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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
Patricia Schmidt;s Murder
Trial Starts Wednesday

Latin for a poetic medley. that
which calls down ridicuie upon
itself or something related to
it,"
Nee sailed the Satira into
Havana harbor on Jan. IL. lie
died in a hospital on April 10.
Patricia was the 18th prisoner
in her cell at Guanabacoa wom-
ems prison. ...
Miss Schmidt was waiting
when he arrived in January:
Two days later she moved
aboard the boat. She took along
some pink satin which she plan
ned to have made into c wed
ding dress.
"He wouldn't let me have the
pink satin made up, and that
vas the first inkling that it
wasn't going to turn out that
way," she said. 81 had no idea
he was married. He told me ne
had been divorced"
Brisk breezes stirred the wa
ter in Havana harbor April 9
Patricia and Nee were in the
main cabin of the Satira, a con
verified 75-f:ot Navy Up patro
boat. Four Cuban guests visit
ed and departed.
Charles jackson, q, of River
Forest, ILL.,, took the tender anc
went ashore to buy groceries.
Jackson, Mee's wartime buddy
and co-owner of the Satira, re-
turned and entered his quar-
tiers forward, separate from the
main cabin. He. said he heard
nothing until Patricia called
frantically to him.
Jackson found Nee sprawled
on the floor. He told Patricia
to take care of the Chlcagoan
until he could return with a
doctor. Patricia washed Mee's
neck wound, sought to stop the
flow of blood. The doctor or
dered the injured man to a hos
pital.
At the hospital, jackson said
later, Nee asked the two TO de-
clare that Patricia was Jack
sons girl, and thus spare the
feelings of Mee's father, DR..
Lester E. Nee. Jackson said he
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
acceded to the request of a dy.

acceded to the request of a dy.
ing buddy.
But the story collapsed when
young Nee died. Patricia was
charged with Intentional homi-
eide" Jackson was accused of
being an accessory by conceal
ing facts.
They are to be tried together.
Two prosecutors have recon-
mended that Patricia be SEN
fenced to serve 30 years i'm
prisonment, the maximum pen
atty for the charge placed
against her. They recommend
ed that Jackson, now free pend
ing trial, be sentenced to six
years. Patricia should pay the
Nee family SIS, 900 civil indem-
nifty and jackson should pay
S., 900, said the prosecutors.
Three judges will dec;Go.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
0nslow Hog Raising
Contest Rules
Are Announced

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 49,
Those planning to enter litters
in the big fall hog raising con-
test, under the supervision OF
the county agricultural extern
sion service, sponsored jointly
by the service and the News
and Views, are requested to file
with agent, Charles c. Clark al
the earliest opportunity.
This contest, staged annually
is open to F. F. A. or All cluE
members, and to farmers ir
Onslow county. A maximum O
two prizes to a person will bt
awarded.
Clark emphasized that there
are two divisions, offering a to
tai $500.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
Local Honorary
Society To Meet
Saturday At MINIS

The installation meeting for
new officers Of Theta chapter.
Delta Kappa Gamma, national
honorary society for women ed
ucations, will be conducted at
New Hanover high school audi
forum next Saturday at 9 pm:
Miss Emma Lawson. president.
A report of the state conven-
ton in Greensboro and the ma
tional convention in New York
city will be given by the presi-
dent.
Thomas Jefferson was q cleft
list" leader in early American
development.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
College Students
Listed On Fair
Bluffs Roster

FAIR BLUFF, Sept. 49,
Among the boys and girls enter
ing college from the Fair Bluff
section are:
Louisburg college - Roger
Strickland, Floyd Rogers, Harry
Tucker, Russell Barnes, Willie
HARRISON, Jack Vance and John
Edwin Small.
Mars Hill college-Miss Mary
f. Floyd, Rupert Rogers, HUI
bert Rogers and Walter Haynes.
Wake Forest-Miss Mary Ann
Granger and James Edwin.
University of North Carolina
Miss Jackie Rogers.
State college-Schley Waddeu
Flora Mcdonald Miss Helen
Turner and Miss Evelyn Wad-
dell.
Salem college -- Miss Meirm
Bailey.
Coker college - Miss Fannie
Lou Waddell.
Al a n0NN Ill., GnVVyVn n
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Dial 2-33l1 For Newspaper Service
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14

The District Of Columbia
"a miles of railway lines
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
29 Units Remain
For Sale Offer
Al Veterans Homes

Veterans Homes, Inc, through
Ken Noble, president, yesterday
announced 555 of the 584 Lake
Forest units have been sold.
Taken over last April from the
Federal Public Housing author
ity, VIII, has been managing the
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-06-30
= ALLEN CENTER
BY MRS. HAROLD KENT

Norma Jean Stanton visited a
part of last week with Rose Ann
Woodwork at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Gail Davis in Milford
Center.
Sue Ann Spain, of Marysville,
spent Wednesday with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Kent.
i Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Stanton en-
tertained with a dinner Wednes-
day evening in honor of the birth
day anniversary of their daugh-
ter, Barbara. Those present were
the guest of honor, her sister,
Norma Jean, Donald Robinson,
Rose Ann Woodwork and Connie
Kent.
Lowell Robinson jr., of Detroit,
who is visiting with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Still
lings, spent Wednesday night
with his aunt, Mrs. Floyd Dunbar.
Word was received here of the
birth of son Wednesday to Mr..
and Mrs. Lowell Robinson in De-
troit. This is their second son.
Mrs, Plagman and grandson,
of Fremont, visited Thursday
with her daughter, Mrs. Myron
Magsig, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Smith
and children, of Fort Wayne, visit
ed over the weekend at the
home of the formers mother,
Mrs. o. R. Polling. On Sunday
they were joined by Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Smith and children, of
Springfield; Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Smith, of North Lewisburg, Mr..
and Mrs. Wendall Smith and
children and Mrs. Robert Bricker.
Joan Wilson, of Columbus, is
visiting at the home of her Aunt,
Mrs. Elmer Wallace.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Thomas
and little son, of East Liberty,
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Avon
Ream.
Eunice Robinson spent Monday
with Mrs. Howard Cline.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Luh, of
Cleveland, are visiting with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Worley
Luh and Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Balkans
Problem for Assembly

In a stormy week of Balkan
trouble, Russia used the veto twice to
kill two proposed Security Council
solutions to the conflict on Greece's
borders. One of them would have
called on Greece, Albania, Yugo-
slavia and Bulgaria "to cease all acts
of provocation" and settle their prob
lens at once by direct negotiation.
The Council president said there
was nothing to do but report to the
55-nation UN. General Assembly that
the Council was unable to find a So
luton.
Earlier the. United States and Great
Britain accused the Communications
mated Hungarian government of un-
fairly attempting to control the Aug.
81 elections by disqualifying millions.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

boundaries that could never satisfy
every claim.
Joint Action
But even amid all this excitement,
Indian leaders commenced to act in
the tradition of responsible self-gov-
crnment. Jointly the dominions of
India and Pakistan decided to put
Gown all communal disorders in the
fiery Punjab firmly and immedia-
tely." The decision was taken by
Prime Ministers Jawharlal Nehru of
India and Liaquat Ali Khan of Paki-
stan at meeting in Lahore with the
premiers of east and west Punjab.
Lahore, capital of the disputed Pun
jab, was described as city of terror
as Hindus and Moslems battled to
protect their refugees seeking to cross
contested new boundaries. Other
clashes occurred in bloody Amritsar,
holy city of the warlike Sikhs which
was assigned to Hindu India.
Because tripartite boundary COM
mission had been unable to agree on
the new borders in disputed Bengal
and Punjab, decisions were largely
determined by one man, the British
chairman of the boundary commission.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
INDIA: Tho Rocky Road Of Statehood

DRITlSH soldiers were board
D ing transports in Bombay,s
quitting the teeming subcontinent
which for 200 years had been the
gaudiest gem in Britain's crown
of empire.
Energetic Lord Mountbatten, hav-
ing become the last viceroy and voiced
farewells that were all but ,obscured
by the clangor of communal strife,
was assuming the largely nominal
post of first Governor General of the
Dominion of India. In between, he had
been created an Earl.
Morosely the father of Indian inde-
pendence, 78-year-old Mohandas K.
Gandhl. lamented the fact that free
dom had brought a division of his
country into Moslem Pakistan and
Hindu India. Characteristically he
moved into hut in an area occupied
by minority Hindus in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, week after one of the
most momentous liberations in his
tory, India's 400,O0O,OO0 inhabitants
still wildly celebrated the end of Brit
aims rule, fought each other over
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
American Republics
Chart Their Course

THE Il REPUBLICS of the
i western hemisphere have of
ten been hostile toward each
other, but ever since their inde-
pendence was achieved in bloody
struggles with European mon.
archs, most have generally been
united in one thing.
That was expressed 124 years ago
in the Monroe Doctrine which warned
Europe's Holy Alliance that the
young United States would not toll
crate Spain's attempts to regain her
lost New World colonies.
Latin American countries chief
complaint against the United States
for years had been that Washington
often practiced dollar diplomacy"
Gradually this suspicion was, dis
PEELED as the State Department culti-
waited good relations and stressed the
need for hemisphere cooperation in
the face of world dangers.
At Mexico City in March 1945 all
the American republics adopted Mon-
roe'S doctrine as nultilateral prop
osition. BY the agreement of Chapul-
tepec they pledged common aid for
any American country threatened
from abroad
? During the week delegations from
20 of the countries. met at the Quitan-
dinha Hotel near Rio de Janiero,
Brazil, to formalize the Chapultepec
agreement. This hemisphere defenss
treaty was to be the only objec-
tive, though early in the proceedings
Argentina and Cuba sought to intro
duce economic subjects.
Such matters the U.S. delegation
hoped to relegate to the 9th PAM
American conference, meeting at Boz
gotta, Colombia, next January.
Most vigorous assailant of the
Washington position was Cuba, smart
ing under Congress- recent sugar act
which gives the Secretary of Agri.
culture the right to withhold an in.
crease in sugar quotas if foreign
countries fail to give us. citizens fair
and equal treatment. Cuba wanted
economic imperialism" treated as an
aggression.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
NATION: Drive for More Competition

quick succession the Department of
Justice accused eight of the nations
largest tire companies, their trade
association and ten of their officials
of violating the antitrust laws; then
it announced another suit, filed in
Los Angeles, against an alleged mon
opoly in the production of color mo-
ton pictures.
Forecasting other "crackdowns" in
the drive to curb prohteering, Attor-
ney General Tom Clark said, "This
case is part of the Department of
Justices program aimed at breaking
up monopoly power in industry"
In Washington the House of Repre-
sentatives Small Business Committee
opened hearings to find out whether
"tax-exempt privileges of cooperatives
are harmful to free competitive enter
prise" The first target became the
consumer cooperative in Greenbelt,
Md, an early New Deal public hous-
ing project. The committee announced
plans to hold other hearings on CO.
operatives in Seattle, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Kansas
City, South Bend and Columbus.
UnchOSen Instrument
Meanwhile, President Truman's Air
Coordinating Committee rejected the
principle of a "chosen instrument"
U.S.-backed overseas airline. In eff
feet granting state monopoly to one
organization, this proposal had figured
in the fight between Sen. Owen Brew
ster, Names Republican chairman of
the Senate War Investigation Com
mittee, and West Coast planebuilder
Howard Hughes. Brewster had spon-
sored one-airline bill for overseas
aviation.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

The governments of both Hindus
and MoSlems had agreed in advance
to accept the commissions rulings.
Millions of both religions found
themselves living as minorities in ter
ritory ruled by their rivals. But it
was time for bold decisions, and
bold decisions had been made.
AS designated, the Hindu dominion
acquires about 100000 square miles
and 300,000,OO0 people. It's capital is
New Delhi, former seat of the British
"raj."
Pakistan, the Moslem dominion, is
less favored with cities, population
and area Divided into two separated
regions, it covers about 100000 square
miles with some 100,0O0,OO0 inhabit-
ants. The Arabian Sea port of Karachi
is its capital.
HOldOutS
Hyderabad, in India's heart, re-
fused. to choose which side to Join
until things calmed down, and there
were few other holdouts among the
princely states.
But in a turbulent week of freedom
the transition had been made. The
era that dawned when Robert Give
won his victory at Plassey in 1857,
that included the sepoy mutiny of
1887 and the heyday of empire for
half century thereafter, was ended.
During the war Britain promised
that she would give the Indians self
rule. More promptly than history gave
reason to expect, she had made good
her promise.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Hot Shots

Q At Cedar Rapids, Ia, Libbie Sopou-
SEX, 48, found herself in the path of a,
streamliner, leaped to another track,
and landed in front of a switch en-
gine. 1t passed completely over her
body. Her injuries were described as
a minor head wound.
At Dallas. Tex, 1900 members of
the Little Below the Knee Club" at
mass meeting vowed to resist new
long-skirted fashions. Said the presi-
dent, 24-year-old housewife: Were
going to wear the clothes that look
best on us-the styles we have right
now"
Q At Wise, Va, a hundred cultists
picketed Wise County jail, calling on
the Lord to make it's walls come tum-
bling down. Inside the walls two
women cult members, jailed for ham
ling poisonous snakes in a public gath
ering, got ready to leave. When, after
three hours, the walls still stood,
chanting picketers marched away.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Japan
Machines and Men

For George c. Atcheson, Jr, years
of work were approaching climax.
AS political adviser to Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and chairman of the four
power allied council in Tokyo, the
raAking United States diplomat in
Japan could look ahead to the con-
cluSion of an American peace for its
former enemy in the Near East.
Already, under US. guidance, the
first tendrils of foreign trade were
shooting out from Nippon. In month
the victorS would assemble (Russia
perhaps abstaining) to lay out the
peace terms.
Diplomat Atcheson was flying back
to Washington for official talks on
these peace terms when a combina-
ton of human and mechanical fail
ure apparently ended distinguished
career.
6 There were 13 men in the BIZ Fly
ing Fortress that took off from Tokyo.
At Guam, farthest American outpost
in pre-war years, a faulty engine
was replaced. Capt K. R. Still, the
pilot, tested it for three hours. Again
the plane took off. 1t crossed 1900
miles to Kwajalein, wartime rendez-
vous of American fighting ships.
There $3.50 gallons of gasoline were
loaded, more than enough for the -
hours flight to Hawaii.
The big plane did not stop at Johns
ton island, 715 miles west of Hawaii.
A few hours later listeners at the
Hawaiian Sea Frontier heard the
plane report a failing gas supply
while still 10 miles from land. She
was making only $50 miles per hour
against head winds.
One by one the four gas-hungry
engines conked out. Shortly before
midnight, while planes and ships
raced for the position given, Pilot
Still "ditched" his plane.
Next morning three survivors were
rescued from RATS IS miles west of
Pearl Harbor. Five dead were seen.
Of the five missing and presumed
lost, Atcheson was one.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Disaster
BIost in the Night

Like the Texas City explosions of
last April, death and destruction came
in an earth-shaking detonation in
Spain's ancient port of Cadiz.
At 10 pm. naval torpedo factory
on the narrow isthmus that separates
the city from the mainland blew up
with a shattering roar, cascade of
flame. Nearby shipyards quickly
caught fire; an orphanage and hos
pital collapsed, burying children,
nuns and patients in a scene of war;
like horror.
Rescue workers, with the city cut
off at its base, feared 400 might have
perished, that the injured numbered
in thousands.
The Texas City, Tex, toll from
series of waterfront explosions was
approximately 500 dead.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

Delayed Action

Delayed Action
Friday, August %, was so days after
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley bill
to correct Labor "abuSes" of New
Deal legislation.
BY the terms of the law, passed
over President Truman's veto,. these
new provisions went automatically
into effect as the week ended:
The old National Labor Relations
Board became an agency for protect
ing the rights of workers who don't
want to organize as well as of, those
who favor unions. 1t became divided
into two agencies: a five-inan labor
court" and a prosecutors Office" to
investigate and prosecute cases before
the tribunal. - k.y
The making of new closed shop
contracts became illegal, but union
shop" contracts can be signed if a
majority of employees vote their ap-
proval. (In states which. ban. the
union shop also, the local law takes
precedence.) IA
charges before the labor board unless
they have registered and furnished f.
nancial statements, and unless their
officers have made non-Communist
affidavits.
Employers no longer are legally re.
quired to bargain with their super.
visory employees.
The US. Labor Cancellation Service
no longer connected with the us
Department of Labor, becomes the
Federal Mediation and Cancellation
Service"
Organized labor's deadline reaction
At Green Bay, Wis.,. President Will
liam Green of the American Fedora
ton of Labor vehemently declared
that 100000 working men woulC
take holiday" at election time t.
insure the largest possible vote agains
members of. Congress who voted fol
the Taft-Hartley law.
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Us.
Or U.N. !?

TKTHEN the Security Council
Wv recently asked-and got-a
truce in the outbreak Of fighting
between Dutch and Indonesian
Republic forces it was hailed as a
much-needed shot in the arm for
the United Nations.
After a series of deadlocks, some
thing positive seemed to have been
achieved when the Council acted on
the Indonesians' complaint.
However, the fighting soon started
again, though on a relatively unob-
trusive scale. The Indonesians accused
the Dutch of having broken the
agreement.
Into this situation the United States
stepped quickly, offering its services
as .'go-between'' for mediation The
Netherlands government accepted the
offer promptly, at the same time pro-
testing against any attempt by the
Security Council to intervene"
From Java, however, came word
that the Indonesia Republic condi-
. toned its acceptance with a clear in
vitation to the United Nations to take
action first
Pending the decision of the Secur-,
ity Council,p was the way the Indo-
ncsians conditioned their reply.
Tartly the United States demanded
a clear-cut yes or no. Failing to get it,
the mediation offer was withdrawn.
As the Netherlands army reported
routing an Indonesian force, and
Dutch officials we're said to advocate
arr advance on the rRepubffcs capital
at Jogjakarta. a new factor entered
the Indonesian dispute.
Russia charged at Lake Success that
the United States was putting diplo-
matte pressure on the Indonesian Re-
public to accept a decision bypassing
the United Nations.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
In Shorf

Reported: by President Truman,
that Congress succeeded in cutting
$112 billion from federal budget, in
contrast to So or 81 billion claimed
by some Republicans. He also pre-
dicted biggest US Treasury surplus
in history, but said commitments
might wipe out savings.
Decreed: BY government of Peru.
that all employees of private busi-
neSses should get salary increases Of
from 10 to IS per cent.
Adjourned: At Lake Success, N. Y.
the United Nations Economic & Social
Council. 1t will meet again Feb. 2.
Died: In Stockholm at 80, Primes
Eugen, youngest brother of Sweden's
King Gustav v, and known as ''ths
painter prince" Also, Clinton r.
Wyckoff, 70, Buffalo, N. Y. Industrial
ist and All-America quarterback in
1895.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Quotes

Mary Ellen Kelly, "a, of Mar
Gus, Ia, on pilgrimage of so in
valids to Catholic shrines in
Canada: Well hope for miracles.
They do happen, you know, but
we won't be disappointed if they
don't. Well just keep praying"
Georges CALI, French farmer,
sending gift of chickens to Stain,
Truman, Britain's George VI and
President Auriol of France:
"What this world needs is more
to eat. Ny chickens, l hope, will
call attention to the joys of the
table. / pay homage to the great
men of the world and invite
them to consider the Importance
to everyone OF having plenty to
eat"
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Dates
Sunday, August "a

Sunday, August "a {.
American Pharmaceutical Assn.
meets in Milwaukee.
Tuesday, August 26
U.N. Food and Agricultural Or.
ganization (47 nations) meets at
Geneva, Switzerland.
Society for the Study of
Growth meets at Storrs, Conn.
(through Aug. 29).
Thursday, August %
American Legion national con-
vention opens in New York City
(through Aug. 30).
Friday, August 20
Constitutional convention of
the National Students Associa-
ton, Madison, Wis.
Saturday, August 30
National air races, Cleveland.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

gouging the public, Steel was tagged
as the first major target.
Not the Department of Justice but
the Federal Trade Commission ac-
cused almost the entire steel industry
of price-rigging and unlawful COM
bination and conspiracy" to choke
competition. Named as defendants
were the American Iron and Steel
Institute, of New York City, and some
hundred members.
Phantom Journey
The industry's July price boost was
cited as an example of monopoliStic
practices which the ETC said were
designed to "frustrate and destroy
price competition among themselves,
and thereby to dominate and manipu-
late the markets in which their un-
organized customers and consumers
must buy such goods.
ASsailed was the "basing- point"
system by which carrying costs are
assessed as if steel were sent by rail
from certain key cities-even though
it may actually be transported by a
cheaper .lethod from plant closer
.toethe customer. s1-~e> 1zs,
A cease -and-desist order obtained
by the ETC against Steel's use of
the ''Pittsburgh-plus" which
had all steel priced from the Penn
sylvania city-was obtained in 1924.
1t still is being contested in the courts.
Hearings on the basing-points are set
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29
Work Goes Or

Officials said that preparations for
writing the Japanese peace were far
enough advanced SO they could con-
tinue uninterrupted All nations
which had a hand in whipping Japan
are to be invited for discussions, prob
ably in September.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

Asst MONTH the booming American steel industry announced
II increases of So to 81 In doing the steelmakers
ignored President Truman appeal that they wa and see whether
higher coal really made boost the price steel
Soon after the had investigation
ationary business practices and the possibility of trade monopoes
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

for Sept. 10, with another cease
order possibly the outcome.
Steel did not long remain alone. In
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-29

Eau Rights Rsserued. Ap Ne,Osteatures,