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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
REPUBLICANS NOW
WIDELY DIVIDED
Majority In Congress At
Odds Over Greek-Tur-
kish, Russian Deals

WASHINGTON, March 19-(Pe
The Observation-Disclosures prob.
lem split the Republican majority
in Congress three ways tonight on
the eve of~the first public hearings
on President Humans appeal to
bulwark Greece and Turkey
against Communism.
New demands arose for turning
the p. oblem over to the United
Nations. Some COP members sug-
gested a hands-off attitude to let
the problem find its own answer
and others strung along, at least
tentatively, with Senator Vanden-
berg (R-Mich) who supports MI.
Truman on the matter.
The House Foreign Affairs COM
mittee got set to begin hearings
tomorrow on the Presidents re.
quest to step in with $500, 600, 900 in
aid for Turkey and Greece, now
that ~~eat Britain is pulling out.
Dozens of lawmakers already
have served notice that they will
seek fullest details on the request
for /. money and the authority to
send material, federal employees
and Limited" military missions
to the two countries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
Along The Cape Fear

AS for the books which we're
collected during the early days OF
the organization, they were stored
away for safe keeping, during the
period of suspension.
Then near the close of that de.
cade, the organization was revised
by Mr.. George Davis. DR.. James
H Dickson, Mr.. Donald MacRae
and several others.
ON THE MARCH-''1t (The Ii.
brary Association has continued
to exist with varying fortunes ever
SINCE" one newspaper scribe de-
scribes the progress of the organ
ization during the late 1905.
The varying fortunes must
have been mostly favorable as by
1890 there were approximately g.
900 volumes in the library.
And among those you would
have found many rare and valu'
able books. 1.-THE loss of which
would be almost irreparable," one
gentleman of the press cautions
in describing the value of the Ii
brary collection of the Port City.
The rooms are neat, convenient
and comfortable, and everything
is in complete order under the
watchful supervision of Mrs. Lou
Use De Rosset, the librarian, ar
! Continued on Page Two. Col. y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
PUBLISHERS FLAY
MAIL RATE HIKES
Rocky Mount Man Tells
Group Move Smacks
Of False Economy

WASHINGTON, March 10. Up
- Representatives of the Ameri.
can Newspaper publishers associa-
ton and other press groups today
opposed any increase in second
class nail rates, covering newspa.
pers and periodicals, on the ground
1t would be false economy.
Josh L. Horne. publisher of the
Rocky Mount. N. c.. Telegram and
chairman of the ANPA postal com
mittee, told the house postal COM
mittee that the proposed increases.
ranging in some cases four times
higher than present rates, would
be impractical because they would
cut volume.
He quoted former Postmaster
General Frank Walker as saying
that the postoffice needed more
volume at existing rates and as
declaring that extra volume could
be handled on rural free delivery
routes without additional cost to
the postoffice.
Horne contended the post office
was charging off a part Of the cost
of operating rural free delivery
routes and star routes against the
cost of handling second class mail
- an assessment, he said, never
intended by Congress.
He told the committee that news.
papers are more than paying
their way, they are helping to pay
for services set up by the Con-
gress which were never intended
to pay their way"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
COMMITTEE APPROVES
STATEHOOD FOR GAY
HAW AIIAN ISLANDS

WASHINGTON, March 49,
(P)- The House Public Lands
committee approved statehood
for Hawaii today.
Without dissent, the commit
tee agreed by a voice. vote to
recommend to the House the
passage of enabling legisla-
ton introduced by Delegate
Joseph R.. Harrington (R-Ha-
wall.
Appropriately numbered
house resolution 40, the meas
ure would. take in the islands
as the 49th state upon adop-
ton and U. S. approval of a
state constitution, and election
Of Congressman and state Of
ficerS.
A dispute between the Inter-
ior department. and Hawaii
over State VS.. Federal owner
ship Of the Hawaiian Public
lands was sidetracked with the
adoption of an amendment to
postpone a decision for five
years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20

LONG, LONG AGO - Yester.
days suggestion as to'what to do
with your twenty-five cents peck
et7size books after reading them
has brought forth a response.
We must admit, however. that
it has nothing to do with the swap.
ping plan which is now being Sue
cessfully followed by an upstate
city.
One reader was anxious to know
what we knew about the early his
tory of the library here
Well, since the organization of
the Library Association was be-
fore our time, we r forced to
rely upon contemporaries to CLEAN
the following facts.
SLIGHTLY HAZY-The records
of the Library Association have
been lost, Or at least a major por-
ton of them. Hence, little is
known of its early history.
Thus the following is based
more on tradition than on any au'
thentic account.
The organization of the Library
Association was affected, in all
probability, in 1852 by DR.. T. c.
Worth. Mr.. George N. Morehouse,
Mr.. William Utley and others.
1t lead a rather precarious life
for several years and then sus'
pended.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
And So To Bed

A blonde headed youngster
applied for a job to sell the
News on the streets yesterday
afternoon.
"Say, Mister" he asked the
circulation manager, "How's
about letting me sell some Of
your papers?"
The circulation manager, up
on questioning the boy, learned
he was only 10 years old, two
years too young to sell pa
pers.
When informed to come back
in two years, this disappointed
youngster slowly walked away.
"I'll be back In two years,
and / will sell so many papers
1t viii make you Sick" WeRe
his parting words.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
DRIVING MEASURE
SETS SPEED MARK
Driving Senate Passes Bill
To Promote Safe, Sane
Motoring On Roads

RALEIGH March IS -LP)- The
$311, 900, 900 biennial revenue bill
was ordered enrolled for ratifica.
ton today in a busy legislative
session that also saw the Senate
pass the safe and sane driving bill
on third reading and the introduc.
ton of bills to promote the use
of North Carolina farm products.
Passage of the big tax bill on
final reading by the Senate rid the
assembly Of the big money bills,
since the appropriations measure,
with the exception of ALLEGATIONS
for permanent improvements, al
ready has been disposed of.
The safe driving bill-imposing
a SIS e mile an hour speed limit,
semiannual inspection of motor
vehicles and quadrennial reissu-
ance of drivers licenses-was sent
to the House. 1t must pass sepa-
rate readings on separate days
because it imposed a 81 tax for
motor vehicle inspections.
The measure is the brainchild Of
the motor vehicles department in
its efforts to curb accidents and
deaths on the highways. Stern
punishment would be meted out on
conviction Of violating the driving
laws.
Tax Provisions
Under a farm bill, sent up by
Senator Watkins of Granville and
Rep. Whitfield of Fender, referen-
(COntinued. on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
ACTION EXPECTED
ON CHANGE TODAY
representative Kermon
Says Two Civil Service
Bills Being Studied

Some action on the controversial
civil service commission law will
probably come today, Representa-
tive Robert M. Kermon told the
Star last night.
he said that copies of two pro-
posed bills have been received by
Doth he and Senator Alton A.
Lennon, and they were being dis
cussed with the view of one being
Introduced in the legislature.
hermon declined to comment
on which of the proposed measures
would be offered for legislative
action, saying that he preferred
not to make any statement on this
Phase until more study had been
gwen to the bills.
different measures have been
oFswn by both the city and the
pOAce department.. both calling
'[ changes in the present law.
~ Is understood that the two
olllef In that the city's bill stipu-
,a'es that the city council shall
nave the authority to choose a
'niel OF police from within or with
uul The department. while the police
MEASURE calls for the head of the
apartment to be named from
snlohg the personnel of the force.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
PERSONS LOSE
LIVES WHEN AIRLINER
HITS BIG MOUNTAIN

BOGOTA, Colombia, March 49,
UH-Five persons were killed to.
day when a Taca Air Lines plane
flying in bad weather crashed
and burned on a hill near the
Bucaramanga . Pamplona highway
in northeast Colombia.
Rescue parties said some of the
bodies were too badly burned to
be identified. The three pas
sengers and two crewmen were
all from South American coun-
tries. It was Taca's second crash
this week.
The government earlier today
created a special national avia-
ton department to seek safeguards
against air accidents after foul
plane crashes in which &c persons
have been killed so far this year.
The decree named aviation ex-
pert Maurici Obregon to head the
department, which will seek
greater cooperation between the
government and private compan-
les" in a campaign for safer air
tyo vol
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
Los ANGELES HAS.
NEW ASSAULT CASE.
County Coroner Reports
II Homicidal Sayings
In As Many Days

LOS ANGELES, March 10. Up,
- Found bleeding, her skull bad
ly gashed, in a clump Of bushes in
Elysian park today, Anna Diresio
SIS. was rushed to a hospital today
in critical condition.
Physicians said after treatment
that the fifth recent victim OF
murderous assaults on women in
the city and its suburbs might re-
cover.
Unconscious when found by a
park caretaker who heard means,
she emerged from the coma at a
hospital and told doctors that she
believes she was assaulted by a
chance acquaintance. She said she
met the man at a town market
Grand CentraD late yesterday,
went with him to the park but re-
fused his pleas that she accompany
him to his home.
That, she added, was the last
she recalled.
Hers was the fifth numerous
assault upon women here in recent
weeks, starting with the Staying ano
Remembering of Elizabeth Short,
known as the ''Black Dahlia."
The coroner reported that there
Continued On Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
Mendoza Mascot Rejoins
Cutter Crew In Boston

BOSTON, March 10 mike"
has returned to his shipmates on
the Cutter Mendoza, command
er Bowerman, commanding Off
Ger, today revealed. .
The crew, he stated, expressed
the greatest Joy on getting their
mascot back unframed.
He also made public the follow
ing messages;
Commanding Officer
US Coast Guard Cutter Mendoza
CO Fleet Post Office
New York New York.
Captain:
Your mascot mike" is now at
this station. He inadvertently
climbed aboard the wrong bus al
New York and is now AWOL here
at the aerographer's mates school
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
AIR COMMITTEE
BACKS REQUEST
Local Group Endorsed Res
olution By New Hanover
County Commissioners

The Air committee Of the vii
mington Chamber Of Commerce
yesterday went on record endors-
ing the resolution adopted by the
New Hanover board of county
commissioners requesting that the
Air Coordinating committee re
consider its position relative to
the bombing ranges Of the army
and navy at Myrtle Beach, S. c.,
and Albermarle Sound.
The action came at a meeting
of the local air group in the Wood.
row Wilson hut yesterday after
noon.
The Air Coordinating committee
is composed of members of the
Navy, War, Commerce and State
departments, and policies relative
to air expansion and national air
programs are acted upon by these
joint representatives.
1t was. suggested at the session
that an effort be made to have the
city council of Wilmington add IT'S
endorsement. of the resolution,
which was adopted by the county
commissioners at the boards last
meeting.
The policy of the Air Coordinat-
ing Committee directly affects
the development Of the proposed
Coastal airways, inasmuch as the
Army and Navy maintain bomb
ing ranges along the route Of flight
suggested for the air line, it was
explained.
It was pointed out that as long
as the two departments keep the
bombing ranges under control the
chances for the installation OF
very high frequency radio ranges
in the area IRE almost nil.
Presiding at the meeting was
R. B. Page, chairman of the air
committee. Others present were
Harry Gardner, E. L. White, Gar.
land Currin, H. E. Boyd, Hamilton
Hicks and John H. Farrell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
a. Buildings
At Airport In
U.S.Transfer
Announces APP.
prevail OF Facilities For
Junior College Project
SURVEY CONCLUDED
Conditioning Units,
Kitchen, Cafeteria Also
Included

Superintendent of city schools
Il. NJ. Roland said last night thai
a survey had been made OF ap'
proximately 70 acres of land al
the Bluethenthal Airfield which
has been transferred to the New
Hanover county board of educa
ton by the War Assets admins
tration.
The transfer. was announced by
the WAA yesterday after it hao
been approved.
Roland said that the survey
covered "a little more than &c
acres" and that the project would
get underway after the survey
papers had been sent to Washing
ton. The transfer also includes a
buildings at the airport.
A breakdown of the use Of the
buildings will include 10 for high
school manual training class
rooms, II for agricultural depart
ments for both the high school and
junior college, with the remaining
% used for the establishment Of
the Junior college and industrial
school for veterans.
Included in the fixture transfer
are air conditioning units, kitchen
and cafeteria equipment and SAM
tary. fixtures.
In applying for the property, the
CONTINUED On Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
Committee Appointments
Announced During Ses-
sion AT Grace Church

DR.. Gloria Wysner. executive
secretary of the Methodist Foreign
Missions conference in New York
City, in speaking last night at the
Seventh annual state conference
Of the Woman's Society of Chris
tan Service, declared that IF our
Christian program is to meet the
needs and opportunities of today,
it must minister to the physical
and spiritual needs of the people
Of all lands"
A former Methodist missionary
to Algiers, DR.. Wysner delivered
the principal address at las
nights session of the three : day
conference which opened here yes.
terday afternoon in Grace Metho.
dist church.
Zone of the clearest calls today
is for Christian youth who have a
dynamic Christian faith, who are
convinced that the Christian way
of life is not a way, but the way,
and yet who are humble in Their
attempt to realize this way O
life," she said.
youth are needed with a con.
tagious love for people and con
Germ for their needs, a deep ap.
probation of the culture of the
people to whom they go, a will.
Continued On Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20

Mike has rather forlorn look
though. Guess he misses the crew
and his friends among the cooks.
Please advise.
E. V. Beer, c. Abr. NJ. USN
US Naval Air Station
Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Chief Aerographer's Mate E. v.
Beer, USN
US Naval Air Station
Lakehurst, New Jersey
Appreciate your advice concern
ing location of Mike. Hope we can
overlook this case Of AWOL in
view of obvious intention to learn
something of Aerology in repara-
ton for his duties as forward OBJ
server on international ice patrol.
Continued on Page I've, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
SHIPYARD SALE
BLOCKED AGAIN
Maritime Commission Re-
fuses To Sell Facilities
To State Authority
BY FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
Morning Star WASHINGTON Bureau

BY FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
Morning Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 10 The
Maritime commission reiterated
today it's refusal to sell the idle
Wilmington, N. c. shipyard for
which the North Carolina state
ports authority is offering $780,
900.
Representative J. Bayard Clark
of Fayetteville, who has been
pressing for acceptance of the
purchase offer, obtained a let
ter from the commission on re-
quest this afternoon. He said the
statement vas delayed because a
previous letter, repeatedly yield
ing some ground to the ports au-
thority, had been prepared by a
maritime official but rejected by
the commission.
Clark said the new letter leaves
the state fright back where it
started more than a year ago in
its. efforts to obtain the shipyard
for development as an industrial
and port terminal facility.
The. commission intends to keep
the yard in standby condition for
future shipbuilding needs.
Clark forwarded the letter to r.
B, Page, Wilmington newspaper
publisher and authority chairman,
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20

Tone Follows
U. S. Secretary Again Re-
jects Russian Plan For
Extracting Big Toll !
BEVIN In ACCORD
Delegate Backs
American Viewpoint Re-
garding Soviet Charges

MOSCOW, March 19-U.H-Secre-
tary of State George C. Marshall
and Russian Foreign Minister vi
ahceslav Molotov expressed con-
fidence today that wide allied diff
ferences over the future of Ger
many can be ironed out despite
fundamental disagreement on the
reparations problem.
Molotov, speaking first at a
meeting of the Big Four Foreign
ministers. said Russia's position
was close to that Of the United
States on the American program
for the economic u%nification OF
Germany and he thought it pos
sible to reach agreement on all
points of it.
Marshall, calling Molotov's
statement Every encouraging"
said:
81 am fully in agreement with
Mr.. Molotov that our viewpoints
are possible Of reconciliation, how
ever great r u differences
over reparations."
Marshall again rejected Rus
sia's plans for extracting enor-
nous amounts of ~reparations from
Germany.
Opposing the Russian demand
that Germany's industrial output
be increased so that part Of it
may be used for Preparations, Mar
shall warned:
"To embark on an expansion
program in Germany now to pro-
duce PREPARATIONS would be to re-
peat the same mistake made aft
er World War I unless we can be
certain that the increase can be
made in fields which offer little
if any war risks"
However, today's meeting Of the
big Four, the ninth of this mo-
mentous conference, was concilia-
tory in its general tone.
The drawback was that despite
Continued On Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
BOY FRIEND
HELD OVER BLAST
Mother o. Girl
Killed Instantly Aboard
Private Yacht

SANTA ANA, Calf, March 10
(P) - The 17-year-old daugh-
ter of a wealthy Los Angeles fl
nance company owner and her boy
were jailed today on book.
ings of murder, growing out OF
an explosion last Saturday which
blew apart her fathers yacht.
both parents.
Held without charge were
Beulah Louise Overell of exclu-
sive Flintridge and George Col
lum of Los Angeles.
Their arrests were announced
by Orange County Sheriff Jim
Musick and Chief r. T. Hodgkin-
son of Newport Beach police, who
said they discovered dynamite
and a time clock aboard the yacht.
which blew up Saturday night at
a Newport Beach dock.
Victims were Walter E. Over
ell, 81, and his wife, Beulah, 81.
They died instantly in the explo-
sion. The craft did not burn, how
ever, and sinking was towed into
shallow water by the Coast Guard.
where officers made their inves.
tigation.
Went Ashore
At the time of the explosion,
Gollum and the girl said they
were w~eek-ending aboard, but had
gone ashore only a few moments
before the blast. r.
District Attorney James L. Da.
Wis said formal charge would be
filed as soon as his office had
opportunity to prepare the papers.
Overell, president Of the Wash
ington Finance Co. and former
owner Of the Overell Furniture
CONTINUED on Page Two: Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
THREE SELECTED
FOR COMMISSION
To Name Represen-
tative Today To Civil
Service Board

The naming of DR.. J. Watts
Farthing to represent the New
Hanover Medical Society on the
local civil service commission
brought to three the number o.
positions filled on the local board
The selection of DR.. Farthins
came at a meeting of the medi
cal group last night.
Earlier in the day w. A. Nc
Girt, local rea lestate man ano
former member Of the state high
way commission, was selected a.
the city's choice for a place on the
five man board. The fire de
partment, in an election yester.
day afternoon, named James B
McCumber, a member of the
Hughes Brothers Fuel Co., to the
commission.
Members Of the police depart
ment are scheduled to name thei1
representative this afternoon.
The fifth member Of the com
mission will be selected by the
Wilmington Ministerial Associa'
ton but so far no announcement
has been forthcoming from tina
group as to when the naming O
a member will take place.
Five members OF the commits
sion, Nathan E. Haskell, the Rev
H, 7. Wilson. Col. Royce McClel
land. Norwood S. Westbrook ane
Dr.. David Murchison, resigned
because OF what they termed
present conditions facing thu
commission. Their actions fol
lowed efforts by the governin,
body Of the city to institute
changes in the civil service Law
fCoutinued Or Pare Two. Col. Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
TALMADCE LOSES
IN COURT BATTLE
Georgia Justices By So
Vote Rule Thompson
Legal Governor

ATLANTA, Ca, March 19-(P)-
The State Supreme court rejected
claims of Herman Tal,nadge to-
dsv as Governor of Georgia, and
tas ousted champion of white SUI
prenacy yielded to Lieut.. Gov.
N. E. Thompson with a vow to
take his case to the people.
Tie high court, in a historic,
s.to-2 decision, voided the legisla.
lures election of young Talmadge
in place of his late father, Eugene
~Talmadge, who died % days be-
fore inauguration.
Such attempted election said
He court, was a void act, which
did rot confer upon him any right
Or title to the office Of governor"
The court held that when Tai
madge died, there was no legal
successor to Gov. Ellis Arnall, and
declared Arnall held over. When
he resigned voluntarily Jan. ID,
ls47, the court continued, execu-
tive authority passed to the Lieu
tenant-Governor
The decision came nine weeks
10 the day after Talmadge seized
PHYSICAL control of the executive
offices and governors mansion
with state troopers and National
Guard officers. 1t ended g. period
Of unprecedented turmoil in which
two rivals commended for control
Of Georgia's government.
Harris Follows
Talmadge stumped out OF the
capitol, followed by his chief po-
ltical lieutenant, tubby, talkative
ironf,ounJ NV Daro Tu,o. fol AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20

Blood is thicker than water.
Or, to make this little story more
specific, brotherly love is built
upon a foundation so strong that
even the vilest language cannot
destroy it. =.
That's exactly what one brother
&C. Emmett Mobley - said about
another - Leslie A. Mobley IN
recorders court yesterday.
Emmett said that he was fed up
with Leslie coming to his house
under the influence Of intoxlcants.
Emmett said that Leslie had a
foul tongue, too, when he wanted
to use it. And he added, Leslie
had dashed him several times with
his foul language.
In fact, Emmett said. Leslie
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-20
John L. Lewis Yields
To 7ribunaLMandate
United Mine Workers Boss Writes 20-Word
Letter To Krug Stating Termination
Notice Internationally Withdrawn

WASHINGTON, March 19-(R-
John L.. Lewis, yielding 'uncon-
ditionally' to a Supreme court
mandate, told his 400, 900 soft {.
miners today to keep on ,
after March 81.
With NJ outward hint of
ness. Lewis thus called of .,ol
threat of a new nationwide
strike next month and agreed
leave it to the courts for Fin.
determinations of his long ano
costly battle with the government.
In terminating the strike last
fall, Lewis had instructed his min
ers to continue operations until
the end of March.
The United Mine Workers chief
signalled his surrender today in
a 20-Word letter to Secretary Of
Interior Krug - a message wholly