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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

tated to fill said office. It certainly
vas not the intention of the franz
ers of the Constitution that in such
circumstances the majority of the
people should be ignored an da de-
feated candidate or a person re-
ceiving a minority of the votes per
mitter to hold said office"
The Attorney Generals opinion
was rendered to Gov. Ellis Arnal,
at the latter's request. It added
there was some legal authority
for the view that the lieutenant
governor autom atically would sue
coed as governor. However" he
said, Sin view of the foregoing
conclusion and your expressed
purpose of resigning the office Of
governor Immediately after quail
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
FORMER SEACATE
RESIDENT KILLED
Injuries Received In Acct.
dent Near Mt. Airy Fatal
To R. ". Peoples

Rollie W. Peoples, 80 year : old
construction worker and former
Seagate resident, died Friday night
in Martin Memorial hospital in Mt.
Airy from injuries received in ar
automobile accident near there
earlier in the day, State Highway
patrolmen reported yesterday.
Also fatally injured in the acct
dent was Blain H. Dalton, 27, OF
Winston-Salem, driver of a tractor
trailer which was in collision with
the car operated by Peoples.
Riding with Peoples were his
brother, Raymond T. Peoples,
formerly of Seagate, and W. C.
Ammons, of Pineville.
The brother was seriously in
jured and taken to the Mt. Airy
hospital, where his condition was
described as fair" by attendants
yesterday.
Peoples, and his brother were
en- route to Wilmington from Mt.
Airy, where the men were en-
ployed on a construction job, ac-
cording to the MI. Airy authorities.
They were employed by the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company
during the war, it was learned.
Peoples, a native of Savannah,
Ga, had recently moved to Mt.
Airy to engage in construction
work following his termination al
the shipyafd.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Esther Peoples, formerly a
member of the faculty of Bradley
Creek school; two son, James ano
William, who, with their mother,
we're living at Seagate, and his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Peep
les, of Savannah.
It was learned that the body
would be shipped to Savannah for
funeral services and burial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
BUTTER PRICE
DECLINE SEEN
Drop OF 20 Cents A Pound
In Next Five Months Is
Predicted

CHICAGO, Jan. 4W.H-Whole.
salers and brokers on the Chicago
Mercantile exchange predicted to.
day that the price of butter would
drop 20 cents a pound in the next
five months.
Commodity experts said such q
decline would result in at least a
moderate drop in the price Of
cheese and milk.
An avalanche of butter pouring
into the market will wipe out the
current inventory scarcity and pro-
vide the tremendous seasonal sur.
plus that is normal in peacetime,
the brokers and wholesalers said.
Russell Fifer, executive secre.
tary of the American Butter In.
stitute, whose members make &C
per cent of the nations butter,
said. that if present production
trends continue butter probably
will retail from 62-65 cents a pound
in June.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
S. Outbreaks
Are Ordered Halted

NANKING, Jan. 4 - R)-The
Chinese government ordered a halt
today to any demonstrations affect
ing Chinese-American relations
and moved to squelch anyone in
sulting an American in China.
Acting after anti-American stu
dent demonstrations this week in
Marking, Peiping, Tientsin and
Shanghai, the Executive Yuan
(cabinet) told the ministry of
Education and provincial and
municipal governments to present
any more such activities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

dent Truman may urge in his an
nual message-a careful labor
study before any action.
The Republicans adopted this
general strategy:
1. They will go ahead fast with
a slightly-revised version Of the
Case bill which Congress adopted
last year but which Mr.. Truman
vetoed.
2. They will then give more care
full consideration to other propos-
ais such as changing the Wagner
CONTINUED on Page Five: Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
It's Open Season
For New York Debs


NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-P-New
york Society had it's first big COM
ing out party since before the war
tonlght, and apparently revived a
Tdoltlon that died out in sterner
uayS OF War-it had picked its No.
9lamor girl of the year.
Experts at picking glamor girls
VINO in prewar days placed the
rIo"n on a succession of Brenda
riazlers and Gloria Vanderbilts
ana made them front page news
whispered that even at this stage
ol the season it was safe to say
o,dt t3nIght's deb would be the DEB
Of the year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
DOCTOR REPORTS
ON sen. BILBO

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-(P)-
Following is the text of a letter
on the illness of Senator Bilbo
D-Miss), written by DR..
George w. Calver, the Capitol
physician, and read to the
Senate late today:
CATER the completion of his
primary Campaign, Senator
Bilbo reported to my office
with a badly liberated mouth.
He was sent to the medical
center for study and his con-
dition was diagnosed as can
Ger. He was referred to DR..
Alton Oschner of New Orleans
for consultation and indicated
treatment. DR.. Oschner remov-
ed a mass of tissue from the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
The Weather
eastern Standard Time)

eastern Stdnudfu IimeJ !
(By U. S. Weather Bureau) =
Meteorological data for the "a houSa
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. g.; 7:30 an. SO; 1880 pm. vi
1880 pm, So.
Maximum 81; Minimum 81: Mean s4s
Normal At.
Humidity .
1870 am. 100; 1880 am. 96; 1870 Pm. ~
1850 pm. 81.
Precipitation :
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm. -
0.07 inches. '
Total since the first Of the month
0.76 inches. =
Tides For Today =
fTrom the Tide Tables published II
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ---- Bill am. 1885 ann
1928 pm. 1923 pm
Masonboro Inlet = 5:49 am. 1921 a.m.
6:11 pm. - pm,
Sunrise 7:l8: Sunset SIT. Moonrise 3:4S
pm; Moonset 6:49 am.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at g
am. Saturday, 1877 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

A table showing how much
income tax would be withheld
from each week from wages
and salaries under the Republi-
can bill proposing a 20 per
cent cut in individual income
taxes may be found on page
Six.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
Man Admits Cremating
Child, 9, In Furnace

ST. CATHARINES, Ont, Jan. -P-Poli said to-
day that Sidney George Chambers had made a statement
saying that he abducted nine-year-old Marion Rusnak Dec.
% as she walked toward home with a toy drum Christmas
present for her baby brother, strangled her and burned her
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
Russia Requests u S.
To Turn Over REFUGEE

WASHINGTON Jan. 4@R-Russia asked the United
States today to hand over "as a criminal one of it's citizens
who walked out of his trade mission job in Mexico and de-
cided to stay in America and blast what he called "the hell
Of Dictatorship in his homeland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
Baruch, Staff 49,
u. S. Atom %%6up
Warren Austin To Represent United States
Resigning Statesman Upholds Our
Rights To Make Atomic Bombs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4@P-Elder Statesman Ber-
nard M. Baruch, completing his last great public job, re-
signed tonight as United States member of the United Ma
TONS Atomic commission. In a letter to President Truman
ne said there is no reason why the United States should
not continue to make atomic bombs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
NO PROFITS SHOWN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 - P-
A Commerce department report
that all but three commercial air
lines are operating at a loss was
filed today with the House Appro-
priations committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

Their far reaching decision
made in formal conference, re,
jected in advance n thing Presi.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05
BARRED FROM SENATE.
REPUBLICANS TAKE CONTROL:
TAX CUT MEASURE IS PUSHED
Revised Case Bill
Will Be Considered
COP Spurns Proposals To Investigate Be-
fore Drafting Anti : Strike Measure;
Speedy Passage Will Be Sought

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-R9CSpurning proposals to
first, Senate Republicans decided today to push
a revised Case labor bill to speedy passage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

Wilmington, Southeastern North Caro-
lima: Considerable c%loudiness and colder
today and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy
and continued cold. Lowest temperatures
1884.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

Continued on Page Three; Col.
Evening star., 1947-03-20

Northern Europe is on the same lati-
tude as Labrador and Greenland.
What prevents it from having as
rigorous climate is that its weather
normally comes from the west and
is thus tempered greatly by the
Gulf Stream. Occasionally, however,
the climatic balance is somehow up
set, with the result that the warming
westerlies are replaced by vast high
pressure areas from Siberia, similar
to our cold waves which, with us,
normally descend from Canada
each winter and give us rigorous
periods of weather as far south as
Florida. Europe has thus had an
American" winter this season.
Evening star., 1947-03-20

which modern planner would build
if he started with an absolutely vacant
piece of land with no high hills, deep
valleys or rivers. Its population would
be about million.
Wedges of country, containing major
parks, freeways, airfields and heavy
industry carefully located along rail-
roads would knife into the heart of
the city.
Radiating outward from central
business district with huge blocks, off
street parking and terminals for ex-
press transit are petal-like systems of
residential light industry and secondary
business cells.
These, like the huge blocks Of the
central business district, would be
bounded, not chopped up, by the sys-
tenn of radiating expressways, major
streets and of ring highways which
would foresee the city's circulatory
system.
Residential cells near the center
would have large number of apart
ment houses and a relatively small
number of single family homes. Farther
out, single family homes would pre-
dominate.
Each community cell would have its
school, recreation and shopping and
amusement facilities. Community cells
could be further broken down into
neighborhood cells.
In short, the city would be vast
collection of the small towns to which
America looks back with fond memory,
with the city rushing harmlessly around
them. The good points of the country
and the good points of the city would
have been combined insofar as it would
be possible to combine them.
The cancerous blight now causing
cities to decay would have hard time
finding a place to start in city
planned this way. Not only Sanders and
Rabuck, but the entire brotherhood of
city planners claim this is true
1t is Utopian, but not uselessly so.
For the city planner feels he can adapt
the same principles which went into
the diagram to the reality of cities
already built.
(Tomorrow: Planning in Washington)
Evening star., 1947-03-20
Greek War Relief Drive

To the Editor Of The Star:
For the past few weeks the newspa-
pers have been carrying articles on the
critical condition in Greece and the
concern that President Truman and the
congressional leaders have shown.
Approaching another critical condi-
ton in Greece-the starving and home
less millions; 375 900 orphans Of the re-
cent war; the tubercular cases which
comprise IS per cent Of the children;
the 100000 malaria victims; $4,000 am
putee veterans of the Fascist-Nazi cam
paigns; lao villages completely wiped
outs the Greek War Relief Associa-
ton, Inc.
The Greek War Relief drive has set
a national quota of 100000 and a
local quota Of $225,0o This money
will be used for purposes entirely differ
ent from the monies the Greek govern
ment will receive under the proposed
loan but both will tremendously aid the
stricken condition of the Greek govern
ment and the Greek people.
We should consider it duty and a
privilege to contribute to the aid of the
Greek people, who fought for our cause
at time when we were the weakest,
our enemy the strongest, and when we
did not even comprehend the jeopardy
that confronted us.
BY mailing one-dollar check to the
Greek War Relief Office at 1706 G street
NV, Washington, D. c., the wage
Garner of the District of Columbia will
know and feel that he has in his way
helped to thank gallant little nation
for the services she rendered
PETER N. CHUMBR1S,
Vice chairman, Greek War Relief
Committee.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

What the executive director of the
Democratic National Committee, and
what the chairman OF the Republican
National Committee may think about
the foreign policy recently enunciated
by President Truman, in connection
with his request Of Congress to authorize
loans to Greece and Turkey, may be
interesting but it Is not going to be a
deciding factor in what Congress will
do. Neither Gael Sullivan the Demo-
cratic director, nor Carroll Reece, the
Republican chairman, can tell, respec-
lively, the Democrats and the Republi-
can in the Senate and House what to do
about foreign policy.
The proposal, therefore, made by Mr..
Sullivan that Mr.. Reece join him in
pledging their respective political parties
to the foreign policy advocated by Presi-
dent Truman, seems in the first place
idle and in the second place unfortunate.
Unfortunate because, if, as has hap
pened, Mr.. Reece failed to go through
with such a pledge, 1t might well be
interpreted in Russia, for example, as
meaning that the United States is
divided on foreign policy along political
lines, when it is important that the
whole world should be convinced Amer
leans are acting together on this vital
issue.
Mr. Reece very properly replied to the
Sullivan suggestion that he could not
speak for the Republican Party; that
he did not own the Republican Party,
and that the Congress would have to
speak for itself in the matter of making
the proposed loans to Greece and Tur-
key. He added: 1.-The issue involved
is one which should be decided solely
upon the basis of what will best pro-
mote American interests and security
not upon considerations Of partisan adj
vantage or disadvantage"
Mr.. Sullivan, it is presumed, was act
uated solely by desire to advance the
interests of the United States and the
foreign policy put forward by President
Mr.. Sullivan, when he had received Mr..
Reece's reply and also had before him
the statement of Chairman Wander
berg of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, might lead to suspicion
that he had been seeking partisan politi-
cal MISUNDERSTANDING to make 1t
appear the Republican Party was un-
willing to support President Truman's
foreign policy to stop Communistic ag-
gression." For this is what Mr.. Sullivan
said:
II have received the Republican
Party's reply. It's answer is: Mo-"
The Sullivan statement just quoted
is as disingenuous as the famous lead
ing question: Have you stopped beat
ing your wife?"
Both Mr.. Reece and Senator Vanden-
berg insisted they could not speak for
the Republican Party. Mr.. Vandenberg
emphaticaly declared. however, in his
criticism of the Sullivan proposal on
the floor of the Senate. that he had
Evening star., 1947-03-20

striven to keep the question of Ameri-
can foreign policy outside the realm
of partisan politics ever since the war
ard since he became delegate to the
United Nations Conference in San
Francisco. He added he hoped Mr.
Reece would not accept Mr.. Sullivan's
proposal.
Bipartisan foreign policy" said Mr..
Vandenberg, "is not the result of
political coercion but of nonpolitieal
conviction. I never have even pretended
to speak for my party in my foreign
policy activities. I have relied upon the
validity of my actions to command
whatever support they may deserve. I
have never made any semblance of
partisan demand for support and never
shall"
Senator Connally of Texas, ranking
Democratic member of the Foreign Re-
lationS Committee and its former chair
man, was quick to back up the position
taken by Chairman Vandenberg. After
expressing a hope that the foreign
policy of the country would continue to
be considered on nonpartisan basis,
Mr. Connaily said:
Until I read the newspapers this
morning I never heard of the letter
addressed by Mr.. Sullivan to Mr.. Reece;
but I wish to say that, so far as I am
personally concerned neither Mr.. Sui
livan nor Mr.. Reece can influence my
action in regard to matters within the
jurisdiction of the Senate and within
the sphere of my own views and con-
victions."
The Republicans and Democrats in
Congress will write their own record
when legislation providing for loans to
Greece ana Turkey comes to a vote.
The legislation is now being pressed by
Republican Chairman Eaton Of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee and
by Republican Chairman Vandenberg
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee-and supported. In view of the
great issues involved admitted by
President Truman-no question of po-
litical partisanship should be allowed
to intervene,
Evening star., 1947-03-20

1t is entirely possible that he will
prove to be formidable contender.
Much depends upon the kind of
administration that Mr.. Thompson
gives the State. He has served as
State supervisor of schools and as
State revenue commissioner. being
a supporter in these posts of former
Governor Ed Rivers and of Mr.. Ar
nall. 1t may be noted with some
misgiving, however. that Mr..
Thompson turned against Mr.. Ar
nall when he did not receive the
latter's Endorsement in last years
election and vented his anger by
throwing many votes into Gene Tai
madge's column. Hence, since he
cannot succeed himself under Geor-
gia law, the unfolding of his strategy
for the future will be awaited with
interest,
Evening star., 1947-03-20
The Deserters
From the London Daily Mail.

From the London Daily Mail.
Day by day new crimes intensity the
problem Of what Is to be done about
the $4,000 deserters from the forces,
most of whom have been on the run
since the end Of the war. The
Daily Mail suggests that these men
should be given an opportunity to work
their passage" back to civil life. Offer
them a period of grace, one or two
months, in which to surrender them
selves, as people after the war were given
a period of grace in which to give up
their guns. Then for fixed time of
probation under army discipline put
all those who SO far have no criminal
records on needed national work for
which no other labor can now be spared.
Clearing and leveling bombed city and
town sites, for instance, as parking
places for cars; restoring sea defenses;
or even making new roads This pas
sage being fairly worked, then give all
who surrender an amnesty, an identity
card and the chance to make an hon
orable living again.
Evening star., 1947-03-20
And Now the Floods

Northwestern and Western Eu-
rope, barely emerging from the
coldeSt and Stormiest winter in more
than half century, is now expert
encing the inevitable aftermath in
the shape of destructive floods, as
the accumulated snowdrifts melt
under the impact of torrential rains.
Dispatches from Britain tell of rivers
swollen to raging torrents, inundat-
ing towns and cities along their
banks and drowning adjacent low
lands far and wide. Furthermore,
similar conditions appear to prevail
everywhere from Scandinavia to
Portugal. The one redeeming fea-
ture is that temperatures are still
below normal for the season, thus
slowing down the thawing process.
This winters visitation of nature
has naturally prompted much spec
ulation among climatologists as to
why it happened and what it may
pOI GCllI. AI1C1C Id q tllCOly v1ldV t4lS
Northern Hemisphere, at any rate, is
passing out of a warm cycle which
has prevailed for the past forty years
or so into one characterized by
heightened storminess and cold. The
previous cold cycle seems to have
ended around the turn of the CEN
tury. The last winter in Europe
comparable to the present one oc-
Cured in 1894.
Climatologists also tell us that,
besides these relatively short cycles
of warmth and cold, there are longer
cycles which, when they coincide
with, the shorter ones, produce
marked climatic changes. Such a
coincidence is supposed to have
happened about 1000 B. c., when
the whole of Northern Europe was
afflicted with such intense and
prolonged cold that it became bare
ly habitable, thereby engender-
ing the -migrations of giant
northern barbarians that inundated
more southern lands all the way
from Western Europe to the Middle
East.
We should never forget that
Evening star., 1947-03-20
ToImudge Loses

The Georgia Supreme Court deci-
sion that M. E. Thompson, and not
Herman Talmadge Is Governor of
the State brings to an end dis
graceful display of American poll
tics on the lowest level.
This spectacle had it's beginning
some two months ago. following the
death of Eugene Talmadge after he
had been elected Governor but be-
fore he had formally taken over the
Office from Ellis Arnall. Mr.. Thomp-
son had been duly elected Lieuten-
ant Governor, and appeared to have
first claim on the governorship after
the death of the elder Talmadge.
But there was an ambiguity on this
point in the State constitution, and
the controlling Talmadge forces in
the State Legislature made the most
of it. In the course of some shifty
political footwork, Herman Tai
madge, son of "Old Gene" was
elected" by the legislators as Gov
ernor on the basis of 675 "write-in"
votes which had been cast for him.
When this maneuver was challenged
by both Mr.. Arnall and Mr.. Thomp-
son, Herman Talmadge, resorting to
fragrant strong-arm methods, pro-
ceeded to take physical possession
of the executive offices and the Gov
ernor's mansion. From these van
tage points he undertook to function
as Governor, while Mr.. Thompson,
from other Offices, was carrying on
as Acting Governor" The result, of
course, was a state of utter confu-
sion and a virtual stalemate in the
conduct of public business.
Thus, the Immediately beneficial
effect of the courts ruling will be to
settle the governorship dispute and
make possible an orderly and legal
administration of State affairs. But
whether it will be productive of a
cleaner atmosphere in Georgia poll
tics remains to be seen.
Herman Talmadge has accepted
the decision, although with some
muttering about an appeal to "the
court of last resort"-presumably
the voters in the next election-and