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$tcrn Gang Leaders On Trial For Terrorism i ~ . ■■■ L I IP J. ,· Nathan Friedman-Yellin (center), leader of the Stern Gang, and Matityahu Schmuelewitx (left), one of his chief lieutenants, sit in the prisoners' dock at their trial before a Jewish military court in Acre, Israeli, on charges of engaging in terrorism. They are guarded by an Israeli soldier (right). Their organization has been outlawed by the Israeli government. (AP Wirephoio). Red Army Forces Are Reported Within 50 Miles Of Nanking Iïani Defense Line May Be Abandoned Nanking, Dec. 13 —(AP) ] Chiang Kai-Shek's watch on the ! Yangtze is coming sooner than' expected. With a Chinese Communist at- ; tack reported only 50 miles Northwest of this capital, gov- ; eminent military sources said to day that Red infiltration and : heavy National losses may soon j force abandonment of the new] Hvvai River defense line. That would shove national defenses ' back to the Yangtze river. These sources reported that [ more than 50,000 troops of the! government's long encircled 12th | army group have been wiped ι out southwest of Suhsien, about1 145 miles northwest of Nanking.! The 12th, which originally numbered somé 110,000 now has been compressed into an area of less than four square miles. Its critical shortage of supplies isj worsening. Pilots report diffi cult;· in dropping material into the shrinking target area. I The 12th has been trapped 17 days. The Chinese Communist ; radio asserted Sunday night that the Government's sixth army' had been stopped in its efforts, to break through to the 12th. The Sixth moved North from the ! 14II ητ* onrl -i t c· r.ns«V«svt· at Pengpu, and once was within ; 22 miles of joining the 12th. Pengpu is 53 miles south of Suh sien and 105 miles northwest of Nanking. . The Red radio asserted that remnants of the 12th army group are "being mopped up." Neu tral observers said elimination1 of the 12th would free at least j 80,000 Red troops for action a gainst the under-strength sixth and eigth army groups. Eight Killed In Weekend Stale Mishaps BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 8 persons — five of ( them children — lost their lives last weekend in accidents in North Carolina. Mrs. Sally Loftin, 46, States ville Negro woman, burned to death in her home. Her grand daughter, Kay Loftin, 4, receiv ed leg burns. Betty Lee Roper, 14, was fat ally burned in her home at Morganton despite heroic act ion by a neighboring farm boy. Lloyd Ross, 14, rushed from his home a half mile away when he heard Betty Lee's mother call for help. He carried out Betty Lee just before the house collapsed. But she died in a hospital soon afterward. Mrs. Roper, who escaped with three other children, said the f i rp» «tarfpH whpn "Rpttv T.pp poured kerosene into a kitchen stove. The Ross boy escaped injury. Three of the Roper children were not at home during the fire. The four-month-old twin daughters of a Hendersonville, Negro couple. Mr. and Mrs. C. Green, burned to death in a con verted barn in which the fam ily lived. Linda Ailen Beach, seven, was killed by an automobile in Kan· napolis. George Brigman, Jr., six, died soon after being hit by a truck in Aberdeen. Mrs. Frank Briggs Carpenter, 72, of Schenectady, Ν. Y. lost her life when the car in which she was riding collided with another at a rural road inter ' section near Charlotte. Russell Walter, 22, of Gibson ville, was fatally injured in a two-car collision near Keids ville. The Weather NORTH CAROLINA—Partly cloudy and mild today and lo· night with warmer west por tion this afternoon; Tuesday. * mostly cloudy and mild with occasional rain followed by colder Tuesday night· ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT NANTZ Mr. and Mrs. J. Λ. Madkins! have returned to their home on [ Roanoke Avenue, after having spent several weekd in Rich ; Square in the home of Mr. Mad- j kin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. ; George Madkins . . The city of Richmond is pro-1 bably like home to several of [ our citizens .... visiting there J over the weekend were Mr. and , Mrs. J. C. Collins, Mr. and Mrs.1 Henry Allen. Jr., Miss Aleane ! Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. A. M.1 King Visiting her parents this week end was Miss Shirley Draper, student nurse at the Rex Hos pita 1 in Raleigh . . . Shirley is ; a '48 graduate of the local high | school, and entered nurse's train ing with the September class ... ; Mr. and Mrs. Smitty Powell, Jimmy Pittman, Wayne Powell, and Rita Morgan spent Sunday in Durham at Duke Hospital , visiting Mrs. Powell and Rita's mother, Mrs. R. B. Morgan, who has been a patient there for se vera! days Sgt. and Mrs. Tommy Wilder visited with Sgt. Wilder's mother, Mrs. Mattie Wilder, this week end . .. Sgt. Wilder, a graduate of the local high school, entered ; the Army in January. 1933. . . . I he plans to retire from Army1 life in five more years .... they have made their home in Fayet- ; teville Mrs. Margie Greene visited in ! High Point this weekend with1 her husband, Lloyd Greene, who is in the Army Air Force . .. . j Celebrating their birthday to-1 day are Audrey Tucker of the j sixth grade and Raymond Hale j of the first grade .... here's wishing you both a very happy i birthday A new clerk, right fresh from the country, is helping in a local general store during the holiday rush. One of the town's matrons approached the clerk and asked for some anchovy paste. The clerk hesitated for a moment and then walked over to the tab let-and pencil counter and said: "No, we don't have anchovy paste, but here is some excellent glue . . . Something else which will add to the appearance of our city will be the building which God win-Wilkes plan to build on the corner of third and Roanoke Avenue. . .the plans call for one of the most modern buildings around here. . .complete with a glass exterior and rounded corn ers. From what has been said about it, it sounds like it will be a beautiful bit of construc tion. . .here's hoping the plans are carried through, because we could use some of the mod ernistic touch around this area.. ; Causes for the concern of many people. . .especially mem-1 bers of the girls' basketball team. . .are the injuries receiv-; ed by Evelyn Rooke, while practising Thursday afternoon.1 Evelyn had X-Ravs made of her left arm which was badly hurt, but has not been told ex actly what is wrong with it. That really would be a bit of bad luck for our team, if it turns out to be serious. . .iust let's hope it isn't... I don't know how ΟΓ Father Roanoke happened to forget this one during his reign as a columnist. . .when I recalled it, I immediately thought of him. . "I married a widow with six children. I had five myself by my late wife. We have been married four years and our union had been blessed with, three more, and the other day my wife came in hurriedly and said, come into the yard quick! for goodness sake, hurry! there is a terrible row going on, and I said, 'what is it'? Well! she said, 'your children and my children are whipping our chil dren.' " Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Mayton attended the wedding of Mr. Mayton's niece. Joyce Mayton of Tarboro, Saturday . . . she was married to Thomas Brown of Goldsboro. "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil," and you will ne ver be a success at a tea party. U. S. Apparently Ready To Write Off China; Concentrates On Free Western Europe Of Communism Washington, Dec. 13—(AP)— The United States—prepared to write off China as an almost certain loss—concentrated today on securing a non-Communist Western Europe. Mme. Chiang Kai-Skel's extra ordinary mission to Washington, her two appeals to Secretary of State Marshall and her one di rect plea to President Truman, appear not to have changed any important part of the American attitude toward the global strug gle with the Communists. Her mission is widely regard ed here as a failure; the govern ment she represents as a failing regime. Only a "military miracle" seems capable of putting Gen eralissimo Chiang in position to make an effective bid for Ameri can help in any way comparable to the money and supplies be in0 poured into Europe. While Mme. Chiang kept her own counsel, and possibly looked for a graceful means of exit, of ficial Washington generally show ed great indifference to her prob lem and diplomats mainly con cerned themselves with the fu ture of Europe. In this respect, representatives of the United States and Canada and the five western European union countries—Britian, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — settled down to ι work in earnest on the draft-, ing of a North Atlantic military alliance. * Cloudy, Mild Is Forecast By The Associated Press Partly cloudy and mild weath c .· was forecast for the Carolinas today and tonight. Mild and oc casional rain tomorrow was ex pected to be followed by colder tomorrow night. Low temperatures this morning seemed more like maximum readings for December. The abrupt rise in temperatures came after last weekend's frigid lows— the coldest weather of the fall season. Pentecostal Church Of God Here Gets A New Pastor The Rev. Clifford S. Patrick is the new pastor of the Pentecos tal Church of God at 64 Washing ton street here, it was announ ced today. The Rev. Mr. Patrick came to Roanoke Rapids from Ports mouth, Va. and assumed his du ties last week. Presbyterian Women To Meet Tuesday The Woman's Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church will meet at the church Tuesday night at 8 p. m. The Business Woman's circle will present a Christmas pro gram after which a social hour #iU be Jhçld. ROANOKE RAPIDS fiaihf Hcralii 34th Year—No. 78 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Monday, December 13, 1948. 5c Daily; 10c Sunday Russia Issues No-Compromise Warning To Western Nations As United Nations General Assembly Ends » Nixon Says Justice Department May Be Preparing A "Whitewash" In The Russian Spy Of Investigation Washington, Dec. 13—(/Ρ)— Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) said today he suspects the Justice Depart ment of using one Red spy in vestigation to filibuster against another. A "Whitewash" may be in the making, said Nixon, a member of the House Un-American Acti vities committee. The committee and the Justice Department have been rowing for nearly two weeks over who should go after—and how—the men suspected of stealing gov ernment secrets for the Russians a decade ago. Each has its own investigation going, but the de partment has monopolized most of the key witnesses. Over the week-end, there were these developments: 1. The committee released a dozen documents it says were stolen from State Department files ten years ago so informa tion in them could be copied and sent to Russia through an under ground spy network. Something less than sensational now, the papers probably would have produced diplomatic earth quakes had they come out in 1938. 2. Rep. Holifield (D-Calif) pro posed that the incoming congress curb the committee with stricter rules. He wants to make sure that anyone who thinks he has been hurt by the committee or one of its witnesses gets a prompt chance to answer back. Holifield says that before any body is criticized in a committee report that person should have a chance to tell his side of the story. 3. Nixon said the spy hunt already has shown a need for tightening the espionage laws. He said that should get first priority in the new congress. The committee is making its spy investigation here. The Justice Department is conduct ing the other one before a New York grand jury. Each inquiry involves the same witnesses and the same evidence. Up to now, the committee has failed to get any of the key wit nesses, although some of them testified here last summer. On the other hand, the grand jury hasn't seen the most vital evidence—the Whittaker Cham bers microfilms the committee ! got fro ma pumpkin less than two weeks ago. Nixon agreed to see to it that the Grand jury got a look at the microfilms today. He wasn't so sure when the committee would get a chance to question the main witnesses. They are: Chambers, a former Communist courier who has handed over hundreds of documents to back up his story that a red spy ring siphoned secret papers from the State Department and other gov ernment agencies back in the 1930's. It was some of these documents the committee pub lished yesterday, all dated 1938. Alger Hiss, former State De partment official, named b y Chambers as one source of sup ply of information passed to the Russians. Hiss, now president of the Carnegie Endownment for Infernational Peace, has denied it repeatedly. He got out a new denial only yeaterday. The grand jury has been keep ing both Chambers and Hiss oc cupied. The jury expires Wed nesday but the Justice Depart ment is going to replace it im mediately. Ringwood Negro Held On Charges Of Murder In Slaying Of Wife Halifax.James Pitt, Ringwood Negro, was captured yesterday about eleven o'clock in the morning after an all-night search by Sheriff H. A. House and de puties following the shooting of Pitt's wife, Beatrice, about 6:30 Saturday morning. Sheriff House said this morn ing Pitt is being held in the county jail here without privi lege of bond awaiting a pre liminary hearing on a charge of murder here tomorrow before Judge Charles R. Daniel in Hali fax County recorder's court. Two cousins of Pitt, William and Horace Pitt, are also being held, the sheriff said, for aiding and abetting a felon in avoiding arrest. He said James went to the home of his cousins after the shooting Saturday and the two men had told officers he was not at their home and had the officers in another direction seeking him. Sheriff House Said two eye witnesses to the fatal shooting, Johnnie Seebrease and Elmo Johnson, said they had come with Pitt to his home Saturday and told officers Pitt had been drinking but was not drunk. They told the officers Pitt start ed an argument with his wife because she would not get up and put shoes on one of his children he said he wanted to take with him. The men told the officers Pitt had become angered, picked up a repeater shotgun and fired one shot into the back of his wife's ι he<ad, almost decapitating her I and killing her instantly. He fled the scene and hid out with his cousins and in the woods all Saturday night while officers combed the area in a widespread search. Sheriff House said the hunt for the alleged killer was continued yesterday ' morning and he was finally lo cated in the home of Jack Pitt, another cousin, about five miles from the scene of the killing. The sheriff said Jack Pitt made no attempt to conceal the want ed man and was not charged with aiding him in trying to es cape. High School Students To Give Drama The Music Department of Roanoke Rapids High School will present a Christmas play, "Why the Chimes Rang" at eight o'clock Thursday evening in the high school auditorium, it was announced today. The play is a dramatization by Grace Van Dyke of a story by Raymond McDonald Aldon. Caroline Broun will be pianist for the production. In the cast will be Anne Bunn, William Speight, Johnny Ellis, Margaret George, Clyde Camp, Mahlon Epps, Ann King, Mary Jo Suitor, Pat Rawlings, Lewis Ivey, Mary Francis Allsbrook, Herbert Moore, Sonny Hines, Vance Collins, and Jesse Harrell Vance Collins, and Jesse Harrell. muer ivepurieu | In Forsyth County Winston - Salem, Dec. 13 — (AP) — A current rumor here today says Adolf Hitler — with out the mustache — is now in this area painting houses for a living. Numerous telephone calls to the newspapers, radio stations and the police department in quired for verification of Der Fuehrer's operations here in Forsyth county. No one said he saw Hitler. In fact, no one could name any one who said he saw him. But somewhere along the line, in that misty, intangible place where old prizefighters spend a lot oi their time, the Twin City's Hit ler was spawned. Newsmen and police officers don't care much for the tele phone interruptions, either. There are lots of real stories to write. And there are lots of liv ing criminals for the police to ritah, too* »· City Gets New Street Sweeper At $10,000 Cost City streets in Roanoke Rapids will be cleaner from now on, dye to the delivery here yes terday of a new Elgin rotary brush type street sweeper. The sweeper will be unloaded and tested by a representa tive of the North Carolina Equip- j ment Company, and it is ex- ' pected that it will go into actual operation here on Wednesday, city officials said here today. An order was placed with the Elgin Equipment Company, El gin, Illinois, in August 1947. At the time the city was promised delivery about March. 1949, but1 were able to advance their de livery date. The sweeper is a three-wheel ed vehicle with a sprinkler, a wide rotary brush and a whirl ing curb and gutter brush. Trash and rubbish are swept into the machine and carried by an end less conveyor belt to the hopper which holds more than two cubic yards. It sweeps streets tho roughly at about four miles per hour, and it is estimated that it will sweep 35 miles of street in an eight-hour day. Cost of the machine is $10,200. Attention of citizens was call ed to a city ordinance just adopt ed which will prohibit parking of automobiles and other vehicles on Roa|ioke Avenue and side streets in the city's two business districts between one and six a.m. in order that parked cars will not interfere with the city's street Mrs. Roosevelt Says "It's Silly" To Make Comment New York, Dec. 13—(£>)—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says a pro posal that President Truman name her Secretary of State if the ailing Secretary George C. Marshall retires "is too silly to comment on." "However," she told newsmen last night, "I hope Secretary Marshall will not retire, for the good of the country and the good of the world." The President's widow made the statement in answer to ques tions as she arrived by plane I from Paris where she served i as a member of the U. S dele gation to the United Nations. The suggestion for her ap pointment was made last week by the National Committee on Women in World Affairs. Royall Arrives In Europe London, Dec. 13—(Λ5)—Ken neth C. Royall, United States Secretary of the Army, arrived tfere today for a first-hand checkup of American troops and their equipment i. Kurope. Vishinsky Attacks U.S. And Britain Paris, Dec. 13 —(AP)—Russia—bitter over the drubbing she has taken in the United Na tions General Assembly—dropped diplomatic nice ties last night to issue a no-compromise warning to the west. Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet deputy foreign minister, attacked Britain and the United States in the closing minutes of the Paris assembly. That part of the session usually is reserved for expressions of praise and hopeful thoughts for the future. John Foster Dulles, acting chairman of the U. S. delegation, led off in traditional fash Scout Roundup Dinner To Be Tuesday Night The annual Halifax county Boy Scout Roundup potluck ban quet will be held Tuesday night at 6:30 at the high school gymn asium. The dinner, to which each per son will bring his own food, will bring together Boy Scouts, Sea. 5couts, Cub Scouts, scoutmas ters, cubmasters, skippers, troop committeemen and district com-1 mitteemen to discuss the past year's work. The program will consist of' stunts by each scout troop and j a report of the year's activities by each troop. Each tropp ..will be given an opportunity to tell what it does and does not like about the scout program for the various troops of Halifax County and also to make suggestions for the com ing year's activities. A prize will be awarded to the troop having the largest turnout at the dinner and a prize will also be given for the troop put ting on the best stunt. Scotland Neck Police Chief Said Improving Scotland Neck — Chief of as resting comfortably in an Elizabeth City hospital following a heart attack he suffered there on Tuesday. Chief Cobb, Sgt., G. H. Bur kett and Ernest Phillips of Ham ilton set out quite early Tuesday morning on a fishing trip. Chief Cobb was taken ill in the auto mobile and carried to the hospi tal in a critical condition. Stranded Kitten Gives Would-Be Rescuers A Chase New York, Dec. 13—(^)—A yowling kitten, stranded oil the girder of an elevated structure, led would-be rescuers a merry chase yesterday before it was re moved from its lofty perch. Police, firemen and an electric light maintenance crew labored but couldn't coax the animal down. Finally an SPCA agent shinnied up the girder, reached out and grabbed the kitten by the tail. Angered, Tabby promptly bit him, leaped free, landed on the head of a fireman below and dashed up an alley, its nine lives still intact. 1UI1. But Vishinsky strode to the rostrum and reviewed every case in which the Russians had fought the west. This is not the time, he said, for "paeans of praise." He said the Russian delega tion could not speak of any af firmative results in Paris. He de clared the session would be de scribed in history as one which took further steps toward a po licy of wrecking international co operation. The assembly adjourned at 6:11 p. m.. to meet again in New York April 1, 1949, to complete its work. Vishinsky's outburst came soon after the Russian bloc had taken a severe beating in the assembly. The delegates voted 48 to six with one abstention (Sweden) to endorse^ the government of the republic of Korea( South Korea). The vote also continued a U. N. Korean commission and in structed it to seek again to unify Korea. Russia has barred the U. N. commission from north ern Korea where she has set up a '"people's republic." Vishinsky, who has lost every major fight with the West in the assembly, tried vainly to do away with the Korean commis sion. On this proposal too, the vote was 46 to six against him. The end of the Paris assembly, the longest so far in the world body's history, found the western powers and Russia further apart than ever. The major questions which the assembly disposed of were: 1. Creation of a Palestine conciliation commission made up of the U. S., France and Turkey. It will take over the work of the U. N. mediator. 2. It wrote a world declara tion of human rights which the Russians refused to approve. The U. N. now plans to write a treaty on human rights. 3. Wrote a treaty outlawing genocide (mass destruction of racial, religious, ethnical, religi ous or national groups.) 4. Condemned Yugoslavia, Al bania and Bulgaria for aiding Greek guerrillas and reconstitut ed the U. N. special committee on the Balkans. 5. Approved the government of the Republic of Korea, set up on the basis of elections held last May under the supervision of the U. N. Korean commission. j The Korean commission was re created with only seven mem ; bers, instead of nine. 6. Instructed the U. N. Atomic ; Energy commission and the U. N. commission for conventional armaments to keep trying for a world agreement ίο regulate atomic energy and armaments. |}( Shopping 111 Deys Until Christmas Huge Soft Coal Stockpile Seen As Threat To Bargain Position Of John L. Lewis and His Miners Washington, Dec. 13—(AP)—A softcoal stockpile big enough to last the country 40-odd days has led to speculation over now John L. Lewis may be viewing this potential threat to his bargining position. Some operators are wondering whether Lewis will call some kind of mine shutdown to trim the above-ground reserves. Any big supply of coal such as the 70,000,000 tons already mined and ready for use is bad for the miners when they are nego tiating a new contract. The bargin when they are not under ! pressure from industry and home owners to get a contract at any cost. Such pressures have help ed Lewis in his last two contract battles with the operators. But the present wage agree ment does not expire until next June 30, so the stockpile may Ν shrink naturally long before then. When Lewis called the miners'' out last March in his pension dispute with the operators, there was an above-normal 30-day sup ply of about 49,000,000 tons on hand. That strike lasted from March 15 to April 19. Industry officials say the pre sent stockpile is the result of two factors: (a) A mile autumn, which led householders to hold off filling their bins and (b) A 20, 000,000-ton drop in coal exports. One industry leader said, how ever, that 60 days of cold weather would bring the stocks down to normal—about 30,000,000 tons. He added that so far only the marginal or poor quality mines have been hit hard by the alow demand for coal. Good quality soft coal is still in brisk demand and most mines are running lour and five day· a weak.
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