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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
GRACE METHODIST
PLEDGES MOUNTING
Campaign Leader Says
About $4,000 Raised
In Initial Drive

M. H. Lander, general chair
man of Grace Street Methodist
Church's restoration program, said
last night that approximately $54,-
900 of a 5000, 900 goal had been
reported by workers in the Sunday
campaign.
Lander said that due to the rain
last night, all workers had not re.
ported their solicitation success. He
said the $54, 900 represented only
subscriptions from the congrega'
ton and did not take into account
subscriptions from the special
gifts group.
A complete accounting Of SUM-
days solicitation will be made
today, Lander said.
Prior to Sundays solicitation
campaign, Lander said, the church
had received pledges totaling $14,'
453.
The church was. almost totally
destroyed by a fire on March 81.
Workers for the Sunday solocita'
ton campaign were appointed a
a meeting Saturday afternoon ir
st. PauTs parish house. The III
campaigners worked from 2 to
o'clock in their canvass of the
church's membership.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
Police Bring
Quiet To City
With Cunfiire
Moslems Clash o.
Nineteen Occasions
Throughout City
1877 ARE WOUNDED
Fighting Also Occurs In
Calcutta, Cownpore
And Howrah

BOMBAY, Monday, March ST.
WD-Forty persons were killed and
1877 were wounded yesterday in
communal riots that broke out In
four different sections of Bombay,
the provincial director of Informal
ton announced today.
Similar riots occurred in Greater
Calcutta and Cawnpore, causing ut
least nine deaths and more than
so other casualties.
The Bombay disorders between
Hindus and Moslems were brought
under control only after police
fired into crowds in various Sec
tons of the city on 10 occasions.
A curfew was put into effect to
clear the streets of the rioters.
A. A. Caffin, Bombay chief Of
police, said the local military or
ganization had been ordered to
stand by for duty later today when
the curfew is lifted.
Newsmen touring B o m b ay
streets saw Caffin's police rifle
men and Lathi (long staff) squads
move into areas where screaming
rioters abandoned their activities
and fled, leaving only the litter OF
the disorders under the light OF
overhead gas lights.
Rumors as to the cause OF the
fighting, all of them unconfirmed,
swept the city Immediately. The
report receiving the most circula-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
EIGHT Thousand Reenact
Christ's Jerusalem Walk

JERUSALEM, March 3d. R-
Throngs of Christians walked along
the rocky slopes of the Mount Of
Olives past Gethsemane into the
old walled city of Jerusalem to-
day, in the traditional Palm Sun.
day reenactment of Jesus Christ's
triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Churchmen of high rank, govern
ment dignitaries and thousands OF
other worshippers carried palm
branches, in commemoration OF
the welcome which Christ received
almost 1000 years ago from his
palm-bearing followers.
Police estimated that 5000 per-
sons participated in 'today's process
sion, and that crowds lining the
route numbered perhaps twice that
figure.
Heads of Roman Catholic orders
in Jerusalem marched at the front
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
HENRY B0ST
REASSIGNED HERE
Representative For Naval
Reserve To Remain In
til July 1915

1t. Henry c. Bost, district rep
resentative for the Naval Reserve
here, has been notified by the com
mandant Of the 9Th Naval District
that his nomination for retention
on active duty in present billet
during the fiscal year 1947 has
been approved by the Bureau OF
Naval Personnel. it was learn
ed here last night.
Heading Naval Reserve activl-
ties here, 1t. Bost has held the
position of district representative
since July 1916. He came to Will
mington in November 1945 as port
director and served in that 'capac-
ity until his appointmet as district
representative.
1t. Bost is in charge Of al Naval
Reserve recruiting in the Will
mington district, for the inactive
and well as for the local Organ
lied Surface Division 6-29. Naval
Reserve officers are local in room
229 of the Customhouse,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
Tribute Written And Di-
rected By Ben cDonald
Heard Over WMFD

Robson county, the second
largest county in the state, was
saluted yesterday on the Sunday
Star-Newsreel over WMFD by the
)Star and the News in the eighth
OF a series of Sunday radio visits
to the counties in Southe astern
North Carolina served by the Star
and the News.
The program. written and di-
rected by Ben Mcdonald, Star
News, round : the : town : report.
er, featured the agricultural and
industrial development of the
county as a whole and highlighted
a number of interesting features
concerning h e communities that
make up Robson county.
The script for yesterdays pro
gram as narrated by Mcdonald
stated:
Robson county is known as one
of the richest agricultural produc'
ing counties in the nation. 1t is
the largest tobacco producing
county in the United States and
ranks near the top in cotton grow
ing, hogs, corn, beans, peas, pota'
toes and hay. With an annual cror
CONTINUED On Page Two, Col. 81
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LOCAL TEACHERS
WIN NCEA OFFICES
Four Faculty Members
Picked During Recent
Asheville State Meet

Four Wilmington teachers were
named to divisional posts at the
concluding session of the North
Carolina Education Association
meeting in Asheville Saturday.
Miss Virginia Ward, of the New
Hanover High school, was elected
president of the department of
Home Economics, and in the in
dustrial division, George West was
named secretary-treasurer.
John Gibson was named secre-
tary in the audio-visual education
department, while Mrs. o. A. Bjon-
erud was elected secretary of the
business education department.
According to returning teachers
who attended the meeting, it prob
ably was one of the stormiest SEES
sions Of the association in many
years.
An age-old precendent was brok-
en- with the election of r. L. Fritz,
Jr., of Hudson, as president, over
his opponent, Vice President Claud
Grigg of Albemarle.
A C. Dawson, of Southern Pines,
was named vice president, win
ming the office of T. c. Robertson
of Buncombe- county.
It had been the custom in years
past to elevate the vice president
to the presidency.
Old timers in the ranks of the
teachers read into the precedent
breaking proceedings the ditchine
of the more conservative element
of the association.
Fritz was the leader in the pro
gram which gained for the teach
ers approximately q and one-hal
per cent increase in pay during
this session of the North Caroline
general assembly.
The more conservative side o.
the association had signified it,
intention to -sk for a 20 per cen
paw increase and IN additiona.
salary boost only if the cost O.
living increased.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
LAWMAKERS FACE
STRENUOUS WEEK
Joint Finance Committee
To Debate Ports Bill
Sometime Tuesday

RALEIGH, March 80 - R
The lawmakers will return 10
Raleigh early tomorrow for after
noon meetings to clear pending
bills out of committee hoppers
and to get a running start ON an
anticipated sine die adjournment
Saturday.
The recurring issue Of alcohol
looms as one of the biggest prob
lens before this weeks assembly.
A subcommittee OF the House
Finance committee is expected to
report a local option beer and
wine measure by Monday.
A sub committee of the Senate
Finance committee may act by
Tuesday on two House pattern"
bills, vesting authority in local
governments to regulate oeel
sales, and report on a number OF
local wine and beer measures M
troduced in the Senate.
The Solons were still looking 70
ward a pre-Easter adjournment
last week, but so many issues still
crowd the program, the session
may run past Easter.
r. On Weeks Agenda
Some measures to be debated
this week ire: an expense allow
ance for legislators; financial re-
sponsibility for automobile driv-
ers; a safe-driving bill requiring
semi-annual mechanical inspec-
ton of motor vehicles, quadrennial
reinsurance Of drivers licenses,
55-mile-per-hour speed limit; sub
jecting farm co-operatives to in
come and franchise taxes; and
bills to decrease powers OF the
State Board of Barber examiners.
The joint appropriations com
mittee will meet Tuesday and may
act on measures to appropriate
from $40, 600, 900 to SIS, 900, 900 to
aid counties in building schools,
appropriate ST, ZOO, 900 for perma-
nent improvements at state ports
and 81, 000,W for a state art gal
llery
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31

its throat should be cut. Then
to prepare it for the frying pan,
you should split the blue fish down
the back.
Broil in a relatively dry pan,
using no more grease than alb.
solutely necessary, Mr.. Bridges
advises.
ANOTHER CONTENDER - II
blue fish does not fill the bill as
the best eating fish, then you
should try an ocean run rock, like
wise caught in the fall of the year.
The best eating ocean run rocks
are taken at or below Shows Run,
which is the point where the In
land Waterway runs into the Cape
Fear River.
Now as to the proper way to pre-.
pare an ocean run rock. Well
after you've gotten a rock, weigh
ing from five to ten pounds, you
then proceed to cock this culinary
delight.
The rock fillet should be broilee
and served with drawn butter
sauce.
SOUNDS CHALLENGE-Mr. P
R. Smith and Mr.. Raymond Hol
land will brag about the wonderful
rock caught up around the mouth
Continued on Page Two; Col. 3,
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AIRLlNES CLERK
SLAIN WITH STONE
Son OF Prominent Boston
Attorney Muir dered A.
ter Leaving Inn
BULLETIN

NEW YORK, March 30-U.D-
William Albrecht, a 22-year-old I'M
employed war veteran confessed
tonight he murdered Fiske Del
lenger, an airlines reservations
clerk and son Of a prominent Bos-
ton attorney.
Police quoted him az charging
that Dellenger made improper ad-
vances to him after they had spent
last night drinking together at the
Bull Fiddle tavern.
NEW YORK, March 3O-U.H-A
24-year-old reservation clerk at La
Guardia field, son of a prominent
Boston attorney, was murdered in
suburban Jackson Heights today
by an assailant who struck him
over the head with a 25-poun6
stone and left his body in a vacant
lot.
The body of Fiske Dellinger, the
head crushed in, was found by a
woman. passer-by shortly after
am. Beside his body was the
blood-covered rock with which he
had been killed.
Inspector John Appel, comman-
der of detectives in Queens coun.
ty, said police had not yet beer
able to establish a motive.
An expensive wrist watch was
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
Sensational
May
Hit. Oil Quiz
Capitol Observer. Expect
Hot Developments When
Wheeler Takes Over
HIRED BY BREWSTER
Mentanan Apparently Has
Truman Backing Fer
Probe Oh CHARGES

WASHINGTON, March 30-UH-
Capitol observers looked forward
tonight to sensational developments
in the Senate investigation of the
governments Middle East oil deals
now that former Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler has been hired as special
investigator.
They said the Montana Democrat
who gained national prominence by
the way he handled the Teapot
Dome oil scandal Is years ago,
weld not associate himself with
"a chicken feed Investigators and
pointed out that he conferred with
President Truman before taking on
the job.
Wheeler was hired by Chairman
Owen Brewster, (R-Mel of the SEN
ate War Investigating committee
to spark its inquiry into charges
that companies selling Middle East
oil deliberately defrauded the U.
S. government"
This investigation is of too great
a magnitude to be done h~aphazard-
ly," Brewster explained.
Wheeler's exact status was not
clear. He said he had been asked
to take over the inquiry" but
Brewster said he had been retain
ed "as a special assistant to study
the case and make a report.
Committee counsel George Mea-
der, who has carried the ball up to
now, said he understood Wheeler
would have "a sort of consultant
job" He was told, he said, that
the Montanan would review the
material the committee has col
lected and report back on what fu-
ture action should be taken"
Wheeler was unprepared to say
how the inquiry would develop I'M
til he has a chance to study the
evidence.
In the one day of hearings held
thus far, the committee was told
by oil man James A. Moffett that:
/. The Arabian-American Co.,
jointly owned by the Standard Oil
(Nnr<iuunJ ~ Do~ Two. roJ ny
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
And So To Bed

1t doesn't seem right In this
day Of fast travel. "
A large automobile with a
New York license plate pulled
up to a curb here yesterday
and the driver, a gray haired
man of middle age, opened the
window of his car and asked,
"Would you be kind enough to
tell me the way to the DeSoto
hotel?" -
"The what hotel" came the
reply.
"The DeSoto."
"There is no hotel In VIZ
mington by that name" the
man on the sidewalk observed.
"Wilmington!" came the ex-
clamation, ri thought this was
Savannah"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
Grain E. orts Now Seen
AS Vital Economy Threat
Commodity Markets Group
Urges Congress Probe
OF Situation

WASHINGTON, March 80 IN
The National Association Of Com
modify Markets and Allied
Trades, inc, said tonight the
United States is probably shipping
3abroad larger amounts of grain
than are safe for our economy"
J. A. Higgons, Jr., executive
vice president of the Association,
wrote Senator Williams (R-DeD:
"1ven though we raised the
largest crop in history the total
visible supply is less than IS mil
lion bushels, and each week in
roads are being made on these
Accommodations, which have had a
marked effect on prices thus far,
and. will probably be greatly &C
centuateds as our supplies dwindle
further.
Urging Congressional investi-
CATION Of the entire grain market
ing situation, Higgons said:
"The market is faced with ex-
plosive possibilities due to the fact
that the governments reputed ex-
port program has been stepped up
to the point where it will require
full realization of the bumper crop
of Ito million bushels indicated
in the last crop report to prevent
the creation of a supply condition
that would be dangerous in this
country. With an indicated 100
million bushel reserve, latest re-
ports are that intentions exist to
export another $50 million bushels
from the next CROP"
Word OF Caution
But, cautioned Higgoas, "crops
are not made in March"
ANY failure of the crop from
this point on could lead to dis
aster," he warned.
1.-TWO decades ago. with a popu-
(Continued on Pare Two: Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31

of the procession. which wound
through the village of Eltur, be-
lieved to be on the site where the
Disciples obtained a donkey for
the ride into the Holy City.
The parade ended inside st.
Stephens gate in Jerusalem, at
the church built on the spot where
Jesus mother, Mary, is believed
to have been born.
The march was solemn and rev
erent, with the Christians singing
"Hosanna" and chanting church
liturgies. Churchmen were dress
ed in robes of black, white, brown
and red. Children from religious
schools here wore colorful uniforms
Of blue, white and red, embroider-
ed with crusader crosses and other
church insignia. Banners depicted
in gold embroidery the scenes Of
Christ's passion week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
Today And Tomorrow
Rv WALTER LIPPMANN

yers, economists, philosophers,
historians, authors, theoiogians
and business men.
The inquiry was however mi
tlated by Mr.. Henry R. Luce. and
most of the money to finance It
was supplied by him. Mr.. Luce
selected Mr.. Hutchins. Mr. Luce
is therefore in the position of the
patient who chooses his doctor
and pays the doctors bill, but
does not tell the doctor what he
is to tell him.
DR.. Hutchins reports that the
most surprising thing about the
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Wiley Favors
Union Of All
Democracies
Wisconsin Republican Pro.
poses Congress Urge
U. S. OF Europe
WOULD AID DEFENSE
Nine Nations Specified As
Possible Members OF
New Organization

WASHINGTON, March 30 Up,
Senator Wiley (R-Wis) proposed
,odav that Congress go on record
IN favor of a United States OF
Europe composed of democratic
countries.
He said the nations could thus
,oju in defense against the ideo-
logical warfare waged against
them by dictator states. They
would evidence to Russia the vi
tality of democracy"
He noted the group could
formulate military plans against
apv potential aggression" He said
a democratic union movement
would help achieve the aims OF
The proposed U. S. loans to help
block Communism.
Wiley. chairman Of the Senate
Judiciary committee, explained in
, statement that his idea is to
set up the new union within the
limited Nations. He urged that
Congress go on record and that
the State departments policy be
10 lend encouragement.
He suggested the union include
England, France, Switzerland,
Finland, Norway. Sweden, Hol-
land, Belgium and Denmark and
POSSIBLY others.
Sharp Division
Wiley said the time is not right
10 bring in all nations of Europe
because of the sharp division
between the camps of democracy
and dictatorship"
"a Observation-Disclosures hodge
podge of United Nations OF Europe
would experience the same frus-
trations and stumbling blocks that
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-News Statutes
Robson On PROGRAM
The Weather
FORECAST:

"
North Carolina-Generally fair west
and partly cloudy East Monday. Little
in temperature. Tuesday increas-
ing cloudiness and warmer followed by
showers in mountains.
South Carolina-Clear to partly cloudy
and mild Monday; Tuesday partly cloudy
and Slightly warmer.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1880 a. m. IS; 1880 a. m. SIS; 1:3o p. m.
So; 7:3e p. m. So; Maximum Ga; Mini
mum 81; Mean So; Normal 81.
HUMIDITY
1870 a. m. II; 7:30 a. m.F5;-t: 80 p. m.
"a; 1880 p. m. 81.
PRECIPITATION
Total Tor "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
10 inches.
Total since the first of the month 5.41
inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
(FTom the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
Wilmington 5:15a. 12 :32a
sap -
Masonboro 3:o3a 9:36a
1882 9:51p
Sunrise Col; Sunset 6:32; Moonrise
l :18p; Moonset 3:09a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
On Criticism of the Press

The Commission on Freedom OF
the Press which began its inquiry
about three years ago has now
issued its general report, which it
calls "a Free and Responsible
press" The members of the COM
mission were appointed by the
chairman, Mr.. Robert M. Hutch
ms. chancellor of the University
of Chicago, and on the principle
that a good critic had better not
be a producer or a playwright or
an actor Mr.. Hutchins appointed
no n from the working press.
He chose instead able and distin
o,1ished men from among law
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
VIOLENCE TAKES
LIVES OF EIGHT
For First TINE In Many
Weeks, Highway Acct
dents Few In State
Nv The Associated Press

Violence. cost the lives of at least
eight North Carolinians during the
weekend.
For the first time in weeks. auto
mobile accidents did not lead the
grim parade Of fatalities. Deaths
n three persons were officially
termed self destruction, two
others persisted when their small
boat overturud, one died in a
highway collision and two others
died as a result Of wounds nfllcfeo
BY assailants.
The bodies Of L. 2. Wilson, Jr.,
and Stanton sherrod, both young
High Point World War II vet
e7ans, were found yesterday in
High Rock lake near Southmount
after their boat had overturned
Saturday.
Sheriff. Parrish, 10, Of Angler,
vas killed in an automobile acct
dent Friday night on the Angler
~Smithfield highway.
Mother Slain
At Asheville, the deaths OF
Charles Henry Moore, %, OF ROCK
Hill, S. c., and his wife, Mrs;
Estelle Thorpe Moore, mother Of
five children, were said by DE-. p
R. Terry, coroner, to have result
cd from bullet wounds inflicted by
Moore.
Coroner W. N. Dalton reported
at Winston-Salem that Mrs. Lucy
Esther Beard, 40, killed herself
Friday by turning on the gas jets
In her kitchen. .
Two Durham Negroes met sud
den death Saturday night. One,
Ernest Barnes, was said by Of
hcers to have been a homicide VIC
Tim and the death Of the otaer'
Jack Graves was termed by IN
v~estigating officers as the result
Of apparent self-inflicted shot
E1y~
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While the usual calm prevailed
over the nations soft coal field.
in advance { a six-day worl NJ
page called mourn tn
in the Centralia. ILL.,, mi =
sion, the nations industr. ,1oHN'
expected some belt-tig.
would be necessary to stretc
supplies.
The country's 4o0, 900 digger.
peared united in their intention
to follow John L. Lewis, United
Mine Workers president, who or
dered a work stoppage to start
at midnight tonight in memory
of the Centralia victims.
Effect +he stoppage on normal
production for the week will be
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31
Miner Holiday lay
Crimp Fuel Supply
Nations 100000 Diggers To Follow Call By
John l.. Lewis For Six-Day Period Of
Mourning For Blast Victims

limited 100 Fact that Tuesday
is -.uIHN &C oliday for miners
80 oH" days also will
<uaoI >1tSJ viking hours.
oN unity as John
ooAo 80 ,hn L. Lewis
~ day Of idleness
oc -nltcheu was president
~ UNIV when the eight hour
~-,ay wa won and it was under his
leadership that membership soar
ed to record levels. Holy Thursday
and Good Friday would have cut
output this week regardless of the
work stoppage. Since miners nor
mally do not work on Saturdays
or Sundays, Wednesday will be the
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FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
with little change in temperature to.
day; Tuesday, increasing cloudiness and
warmer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-31

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