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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
RECRUITER WILL
GIVE TESTIMONY
Rowland To Take Stand
This Week In Navy
Officers Case

Testimony by Sergt. Creston
Rowland Of the army recruiting
station in Wilmington, in the gen
eral court-martial of a navy lieu
tenant commander charged with
committing wartime atrocities, is
scheduled to be given in Wash
ington this week.
Sergeant Rowland, under sub
poena by the prosecution, left for
the national capital last week.
Military authorities in Washing
ton for the first time have identi-
fled the defendent as Lieut.. -Cmdr.
Edward N. Little, a regular navy
officer from Tucson, Ariz., and De.
catur, Ill.
Commander Little was captured
in the Pacific early in World War
II and interned by the Japanese.
While in prison camp he was
assigned the duties of mess. ser
geant.
Sergeant Rowland, himself q
japanese prisoner of war for AZ
months, served as first cook under
Commander Little in the prison
camp during a portion of his con
finement. -,
Naval sources in Washington
say that the charges against, the
navy officer concern events in the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
TRUMAN FINDS
MOTHER BETTER
President Stops For Visit
While En- Route To
Mexico City

GRANDVIEW, Mo-, March 2. -
N- President Truman, stopping
here en- route to Mexico City, found
his mother in greatly improved
condition today and more con-
cerned about his than her own
health.
Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, the
Presidents physician, said at a
press conference that the 94-year-
old Mrs. Martha E. Truman told
him she is praying that her son will
be the greatest President in history.
She explained, Graham said, that
this is a prayer she always has
voiced for the nations President.
Mrs. Truman told me also that
she is praying for me to keep her
son in good health" the physician
added.
Graham declared that as long as
the peppery Presidents mother
''keeps up the fire she has shown
she will get we'll.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
Along The Cape Fear

GENERAL ARRIVES-While on
the general topic of famous visit
ors to the Port City we would GER
tainly be derelict if we overlooked
the Father Of Our Country, George
Washington.
! 1t was on April 20, 1881 that he
arrived in our midst.
Coming from New Bern. the
President was met some miles
from tile city by the Light Horse
Company and escorted into the
Port City.
His arrival was marked with a
salute by the four-gun light bat
terry and the cheers of the. large
crowd which had been waiting to
greet the hero of the American
Revolution.
DOCK AND FRONT-During his
stay in Wilmington, the President
stayed at the residence of Mrs.
John Ounce. She had placed
her home, located at Dock and
Front streets, at the disposal OF
the distinguished visitor.
Contemporaries tell us that the
Ounce residence was considered
one of the best in the entire city.
GENERAL CELEBRATION -
TIE Father of Our Country spent
two nights here. history tells US.
The day after his arrival. he
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
Order
Affects Many
Holy Land
Army Arrests 60 Suspects
In Bloody Series OF
Gang Attacks
DEATH TOLL Il
Officers Club Bombing
Is Gravest Incident
OF Violence

JERUSALEM, March 2.-(P)-
More than $50, 900 Palestine Jews
were put under the iron grip of
martial law tonight as the British
army arrested 60 persons in the
first screening of suspects in yes
terday's bloody series of bomb
and gun attacks which claimed 21
lives.
The Palestine government i'm
posed military rule for the all
Jewish city of Tel Aviv and its
suburb of Ramat Gan; nearby
Petah Tiqva, the oldest modern
Jewish community in Palestine;
Benei Beraq and numerous other
communal settlements in the area
and the Mea Shearim section of
Jerusalem, where $4,000 Jews re-
side.
Maj. Gen. r. N. Gale, the new
ly-appointed military governor of
Tel Aviv, said the. main objective
of the marital law decree was to
"paralyze and eradicate" the Stern
gang and Irgun Zvai Eeumi, Jew
ish underground resistance groups.
The death list in yesterdays
terrorist campaign ose to q to-
day when a British lance corporal
died in a Haifa hospital from in
juries suffered in the blowing up
of a jeep OH the Mount Carmel
road in Haifa that had killed two
other soldiers outright.
A four = year-old girl, Ketty
Shalom, died of bullet wounds in
Jerusalem hospital. An official
said she was struck by
ricocheting slugs when warning
shots were fired as her father
walked into the street in violation
of the curfew. The father was
wounded.
The most disastrous of the series
of attacks which led to the COM
plete military restriction of more
than one-third of the Holy Lands
700, 900 Jews was the bombing OF
an officers club in Jerusalem in
16 persons were killed and
IA others were wounded. The
bombing was the gravest incident
of violence in Palestine since
Jerusalem's King David hotel was
bombed last July with a death
toll of 60.
Civil courts and civil police func-
tons are operating in Tel Aviv
the supervision of the mill
tary governor, but the army is
exclusively in the Jeru-
salem martial law area where no
courts or police posts are located.
Screening more than 300 persons
in Jerusalem today to find suspects
in the officers club bombing and
the other attacks on the Palestine
plain, the British held ~
Of them for further questioning.
An intensive military search was
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
WATERMAN SAYS
LOW TEMPERATURE
TO PREVAIL TODAY
By The Associated Press

1'N AAoHSN1otSd 1SSS
Generally nasty weather pre-
vailed over North Carolina Sunday
and the best the weatherman
could promise for today was a
little sunshine and very chilly
temperatures.
A hard freeze throughout the
state was predicted for this morn
ing with the mercury dropping to
around II above in the west and
IL to rs above in the eastern por-
ton,
Snow ranging from a trace to
IN inch fell over almost the entire
nate yesterday and was con.
mulng last night along the coast.
The Charlotte weather bureau
.ald that temperatures reported at
GN pm, were the lowest for the
oay' averaging five or more de
sfees under the readings taken
early Sunday morning.
AsheVille had a reading of q
sunday morning and II hours
,s,er 1t had chilled to 20 above.
omer morning temperatures in.
GUIDED 70 at Winston-Salem, 80 al
greensboro, 81 at Raleigh and
0larlotte and SO at Wilmington.
afternoon readings included &c
~ Ashevllle, IS at Greensboro,
ana 80 at Charlotte and Raleigh.
MAXIMUM temperatures today
are expected to hover around the
heezing mark.
Mt' Mitchell reported II inches
NOV on the ground Sunday, Most
VI Me snow which fell in other
peflS Of the state soon melted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
BILL FOR BUREAU .
TRANSFER DRAWN
Would Give City Jurisdic.
ton Over Local Iden-
LITIGATION Unit

A bill transferring control of the
City-County Bureau of Identified
ton to the city has already been
prepared, according to Representa-
tive Robert M. Kermon, who indi-
Gated last night that the measure
will be introduced in the legisla-
ture shortly.
Under Kermon's bill, the bureau,
which is headed by Harry Fales,
would operate subject to the civil
service commission. He said he
had received a letter from City
Manager j. r. Benson requesting
that the department be placed
under control of the city but not
under the commission. He ea
planned that before he introduced
the bill he wanted to confer Will
Benson on the matter.
Another measure which he sale
he would introduce shortly would
be n establishing the position OF
assistant coroner for New Han
over county. Discussion about
creating this post was recently
conducted at a meeting of the New
Hanover board of county commits.
sioners.
Under the bill proposed by Ker-
mon, the assistant coroner would
be selected by the county coroner,
with the nomination subject to. con-
firmation by the resident Judge of
the eighth judicial district. Ker-
mon said that inasmuch as the post
vas a constitutional one. the dis
trict judge should have the au-
thority to pass OF any nominee for
the job.
Also due to be introduced, Ker-
NOR said, is a asst bringing
into the city limits a portion of
land formerly belonging to the
Cape Fear Country club on the
Wrightsville highway, but now in
private hands. He explained that
when the city limits We're extend
ed this section of land was not in
cluded in the area brought under
the control of the city. This land
has recently been sold by the club,
Kermon said, and his measure
would bring the land inside the CITY
limits
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
LOCAL TELEPHONE
WORKERS SILENT
Union Chairman Declines
Comment On Pending
Strike Election

E. C. Drinkard, chairman OF
the Wilmington telephone workers
union, said last night that he had
mo statement to make on the
referendum which will begin in
the state and. throughout the ma
ton today to determine whether
a strike will be called April Z.
, Meanwhile o. c. Lee, of Raleigh,
state director of the federation OF
telephone workers, said it would
take at least a week or 10 days
to determine the results of the ma
tional referendum since the votes
must be tabulated and acted upon.
Last November, the NFTW con-
vention~ in Denver, Colo, set April
7 as the. date for a nationwide
strike in the event such action as
needed to obtain 1947 contract de-
mands. 1t was also decided that
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
SALUTES
FENDER COUNTY
Star-Newsreel Devoted To
Describing History And
Progress

Fender county, the fifth largest
county in the state. was honored
yesterday on the Sunday Star
Newsreel radio broadcast over
WMFD. This was the fourth of a
series of salutes by the Star and
News to the counties in southeast
ern North Carolina served by these
hometown newspapers.
The program, written and di-
rected by Ben Mcdonald, Star
News round-the-town-reporter, de-
scribed a number of the county's
historical high lights. as well as the
progress and development OF the
area, past and present.
In a special music feature hon
oring the origin of the naming
of Burgaw, Mrs. Hilton HUMPHREY,
well-known vocalist Of BurgaW,
sang a special arrangement OF the
Indian Love Call" accompanied
by Mrs. Forest Mallard, Jr., also
of Burgaw.
Established in 1875 =
Pender county was established
by an act of the general assembly
on February Is, 1875 when it was
separated from New Hanover
county.
With. an area of 857 square miles
the county is bounded by Duplin
and Sampson on the north; New
Hanover. Brunswick and Columbus
on the south; On the east by the
Atlantic ocean and Onslow county;
and on the west bytBladen county.
The county was named by DR..
Elisha Porter in honor Of General
w. D. Fender of the war-between-
th~e-states fame.
The county seat was first estab-
lished at South Washington, now
Watha. For three years the courts
and county business were conduct
ed there when Burgaw was voted
the most central point on the WI
mington and Weldon railroad, now
the Atlantic Coast Line railway,
and became the county seat.
The territory that comprises Fen
der county was the scene Of some
of the earliest settlements in the
section which is now North Caro-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
MEETING CALLED
ON LAW CHANGE
Kermon Announces Confer
ence Set On Civil
Service Act

A meeting of representatives e
all those who would be affected
by any change in the present civil
service act will be called the hast
OF this week, probably Friday, for
a full discussion Of the matter,
according to a statement released
last night by Representative Rob-
ert M. Kermon.
He said such a discussion should
preclude any action taken to
amend the present law.
Kermon had no comment on the
adopted by the city
council calling for an amendment
to the act which would give to the
governing body of the city the au-
and fire departments. He
said his office had informed him
that a copy of the resolution had
arrived but as yet he had not
read it and therefore did not wish
to make any comment on the mat
ter.
Senator A.. A. Lennon also de-
clined to make any statement ON
the situation which has arisen rela-
tive to the proposed change. He
likewise asserted that he had not
had the chance to read the resolu-
ton and would wait until he had
done so before making any com
ment.
The resolution in question was
passed at a recent special session
of the city council and called for
changes in the present law which
would grant the city administra-
ton the power to not only select
a. man to fill the positions Of fire
and police department heads but
the authority to promote and de-
mote members of the two do
partments as we'll.
The resolution cited two cases
where former members Of the
police department were allegedly
of misconduct and were not
from the force by the
to select the chiefs OF the
civil service commission even
such action was requested
at the time by .he police chief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
FIVE DEAD, ONE
PERSON HURT IN
TRAIN-CAR CRASH

CARD1NGTON, O., March 2. -
R4- Five members Of a family
from Clio, Mich, including a young
mother who gave premature birth
to a baby, were killed in a train
automobile collision at the New
York Central railroad crossing here
today.
Four persons were killed outright
when the passenger train, which
the state highway patrol said was
going 70 miles an hour through the
town, clipped in two their sedan at
the crossing in the center of town.
Miss Norine Conen, Is, died Of
a skull fracture at a Marion, o.,
hospital tonight. Another occupant
Of the car, Donald Passby, % whose
wife gave birth to a baby at the
scene of the accident, was report
ed in a critical condition.
Killed instantly were:
Mrs. Ethel Peterson, So.
Mrs. Wilma Passby, "a, and her
child born prematurely at the scene
of the accident.
Miss Bonnie Peterson, 10.
Lawrence Passby, %.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03

JUNIPER GROVE, Miss, March
2. -W.H- Travelling in every con-
veyance from sedans to mule-wag-
ons and clad in their Sunday best
- in some cases clean overalls -
some 10, 900 Mississippians gather
ed here today to hear Sen. Theo-
dore Bilbo dedicate Baptist
church - but "The Man" couldn't
say a word.
His face still swathed in bandages
from his most recent operation for
cancer of the mouth, Bilbo sat 81
lently through the dedication OF
the SIS. 600 Juniper Grove Baptist
church and parsonage and the
lavish barbecue that followed.
But in every other respect Bilbo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
Tabor Says
Budget Cut
"Cockeyed''
s.oator Taft Moves For
Speedy Action On
Budget Study
AID TO GREECE
Debt Reduction Fund Plus
Income Tax Cut Cit
ed As Goal

WASHINGTON, March 2. -U.H-
Chairman John Taber of the house
.roropriations committee said to-
r;eht the senate was "cockeyed" in
irving to commit Congress to any
definite public debt slash out of
0ocsible savings in President Tru-
mans $37, 500, 900, 900 fiscal 194S
budget.
The New York Republican, who
undoubtedly will head the house
conferees who must work out a
compromise with the senate in the
budget economy controversy, fatty
rpiected a senate plan to earmark
1880, 900, 900 of proposed budget
cuts for scaling down the $3.50, 000,-
MO,O 900 national debt.
ats cockeyed,' he told the Unit
al Press. Its ill-considered. 1t
was approved entirely without look
Ing the situation in the face"
Taber's stand was made known
,mid reports that house conferees
would be advised to accept the pro-
nosal in return for senate agree
ment on a total budget cut ranging
from S.. 900, 900, 900 to Sc, 600, 900, coo.
As matters stand now, the house
has voted TO lop S., ZOO, 900, 600 from
Mr.. Truman's estimates, but the
senate has voted to hold the cut to
1850, 900, 900.
Chairman Robert A. Taft, Ohio,
Of the Senate Republican policy
committee said, meanwhile, that
he did not believe the administra-
ton's reported request for financial
aid to Greece should delay the
pending senate-house budget con-
ference.
In a radio broadcast WPIK),
Taft said that he thought 1--WE
should go right ahead with our
various activities of government
"The only figure mentioned up
10 this date is $3.50, 900. 600 for
Greece for a year" he said, land
$3.50, 600, 900 is a small item in a
budget of $33, 900, 900, 000.'
Senate COP leaders are convinc-
ID that Congress could set aside a
maximum of 81, 600, 900, 900 for debt
reduction out of their savings plan
md still leave room for a 20 per
cent personal income tax cut this
year. But Taber said they had
failed to think this thing out"
You can't set aside a definite
pr, mt for debt retirement If
you're going to have a tax cut
ne said. 1T just won't work. The
Only sensible way to do it is to
70 ahead and apply your savings
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
The Weather

FORECAST:
North Carolina-Clear to partly cloudy.
Windy and continued cold Monday and
Monday night. Tuesday partly cloudy
and warmer
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorologist data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a. m. 40; 1880 4. M. 80; 100 p.
m. ~; 1880 p M. So.
Maximum 46; Minimum "a; Mean 40;
so.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. M.
.0l inches.
Total since the first of the month OFT
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
U. S, Coast and Geodetic Survey
HIGH Low
wilmington 6:36 a. m. Los a. m.
6:5S p. m. 1:49 p. m,
Inlet APP a. m. 1854 a. m.
4:50 p. m. 11:O4 .. NJ.
Sunrise 6:38:--Surset6::I Moonrise
Zip: MoonSet 4:21a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
The Man Was There But
Couldn't Say a Word

~ -r
wearing a natty brownish suit,
striped necktie and a big red car
nation, was the man of the hour
and all those in the assemblage
were his friends, Conspicuous by
their absence were. members Of
the Both congress, which Bilbo had
invited in a body to attend the
show on his home grounds.
Not a one showed up but Sen. Al
len D. Ellender, D., La, one Of
Bilbo's supporters in his so far fu-
tile fight to be. accepted in congress,
sent a telegram of good wishes.
Fate has decreed that he can
not speak for himself" said H. K.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
CasFurnace
Responsible,
Official Says
Building Made
Mass OF Bubble In
Downtown Area
s1,OO0,OOO LOSS
Wreckage Hurled Many
Feet As Cars Passing
By Are Demolished

CHICAGO, March 2. -(P)- At
least two persons we're killed and
40 were injured today in a terrific
explosion which demolished n
three-story building and damaged
other buildings within a radius Of
more than two blocks in the down.
town area, near the board of trade.
The two dead were blown from
the street into the understructurs
OF a nearby elevated platform. Win
dows were broken as far az four
blocks away. Automobiles passing
the scene were demolished.
The building where the blast os-
CURED was a mass of blazing rub
BILE. Two minor explosions occurred
in the debris a short time later,
and police roped off an area Of
nine square blocks in the vicinity
which includes the southwest sec-
ton of the loop. Only workers ur-
gently needed were permitted In
the area.
Michael J. Corrigan, fire COM
missioner, SAID ne DelleVed the
blast was caused by a gas furnace.
He said he found a blazing discon-
nected gas main in the debris.
Corrigan said that had the blast
occurred on a weekday hundreds
would have been killed"
The explosion was in the build
ing on the southwest corner Of Van
Buren, and Wells Streets, at the
point where westbound elevated
trains leave the loop and in the
heart Of a busy office and garment
making district.
Windows were broken in the A.
story Insurance Exchange building
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
TO
TESTIFY AGAIN
Senate Atomic Energy
Body Recalls Nominee
On Fresh Charges

WASHINGTON, March, 2 W.p)
= David E. Lilienthal makes an
other and perhaps final, appear
snce before the senate atomic
energy committee tomorrow in his
see-saw battle for confirmation as
chairman of the new atomic energy
commission.
The tall and balding former
head OF the Tennessee Valley
authority was recalled by the COM
In1ittee to answer renewed charges
that he was ''too soft" toward Rus
STA and communism and a fresh
accusation that'he violated Wiscon-
sin laws by accepting a private
salary while on the state payroll.
The committee hopes to reach a
vote on Lilienthal by next week.
Few doubted that he could win its
approval but the real test of
strength will come on the senate
floor.
Despite the formidable opposi-
ton of such Republican leaders as
Chairman Robert A. Taft, O., of
the party's senate policy commit
tee. COP whip Kenneth S. Wherry,
Neb., and majority leader Wallace
H. White. Me-, unofficial polls of
the full senate membership indi-
cate Lilienthal will slip through by
a II to Is vote margin.
President Humans companion
appointment - that of Gordon r.
Clapp to succeed Lilienthal in the
IVA post = was also facing a
tough, uphill battle.
1t was rejected last week by the
senate public works committee on
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
hregularity Charges
In Georgia Are Denied

ATLANTA, March 2-PY-Offi-
Gals of Telfair county-home of
the Talmadges.today denied the
Atlanta Journals charges of ir-
regularities in the county's 1916
general election returns.
The Telfair returns were instru-
mental in making Herman Tai
madge eligible for election as Geor-
gia Governor by the legislature.
Talmadge himself issued a state
ment characterizing as yellow
journalism the newspapers re-
port in Sunday editions that it had
documentary evidence OF %tne+"vot-
ing of dead, nonresident and non
existent persons in the Helena pre-
.cinct Of the county.
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Meanwhile, D. Talmadge Bow
ers, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor who was eliminated in the
January legislative election, said
ne would ask for a re-canvass of
the returns by the general assem-
bly,.
"If they won't, Ill have to 60 to
court" Bowers said.
Commenting on the Journal re-
port. S. w. Brooks, chairman of
The Helena district election maaag-
ers, said:
'In general, I have. nothing to
say about these charges because
they aren't true" .
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
Strike May End

BUFFALO, N. Y. March 2-W.H
- The Buffalo Teachers Fedora
ton met in emergency session to-
night to consider salary increases
recommended by the city admins
tration and it was believed the end
Of the biggest teachers strike in
the nations history might be near.
Federation President Raymond
J. Asst called 100 delegates into
conference to hear a statement by
Mayor Bernard J. Dowd that he
would recommend appropriation OF
sufficient money to meet salary
schedules believed acceptable to
the teachers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
And So To Bed

WilmingtonianS raced to
their windows and out-of-doors
last night to get their first
glimpse of snow this winter.
But the snowfall was of short
duration. 1t only lasted for =
few seconds and was not dis
cernible on the sidewalks.
Snow flakes were also re-
ported in the outlying areas
of the city. But there, too, it
lasted only a Matter of Sec
onds and was followed by a
drizZle of rain.
Meanwhile, the weather bu-
reau said that the mercury
would hit a low of % last
night, with continued esiG
weather for today.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03
FORECAST:

wilmington and vicinity: Clear to
,artlv cloudy today and continued cold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-03

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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1947-08-01
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