens' Sky Mli'-ir Sept. 9. ?/1*? ?The ini- j tial KDI! were spelled out in bold i relief today by 72 planes launehod ! ft "in the departing United States j aircraft currier Franklin I). Roose- ; veil. Thousands lined the streets of tin- j cient Alliens to see the demonstra- 1 lion shortly before noofi while the ( 45,(iiiii-ton etirricr was 40 miles til > sea. The initials were about a half mile hum at 2,000 feet. The pi-tie*' flew other intricate , designs. The Roosevelt departing for Malta. Algiers, 'langicr and Casa blanca, threaded through mine field s off Greece before launching her fighters and dive bombers. British Cabinet Talks Squatters I/mdon. Sept. 9?(>T??The British Cabinet met in special session tndnv and mapped strategy to cheek a communist-led squatter campaign to seize public and privately owned buildings for housing 10,000 persons. ('Squatters' Seise Large Apart ment': Page 2.). Officers Search For Assailant Of Mrs. Ola Clark Officers were eonduetlng an Intensive search this afternoon in the vicinity of the Townsvllle highway several miles north of town for a Negro fugitive want ed for attacking Mrs. Ola Clark and inflicting serious Injuries about the head. She was being treated at Maria Parham hos pital. Bloodhounds were brought from Wilson to aid In tracking down the suspect, whose Iden tity was reported this afternoon to be known. The attack oc curred In the forenoon. Reparations From Italy Renounced By Great Britain Glass Successor THE VIRGINIA State Democratic Convention has named Kep. A. Willis Robertson (above), of Lex ington, ~Va., to succeed the late Carter Glass in the U. S. Senate, He will be opposed in the coming ejec tion by Robert II. Woods, the Re publican choice. (International) Uniform Basis Is Sought For Tax Assessing By I.VNN NISBET. Daily Dispatch Bureau Ri'lcif.h. Sept. !).?County commis sioners assemble I in . tnte conven tion at Wrightsvillc Bc-ncii lost week listened attentively as Peyton Ab bott cf tile Institute of Government explained the relatively new method of arriving at equality in real estate values for tax purposes. It wis agreed that no mathemati ; al fi rmvla will inMiidc every ? asc and the human equation must be rec ognized. Abbott insisted, however, that !)?) per cent of the eases will fall Into a few recognized patterns. Pro posal is to establish a value map on which i "? shown a basic value for a standard lot or farm on county average male. For buildings, cost of replacement less depreciation should govern tax valuation.'I here are fixed rules fin reducing odd-sized lots to basic values, and percentage addi tions and deductions for particular seasons .such as cspc* tally gi >d or bad location, accessibility i> highways and other transportation facilities and similar considerations. Abbott admitted that in some in stance.- individual judgment of ap praisers bad to be counted upon. The e include high cost residences on cheap lots, business buildings d? - signed f< r special purpose awl I iter eonv< rteel to other uses and values affected by changing rights of way for roads. lie cited Winston-Salem as one North Carolina city which has found the standardization rule to be effec tive. When first applied some valua tions were lowered, some increased, the agr egnte not greatly changed. <> England Asks Only Italian Assets To Be Found In U. K. Paris, Sept. 9.?I/Pi?Ircal P.rit:iin went before the Italian economic loiijnisxioii today to renounce its claims to so.ne $1 l.tllKl.tMKl.lWO in reparations I rem Italy. It reserved to itself only the right to exercise Article lit) of the Italian treaty allowing it to confi: .-ale what ever Italian assets may be found i in liic I niled Kingdi n and its col onies to satisfy claims for war dam age. Si me British quarters set the value jot tin. Italian assets at n? more than ! $111.1)1)0.1)1111. The British statement expressed 1 iielief "the decision will show the I Italian people that we tire not tin niiiioliil of the weijhl of the hex reconstruction which lies tiliead i f them. or of their services to the Allied cause." Britain's claim against Italy had bn ?.it total reparations claims again l the Ionia r axis partner to j more than $2ll.tMit>.'H)0.<io;i. Only' j litis a.i's vlahn ha., been tip.irovctl j ; so far. Delay In U. N. Meet Asked By Ministers Paris. Sept. 9.?(/Pi?The foreign | | mihitirs council, agreeing to a pro i pcsal by Soviet Russia, asked the |en:led Nations Gcncial Assembly j ...day to postpone* tor one month its ; scheduled Sept. 23 meeting in New York, t > avoid c< .illicl with the 1-aris peace conference. At t'.ie same time informed quar ters reported that the foreign inin | islers had decided to meet in New Yo:;i next month to present to the ? ,s< :r.'oly the peace treaties which the . toiciiee is now drafting for Italy, doirai.i i, Huntary, Bnlgtiria and [ I Finland. The ministers also Would j e&in drafting trcali icr Germany I ar .i Austria at that time, these (, i. a i ter.' said. j 'I he U. S. (ii:l not join in the re- j tie t for postponement of the Sept. 122 meeting, but did not offer any \ (abjection. Britain lined up "pro-] | vision,illy" with the request, reserv i mg final doeisoin pending a ?ele- | | nl). ne conference l< lay between A. : V. Alexander, wiio attended the for- | i irtn mini.tcrs meeting and Foreign Secretary Erne-t Bevin. who has re- | turned to London for discussions. ! France joierd with Russia in tup- ] porting (tic move, alto favored by i Kliina and Belgium, who were in vitrd t i sit in with the tig four. I The mini: tcrs' derision was taken ! at a five-hr ir meeting which began | hst night after U. S. Secretary of i State .larros Byrnes returned from i Germany and continued into (lie early ! morning. Immediately. atfer the meeting. Foreign Minister Pan! Ilenri-Spaal; f Belgium, president of the United Nation< CJeiieral Assembly, relayed I lie requcM by telephone to Trygvc j Lie. U. N. secretary general, at Lie's ! I hc.idqttarlers in Lake Success. N. Y. | NEW YORK COTTON. j New York. Sept. 1/|'??Cotton I futures opened 25 to 35 rents a bat' | higher. Noon prices were 30 cents to 55 cents a bale higher. October 37.(i:i, December 37.110 and March | 36.01. Weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fartj.v rlnmly ami continued warm tonight and Tuesday. Widely scattered showers in mountains late this afternoon. Byrnes Address Debated One World Or Two? Capital Diplomatic Ofhcials Wondering V'a-hiiiaton, Sept. !).?l/l'i?Diplo matic officials locked horns in sharp debate today over whether Secre tary of State James Byrnes' speech at Stuttgart will help establish one world or two. The line up generally is the same as it was when the big argument was whether lite Allies should mi pose ?. nai u" or a "soil' peace on vici in; iiy. The debate also pits those wh-> favor patience and conciliation to ward Kussia agamst those who be lieve working basis with Moscow ?if possible at all?can be achieved Oldv by bold diplomacy. The one time "hard" peace advo cates are sharply critical of the Byrnes' speech. So are those who fa vor a conciliatory altitude toward IUissia. Abandons Big Three fact. These persons, saying Unit Byrnes virtually abandoned the Potsdam lug three pael at Stuttgart, center their critin m aiouiitl these chief points: I Byrnes may have ended serious attempis a! a collective, four power approach to German problem.: with his assertion that the U. S. ?in the absence of a big four agreement to treat Germany as an economic unit ?will proceed to unify its zone eco nomically with any others willing to go along. I 2?Some of his statements were made primarily for political pur poses to curry German favor for the United States as against Russia. 3?The effect of the speech may be to drive Russia into deeper eco nomic and political isolation from | western countries, thus increasing probability of an eventual east-west showdown. | Stocks Take Sharp l)rop Now York. Sept. 9.?</!*)?Stocks >ii broke sharply m today':; mar ket as heavy ?-?>ll:ttr4 hit all depart- I incuts and tumbled leaders to new lows for more than a year. Commitments were dumped fol- | lowing a fairly active opening, and tor a good portion of the first hour, the high speed ticker tape was as I much as three minutes behind floor transactions. Losers generally rang ed from one to five points with a few "thin" issue . down eight or so. Dealings tapered before mid-day, and near the fourth hour, o.'.cmc set-hacks were reduced licrc and there. Prominent en u.iltics were Hiram Walker, U. S. Steel. Chrysler, (icii etiil Motors t.nil American Tele phone. lit nils dipped will stocks. HltmSIl 1'1.,-W PLAN! FA SI" I: It THAN SIII'Ml London. Si it. !t. ? Plans for a | ?'wince I bullet" airplane designed to j travel faster t n : >iinl have been I cot ? U h I i.y Pie Miles A.Yairafl company of !;<? ling, it was an ; in ;*ncc:i today. A ??< npnny statement said the ; plane w is des igned to travel 1 .HOO i miles an hour by order of the Brit ish air mini/try. but that contracts were cancelled when the war ended. 'Ilie company said the plane, known as the M-52, would be 85 feel long Willi a wing span of 27 feet and wi aid have a 22-fool jet pi wcr plant capable of producing the equiv alent of 17.000 British horsepower. SEAMEN'S STRIKE DELAYS REMOVAL OF U. 5. DEAD BECAUSE OF THE NATIONWIDE STRIKE of seamen, the removal of llag-drapcd coffins of 56 soldiers and War Department civilians fiom the troopship Wilson Victory was delayed temporarily after the vessel docked at Brooklyn, N. V. army base. They died overseas from natural causes or in accidents. S/Sgt. Sol Alpiner (left), of DctroiJ, and T 5 Jack Dickman, of Kalamazoo, Mich., stand guard over the caskets as they waited lax longshoremen Vo receive permission of union leaders to cross seamen's picket linns. (international! Shipping Strike Slowly Is Strangling Industry; N.Y. Food Stores Close PREPARE KILLER FOR PRISON TERM BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION to prison life at State Prison, Jolict, 111., William Heirens, convicted slayer of three, is given a haircut. At left, the electric clipper shears a path through his thick black haiT. Momenta later (right), he is completely bald. 'International Soundp/wtoi U. S. T roops f atrolTrieste; JewsCut Palestine Railway Rritish-Arab Talks Started In London .Jerusalem, Sept. 0.?(/Pi?A Biit ish information officer announced : today the Palestine railway hail been cut in at) places, the flow oi oil to ; to the port of 1-laifa disrupted au:i two persons killed in a series of out i breaks coinciding with the opening | of British-Arab talks in London. Explosions and nun shots broke out in various sections of the Holy Land. The information officer said | these incidents were "apparently part of a large Jewish terror cam paign which partially failed because | | of a break in timing." The officer said he believed the \ \ campaign was planned by either Hngana or lrgun Zvai Leu mi (Jew j ish underground groups), probably irgun, as a demonstration ot streng th to coincide with the opening of ! the London conference, which the Jews so far have shunned. Something Went Wrong. "We believe this morning's bias'.- . ings of the railway at several points wa.; planned to coincide with yester | day's explosions of the llaila port I area." he said, "but something went wrong." (An atilhorizalivo source in Lon : <loo said Britain might "..oon liarr I to invite the Jewish Agency to par i till pate in the Palestine tall:.' on j its own terms?"statehood within jan adctpiate area"- to prevent fail ; tire of the conference, lie added that the Brilish would not make such a i move, however, before making i/cry I attempt to perstiatlc more moderate non-iigeiiey Jews to attend.) Hodge Reaffirms Korean Freedom Seoul, K?> in, Kept. t).?i/I'i Sharp ly riitiri/.ing but not direr!I.v naming communist agitators. LI. (Sen. John It. II-die declared today that the I United States is dctcrmincfl to help j Korea "stand alone": "We do not I intend to stand by : nd idly watch a | self-interested, venal segment of the . people impose their shoddy power." Hodge, commandant of the Amcri | can-occupied southern half of Korea, said in a radio statement on this first l anniversary of the American land ings that he favored attempts to re open a joint U. S.-Soviet commission i to unit the country which is Russian occupied notrth of the .'filth parallel, j The efforts broke down soinc j months ago, and the two halves of the country remain isolated, under ivr tly different adiri.iistmtii ns. i "Den ' racy." HcrVjcs said, "en ; dun . on the prineinlc of rompro ] inise. l?iit not on the coinpruinisc of principle." FINLAND MAY ASK SWEDEN FOR LOAN Stockholm. Sepl !l. - </l*i T h e newspaper St<? kli'dms - Tidningoo void ihe Finnish government intends |shortly l> ask Sweden tor a large | credit, possibly out $75,000,000. I The foreign office raid it had dis "ii. sc I Ike euesliin <?' a If.ui with [ Finnish officials, but thai no v critic | rooi'Cst for credit had been made. | The Hels'nki corrcspondr'" of the Inewspflncr A'tonblfldof i -id tn n dls I natch that Finnish industrial"--! told him Finland could not futtill repa j rations pavmonts to Russia without I foreign credit. Seven Americans Hurt In Disorders Trieste, Sept. 9.? i/l'i ? Armed I United States and Allied military ! police patrolled the streets of trou- j bled Trictc today following ;u> out- ' break of violence yesterday during > which they opened five to dlsfR-r;-" | a pro-Yugoslav demonstration held in defiance of a military government order. Seven Americans and one Briton were in.tired during the melee. Trieste was declared off limits t'? all Allied military personnel not on duty in the disputed city. All rhore Uavc was cancelled for men of the U. S. cruiser Huntington and of sev eral smaller British ships in the 1 harbor. Poliec Patrol Gorizia. Polire also patrolled Gorizia, '.!> 1 males north of here, where II. S. troops broke up a similar demon stration Sunday. The crowd scatter ed without serious incidents. The Trieste demon .teation, staged in defiance if AMG rclu .il to grant ? i permit, was sele-diiled to i oioei'ie with the aniiivcr arv ol the Venezia C India partisan uprising on Septem ber I!, litl.'f and incidentally with the anniversary of Italian surrender. K<>r several days prior to the in cident, the communist pres.. had openly declared an intention to defy Ihc prohibition. The seven Americans six sol diers and <i photographer ? were wounded when a hand grenade w is to; , od from a window in the San Giaeomo district. A I'.riti: h officer was also reported to have been in jured. Midnight Ncars For N. CI. Beauty Atlantic Cily, N. J.. Sop!. 11. It's , almost midnight for a North Caro lina <-inclrirlla. Nineteen-year-old Trudy Hiloy, who represented her state well at the Miss America Pag eant, will be start ms home tonight. 1 Today she was still ; oiling despite the fact she was not among the l.r> finalists, and she was interviewed | by several talent smuts, including oiie from Howard Hughes' prr>duc ! tions. 1 A.B.C. network officials here have also asked for a complete script of | Trudy's skit, r.r.d have asked for a ! recording of it to see if she has possibilities I r radio and television. Trudy has definitely made a hit lip here. This morning the hotel where she is staying has put a pri vate yacht rt her disposal and has told her she may lake as in my as !!'? guests of her own choosing out with her. Ei^lit Persons Die During Week-End (By The Assoriiitcd I'rcss.) At least eight persons were kitted in accidents in North Carolina over the week-end?two in a plane crash. Albert B. Cross. '.!4. and Dexter C. Coleman. Jr.. 28. of Klizabethlown. died instantly Sunday when their 1 Anrll plane crashed into a pcaifil | field. One person died by drowning, and five in auto accidents. Seamen Continuing Greatest Maritime Tie-Up In History By Tlic Associated Tress. T!ie greatest ? hip'M i? s?-ikc in the nation's history continued its stran gulation of international commerce and many <1 iny.'.stir industries today after hope for a truce was given; up by a Labi r Heparin ait mediator in San Francisco. Harry l.undciierg. leader of oho 90.000 striking AFL seamen whose picket line-, are being respected by another 400,000 AFL. and CIO sea men, stevedi res. teams ters, and Qth er maritime workers, reiterated late last night that hi., men would not return to work tint I wage cuts or dered by the Wage Mobilization Board are scrapped. Lundeberg, president of the strik ing Sailors Union of the Pacific and the Seafarers International Union said tlv.it the \\ ilko :t would ? intinue "until the politicians in Washington" anorove the wa.-e increases that the CIU and SUP negotiated with the ship owners. Assistant Secretary of Labor Philip Hannah, wh > flew frem Washington to see Lundeberg in the hope of ar ranging a truce, announced after the last of several meetings with the union leader that he had been un successful in his n' Motions and was leaving for Washington. The Wage Stabilization Board is scheduled to meet Tuesday to con sider its Aug. 23 ruling limiting AFL seamen to wage increases of $17.50 monthly ? the amount awarded to CIO seamen. The AFL union had negotiated increases with thip own ers of $22.5(1 on the west coast and $27.5(1 on the east ccast. Between 1.500 and 1.000 deep wa ter ships were paralyzed by the strike as it went into its fifth day and 400 lug boats in New York harbor were tied up tit their piers. The cessation of tug boat activity was an added blow to industries and consumers in New York, already crippled by a strike of truck drivers which has slowed industrial avtivity and reduced food supplies. truck Strike Halts Deliveries Of Food New Yuri:. Kept. 0. ? t/Pi?The -trike of 25.'Kill truckers in ttic New York area Rave New Yorkers a harp new bkw today when a large sugar r? inint firm suspended op eration for a chain lore predicted 2.000 retail chain fond stores would shut down completed by Tuesday. The Nalic nal St gar Refining Co. v iit:h claims t> be I he largest pror i- : or tit the metropolitan area, .said ti . it ;w n it t ? ,.1'ialioiis al its Long Island City ) 11 a i l and another sugar In in diM-lorcd it had made lio deliv eries in the New York area for a week. The chain stoic spokesman, who declined ii ? of hi?, name, said shelves of the 2.0"ii chain stores were bare ?mil there was n ? hope of rcplen t: iiing Hum ??'Mice':, n tilling to do but : luit 111' ? imp. You can't tell vbat yi it lu> co ' :;ot," he said. I'oion mcnners yesterday refused to accept a compromise settlement plan to end the week-old strike. A spokesman for National said ihe plant n .rnv illy prore-sed 4,000, oito | ountls ( f . uj.sar daily. How ever, .ic ause of 'he tr .eking strike it is unable to nuke deliveries. Alro, he added, tl c stril ? i reamen has pre vented the firm frcm getting raw sugar. Two Yets Killed In Plane Crash Mlizabelhtpwu. Spt. 0.?Two war veterans, neither of tlirni a lircnsed pilot, were lulled about 4:30 p. m. Sunday when their hedge-hopping silver Ktinson cr: shod in a peanut field a mile and one-half west of KHziibethtown. Those killed were Albert Cross, 23, and C. I). Coltr.an, 26. both of Kli/.ahcthtawn !'< lice said Colman was piloting the ship. l".ye\vitne:.M . t< '.d police ihr plane was flying "almost on the ground" when a f ' 'u , suddenly appeared in it ? path. The pilot ap parently tried to dodge the crows. . they said, and rrashi d as .? vestilt. | They hud taken <.If i short time I earlier from the iirtiel.1 at White ! Lake. 1'? mih - Iro n here. NF.GftO Ml,!* IN ftintDI R OF VIRGINIA WIIITF. GlltL, Charlolle Ceort House, Va., Sept. ft. A Negro wlu lrier| p> kill afrl other hut shot a 17-ycar-old white girl to death instead was held In ah ' undisclosed jail today to prevent possible mob action. MommonwCnlth Alb rncy R. Pare Morten announced. Morton raid that 23-yrar-old Y? uro Henry Harris, cf ffaxe. Vn., shot ami killed Gladys Ghols'W of Red Oak, Va.. a waitress, at llarnes junction Saturday night.