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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
Local Phone Workers Vote
Against Return To Tasks;
Psi Jews Break" Prison
Underground
Blasts Wall
Jail Delivery At Acre Jeru-
salem Largest In
History; Many Killed

JERUSALEM May 4-(Pe
Jewish underground fighters freed
251 Jewish and Arab prisoners
OF Grim Acre prison today by
blasting a hole in one of its cen.
turies-old walls, as Is persons died
in the bio lest outbreak of vio-
lence in the Holy Land in many
weeks.
Ten men, including four Jewish
prisoners, an Arab prisoner and
three Jewish raiders, we're killed
in the wholesale prison delivery
which the underground fighters
accomplished by planting four
bombs in Turl ish baths adjoining
the prison wall after screening
the attack with gunfire and gre
made blast.
Two other Jews who apparently
were wounded fatally in the raid
were found dad in a jeep near
Acre.
The injured included IL Jews
two of them members of the at
lacking band and three who were
found in the jeep with the two
bodies - and an unspecified num-
Der of criminal lunatics who were
wounded slightly by a grenade
blast which preceded the wall
bombing.
British authorities announced
also that five Jews were killed
when British troops, returning
from a beach party near Haifa,
clashed with a group of Jews. De-
tails of the disorder we're not dis
closed.
The British said that 555 pris-
oners wre informed in the former
crusader castle and that 131 Arab
prisoners and 100 Jewish prisoners
made their escape.
Sixteen prisoners were recap
tured and seven of the attackers
were taken prisoner.
The object of the raid on the
gray-walled prison apparently was
to free Jewish underground mem
bers serving sentences there.
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
WARRANT SERVED
ON THE CATMAN'
Cordell Williams, Negro,
Charged By Police With
Entering Residence

A warrant charging first de
gree burglary has been served or
Cordell Williams, alias Alder
Mallette, alias The Catman" by
city police and the Negro is be
ing held in the New Hanover
county jail without privilege O.
bond.
The warrant charges that vii
liams entered the home of c. L
Wilson, 107 North Seventh street
on the night of April IA while resi-
dents were sleeping there.
A second warrant charging the
Negro with jackpeeping on Apri
q was served at the same timt
as the burglary charge.
A conviction on a charge o.
burglary in the first degree car
ries a mandatory death sentence
in North Carolina.
The "Catman" had been sough'
for weeks by police after severa
local housee were entered and ir
one case a resident of the house
was beaten by the Ngro.
He was cornered last Sunday
night at the corner of Sixth ano
Dock streets by alert police Of
ficers after a prowler had beer
noticed on South Fifth street.
According to Williams police
record, he is on parole from a Is
year sentence for attempted Grim.
inal assault in Cumberland county,
police said,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
Crowds Throng Beaches
For Dip In Sea, Fishing
JEWELRY TRIBUTE

LISBON, Portugal, May 4
R)-More than 10000 Roman
Catholic girls from several
European countries and South
America made a 180-mile reli-
gious pilgrimage today in a mo-
tor caravan of 1000 buses.
The girls, ranging in age from
10 to 81 years and including
many young members, Of Euro
pean nobility, journeyed to the
shrine of Our Lady of Fatima
in the district Of Leiria, 80
miles from Lisbon. The Virgin
Mary is said to have appeared
to three shepherds there in 1917.
After attending mass and
praying for world peace, the
girls dropped all their jewels
ear rings, bracelets, neck
laces and other trinkets- at the
foot of the image of Our Lady
of Fatima. The value of the
offerings was estimated at
more than 81, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
GOVERNOR DENIES
UNI0NIST CHARGE
Cherry In Statement,
Clarifies Contents OF
Letters Over Strike

RALEIGH, May 4.-P)-Gover-
nor Cherry today denied as with
out foundation Charges made by
a spokesman of the Southern Fed
GRAFTON of Telephone workers that
II have acted with the president OF
Southern Bell Telephone company
in ice to smash and grind
underfoot' the telephone workers
of the SOUTH"
The governor on Friday asked
the telephone company and the
telephone workers to settle the
month-old walkout by Monday,
and said that if the strike was not
settled then he would ask the tele-
phone company to employ addi'
tional operators to man its lines.
Cherry issued his statement in
reply to charges he said were
made in Atlanta by A. T. Jones,
chief negotiator for the southern
federation of telephone workers.
II have directed that telephone
service, as a public utility, be re-
stored in North Carolina" the
governor continued.
No Prejudice
st have never ordered the
strikers back to work at company
terms nor suggested that l
thought that was the thing for
them to do. In my joint communl-
cation to the officers of the COM
pany and of the union, I said: l
do not wish to take any action
which will prejudice the rights OF
either party"
81 do not, of my own knowledge,
know what wage the telephone
workers are entitled to have or
what wage the company can pay"
He added. II do know that a
month of suspended service is long
enough time for both sides to have
thoroughly discussed the issues IN
volved and to have reached an
agreement.
In my dealings with the union
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05

the idea and interest to organize
the society should come from E
North Carolinian-a state which
was at one time almost completely
composed of descendants of En-
g1ish and Scotch.
RUSSELL-Russell was born or
North Front street, November 18th
1870, and lived for fifteen years
in the Scotch settlement of Robe
son county.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN-Benia'
min lived in North Carolina for q
time, and after the fall of the Con
federacy, of which he was saio
to be the leader, he escaped to
England and became the leading
barrister there.
RUSSELL SENT TO LONDON
After considerable experience In
international organizations, Rus
sell was sent to London to open ar
office for Alexander & Colby Of
CONTINUED On PAGE Five; Col. b
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
LOUISVILLE MAN
TAKES ECTC JOB
DR.. J. |. Long, Well Known
| Educator Will Succeed
McGinnis As Registrar

GREENVILLE, May 4 - up -
Appointment of Dr.. j. I. Long, as
sistant superintendent of schools
at Louisville, KY. as registrar
and director of admissions at East
Carolina Teachers college effec-
tive Sept. l, was announced to-
day by DR.. Dennis H. Cooke, col
lege president.
Long will succeed DR.. Howard
]. McGinnis, who will head a new
bureau of field services being or
ganized at ECTC.
A native of Seaboard, Long is a
graduate of the University OF
North Carolina. He was formerly
superintendent of schools at Ayden,
then supervising principal OF
schools at Warsaw and later pro-
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
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And So To Bed

Many peculiar incidents hap
pen around the town, but an in
cident occurred at the YMCA
a few days ago that taxes
the cakL.
A middle aged chap was fix
ing his tie. He had on a shirt
with collar buttons, which were
supposed to be buttoned to
the shirt so as to hold the col
lar in place. AS he started
tieing the knot he Tipped up
his collar SO as to pull the
tie in place.
clipping up the collar was
not so strange, bus the man
Tipped up the buttons to go
along with it. He did the same
thing three or four times, and
explained chat the laundry
would tear the buttons off
every time, so he sewed the
buttons to TIE collar itseA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
New Foreign Policy
Faces Triple Threat
Secretary Of State Marshall Meets Hot
Challenge Head-On In Effort To Save
"Voice Of America" Breakfasts

WASHINGTON, May 4 - up -
A triple threat to the administra-
tons foreign policy - gravest
since wars end poised a major
home-front c.-~llenge for Secretary
of State Marshall tonight on the
eve of a bitter House battle over
helping Greece and Turkey curb
Communism.
1. A wide-open split in House
Republican ranks over the $500,
900, 900 Greek-Turkish aid program
and a move under way, with some
Democratic support, 70 Shift the
problem to the Unit<oN 7aticas.
2. A Congressic ~oversy,
now in the Ser - 49, e ad-
ministration's o. 81 25O,'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
Expels Five Communists;
Bevin, Morrison End 20 Year Feud
Along The Cape Fear

WILMINGTON IN LONDON -
Lindsay Russell, former criminal
lawyer in New York, was mention
ed last week in a review given by
London's Ambassador Douglas.
The review vas described by a
native resident of Wrightsville
Beach, who now lives in London,
as THE Founding of the Pilgrims
Society BY a Native. Lindsay Rus
SELL" Russell now lives at Wrights.
vile Beach.
PILGRIMS HISTORY-The Pill
grom Society was founded in Lon
don on the eve of King Edward
Wis coronation in 1902, and
founded in New York n year
later with each country having
600 members.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZA-
TION-The Pilgrims "a the first
modern international organization
based upon quick communications
and to promote cultural relations.
NATURAL-It was natural tina
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
SHAW TO HEAD
0MICRON FRAT
Local Youth Elected
President Of Fraternity
AT Wake Forest

WAKE FOREST, May 4. - Six
leading students on the campus
and three eminent alumni of the
college have just been elected
into membership in the Wake For
est chapter Of Omicron Delta Kap-
pa, national honorary leadership
fraternity.
The new student members of
the organization are Lanneau
Newton, Wake Forest senior;
James A. West, Jr., Wilmington
senior; Gerald Wallace, Marion,
S. c., senior; Campbell Mcmillan,
Whiteville junior; Gene Medlin,
Greensboro junior; and Bill Rob,
bins, Winnabow j .nior.
The three new alumni members
are T. Ashley Haywood of Rock
Mgham, president of the General
Alumni Association and Class of
IL; Robert Lee Humber of Green
vile, Class of 10, who is active
IN furthering a movement for
World Federation, a plan for
peace Of which he is author; and
=. 0. Burroughs, Jr., of Norfolk,
Va, class of 1925 and a well
known manufacturer.
Founded in 1914 and active on
the Wake Forest campus since
lsSs, Omicron Delta Kappa recog-
Mes men who are outstanding in
scholarship, athletics, social and
religious affairs, publications.
s7eech, music, and dramatic arts.
Students considered for member
snip are required to stand in the
top thirty-five percent of their
class.
Wilmington Boy ELECTED
President
bynum Shaw, rising senior from
Wilmington and newly elected
editor Of Old Gold and Black,
student newspaper, has been
chosen president of Omicron Delta
Kappa. He succeeds Dewey + IS,
wilmington senior, who is grad
uatlng in June. Ed Gavin. second
year law student from Sanford,
was named vice-president to sue
eeed Sam Behrends, another Will
mington senior, who graduates
also in June. DR.. Henry S. Stroupe,
assistant professor OF social
sciences, was reelected faculty
~secretary of the organization WIZ
Dr.. E. E. Polk, associat profess
sor OF English, was chosen faculty
adviser.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
Senate Ready
On Hot Bills
President May Learn This
Week, Shape Of Tax
And Labor Issues

WASHINGTON, May 4 (P) -
President Truman this week may
learn the shape of two of the big.
sest things to come to him from
congress this session for his ap-
nroyal or veto-tax reduction an6
labor legislation.
The House already has had its
.av on both and has passed them
in forms which the capital gener.
,lly expects would be vetoed by
the president. Thus, the prospective
senate action may largely deter.
mine the final outcome.
The Senate Finance committee
rbose recommendations will weigh
heavily on the floor, starts sessions
behind closed doors tomorrow to
whip a tax bill into shape. The
chief question before it is whether
to make the reductions retroactive
10 last January l, as the House
bill provides, or to start them July
/ or next January l, as some sena.
TORS propose.
Will Work Longer
The senate itself will hold seven
hour sessions, two hours longer
than usual each day, starting Tues
day in an effort to get through
with the labor bill this week.
The big fights will come over
amendments to provide stricter
controls over union activities than
the Labor committee would sane
ton-specifically, to curb Industry
wide baraining, outlaw union
controlled welfare funds financed
by employers, and authorize in.
functions and damage suits in
secondary boycotts and jurisdic.
tional strikes.
Both the labor and tax bills will
20 to conference committees fo1
the adjustment of the differences
between the senate and House yer.
sions after the senate acts. The
form in which the measures final.
ly will 60 to the president will not
be established until then. But what
the senate does will establish the
range in which the %conferees can
act.
With the start of the new fiscal
year less than two months off, the
annual appropriations bills for thu
government departments have as
sumed urgency.
The senate will interrupt its labor
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
PRIVATE PLANE
CRASH KILLS One
J. Shute OF Monroe Loses
Life, Gerald Simpson
Hurt Near Waxhaw

MONROE, May 4-(P-One man
was killed and another critically
injured today when a private air.
plane crashed near Waxhaw, N. C..
]. Ray Shute, III, 21-year-old son
of mayor-elect ]. Ray Shute and
Mrs. Shute of Monroe, was killed.
Gerald A. Simpson, %. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. David A. Simpson
of Monroe, was injured.
Witnesses said the plane, a PIT
26, was flying at a low altitude
nea the Embellishments high
way when the motor apparently
failed and the ship crashed in a
small meadow.
Simpson was taken to Memorial
hospital in Charlotte where he
was still unconscious. He suffered
a brain conclusion, a fractured
jaw, fractures of both arms, lac
erations on the face, and multiple
Commissions and decorations on the
body.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
MAYOR OF HAVANA
TAKES OWN LIFE
Failure To Keep Campaign
Promises Depresses
Manuel F. Supervielle

HAVANA, Cuba. May 4-W.D-
Mayor Manuel Fernandez Super
vielle shot himself fatally at his
home in the Vedado suburb today,
police announced, because of his
inability to fulfill election prom
Uses that he would give Havana
an adequate water supply.
Increasingly depressed or days
over widespread and acute crit
icism, the mayor walked up to
one of his police guards at Z am,
borrowed a As calibre pistol, went
inside and saot himself in the
chest, officit' reports said. The
guard, running inside, found the
mayor dying and had him taken
to a hospital in a passing police
car. He died on the operating
table at sos am.
Mayor Fernandez Supervielle left
two notes-one to his wife, the
other to an unidentified judge.
Resigned State Post
The short, pauchy, ruddy-com-
plexioned former lawyer, Of, LOT
mer dean of the Havana college
Of law, resigned as minister OF
finance at the request of Presl-
dent Grau San Martin to run last
veal for mayor the second high
est executive post in the republic.
He won the election easily
against his two opponents on a
pledge to give sprawling Havana,
with it's population of 100000 a
new waterworks and other facili-
ties to bring up to date the sup
ply it had outgrown.
His slogan of water for Ha-
vana," however bounced back on
him. Publicly ard privately, ne
was criticized with increasing bit
terness because despite all his eff
forts he had been unable to make
even a real start to make good his
p1pdpp
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
%%>X<ase Plans May
L3ews UN Hearing
NEW MARK SET

NEW YORK, May 4-tR-
The Reynolds Bombshell, which
recently completed a record
round-the-world flight, arrived
at LaGuardia airport tonight
from Toronto at 1884 pm. EDIT
completing the 375-mile trip in
one hour and IL minutes.
The converted A = 26 twin
engined bomber, piloted by
Capt. william Odum, left To-
ronto at 1922 pm. EDIT.
Odum, flying alone, bettered
the time of commercial air.
craft by almost an hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05

900, 900 for foreign relief. The
House cut this fund down to 5000,
900, 600.
8. Reports that the House APP
preparations committee will recon-
mend denying funds for the State
departments information and cul-
tnral division, including the "Voice
of America" broadcasts.
Marshall Ready
Marshall met the challenge head
on.
His Immediate campaign wa:
aimed at restoration of funds fol
the Information program, which
he and his aides have termed
Continued on Page Five; Col. 5,
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Strike Over
| At Raleigh
Operators At Asheville,
Hendersonville, Waynes-
vile Go Back TODAY

The Wilmington local of the
Southern Federation OF Telephone
workers voted at a meeting held
here yesterday afternoon to con-
tlnue the strike which has been
underway since April 9.
The vote came at a two hour
meeting OF approximately 100
workers and E. C. Drinkard, local
union official, said following the
session, that another meeting Of
the workers would be held this
afternoon at which time the mat.
ter is scheduled to be discussed
again.
"a good majority of our work.
ers were present." Drinkard said,
land our morale is very high. We
will continue to carry on the
strike"
When asked about the action Of
several locals throughout the
state in voting to resume work,
Drinkacd declined to comment.
The local has been maintaining
a picket line throughout the
month-long walkout but there has
been no violence.
o. G. Balm, manager of the local
office was not available last night
for possible company comment.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Telephone employs in Raleigh,
Asheville, Hendersonville and
Waynesville have voted to return
to work today Monday, but
locals in Greensboro, Winston
Salem, Charlotte and Burlington
have voted to remain away from
their jobs.
Today is the deadline set by
Gov. R. Gregg Cherry for the
restoration of normal telephone
service by the Southern Bell
Telephone company.
Gov. Cherry told the company
TIC resume service with present
employees most of whom have
been On strike for four weeks -
or with new employees If neces-
sary.
Southern Bell in Atlanta an.
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
The Weather

FORECAST
south Carolina-Partly cloudy and con-
nhued warm Monday and Tuesday.
North Carolina-Partly cloudy and mild
sesttered showers east portion Monday'
tuesday fair and Slightly warmer.
meteorological data for the "a hours
ehalng 1870 pm, yesterday.
Temperatures
l:O am, Sc; 1890 am, Sc; 30 pm,
" 1880 pm, IS.
Maximum 10: Minimum so; Mean 81
Normal So.
Humidity
80 am, 70; 40 a m, 72; 1880 pm.
w.; 1880 pm, 10
Precipitation
.o1l for "a hours ending 7:30 pm.
900 inches.
Total since the first of the month
esi inches.
Tides For Today
IRON the Tide Tables published by
v .. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington 1o:o1a 4:4ss
10:57p 4:55Y
Assonboro Inlet - 7:42a Las;
8:11p 1:46r
sunrise 5:19. Sunset 6:58; Moonrist
H4ap; Mconset 5:37a.
MORE WEATHER ON PAGE TWO
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-05
TEN INJURED WHEN
PLANE O~VERSHOOTS MARK

NEWARK, May +P)-A Union
Southern Airlines plane carrying
10 passengers from the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville overshot a
runway at Newark airport in a
sudden rainstorm today and pam
caked On the heavy timbers criss-
crossing a drainage ditch, injuring
all the passengers and the three
members of the crew.
The injured we're rushed to St.
Continued on Page; Two Col. g.
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FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
and mild with scattered showers todav.
Tuesday, fair and slightly warmer.
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Evening star., 1947-12-09
and Pakistan are formally members of the
British Commonwealth of Nations

and Pakistan are formally members of the
British Commonwealth Of Nations.
At those Lahore meetings, political and
military questions repeatedly will be taken
up, among them the ticklish question Of
Jammu-Kashmir where fighting continues
between Indian Dominion troops and
Moslem insurgents against the Hindu
Maharajah
1t, of course, is too early to speculate on
the outcome of these meetings. But the
financial agreement already arrived at Is
welcome augury. Certainly, the terrible
events in the Puntab and elsewhere have
produced SOLDERING effect upon the
responsible leaders on both Sides while
the economic dislocations consequent on
partition have further revealed the in
calculable costs and dangers of failure to
evolve some method of working peacefully
and constructively together.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Vote the Money Now!

To the Editor Of The Star:
Nero f1ddled while Rome burned. Now men,
bers of Congress, centuries later, are "fddling"
and faddling while the fires of communism
are threatening to destroy the few remaining
countries in Europe where there still is true
democracy. One by one, former free states
have been engulfed by the Red tide, and the
peoples and governments thereof have become
mere puppets to dance only to the Russian
tune
We are the sole hope Of the still independent
countries. The Nazi armies swept over them
and their lands were devastated. Their do
mestic animals have been killed or taken away.
their factories and railroads destroyed or their
equipment appropriated by the enemy and
their peoples tortured, imprisoned or slain.
Suppose these things had happened to us
what would we think II aid were refused?
Our own beloved land stands prosperous and
unmarried; and the surest way to keep 1t so is
to help those other countries retain their
freedom and return to prosperity. So, let
Congress stop haggling over dollars and vote
the full amount Of money needed in Europe.
Otherwise, many, many more dollars may be
necessary to save our own land and the lives
OF our people.
II man is starving and you have loaf
OF bread. would you throw him crust and say:
That's all you need"7 The people Of the
United States didn't contribute just crusts
to the Friendship Train"
Let's get On with the job!
FRANCES H. JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Dr.. Butler

DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler became
president of Columbia University in 1901.
The institution he was called to head was
a small affair in comparison with other
schools 1t might have been his choice to
keep it relatively little in size and scope
and influence. But some mysterious power
vision his work in large, impressive lines.
Such was his genius that much the same
development might have occurred had he
been summoned to be the mentor and
guide of an obscure rural academy.
In other words, DR.. Butler was man
possessed of the dynamic force which is
the first requisite of large success. Even
when allowance is made for the fact that
he labored in the biggest and richest city
of the world and was supported generously
in his endeavors by long list of well-to-
do friends, 1t must be conceded that the
expansion of Columbia until his retire
ment in 1S45-not simply in It's physical
resources and the number of its students,
but IN its constructive effect upon America
and upon foreign lands-was his personal
achievement. The university as we know
it today is his heightened shadow.
Perhaps Dr. Butler himself was not a
supreme scholar. Yet he wrote dozens of
books which undoubtedly will be employed
as reference material for generations to
come The Cosmos letters which he
penned during and Immediately after the
First World War are part of the modern
theology of the English-speaking democ-
racies., His discussions of the philosophy
of education also have been accepted into
the fabric of current pedagogical practice.
So, too, his political opinions-represent-
ing fusion of conservative and liberal
doctrines-are the common possession Of
thousands who may not realize their debt
to him.
But the example he set will be DR.. But
ler's best claim on the remembrance OF
ordinary people. He may not have been q
universally popular figure while he lived.