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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
VOTE
COMES WEDNESDAY
Senate Agrees To Count
Ayes, Nays On Confir-
nation AT $500 P. M.

WASHINGTON, April = R =
The Senate agreed today to vote
at 5 p. m. Wednesday ON the
question of confirming David E.
Lilientnal and other nominees tc
the Atomic Energy commission.
Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa)
chairman of the Congressional
Atomic Energy committee, obtain
ed the unanimous consent of the
Senate on the voting time.
Senator McKellor Cd = TENN,
leader of the anti-Lilienthal forces,
sat silent as Hickenlooper made
the request.
A test vote last Thursday took
the fight out of the opposition and
foreshadowed confirmation of the
appointees. The Senate refused
at that time, So to SO to send the
nominations back to Hickenlooper's
committee for an FBI check.
After that vote, Senators on both
sides declared approval Of Lilien-
thai is certain.
Up for confirmation along with
him are Robert F. Bacher, L. l..
Strauss, w. W. Waymack and
Summer r. Pike, nominees for
commissioner, and Carroll l.. Will
son. general manager.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
spot FIRE BURNS
PART OF CHURCH
Blaze Started From Trash
Heap, Damages Maffitt
Village Property

A fire said to have started from
a trash heap set afire following
an Easter egg hunt. caused dam
ages unofficially estimated at be.
tween $40, 900 and SIS, 900 to the
Maffitt Village Presbyterian
church yesterday afternoon before
the blaze was brought under con-
troll by the Wilmington Fire de-
partment and volunteers.
The frame part of the church
which housed the Sunday school
rooms was almost completely de-
stroyed as a brisk wind whipped
the flames toward the brick sec
ton of the church.
The latter structure was not
damaged to- any great extent as
the fire was brought under control
before it reached the main part
of the building.
Church members said that a
Sunday school teacher was c o n
Quoting an Easter egg hunt yes
terday afternoon and that follow
ing the festivities a fire was start
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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PASSENGERS HAVE
NARROW ESCAPE
|Only Six Out OF 300 Injur-
ed When Crack 'Pennsy'
| Train Piles Up

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, April 7,
E(P- Derailment of the Pennsly'
fanla railroads eastbound Gotham
Aminted at a cr~oss-over switch
here early today left the locomo
i've and thirteen cars of the fifteen
BAR train strewn in a staggered
pileup but no one was killed anc
nly six of the 300 persons aboard
Uttered serious injuries.
Fifteen injured persons were tax
b to two hospitals in Fort Wayne
ut nine of them were treated anc
fleased during the day.
Remaining in the hospital were:
rs. Joseph Schneider, 48, Pitts
frgh, with head and back injuries;
Fr daughter, Miss Anna Marie
fhneider, %, also with head anc
(ck injuries; Vernol Stauffer, sc,
Prest, O., Mail clerk, fractured
ght leg; Mrs. Paul Lake, Decatur,
|, back and leg injuries; Grover
mica, 80, New York, right arm
d back injuries; and William
Puntain, u, Pittsburgh, head ane
ok injuries.
In all about 40 passengers sui
fed injuries but many of them
IRE treated in the city hall here
d then were taken by bus to For
hyne to continue to their desti
(tions by other trains.
Railroad officials began an in
fstigation to determine the cause
the derailment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
Roadways Will Get
Face-Lifting Free
Passengers Trapped

SEATTLE, April 7 R -
Seven persons were believed te
have died when a North Coas1
lines bus, %enroute here from
Portland, plunged off the Pacific
highway into the DuWamisE
river. near Seattle's south city
limits, shortly after 7 p. m. to-
night.
An hour after the accident al
was confusion at the scene as
policemen, duputy sheriffs and
city police officers rescued pas
sengers from the submerged bus
and tried to revive them with
artificial respiration.
While, authorities said they be,
lieved seven were dead they could
not give an accurate estimate.
The accident occurred when the
bus collided with an oil truck on
the bridge. The truck driver was
reported to have escaped with
minor injuries,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
STRIKERS SET FOR LONG SHUTDOWN
ON PHONE INDUSTRY, BEIRNE SAYS;
GR0MYXO BLASTS TRUMAN AID BILL
Russian View
Given Council
= wv Delegate Accuses
aman Administration
Of Weakening u. N.

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, April 7.
-P)-Soviet Delegate Andrea A.
Gromyko today accused the Tru-
man administration of by-passing,
weakening and undermining the
United Nations by it's efforts to-
ward direct aid for Greece and
Turkey.
He then proposed that economic
aid for the Greek people be hand
led by the United Nations under a
special commission.
He rejected all suggestions for
military aid to Greece and aid of
any sort to Turkey.
The Soviet Deputy Foreign
minister charged in a policy
speech to the Security council and
again in a brief statement during
later debate that the dispatch of
American civil and military in
structors to Greece would be in
reference in Greece's internal af-
fairs. He said it would deal a
SERIOUS blow to its actual indie
~pendence."
Council Adjourns
The council adjourned debate on
the Greek question until Thursday
10:30 Am E.S.T.) without decision
on Gromyko's proposal or on a
motion by Warren r. Austin, U. S.
delegate, for representatives of the
Balkans commission to remain in
Greece until the Security council
facts.
Gromyko said the Greek people
should have aid but made it clear
that Russia felt it should come
through the United Nations and
should be administered under a
special Security Council commits
sion. He opposed the Austin
resolution.
He rejected any idea of aid to
Turkey, assailing that nation as a
war "profiteer" which entered the
Continued On Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
BOARD SIDESTEPS
RACING MEASURE
Commissioners Fail To Act
On Betting Legislation
Passed Recently

The New Hanover county com.
missioners yesterday sidesteppeo
recent legislation permitting the
board to call a special election to
determine whether h e county is
to have horse racing and pari
mutel betting.
For more than two hours it was
concerned with the county home
hearing, the story Of which will
be found elsewhere on this page.
The horse racing bill, which has
borne the brunt of attacks by
several groups in the county, was
introduced by Rep. R. M. Kermor
during the recent session of the
state general assembly.
Under the provisions Of the bill,
the county commissioners have
until Jan. /, 1949 to act on the
measure.
The board also permitted the
withdrawal, by the police depart.
ment. of a motion for the use oil
a portion of Legion stadium next
week for a police show. The show
would have been in conflict with
both the Pirates and the MINIS
baseball teams schedules.
M. L. Lander, a civil engineer,
was employed to make the neces.
sary surveys at Carolina Beach ir
connection with the drainage pro.
gram there.
The commissioners also hac
drawn the names OF So pro
spective jurors to serve during the
special criminal term of Superior
Court which is scheduled to oper
here April 81.
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SENATE TAKES UP
AID BILL TODAY
Vandenberg To Start De.
bate On Greek-Turk
Loan Measure

WASHINGTON, April 7. - l -
The Senate cleared the way to-
night to begin consideration to-
morrow of President Truman's
$500, 900, 900 Greece = Turkey aid
bill despite Andrei Gromyko's
charge that the program under.
mines the United Nations.
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tons committee arranged to take
the floor at noon tomorrow in be-
half of the bill.
Vandenberg told reporters he
may reply to the charges t h a t
Gromyko, Coviet deputy foreign
minister, made in a speech to the
Security Council today.
Other senators disputed Gro
myko's contention.
Senator George ID GAY told a
reporter that Gromyko appeared
to be casting himself in "an un-
familiar role as a defender OF the
United Nations" He added that
the Soviet proposal for U. N.
action apparently would narrow
any aid to Greece to relief as
sistance onle and bar help to
Turkey.
81 think we have been at great
pains to indicate that we are not
CONTINUED on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08

Gain Ground
Warren Adjourns Meeting
Until Today After Re-
porting Progress

WASHINGTON, April 7 (P -
President Joseph A. B%eirne, of the
striking National Federation of
Telephone workers said tonight the
union was settling down for a long
shutdown of the telephone indus
try.
Beirne said the union had made
plans for a long tieup when the
strike was called.
He made the statement to re-
porters after an evening confer
ence with Edgar l.. Warren, direc-
tor of the Federal Cancellation err
vice and top conciliators handling
the acknowledgement negotla-
tons.
These include bargaining talks
between the union and the A,nerl-
can Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany's long lines division and the
South Western Bell Telephone com
pany. Both r key units in the
cross-country Bell Telephone sys-
tenn chief target of the NFTN's
first nationwide walkout which be-
gan at 6 a. m. today.
Beirne told reporters that the
evening session with Warren was
for the purpose of reviewing the
whole collective bargaining pro-
gram today-in which Warren
earlier had reported good pro-
gress."
Warren told neWsmen that 1--WE
explored with the union represen-
tatives what possibilities they saw
for a settlement"
= The cancellation chief, unshaved
and weary from his almost IN
broken day and night efforts to
avert the strike and now to cut it
short, said:
"We don't have any definite pro-
posals from either side"
The negotiations here were
broken off tonight to permit "al
parties to get some Sleep" Warren
said.
The long lines group will con-
vene at 1890 a. M, EST, and the
Southwestern negotiations will pick
up at an indefinite time early to
morrow, Warren said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
Carter ExOnerated
By Commission Vote

receiving kind treatment thai
lead to the full-fledged investiga.
ton of the Carter administration.
Yesterdays session also saw
Commissioner Trask, the veteran
official who has served on the
board for % years, tender his
resignation as chairman of the
county home committee, reiterate
his original charges against
Superintendent Carter, and &C
cuse Commissioner L. j.; Cole
man of altering his opinion Of
Superintendent Carter almost
overnight.
Now the feathers will fly
Commissioner Trask said in pre-
facing his remarks, directed al
Commissioner Coleman, after he
witnessed his colleagues give
Continued On Page Two; Col. y
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And So To Bed

ALI the screaming at Legion
Stadium last night wasn't over
the thrashing the Pirates were
handing the Bears.
The fans were having a hol-
lering good time, Ill right,
cheering the local club onto
victory at the 18th inning when
the score was 1873.
But along about that sans9
time some fellow - there al
ways is one around found a
snake in the stadium.
And for a brief moment it
seemed as though that section
of the stadium would be emp
tied. Then it was discovered
that the reptile was dead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
See Picture On Page Eight

Streets looked around New Years
Day in either 1917 or 1918.
With the thermometer dipping
down to five above zero, the snow
piled high on the ground, VIII
mington's public transportation
system came to an abrupt halt.
As a matter Of fact, the street
car seen in the picture remained
snow-bound at that popular corner
for five long days.
ICE SKATING, TOO-But don't
think for one minute that the cold
snap of 80 years ago confined it
self to stopping the street cars.
What the city lost through incon-
veniences, many residents made
up for by unusal opportunities for
participation in winter sports OF
which the Port City no longer can
boast.
For example, many young
swain rummaged through the
attic of his home. Or, it might
have been the cellar, or even the
Continued On Page Two; Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
BLASTS
|PLEBISCITE PLAN
Britain, France Join u. 5.
In Opposition To Gen.
trail Government Idea

MOSCOW, April Z. - W.D - A
Russian today demanded that the
German people decide by plebi-
scite whether they shall have a
strong central government but the
Big Four delegates of the United
States, Great Britain and France
denounced the proposal as a
threat to world peace.
Russian Foreign Minister Via
cheslav Molotov insisted that the
Germans themselves be permitted
to say whether they want a~strong
central government - which Rus
STA desires or a federalized
regime, linked by a weak central
administration, which the United
States, Great Britain and France
favor.
"The United STATES does not
want to set up a central govern
ment which might eventually b e
transformed into an autocratic
one," Secretary of State George
|C Marshall said.
sIt would be a danger to the
peace of the world. The United
States wants a central govern
ment based on the German states.
sIt is not possible today Or in
the immediate future to get a n
intelligent expression of German
opinion. It is not even practical.
The drafting of a constitution is
very complicated and any plebi-
scite in the provisional period
would be highly dangerous fol
pace"
Reminding Molotov that strong
German governments had started
two world wars, that Hitler had
risen to power under such a re-
gime and that he had used the
| /nz-k:~.oI 49, Do~a TxrrO. FOL ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
1917 SOAP Box Derby Set
For Wednesday July 30th
EMERGENCY CALL

MADISON, Wis, April 7-(R
-Eight-year-old Carl Satter-
field got a call through Madi-
sons Emergency call only"
telephone situation today 70 e
port an important news item.
The youngster reached the
Madison Capital Times city
desk, requested that his name
be spelled correctly and piped:
II just saw four robins"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
UNIV
Back In Pits
Thirteen Per Cent OF
Lewis Union Member
ship Defies Orders

WASHINGTON, April 7.-W.R-
The government claimed tonight
that "a, 900 of John L. Lewis 400,
ooo soft coal miners ignored" MS
safety strike today and went back
10 the pits.
This apparently meant that the
ts5 Der cent of Lewis total mem
bership had defied their leader.
But the bulk of his men, partic-
ularlv in the great producing
.reas of Pennsylvania, Virginia,
kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and IL
1inois were standing squarely, be-
hind him.
Bowling to his explicit wish, they
we're refusil to enter hazard
Gus" mines and extending last
weeks mourning shutdown for
victims of the Centralia, ILL.,, mine
disaster into . safety" stoppage
Of indefinite duration.
The nations coal-consuming in
austries were preparing for a
starvation diet. U. S. Steel inn
mediately cut its blast furnace
production to 80 per cent of normal
and the Pennsylvania railroad laid
off 1900 employees because OF
dwindling coal shipments. AS
stocks depleted. other industries
were expected to follow suit.
The government stood by, ap-
/ parently helpless to do anything
about it.
The Coal Mines administration
disclosed the "revolt" against
J Lewis leadership, reporting that
4 500 of the 1851 government-held
! mines operated today. 1t said that
they employ $4,000 UNIV mem
berS.
725, 900 Tons Mined
II estimated that these mines,
4 together with privately-owned pits
i using non-union workers or mem
bers of the rival Progressive Min
u ers Union of America, produced
81 725, 900 tons today. This is about
30 per cent of normal daily out
put.
The 500 mines presumably have
been certified as safe. Most OF
them were believed to have been
on a list of 1900 which Secretary
Of Interior J. A. Krug said could
be reopened once government
managers found that no hazard
GUS conditions exist.
The agency said that nearly 800
Of the 1851 mines in federal pos
j session had been given safety
/ certificates today by operating
/ managers or, in some cases, by
/ union mine safety committees.
The latter's approval also is need
ed for 518 mines that Krug con-
i sidered particularly dangerous.
Lewis, however, had demanded
! that the government keep closed
oil but two mines until they could
be re-examined and declared safe
4 by Bureau of Mines in Nectors.
The demand was rejected as
&"arbitrary," leaving the next
move up to Lewis. By doing moth
ing, he made it clear to his min
srs that his Safety stoppage
was on.
g Reports from the field showed
iEnntinued On Page Two. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
Bv GEORGE HASLAM
Star Staff Writer

An uncertain peace and qule'
lowered over the New Hanover
county home today following a
stormy session of the county COM
missioners yesterday climaxing
a week Of charges and counter
charges as to the type OF treat
ment the inmates were receiving
at the hands Of Superintendent T.
M. Carter.
Today Superintendent Garter
stands exonera4ed by a four to
nothing vote of the commission
ers which saw Commissions,
George W. Trask, chairman Of
the ,unty home committee, al.
staining from casting his AYE
or may"
1t was Commissioner Trask's
initial charge a week ago yes,
terday that the inmates were moi
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08

STEVENS POINT, Wis, April Z
-P-Robert J. Klopotek, the
mad Pole" who won the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross and the
Air Medal with % Oak Leaf Clus-
tiers as a Psi Mustang fighter
pilot, was killed in an airplane
wreck today while riding as a
passenger. The crash also took the
life of his civilian pilot COM
panion.
Klopotek, operator Of a charter
flying service at the Stevens Point
airport, took off this afternoon
with Ray v. Barber of Chicago,
a manufacturers representative
who did his travelling by air. A
few minutes later, witnesses at
the airport said, the light airplane
was in trouble. They said Barber
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08

began making miniature water
dams and tinkering with watches.
At Is he decided to pursue a
mechanical job rather than farm
ing, and went to work for $3.50
weekly at the Flower Brothers
machine shop in Detroit. After
working 10 hours a day for nine
months Ford left the Flower Broth
ers and went to the Dry Dock En-
CINE company where he remained
for two years.
1t was not until Sept. 81, 1915,
Continued On Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
SON
ADMITS Staying
Sixteen Year-Old Youth
Signs Confession In
Murder OF Sexton

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 7. Up
- Sixteen-year-oid Stuart Aller
calmly signed a statement, poles
said, that he slew the elderly sex.
ton of his fathers church because
he '.felt an urge to kill someone
but the boy expressed great shock
tonight at learning that he was ar
adopted child, a fact he said he had
not known until IS minutes ago.
The shock, he told newsmen in
his cell after police questioning,
was greater than that of finding
himself faced with promise of ar
raignment on a first degree murder
charge.
While he talked, his restless fin
gers tapped on the table top. His
bow tie was neatly in place and a
handkerchief stood out from the
breast pocket of his brown jacket.
He said he never had been in
trouble before.
Skipped Glasses
well" he laughed in a low
voice, "I've slipped classes oc-
casionally."
Police Chief ]. Croy Keller said
the youth. Stuart Allen, an honor
roll student in high school, and
foster son of Episcopal Rector Rev.
James S. Allen, had signed a state
ment in which he said he bludgeon-
ed the 58-year-old sexton on the
head with a hammer and then mutt,
lated his body with an electric drill
in the basement of his fathers
church last April FOOLS day.
County Prosecutor O.. R. New
conner said he would file first de-
gree murder charges against Al
len and that the boy would be ar
raiqned tomorrow morning,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
The Weather

FORECAST:
South Carolina - Considerable cloudi-
6s and warm Tuesday; Wednesday,
cstly cloudy and warm, occasional
N rain in North portion.
Forth Carolina - Partly cloudy and
entity cooler Tuesday; Wednesday, con-
1eerable cloudiness and occasional ligh'
n in west and central portions.
eastern Standard Time)
CBy U. s. Weather Bureau)
psychological data for the "a hour
Folng 1880 pm. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
~ a. m. SO; 1880 a. m. g.; 1880 p. NJ.
1880 p. m. 70; Maximum IS, Min
PUN 81, Mean 70. Normal So.
HUMIDITY
i's0 q. m. 81; 7:3O a. m. SO; 1:30 p. m.
1870 p. IN. OF
PRECIPITATION
Aotal for "a hours ending 1880 p. m
w inches. Total since the first Of
'e month 0.84 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
IRON the Tide Tables published by
II y. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
A - pm 1882 pm
s~sssonboro Inlet 1928 am. 3.31 am
9.58 pm. 3.34 pm
sunrise $50, Sunset 6:38, Moonris'
|"s!p, Moonset 7:38a.
! HlVeT stage at Fayetteville, N. c., a
: q m. Monday 1874 feet.
more weather on Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
Famous Pilot Killed
On Pleasure Flight

apparently tried to make a land
ing at the airport. but instead
plowed almost 400 feet through a
jackpine thicket and crashed.
Both men were thrown from the
plane as it crashed. The plane
was demolished with ~wreckage
strewn over a wide area. Klopotek
and Barber apparently died in
stantly, DR.. W. C. Sheehan said.
Klopotek, Is years old served
with the Ninth Airforce in Eng
land, his Mustang bearing the
name, MAD Pole" H e was
credited with bringing down four
German planes. He entered the
A.A.F., in 1912 from the Wisconsin
State guard and was discharged
honorably Dec. !. 1945.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
LONG A LINES
so PER CENT DOWN
By The Associated Pres


The first coa~st-to-coast telephone
strike hit the nation yesterday,
knocking out 30 per cent of all long
distance calls but Gripping less
than a fourth of the country's local
service.
A hopeful note was injected late
in the day in Washington, how
ever, with Director Edgar L. War
rem of the U. S. Cancellation ser
vice announcing good progress"
had been made in negotiations in
volving the long-lines phase Of the
Walkout.
The American Telephone and
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. -
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See Pictures On Pages 2 and 8

not only to encourage highway
cleanliness but also to- inspire
parks and Fairgrounds throughout
the county.
Mayor Ronald w. Lane official
ly opened the campaign yesterday
with a proclamation calling atten-
ton to the fact that the week OF
April 7-12 had been. designated as
Cleanup week" in the city and
its suburbs.
The Wrightsville Beach Lions
club is co-sponsoring the cam
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
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Campaign To Clear Up
Unsightly Spots New
U nderway
BY SUE MARSHALL
Star Staff Writer

A new face is being moulded
for New Hanover county's road :
sides and areas.
The face-lifting job Of removing
rubbish heaps, and otherwise IN
slightly dumps from along the
highways and parks got underway
yesterday.
This civic pride movement a
project for which the local Sorosis
club is to be thanked-is designed
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
Along The Cape Fear

JUST TAKE A LOOK-If you'll
glance at the photograph you will
see how Princess and Front
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
Henry Ford Dies
Suddenly At Home
Noted Automotive Pioneer
S~uccumbed AT 11:4O
O'Clock Last Night

DETROIT, April 8. (Tuesday)-
UD Henry Ford died at 11:4O
o'clock last night, it was announc-
ed early today.
A spokesman for the Ford Motor
Company, which the elder motor
manufacturer founded and balloon
ed into a billion dollar organization
said simply:
Henry Ford died in his home at
Dearborn at 11:A p. m. Monday,
April T." He was 83.
Death found the frail, aging auto
maker in complete retirement
from active management of his
vast empire. He retained only di-
reotorships in the Ford Motor COM
pany and the smaller Ford Motor
company of Canada.
Ford was president of the auto
company which bears his name
from 1908 until 1919. He gave up
the title in 1919 but returned to
active management May l, 1913,
when the sudden death of his only
son, Edsel, vacated the presi-
dency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08

Henry Ford, one of the worlds
greatest industrialists, was born
in a small comfortable farm house
near Dearborn, Mich, July 30, 1868,
the son Of frugal and industrious
William Ford and Mary Litogot
Ford, he showed mechanical apti-
tude about the age of II when he
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More weather on Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-08
FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
aGd slightly cooler today. Wednesday
considerable cloudiness with not much
change in temperature.