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Britain,China Suggest Sanctions to Foice Palestine Peace
‘ Three Other
Nations SaM
Backing Idea
Paris, Oct. 2#—(AP)— Brittan
and China proposed today that
the United Nations use economie
sanctions to force peace in Pa
f lestine.
France, Belgium and Canada
announced support and a reliable
source said the United States
also would vote for the resolu
tion. Russia and the Soviet U
kraine did not make known their
positions.
The debate will be resumed
tomorrow in the Security Council
£ Russia asked for a two-day post
ponement, but Warren Austin,
the American Council President,
ruled at adjournmet today there
would be no delay. The council
meets again tomorrow.
Israel has rejected orders to
the U.N. Mediator of Palestine,
Ralph Bunche, that her troops
withdraw from positions won in
the Negev desert in a week of
battle with Egypt. Egypt’s com
- plaint that Irael is violating the
• U.N. cease fire order brought
up the issue.
Sir Alexander Cadogan of Bri
tain offered the council a draft
resolution calling for a special
committee to ’’examine urgent
ly” the action the council might
take under article 41, chapter
seven, of the U.N. charter. That
article reads:
wvvuwvj v^l/LUlv.11 Hicty uc
. cide what measures not involv
* ing the use of armed force are
to be employed to give effect
to its decisions, and it may call
upon the members of the united
nations to apply such measures.
These may include complete or
partial interruption of economic
relations and of rail, sea, air,
postal, telegraphic, radio, and
other means of communications,
and the severance of diplomatic
g relations.”
^ Dr. T. F. Tsiang of China de
clared stronger measures were
needeck*;^ enforce the truce in
the tur&uient Palestine situation.
British Still Hunt
Asian War Dead
Singapore—(AP)—Corners of
Southeast Asia will remain “for
^ ever England.” In them mem
■ orial cemeteries are being con
structed for British servicemen.
Unlike the Americans, who have
returned home the bodies of
some 30,000 war dead since last
October, the British decided to
leave their dead in the areas
where they fell.
Initial work is acomplished
by teams who locate and identi
fy bodies in the isolated tropical
jungles of Malaya, Burma, In
• doChina and the East Indies. Lt.
Colonel L. S. Harrop plans and
coordinates efforts to locate
estimated 10,000 men still unac
counted for in Southeast Asia.
Recovery of approximately 6,000
bodies to date includes Malays,
Chinese and Indians who fought
with British soldiers in Singa
pore and the Federation of Ma
laya.
~ Once bodies are gathered to
® gether in the military cemetery,
Graves Registration hands over
its job to “Imperial War
cemetery into a permanent mem
morial.
Weather
North Carolina and South
Carolina—Partly cloudy, not
much change In lmparalurt*
t today, tonight and Friday,
Roanoke
Rambliitgs
By PAT NANTZ
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Allen,
of this city, have returned from
Miami, Florida, after having
spent two weeks there. The Al
lens left on October 12, which
was their golden wedding an
niversary, and stayed at the
same place they did on their
wedding trip fifty years ago.
They also visited practically ev
ery place they did then, and
Allen told of how they were
especially pleased when they en
tered the hotel and found the
manage to be the son of the man
who was manager on their first
trip there. They have never had
the opportunity to return until
this time, and both agree the
trip was enough to last them
from this day foreward.
Everyone is glad to hear that
the Shriner’s Club of this city
will sponsor the Roanoke Rapids
High band in the Shriner’s
March, Friday, October 29, at
Raleigh—it has taken quite some
time to decide whether or not
the band would qualify to go,
but it did, and more than likely
the performance they gave at
the Roanoke Rapids-Edenton
football game, helped to swing
the decision in their favor —
i here’s hoping they keep getting
! chances like this. . . .
The many friends of George
Walters welcomed him back to
Roanoke Rapids for a visit . . .
George is an unreleased patient
at the veterans hospital in Rich
mond, Va., but was allowed to
come home for a visit with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George K.
Walters, Sr., because of his im
proved condition—he will return
to the hospital next week, when
he will undergo an operation.
|... he served four years with
I the. Marine Corps and was
I wounded on Iwo Jima, when he
I suffered head injuries . . .
George sftiUJ>e ^ already
I six minor operations, but is lop
ing this will be the final one,
so he can come home to stay
Since Coach Danny Cagle
hasn’t had any more casualties
lately, maybe the Yellow Jack
ets will make a good show
ing tomorrow night when they
play Washington ...
And speaking of football,
here’s hoping the Junior-Jax
have loads of luck when they
play Kinston, today at Kinston, i
Celebrating their birthday to
day are Shirley Bridges, D:>nald
Waters and little Kenneth Par
rish . . . congratulations, and
| may you have many, many more
just as happy . . .
A doctor told his patient that
there was nothing really the
matter with him. “All you re
quire is more outdoor life;
walk two or three miles reg-1
ularly every day; by the way,
what’s your business?” To which
his patient answered, “I’m a
letter-carrier, doc.”
Ho-Hum, Rainy
Weekend Seen
By Th® Associated Press
Partly cloudy skies came to
the Carolinas today, and the
weatherman said there was ^ome
prospect of rain for weekend
football games but it’s too early
to say definitely.
The forecast was for not
much change in temperatures
through tomorrow, and that
meant a continuation of com
fortable afternoons and cool
nights.
Congressman Gathings Has Trouble
Getting His Phone Number Listed
Washing* >n, Oct. 28—(A5)—Life
in Washington can be pretty
complex even lor a congressman.
Take Rgp. Gathings (D) of Ar
ia kansas.
All Gathings wants is to have
his office telephone listed as
National 3120—the number by
which the Capitol and all Con
gressional offices can be reached.
Like all Congress members,
Gathings has two National 2120
extensions in his office. And like
most others he has still another
office >fl'sphone—his is District
4875,jtZa.!ij /s the one the tele
£ phone directory lists. And Gath
ings pays the bill..
Why not, he thought, just list
the Capitol number — at the
standard extra listing fee of 75
cents a month—and do away
with the other telephone- He’d
pay the six bits and still save
around $3 a month.
Sounds simple, ehT
That's what Gathings thought.
But he’s been working on the
q project for weeks and hasn't
w gained an inch.
t
He took it up first with the
telephone company. It was a
brand new idea. No congress
man had ever wanted to be list
ed with that number before.
So the phone company took
it up with John Andrews, clerk
of the House.
It boiled down to tis:
The company has no objection,
providing it can add the 75
cents to the bill it sends Con
gress each month.. It doesn’t
want its account for NA 3l2o
cluttered up with separate bill
ings for Gathings—and any or
all of the other 434 representa
tives.
But Andrews said he has no
authority to okay any such bill.
Besides, if Gathings got his
name fisted that way the other
434 might want the same con
sideration and that would run
into money—$326.25 a month it
figures out
Couldn’t the House pay the 75
cents and collect from Gathings?
Oh My, No! The system
doesn’t work that simply. v
COMMUNITY CHEST
DRIVE CHART
MAKE IT GROW!
1949 Goal I14.37S.00
(FINAL_
Sat.
FrL
Thun.
Wad. 19.739.00
Tuaa. 37.9S1.96
Mon. 14.919.79
Sun.
3ah $1349.50
Thun. 9797.50
Doris Duke Gets
Second Divorce
Reno, Nev., Oct. 28—(—AP)—
Doris Duke, heiress to a tobaco
fortune which has made her one
of the world’s* wealthiest women
got a quick divorce yesterday
from her second husband, Por-.
firio Rubirosa, Dominican Re
public Diplomat.
District Judge William Mc
Knight gave her the decree on
grounds of extreme mental cruel
lty, shortly after the filing of the
suit.
Th e 35-year-old Miss Duke,
who won restoration of her maid
en name, returned here October
24, it was disclosed. She has
maintained a home here since
she became a resident in 1944
to divorce her first husband,
James H. R. Cromwell, whom
she married in 1935.
She and Rubirosa, 40, were
married at Paris September 1,
1947. No property rights were
involved in the action.
& ^
Scott Calls For Legislative
Support In Removing What He
Calls “Bottleneck” Of State
By The Associated Press * -
The democratic nominee for
governor has called for support
from the generalassembly in re
moving the “bottleneck” from
the needs of North Carolinians.
His republican opponent,
though, says that the Democrats
for years have been quickly for
getting their promises to t h e
people.
Kerr Scott, the Democratic no
minee, told a rally at Kinston
yesterday that he will need the
1949 elgislature’s support in his
efforts to usher in the greatest
era of prosperity in the state’s
history.
George M. Pritchard, the Re
publican nominee, said in t w o
speeches at Charlotte last night
that the state needs a change
of administration. He spoke over
radio station WBT and then ad
dressed a courthouse rally.
Pritchard also expressed op -
position to President Truman’s
civil rights program.
Democratic Senatorial Candi -
date J. Melville Broughton said
that North Carolina has the best
of racial conditions and added,
“we’re not going to let people
in California, New York of even
Missouri tell us how to run our
racial affairs.”
Addressing a New Hanover
county party rally at Wilming
ton, broughton asserted that “Th
democratic party is stronger tha
any one man.”
Both parties today continued
heavy campaigning leading to
ward Tuesday’s general election.
Hollar Tells
Teachers About
NCEA Meeting
Robert Hollar, president of the
local North Carolina Education
Association, gave a report from
the Federal Relations Division
of the N.C.E.A. which he attend
ed in Washngton D. C. Saturday,
at tha local unit meeting Tues
day afternoon in the high school
library.
The purpose of the meeting
with the Federal Relations Divi
sion was to stress the import
ance of federal aid to education
and what steps to take in order
secure sufficient backing to have
congress pass a bill for aid. Hol
lar said Sixteen representatives
from other schools in North
Carolina were present at the
Federal Relations Division meet
ing in Washington, with Mr.
Hollar.
Hollar and I. E. Ready, super
intendent of schools discussed
at length the importance of the
program to be held at the North
Central District meeting on the
N.C.E.A. in Raleigh on Novem
ber 5th, and urged all teachers
to attend if possible.
With American Education
week of November 7-13 ap
pioaching ,Mrs. B. Godwin, chair
man of the Public Relations
Committee, discussed plans for
the observance of that week by
the local schools.
It’s Infuriating, Really!
London, Oct. 28—(£>)—It’s in
furiating, really!
A woodpecker has pecked so
many holes in Mrs. D. M. Gay’s
house that it begins to look like
el sieve.
And when she shoos him off,
3he says, the bird just flies to
a tree and gives her the bird.
Sort of a jeering laugh.
The culprit is a woodpecker
type known as the yaffle be
cause it sounds like that—like a
guffaw.
Mrs. Gay showed the press a
frame house pockmarked with
patched-up holes, some of them
six inches wide.
‘‘It starts with two sharp raps
about 7 a. m. daily, and then
follows a rattle that reverbrates
through the house like a mach
ine gun," she said.
“When I scare it away, it
laughs at me frm a neighbr
ing tree like the bird in the
song ("Woodpeckers’ Serenade”).
I am not amused.”
Mrs. Gay wanted to have the
blasted thing shot dead, but
even then the woodpecker had
the last laugh. In her section
of Essex, the British Home Of
fice said, a yaffle can’t legally
be killed.
So the yaffle keeps drilling,
land yaffing.
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Five Billion
Will Be Gone
By March
Washington, Oct. 28 —(AP)—
Foreign aid officials said today
they expect to ask congress for
an extra $1,200,000,000 to carry
the Marshal Plan through April
May and June of next year.
The $5,055,000,000 appropriat
in for Eurpean Recovery will
have been exhausted by the end
of March — 12 months after the
program’s start — a spokesman
for the economic cooperation ad
ministration reported privately.
Congress voted the recovery
money for 15 months, or until
the end of the Federal fiscal
year next June 30, but gave
President Truman the power to
let ECP use it up in 12
months if necessary.
As early as last August, Mr.
dent’s formal approval of the 12
month schedule may be asked
within the next two weeks.
As early as last Agust, Mr.
Truman said a supplemental ap
propriation of $1,500,000,000
might be needed for the last
three months of the program’s
first phase.
The ECA spokesman said the
new estimate of $1,200,000,000 is
as close as the need can be
gauged at this minute.
L07 Year Old Negro
Marries Fifth Time
Valdosta, Ga„ Oct. 28— (AP
—Negro preacher who said he
was 107 years old honeymooned
today with his fifth bride, a 67
year-old widow.
The Rev. R. J. Green, cane
in hand, and Rosa Lee Minus
were married here yesterday.
They came to Valdosta
from their home in Ocala, Fla.,
to avoid the waiting period re
quired by Florida law.
The groom, who said he was
born in slavery in 1840, pro
nounced a firm ‘‘I do” at the
ceremony performed by ordinary
(Judge) T. N. Holcombe.
I’ve been marrying people for
34 years,” said Holcombe, “But
this is the oldest couple.”
Emporia Negro
Gets Eye Cut
Jessie Lee Boone, Emporia Ne
gro, was admitted to the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital yesterday
afternoon about 2:30 suffering
from a severe out above his left
eye.
Hospital officials said he told
them he had been working on
a caterpillar tractor near Em
poria hauling some heavy equip
ment when a hook broke and a
piece flew up and struck him in
the face. He was painfully in
jured, but it was s-aid at the
hospital that he was recovering
nicely.
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•€21. Ruth Cooper
Says Neutral Nations
Lending Support To J
Policy Of Aggression
Moscow, Oct 28—(&)—Prime Miister Stalin accused
the United States, Britain and the so-alled neutral sctates
of the United Ntona Seurity ounil today of supprtcing M
poliy which an lead to the “unleashin of a new war.”
The Soviet leader added, however, that the present - t
international criss “can only end in an ignomnious failure ;
on the part of the istigators of a new war.”
No War For
Few Months,
Briton Says
Berlin, Oct. 28—(/P)—The Brit
ish commander in Germany said
yesterday he expected “no war
for the next few months.”
Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, the
British military governor, told
a news conference, however, he
did not care to predict what
might happen beyond that per
iod.
He said also that the with
drawal of occupation troops
might be the only way to solve
the German problem.
But here, too, he added a ma
jor qualification.
“It is my personal opinion,”
he said, “withdrawal may well
be the only means of resolving
the difficulties that have led to
Allied disagreemnt.
“However before one could
adopt such a solution one must
be sure conditions are satisfac
tory for withdrawal.”
Truman Pledges
“No Retreat”
From Berlin
With Truman En Route to
New York, Oct. 28—(^—Presi
dent Truman stormed New Eng
land again today en route to a
crucial campaign talk in New
York with a warning to Rus
sia “we shall not retreat1* from
Berlin.'
Thousands of Bostonians,
crammed into Mechanics Hall
last night, cheered lustily as he
declared a hatred for commun
ism and “the godless creed it
teaches,” and served this notice
that the “airlift” will be main
tained.
“In Germany, we have taken
the frank and firm position that
communism must not spread its
tentacles into the western zones.
“We shall not retreat from
that position.
“We shall feed Berlin, and the
people of Germany will be given
their chance to work out a de
cent life under a democratic gov
ernment.”
He moves into New York City
at 3:45 p. m. for a fighting, no
holds-barred, two-day talkathon
to be highlighted by a major ad
dress in Madison Square Gar
den at 10:30 c/clock (EST).
Chimney Blaze
Is Extinguished
Local firemen answered a call
about 9:45 this morning to the
home of Otis Hawkins at 807
Henry street to extinguish chim
ney fire.
Firemen said the house was
undamaged in spite of heavy
smoke which poured from the
chimney after soot had ap -
parently backed up and had been
set afire on the inside.
The house is the property of
the Rosemary Manufacturing
Company.
cnaim answered a sene# 01
juestions put to him by a re
porter of Pravda, the Commun*
st Party newspaper, on the Ber
lin controversy.
The prime minisrter criticised
-hina, Canada, Colombia, Syria,
Belgium and Argentina for their
actions in the Security Council
it Paris during the Berlin dis
mssions. (These six nations at
tempted to mediate the big
power quarrel over Berlin, but
Russia vetoed their proposed
tompromise Monday.)
"Those gentlemen are ob
viously lending their support to
a policy of aggression—to a po
licy of unleashing a new war,"
Stalin asserted.
"The point is,” Stalin went
an, "that the inspirers of the ag
gressive policy of the United
Btatese of America and Britain
io not consider themselves in
terested in agreement and co
pperation with the U.S.S.R.
"They want not agreement
and cooperation but talk about
agreement and cooperation, in
order to thwart agreement, to
throw the blame on the U.S.S.R.
and, by so doing, prove the im
possibility of cooperation with
the U.S.S.R.
ina instigator* or war, who
are striving to unleash a new I
war, fear more than anything
else agreement and cooperation
with the U.S.S.R., since a po
licy of agreement with the
U.S.S.R. undermines the posi
tion* of the war mongers and
deprives the aggressive policy of
these gentlemen of its objective.
“Precisely for t)>is reason they
disrupt agreements already
reached, disavow their repre- '
sentatives who have reached
such agreements with the
U.S.S.R., and transfer the ques
tion, in violation of the U. N.
Charter, to the Security Council,
where they possess an assured
majority and where they can
'prove' anything.
“All this is don* in order to
demonstrate the impossibility of
cooperating with the U.S.S.R.,
to demonstrate the necessity of
a new war, and thus prepare
the conditions for the unleash-,
ing of a war,
"The policy of the present
leader* of the United States and
Britain is a policy of aggression
and the unleashing of a new
war."
“Where can all this end?” ask
ed the correspondent.
Stalin replied:
“It can only end in an ignom
inous failure an the part of the
instigators of a new war. (Win
ston) Churchill, the main instiga
tor of the new war has already
managed to deprive himself of
the trust of his own nation and
of democratic forces throughout
the world.
“The same fate lies In (tore
fc* all other instigators of war.
The horrors of the recent war
are stiil too fre*h in the mem.
orie* of peoples* and public
forces favoring peace are too
strong for Churchill’s pupils in
aggression to overpower them
and to set a course for • new
War’’I
Local Man Wounds Self In Freak ' % |
Hunting Accident In Warren County
Freeman Gibson of Roanoke
Rapids was painfully injured
yesterday afternoon in a hunting
accident in Warren County when
his gun was accidentally dis
charged and shot him in the left
leg.
He was brought to the Roanoke
Rapids Hospital here last night
after he had been taken to a
doctor in Warrenton and trans
ferred to the local hospital by
ambulance. Hospital attendants
said his condition was good ex
cept that he was weak from loss
of blood. He was given blood
transfusions here today.
The shotgun blast tore through
the rear of his left leg from knee
to calf and the muscles of the
lower leg were damaged by the
shot.
Gibson said here this morn
ing that he had a load of Num
ber Four high-powered shot in
his shotgun at the time he was
injured.
He said he was squirrel bunt
ing with two of his uncles, Char
lie and Rudolph Gibson, and Lee
Nickerson along the Roanoke
River a few miles north of Mac
on and the accident occurred a
bou\ 5:30 yesterday aftanco.
b '■»
He said he shot a squirrel j
which dropped on the ground
wounded, so he went over to
where the animal had fallen and
hit it with the stock of the gun
causing the other chamber of
the double barrel gun to dis
charge into his leg.
Charlie Gibson, his uncle,
said all four of the hunters had
scattered in the woods when
they heard Freeman shout. He s
said they ran to his aid and j
found him on the ground trying '
to twist a handkerchief around ‘
his leg to stop the flow of blood.
They adjusted a tourniquet and
had to carry him nearly a mile
through the woods to where the
car was parked, and then they
hurried to a doctor in Warrenton
Gibson said the injured man was £
conscious the entire time and
was in great pain.
He said the Warrenton doctor
dressed the wound and had him
transferred by embulance to the
local hospital.
Gibson’s uncle said doctors
fifty chance" he would recover
the full use of hie lag, however
ha said bis oondition, aside from:
the has «< Heed wee not
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.84th Year—No. 44) Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Thursday, October 28, 1948 5c~Daily; 10c Sunday
More Marshall PlanFunds to Be Asked
Wifely Attention For States Righter Thurmond
Got. J. Strom Thurmond oi South Carolina (left), Staaa Bights Democratic candidate for
president, pauses for his wife to pin a party campaign button on his coat at Memphis. Tenn.
The gorernor is about to enter a party strategy conference with Got. Ben Laney of Arkansas
(right), and Merritt Gibson (rear) of Jackson. Miss., tha States Bighters' national campaign di
rector. (AP Wirephoto)._