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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Manchester Guardian Calls
For Ousting OF Shin
well, Dalton

LONDON, Aug. 29, -WH- Coal
miners in two nor Yorkshire
pits walked out last night and to-
day in defiance Of union ana gov
eminent orders. They brought to
Is, FOL the miners idle in a wild
cat sympathy strike threatening
Britain's national recovery.
More than 1OO,0 900 tons of coal
vitality needed by industry have
been lost in the strike, a Coal
Board officia! said, and additional
losses are piling up at the rate Of
10000 tons a day.
Will Lawther, head OF the miners
union. condemned the strike as
more than criminal, it borders
on insanity" and urged the Nation
al Coal Board to prosecute the
strikers. Miners at the Crime
thorpe colliery, who started the
strike, retaliated by hanging Law
ther in effigy at the entrance to
the strikebound pit.
'1t is tragic the National Coal
Board are so lackadaisical and do
not apply extreme measures to
these people when they have had
See PRESS On Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
WILMINGTON SET
FOR BIG HOLIDAY
Business Will Be Standing
Still Monday; Beaches
Ready For Crowds

Wilmington today begins its
two-day Labor day holiday under
cloud skies but with prospects
Of warm temperatures that should
bring thousands to the beaches
for the weekend - the last long
one Of the season.
While holiday crowds frolic at
nearby resorts, the city Of VII
mington will virtually close rs
doors to business Monday.
Private and government offices,
stores and most other establish
ments will close bringing business
to a near standstill.
Postoffice windows will be clos
ed and, there will be no mail
deliveries Monday. Offices at the
customhouse, the courthouse and
city hall will be shut. Most Of
fees and stores will not open
their doors.
About the only businesses re-
naming open will be theaters, \
few restaurants and scattered
neighborhood groceries.
The weatherman promises rea-
sonably pleasant weather al
though skies will be overcast,
there maybe a few showers but
temperatures will remain high.
Baseball, boating, swimming
and fishing will be on the agenda
for the pleasure seekers. Police
last night were prepared to han
die heavy traffic on it's way to
and from the beaches and at the
same time warned motorists to
drive carefully to avoid accidents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
GRAND JURY HITS
USED CAR RACKET
Fulton County, Georgia
Panel Accuses Atlanta
OF Abetting Crime

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 20. -P-
The Fulton County (Atlanta) grand
jury assailed today what it term
ed a national racket" on resale
Of new automobiles at excessive
prices, and accused county and
city employees Of using their po-
sitions to buy and sell cars at ex-
orbitant profits.
In official presentments, the
grand jury said its investigation
disclosed that a majority Of over
priced new and nearly-new We
hicles came from individuals who
place multiple orders with dealers
and then sell the cars for much
higher prices when they get de-
livery.
1t declared also that numerous
employees Of Fulton county, the
City Of Atlanta and other munich
palities in Fulton county have
made an extensive practice OF
buying new cars and immediate
ly selling them at a big profit"
The jury accused the City OF At
lanta with "aiding and abetting'
the racket by allowing public auc-
tons Of such cars at public-owned
Lakewood Park.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Along The Cape Fear

BALD HEAD - Bald Head, a
point near the mouth of the Cape
Fear river is a spot that has play
ed a large role in the story OF
the stream since the earliest days
Of recorded history.
One of the first mentions OF this
spot comes from several histori-
ans who tell that it was famous
in its early days as a roost for
wild pigeons. About the first men
ton of the pigeons is made soon
after the beginning of 1900. Gen
eral Swift, then a commander OF
what was Fort Johnston near that
point, makes mention OF the
pigeons in his memoirs.
At one place he writes, THAT
some of those flocks were miles
in extent and that the sound OF
their wings was like that OF a
roaring wind" In those days, it
is added, many sportsmen came
to the spot to kill the birds.
But Of still greater interest are
tales told regarding exploits OF
fights, pirates and Indians in con-
nection with the history OF Bald
Head.
SPANISH SHIP WRECK - One
of those tales concerns itself with
the wreck of an early-day Spanish
vessel.
According to the best historians,
the event was about November
1903. There was a large Spanish
ship christened the Balboa" It
was thrown upon the shores by
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
U. S. BREAKS OFF
FARLEY ON KOREA
State Department Informs
Russia That Further
Talks Unnecessary

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. -W.H
The United States today broke Oh
its futile, two-year negotiations
with Russia over creation Of a
provisional government for Korea
and proposed that a Big -Four con-
ference be held here next month
to plan early and complete Korean
independence.
The American action was inter
preted as a move to get the trou-
blessome Korean question before
the United Nations General assem-
bly, where Russia could not exer-
else its veto power.
If the Big Four and the UN Gen.
sral Assembly were incapable OF
settling the problem, the United
States presumably would 60 ahead
on its own with a program Of eco.
nomic reconstruction IN the'U s.
occupiedS Southern half of Korea.
Informed sources have indicated
that Congress would be asked to
put up as much as 500, ZOO, 900 a
year for that program.
In a sharply worded note hand
ed to Soviet Foreign Minister v.
M. Molotov in Moscow yesterday.
the State department made il
clear it sees no further use in
dragging out the bilatera1 negotia-
tons between American and Rus
sian commissions in Korea.
The note proposed that repre-
sentatives Of the United States,
Russia, Britain and China meet
here Sept. 8 to take up a concrete
seven-point American plan that
would speed withdrawal Korea and
and Soviet troops from Korea and
enable the Koreans to choose their
OWN Government.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
RUSSIAN PRAESIDIUM
RATlFIES TREATIES
WITH FIVE NATIONS


LONDON. Aug. 2s-ReThe
n0scoW Radio announced tonight
S'' Russia had ratified the peace
nsatles with Italy. Hungary, Ro-
,.snla' Bulgaria ana Finland
.VHlpletins action by the four ma
tF powers on the treaties drafted
u Paris last year.
.lnal formal ending Of hostili-
NV Nv againstthe wartime allies of
n. Germany viii! come when
Instruments of ratification are
"Ts'ted In Paris and Moscow.
me Moscow radio said the trea-
IT, were ratified by the Praesi-
ysal o. the Supreme Soviet of the
800: The hroadcas: was heard
LONDON by the Soviet Monitor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
DROPPING
CLAM, BREAKS RAIL
ALONG BOARDWALK

OCEAN CITY, N, j., Aug. 29-P)
A seagull on a olive bomb" mis-
sion to break open a clam knock
ed out a section of rusty railing
along this resorts broadwalk.
Jack G.. Jernee, lifeguard cap
tain, reported to the Rotary Club
that gulls generally fly high into
the air with clans in their beaks
and then drop them to break the
shells.
"Well, M gull dropped its clam
smack on this railing" Jernee
said. The clam knocked out a
whola section"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
TALDARlS NAMES
new GOVERNMENT
Greek Leader Leaves Out
zeryas In Difference
To u. S. Demands

ATHENS. Greece, Aug. 29-P1-
p~or,,1ist party leader Constantin
rsa1daris formed a new Greek
government Of 10 Populist mini
.ts-s tonight, with himself as pre-
ro;er and foreign minister, after
other Greek political leaders fall
ID IN weeks efforts to form a
broad coalition government OF all
eight parties.
rsaldaris gave in to reported
American pressure, however, and
did not include in his government
tbe outgoing minister Of public or
c.r. Gen. Napoleon Zervas, who
h.. been severely criticized for
permitting armed Rightist bands
10 terrorize the Greek population.
Instead Tsaldaris %recreated a
cst-Governor-G General Of North
ern Greece-which appeared Tor
III, first time in a cabinet he for
| med on Nov. 4, 1916. He also
named the same minister to that
! ro,t Constantin Rodopoulis, who
was forced out Of the government
when it fell last January and Tsal-
daris was replaced as premier.
Tsaldaris in his new cabinet to-
mite did not name a minister OF
public order.
The new government, which re-
presents a smashing political vic
torv for Tsaldaris against the OPP
position Of King Paul and the sew
IN other parties Of Greece, was
sworn in at the palace at a late
hour.
Tsaldaris' victory came amid a
dramatic political tug-of-war high
lighted by an unimpeachable re-
\ port that US. Ambassador Lincoln
McVeagh had virtually ordered
4 Zervas to stay out Of the new
government.
McVeagh repeatedly told Zervas
I that American public opinion had
been greatly shocked by the mass
arrests, indiscriminate gendarm-
erie attacks and general "dicta-
torlal and Fascist methods he
authorized to combat guerrilla
activity while Righiists armed
bands flourished.
Earlier reports said that Tsal-
daris exercised his power as head
o. the major political party to gain
King Paul's reluctant approval
o. a new government Of all-Popu-
!st ministers. The King had de-
ffed a broad eight-party coali-
lion government to replace the
ieven-party coalition, dominated
BY the Populists, which toppled
last Saturday when three min
isters resigned in opposition to
Tsaldaris.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Warplanes To Bomb
Fanatics OF Punjab
hint Indian-P akistan Defense Council De,
cides On Use Of Air Fighters In War
On Blood Crazed Natives

lew DELHI, INDIA, Aug.
. W.H - The joint Indian
p,t;stan Defense council today
Loaded to use warplanes
ass;nst t h blood-crazed
sstics slaughtering men,
"oroen and children by thou
',nds in the Punjab.
u o~dered Indian and Pakis-
troops and police to shoot
~ sight any person caught
" the act Of committing a
WINE. And the council rec
amended that both domin-
inns set up concentration
..rops for arrested members OF
armed bands.
Tbese measures apply equal
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Committee Report May Recommend
End Of British Mandate In Holy Land
Document Will Stress That
Present Palestine Stu
alton Must End

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 70.
-thHThe United Nations special
committee on. Palestine was un-
derstood tonight to be readying a
report to the U.N. General Assem-
bly, calling for termination Of the
British mandate in the Holy Land
at the earliest possible moment.
While implying no criticism OF
the mandatory power, the COM
mittee report will leave no doubt
that the present situation in Pales-
tine can not be permitted to con-
tinue, it was said.
The committee also will stress
the need for a transition period
for Palestine beginning immedi-
ately under the administration of
an authority responsible to the
United Nations.
However, committee members
failed to designate the administra-
tive power or to lay down the
conditions under which the respon-
sibilities Of the United Nations
should be exercised, informed
sources said.
The committee members were
pictured as feeling that such de-
cisions must be taken by the Cen
eral Assembly itself when the AS
sembly meets in New York Sept.
16.
The committees agreed draft re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
PRICE AVERAGES
UP ON LEAF MART
Border Belt Has 81 To 81
Increase; Eastern Sales
Prove Steady

Price average on the flue-cnr-
ed Border Belt OF South Carolina
and North Carolina yesterday
showed increases from 81 to 81,
while the Eastern North Carolina
belt found prices remaining in
most instances steady with a few
losses for a limited number OF
grades.
Good lemon cutters established
a new high Of $61 on the Border
Belt, and the majority Of leaf and
Tugs gained from 81 to 81, The
Federal-State Departments of
Agriculture reported.
There was more fair quality
and nondescript on the Border,
but less good and fine. The bulk
of sales was composed chiefly of
low to good leaf, smoking leaf
and Jugs and low and fair cutters,
with volume Of sales heavy.
The Eastern Belt probably had
its heaviest sales Of the season,
The Marketing Service said. The
See TOBACCO On Pare Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Eisenhower, In Speech To Legionnaires,
EjS$$$arses Universal Military Training;
rs, Britain Up German Industry Goal
Production
Mean Set In Zone
Western Powers To Go
Ahead With Self Support
ing Plan For Reich

BERLIN, Aug. 20 -W.D-The
United States and Britain today
gave German industry in their
zones permission to produce
about as much as it did in 1896
and announced they were going
ahead with their plan to make
the Western Reich self-support-
ing, no matter what objections
Russia and France raise.
More Russian objections were
almost certain. The Russian OBJ
jected last week when raising the
level Of production was discussed
by American, British and French
representatives in London. Under
the plan announced today, key
industries in the two Western
zones are practically eliminated
as reparations.
The Soviet will not like that.
And France is additionally oppos-
ed to anything that might enable
Germany to engage. in more ag-
gressive war. But it was certain
that any plan for turning Ger
many into an agricultural state,
with a minimum Of light industry,
had now been finally discarded.
One item in the new permits
sible level of industry showed
that steel production was fixed at
10, 700, 600 tons a year, about twice
what it was under a previous
agreement Of March, 1916. Metal,
machinery and chemical factories
will produce to within 10 or IS
per cent of what they did in 1896,
a year that was selected as a
mean because it was not ''char-
acterized by either boom Or de-
pressed conditions"
Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Air
Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas,
the American and British military
governors, said in a press con-
ference that the plan required a
70 per cent rise in Ruhr coal pro-
duction. It will take at least three
years to achieve.
They emphasized that achieve
ment was dependent upon 4Ruhr
coal production and that until the
mines turned out $50, 600 to 4O0,-
600 tons a day, German industry
could not produce all it was al
lowed. Clay said he hoped the
Ruhr mines would be producing
that much coal within a three
year period"
The essentials Of the new plan
follow:
Steel - 1000, 600 (M) tons a
year.
Crude copper-128,0 co tons.
Refined copper-215, 000 tons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Leland Man Puts Bullets
Into Wife, Ends Own Life
Rites Set For Vic.
Tins Oh Woodburn
Murder, Suicide

FAYETTEVILLE, Aug. 20 -
Funeral services for Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter G. Piner, both 40,
Of Leland, will be held here Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 and 5 Pm.
respectively.
The couple were killed in a
murder and suicide at WOODBURY.
in the early hours Of Saturday
morning, according to Brunswick
County Coroner John G.. Caison.
The shooting took place at the
home Of Spurvey Sneeden, a quar-
ter of a mile south of the junction
Of highway II and n in Bruins
wick county.
Sneeden said thai he was awak-
ened by the sound Of pistol shots
shortly after midnight. He said he
went to the upstairs rooms oc-
cupied by Mrs. Piner since she
and her husband hal separated.
According to Sneeden, he
found Mrs. Piner slumped in a
sitting position between the door
to the room and a dresser. Two
.38 pistol slugs had entered her
right brest, he said. o.
Sneeden said that Piner was
sprawled on the floor near his
wife's feet, a bullet role in his
left temple and a .38 pistol lying
between his legs.
According to Coroner Caison,
Piner apparently shot his wife
from a standing position since the
two bullets ranged downward
from her breast. into her body.
Caison said that the shooting
occurred during Piner's second
visit to his wife's room last night.
The first visit was at 9 pm,
he said. The second visit was at
IL o'clock as Mrs. Piner wa
about to leave the Sneeden home
with some friends.
According to the coroner, Piner
finally persuaded his wife to ac-
company him to her room, where
the fatal shooting took place.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Pinec had
been married before, Caison said,
and both had grown children by
the previous marriages.
Mrs. Piner was employed by
The Williams Cafe, and accord
ing to Liston Williams, proprietor
of the cafe, the Piners had been
having family trouble.
There was just too much fam
See LELAND On Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Roaring Welcome
Accorded General
ike" Reminds Veterans
Operative Spirit Has
Lost Ground

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 -WD-En.
dorsing the swelling American
Legion demand for universal mill
tary training, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower told its 29th conven-
ton today that America had to
face the hard fact" Of the CO.
operative spirit among nations
having lost ground since the war
ended.
Americas army chief during
World War II spoke in terms Of
aggression" and Of America re-
ceiving the. 'first blow" in any
future war He was n of the
three CHIEFS Of the armed services
during the war who addressed the
second day convention session.
The others were Fleet Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz and Air Force
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz. Bota Nimitz
and Spaatz called for a strongly
armed America as imperative to
combat surprise attacks.
Asserting that no nation is in
a position deliberately to start 4
war with any hope Of gain, Eisen-
hover warned that the United
States, as the champion Of free
dom, would be hit first by an
aggressor nation.
"We must so grid ourselves"
he said, that a predatory agrees
sor will be aware Of the risks he
runs and will realize should he
provoke war, it will likely be
fought over his territory. This
means that we must be ready not
only to endure and survive the
first hard blow of an enemy, but
to recovery Immediately, to strike
back, to hit harder than he does
to win" %
Roaring Welcome
The No. / Allied combat gen.
eral Of the Second World War,
who will retire as chief Of STAFF
somtime after Jan. l to become
president of Columbia University,
got a ring welcome form coat
less Legionnaires crowded into
the hot drill hall Of New 'York's
ba stille-like list Armory.
Few more than 1000 Of the es-
timated 10000 Legionnaires in
town for the second day Of the
four-day convention had sat
through earlier speeches, but
shortly before the scheduled time
for Eisenhower's address the au-
dience quickly doubled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
TRUMAN TO MAKE
MAJOR SPEECHES
President Will Address
Brazilian Congress On
Friday Afternoon

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -R-
President Truman will address 4
Joint session Of the Brazilian Con-
gress next Friday at 2 pm. East
ern Standard Time a pm. Brazil
liam time), the White House an
bounced today.
This will be the second major
address Mr.. Truman will deliver
during his weeks stay in Brazil.
The. White House said the speech
before the Brazilian Congress will
be brief.
His principal speech w.Il be a
2o-minute affair address at $3.50
am. Eastern Standard Time
(10:30 am. Brazil Time) next
Tuesday at the closing session OF
the Inter-American Defense Con-
ference. This speech will be
broadcast.
Mr.. Truman also will give a
brief informal talk aboard the
Battleship Missouri on Tuesday
at a buffet luncheon for delegates
to the conference and ranking
Brazilian officials.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
BANDITS
net LARGE HAUL
Sweet Home, Oregon Bank
Looted While Ten Custo-
mers Look On

SWEET HOME. Ore. Aug 2s-
bandits wearing sun.
glasses walked into the Sweet
Home bank today, forced 10 per
sons to the floor, and strobe ou1
with nearly $58, 900, in cash de.
spite employees Commute attempt
to stall them.
The bandits an old. short.
stubby man, and a taller, young.
one-fled the scene in a car
after two shots fired by a neigh.
boring auto park clerk missed.
The two entered during crowd.
ed morning banking hours, while
nine employees were on duty and
10 customers TODD about the bank.
They ordered Allan Eames,
cashier. to open the bank vault.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Baby Sitter Gets Hubby,
Baby Too, Wife States

mind the baby. Not long ago, Mrs.
Porter continued, the baby sitter
called and said she and Mrs. Por-
ter's husband were living with the
baby.
when l got home" said Mrs.
Porter, they had all gone" She
charged her husband had t a k e n
the baby to Mea6v1lle, Miss, his
home, and refused to release him.
MIS-. Porter. a former beauty
operator. said she is now living
With her parents in Cleveland,
Ohio. She said she is not work
ing.
II can't keep my mind on max
ing other women beautiful" Me
explained.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

ly to Hindus, Moslems and
Sikhs, since all a = equally
guilty in the killing, plundering
and torturing. Hindus murder
Moslems in the Eastern Pun
jab. The Sikhs murder Mos
lens when they catch them in
Hindu or Sikh territory.
The governor generals, pre-
miers and commanders-in-
chief Of India and Pakistan
met in Lahore today. Their
first decision was to dissolve
the Punjab boundary force un-
der a British major generals
command effective Sunday
night, and hand over the job
Of keeping order in the area
to the dominion governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
So To Bed

The family Of = Carolina
Beach man, who halls from
Brunswick county. because
rather alarmed in the wee
hours Of the morning yester-
day when they awoke and
found him missing from his
bed.
A search Of the entire house
failed to show any signs Of his
whereabouts. His clothing was
lust as he had left it, and
nothing of value was missing.
Mystified and t o ug h y
alarmed, they began to talk Of
notifying the police.
At that moment he walked
into the house from the porch,
innocent of the anxiety ne had
caused when he decided to
change beds in the middle Of
the night and retire to the
porch.
whats all the excitenent
about" he asked.
Space limitations and censor.
ship prevent giving Tie replica
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

ATLANTA. Aug. 29--tR)- A 25-
year-old mother complained to the
Fulton County grand jury today
that her 17-year-old aunt and chief
baby sitter han nc. only run off
with her husband but the baby as
we'll.
And, said Mrs. OBJ. Porter, she
wanted her son, Billy, aged Is
months, back. Her husband, Mere
dith Porter, 43, she said she didn't
want. She asked that he, be in
dicted for abandonment of their
older child, Tommy, 3, and the
grand~jury complied.
Mrs. Porter told the jury that
her mothers halt sister came to
live with her. keep house and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
Many Disappear Nightly
In Hungary, Sulyok Says

1--WE had no passports or any
other valid documents when we
left and we are not on vacation
he said. IT do not intend to re-
turn to Hungary before the ma
tons of the world have realized
the threat Of Bolshevism and
have risen to break its yoke.
Il did not feel safe in Hungary
anymore" Sulyok d e d.
Dozens of persons disappear
every %night-but one cannot say
disappear because these persons
are killed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
NYLON HOSE SUPPLY
TO BE SCARCE AGAIN
COME CHRISTMAS DAY

NEW YORK, Aug. 20. = B
- Nylon hoiery for Christmas
gifts may pose a prablem again
this year, hosiery sources said
today, because previously an
ticipated increases in supplies
probably will not materialize.
1--WE do not expect any
material increases in monthly
production and shipments Of
nylon hosiery for the balance
of this year beyond the pattern
which has existed to date this
year." the National Associa-
ton Of Hosiery Manufacturers
said.