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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
ERWIN INTERESTS
SIGN WITH UNION
Durham Cotton Mills Agree
To Nine Per Cent Wage
Increase Now

CHARLOTTE, Nov. 5.-R-
The Erwin Cotton Mills and the
Textile Workers Union of Amerl-
ca (CIO) reached agreement on
nine per cent wage increase to-
day, following pattern set last
night by the Big Dan River Cot
ton Mills in Virginia and leaving
only two textile chains still IN
negotiation with the union.
R. Roy Lawrence, Southern
TWUA director, said here that
negotiations were continuing
with Cone Mills in Greensboro on
the subject of wages and contract
renewal, and with the Lowensteln
interests in Rockingham, ROCK
Hill, S. c., and Huntsville, Ala,
on the subject of wages only.
The Erwin Cotton Mills, with
headquarters in Durham, and the
union announced agreement on a
wage increase of nine per cent
for the company's 5000 employees
effective next Monday. The a
greement followed last nights
announcement by the TWUA and
the Dan River Cotton Mills OF
Danville, Va, of the same wage
Increase terms for some ll,O0C
employees.
Lawrence said that a strike
deadline set for tomorrow was
See ERWIN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Along The Cape Fear

control of the county superin-
tendent who administered both
white and colored schools.
In the first district of the city
that year Donald McRae was
chairman of the school commit
tee which included William M
Parker and Joseph E. Sampson
James H. Chadbourn was chair
man of the second district with
Walker Meares and John G. Nor
wood on his committee.
Four years later the superin'
tendent's report shows a provi'
sion for only six grades, and nc
reference at all is made to {
high school in Wilmington lr
1886. The advanced schooling
was still being taken care OF o5
private schools.
But in this decade the idea o:
including high school subjects II
the public school curriculum
gradually began to take shape
and the Wilmington school pro
gressed toward a complete higf
school currirulum in the public
free school system although a
Raleigh. and elsewhere in th'
state there was considerable op
position to the high school being
included in public school sys
TENS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
METHODlSTS OPEN
l947 CONFERENCE
Over 600 Ministers, Lay.
Men Register For Eliza
beth City Meeting

ELIZABETH CITY Nov 5-tPl
The annual North Carolina
conference of the Methodist
church got underway here to-
night with Bishop W. W. Peele
conducting the solemn rites OF
Holy Communion.
The Bishop was assisted in the
service by district superinten-
dents of the Conference.
The vanguard of approximate.
ly 600 ministers and lay dele.
gates to the conference began
arriving early today for the ses.
sions which will last until Sun.
day when Bishop Peele reads
the list Of appointments for min.
listers.
A number of boards, commit.
tees and commissions of the
conference held their prelimi.
See METHODISTS On Pare Twt
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
COUNTY
DRYS LOSE CASE
State Supreme Court Re-
fuses To Order Closing
OF ABC Stores

RALEIGH, Nov. 5-P)-Frank-
lin county dry forces lost in the
State Supreme Court today their
attempt to have ABC liquor
stores at Louisburg and Franklin
ton closed as public nuisances.
The Supreme Court, in an
opinion written by Chief Justice
Walter P. Stacy, upheld the ac-
ton of Superior Court Judge O.
K. Nimocks in dismissing peti-
tions of the drys for court orders
to close the stores.
The drys asserted that acts
passed by the General Assembly
authorizing elections at Louis
burg and Franklinton on the
opening of city-operated liquor
stores were unconstitutional and
they sought to have the stores
padlocked as public nuisances.
Stacy said that the court was
not deciding on the constitutional
question because "the courts will
not determine a constitutional
question, even when properly
presented, if there be also pres
ent some other ground upon
See FRANKLIN On Page Two
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BISHOPS TO STUDY
PHILIPPINE CASE
Petition Presented To Pro-
testant Episcopal Church
OF America

WINSTON-SALEM, Nov. s -
P)- The Philippine Independent
church's request for a limited
union with the Protestant Epis-
copal Church of America was re-
ferred today to a committee fol
study and a report back Friday
to the Episcopal church's House
of Bishops, meeting here at ST.
Paups Episcopal church.
The petition from the Philip
pine church was presented by the
Right Rev. Norman S. Binsteo
of Manila, Bishop of the Philip
pines, and asked to use the pray
er book of the American Episco.
pal church; have their applicants
for the A m er c n church.
the ministry trained by the
American Episcopalians and con.
See BISHOPS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
NAL FLIGHT FIFTY
DUE HERE TODAY
Company Resumes Four
Plane Daily Schedule To
North, South

National Airlines will resume
flights so and 81 at Bluethen-
thai airport today, James L.
Holomon, Wilmington manager
for National, announced last
night.
Cancellation of the flights late
in July due to lack of Douglas
DC4 transport planes after Ma
tional lost the services of q
plane damaged by fire in Miam
caused a tempest in a teapot
here when some local officials
assumed that air service to Will
mington had been permanently
reduced.
The resumption of flights 81
and 81 together with the contin.
uation of flights so and 81 by
National will give Wilmington
four flights daily out of Blue
thenthal airport, two headed
north and two south.
New Schedules
Flight so will leave Whining.
ton at 12:49 north to Norfolk al
1853 p. m. arriving in Philadel
phia at 1928 pm. and in Newark
NJ, at 4:12 pm.
See NAL On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
COURT WILL RULE
ON CLOSED SHOP
Attorneys For AFL, State
Argue On Constitution
ality OF New Law

RALEIGH, Nov. 5-R-The'
State Supreme Court today heard
Attorney General Harry McMul-
Ian defend and attorneys for the
American Federation of Labor
question constitutionality of the
states anti-closed shop law.
After hearing the arguments,
the court took the case under
advisement and probably will
hand down its opinion with
in two weeks. If the court up
holds the act, the defendants are
expected to carry their appeal to
the U. S. Supreme Court.
The law, which was passed by
the 1947 legislature, bans the
closed shop, union shop, main
tenance Of membership shop, and
check-off of union dues, and is
being tested in two cases arising
in Buncombe county.
In one, an employer was char.
ged with forcing a worker 70
See COURT on Page Two
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NEW SHRIMP NET
WILL SAVE FISH
Morehead City Men Apply
For Patent On Device;
Tests Prove Worth

MOREHEAD CITY, Nov. SIR
Two Morehead City men have
applied for a patent on a shrimp
net that, according to tests by a
federal fish expert, may save
billions of game and food fish on
the South Atlantic and Gulf
coasts.
The net allows immature fish
to escape while retaining shrimp.
in the ordinary shrimp net, says
DR.. H. F. Prytherch, aquatic
biologist of the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife station here, Immature
fish are crushed to death as they
are hauled aboard"
Prytherch said he had tested
the invention of Louis Guthrie
See SHRIMP on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
COMMON 0KAYS
BURMA FREEDOM
Government Bill Granting
independence Carries;
Churchill Warns

LONDON, Nov. 5 -(R- The
House of Commons tonight ap-
proved a government bill grant
ing independence to Burma de-
spite statement by Winston
Churchill that Burma, like India,
would be plunged into a 'blood
welter" as soon as she is free
from British ties.
The vote on the decisive sec
ond reading was 288 to ia,
Three members of Churchill's
Conservative party joined tn e
government in support of the
measure and substantial num-
Der of others abstained from
voting.
In his speech Churchill
declared he would be sorry to
bear what he said would be
Prime Minister Attlee's respon-
sibility for strife in Burma. He
repeated passages from a previ.
Gus address in which he said
the "British Empire seems to
be running off almost as fast
as the American loan"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Senator Claims Hughes, Company
Owe S., ,919,9 ,921 More Income Tax:
Dewey Endorses Marshall PROGRAM
Governor Fires
Salvo At Russia
New Yorker Claims Mos
COW Now Counting On
u. S. Failures

NEW YORK, Nov. 5-(P)-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey declared to-
night 1--WE have only one choice
on the European aid question
"and that is wisely to aid those
who stand with us in the world
in the hope that they will rise
again as bulwarks of the insti-
tuition of human freedom"
In his first public pronounce
ment on the Marshall plan, the
titular Republican party leader
and prominent possibility for the
1948 G. o. P. Presidential nomi-
nation gave full endorsement to
an aid-to-Europe program, as
serting 1--WE have no choice"
But, interspersing his prepared
speech with sharp criticism of the
Roosevelt and Truman admin
istrations on foreign as we'll as
domestic affairs, Dewey empha-
sized he believed reconstruction
aid should be advanced "for bust
ness purposes" and administered
on a business--like basis.
''It is time" he said, I'VE got
business men into a business
job"
Banquet Speech
He underlined this principle
by delivering the talk before the
3Oth annual banquet of Forbes
Magazine, held at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel to honor so men
selected as the nations foremost
business leaders.
The governor also aimed many
salvos at the Russians, charging
they "are counting confidently
on our failure" and "they believe
that their great allies, misery
and starvation, will bring Com
munist revolutions the world
over.
Picturing the alternative to a
successful American aid pro-
gram for Europe, he said:
IF, as a mere 140 million peo-
pie, we found ourselves in the
midst of conquered world, from
France to China, we should find
more than a billion people in an
armed camp under the control
of an aggressive dictatorship ar
rayed against us.
Dollar Germs
"In terms of dollars, such a
condition would cost us in ma
tional defense alone a great deal
more than any program of aid
to Europe and it would cost us
that annually for years to come.
'In terms of living standards,
we should sink to level not
seen by any living person in this
country. In terms of our liber-
ties, find it difficult to see how
we could avoid a degree of eco
nomic control which would cut
the very heart out OF our
system,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
PRESIDENT GREEN
Fills HIS OATH
AFL Leader Certifies Non
Communist Leanings
Under Labor Law

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 H.
AFL President William Green
today took the oath that he is
not a Communist and thus be-
came the 19,307th union official
to file such an affidavit with the
National Labor Relations Board.
Although the deadline wss
Friday for submitting this docu-
ment in accordance with the
Taft-Hartley law, Green was
granted an extension by the
NLRB. George Meany, AFL
secretary-treasurer, filed his pa
pers Friday and at that time
notified NLRB officials Green
was out of town and would turn
in his affidavit today.
CIO President Philip Murray
has refused to sign the affidavid
so his CIO-Steelworkers cannot
make use of the boards serv-
ices.
The NLRB disclosed that 49,
3O6 affidavits were received by
Fridays deadline. These repre-
sented 66 AFL unions, "A C1C
and 80 unaffiliated unions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Four Hundred Growers
Warehousemen Discuss
l948 Crop Quota.

RALEIGH, Nov. 5. - R -
Speakers at a public hearing
here today were unanimous that
because of the loss in foreign
markets next years flue-cured
tobacco crop should be reduced
but they disagreed as to how
large cut should be made.
Some 400 persons, represent
ing growers, warehousemen, farm
organizations and state and fed.
eral officials attended the hear
ing which was called by the U
S. Department of Agriculture te
study tobacco acreage allotments
for next year.
Four of the speakers asked fol
a 80 per cent cut in the cror
next year, five favored a 20 pei
cent cut, one wanted not more
than Is per cent, and one wanted
a cut between 20 and 80 per cent
Charles Gage, director of the
tobacco branch of the Produc-
ton ard Marketing Administra.
ton of the federal Agriculture
Department said that the 194e
acreage allotments would be an
nounced as soon as possible.
Gage was family optimistic
about the tobacco export situa-
ton, saying 1--WE have many un-
certainties that suggest a con
siderable degree of caution, but
we think there is hope for i'm.
provement in foreign conditions
over the next year."
The 1947 quotas were set in &C.
See LEAF on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
PRICES IMPROVE
ON LEAF MARKETS
Most Cutters, Orang e
Smoking Bring 81 Per
Hundred More Today
By The Associated Press

AASS~<~e~~O~
Generally improved prices
were reported on flue-cured to-
bacco markets yesterday by the
State and Federal Departments
of Agriculture.
Leaf grades, which had shown
consistent declines since the mar.
kets reopened Monday after {
sales holiday, moved up 81 to 81
per hundred pounds on the East
ern Belt. Most cutters and orange
smoking leaf were up 81, ano
nondescript advanced $1.25 te
$4.25. Lemon smoking leaf and
lugs were down 81 to 81.
The quality of offerings was
lower than on Tuesday, but "stil
held very good considering the
length of the season. Sales were
lighter and most markets com
pleted auctions by noon. Sales
Tuesday totaled 7,860,014 pound.
at an average of $45.29, a dror
of $1.44 from Monday.
Cutters Unchanged
Leaf, smoking leaf and lugs
which lost ground Tuesday, were
the leading gamers on the Mid.
die Belt. Most of these grade:
were up 81 to 50 and common
81. Most nondescript grade!
orange smoking leaf advanced
were off $3.50 to SO. Cutter:
were unchanged.
Although prices were irregular
on Old Belt markets, there were
more gains than losses. Gain:
were from 81 to 50 mostly, but
See PRICES On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
NEGRO SENTENCED
TO PRISON TERM
James Robinson Gets 12To
IS Years On Manslaugh-
ter Guilty Plea

James Robinson, Negro, who
pleaded guilty to a charge OF
manslaughter in the Staying OF
Alma Lewis, wife of Whining
ton Negro preacher, was
sentenced to II to Is years in
the state prison by Judge
Luther Hamilton in New Han
over court yesterday.
In accepting the plea of guilty
to manslaughter, rendered by
Attorney David Sinclair for the
defendant, Solicitor Clifton
Moore concurred in the opinion
that Robinson was guilty of
"about the strongest man.
slaughter I ever saw"
Judge Hamilton ordered Ted
Kypriss, son of a Greensboro
restaurant proprietor, to pay
So a week for the support of his
wife and infant child. Kypriss
had APPEALED to the court from
a Recorders court conviction on
the charge of abandonment and
non support.
Kypriss told the court he Sc
duced his wife while he was
stationed at an Army Air Field
near Washington, D. c. He said
he agreed to marry her only to
give the child a name, and ad-
mitted he had never given her
a cent. He testified that he work
ed in his fathers restaurant for
$25 week.
Refuses Suggestion
Under cross examination by
Aaron Goldberg, attorney for
Mrs. Kypriss, the former G. l.
admitted that he had refused to
Soo NEGRO IN Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Williams Calls
For Payment Now
Tax Angle Enters Senate
Inquiry Into War Profits
At Capitol ..,,,,,,

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 5--(P)-v
Senator Williams (R.-Del.) told
the Senate War Investigating
committee today that Howard
Hughes and his companies should
be called on to pay $5,919,921
more in taxes for the wartime
period of 1942-46.
Williams, a member of the
committee, said careful study
of accounts of the Hughes corp
oration and Hughes showed that
they had had profits of $685.
900 during the wartime period
after all taxes were paid.
Williams said that only $1,000,-
900 had been paid to Hughes
from these profits and the ball
ance was retained as undistri-
buted profits by the Hughes Tool
company.
The Senator said study Of
company records and actual tax
returns of Hughes and the COM
pany indicated a "tax deficiency
of $5,919,921."
The tax angle entered the Sem
ate inquiry in-late afternoon after
Chairman Ferguson R.-Mich.)
of the subcommittee turned over
/. questioning to Williams. Fergu-
son said that Williams and the
committee staff had made de-
tailed study of this matter.
Auditor Testifies
Al Sworn as a witness to explain
tax details was Carmine Bellino,
i auditor for the committee who
said he is a former certified &C.
countant for the Federal Bureau
!. of Investigation.
Williams, in a prepared state
ment, recalled the "sworn testi-
mony" by Hughes that for the
war period neither Hughes nor
his companies made a profit as
a result of the war"
At the time of this testimony.
4 Hughes explained that there had
: been "snall profit" but it would
: have been much larger if he had
5 not engaged in war contracts.
Williams said he based his "tax
deficiency" term on a federal
: statute that taxed wartime corp
E poration profits which were not
: distributed to stockholders.
Earlier the committee had
heard:
l. Ralph R. Graichen, an Air
Force engineer, testify that FL
lott Roosevelt, who recommends
I ed government purchase of
Hughes photo reconnaissance
plane, was not qualified to do SO.
Wilson On Stand
a 2. Charles E. Wilson, former
vice-chairman of the War Pro-
duction Board, say that he
thought plans to build such 4
photo plane so late in the war
were "silly''.
8. Wilson also stated that "out-
See WILLIAMS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Navy May Close Testing Range
At Camp Davis In Near Future
Shortage OF Funds Causes To Seriously
Curtaiment Of Guided Mis- sle Experiments Including
"Ram Jet Flying Stovepipe" At Former Armv Base

been hailed as the weapons
of the future, it is unlikely
that the navy will reduce
its research in that field any
more than absolutely neces-
sary.
The tests now being con-
Quoted on both the East and
West coasts, could be consoli-
dated, a navy spokesman
said.
The final decision about the
future of Camp Davis will be
made by the secretary of the
navy on recommendations
from the ordnance bureau,
which supervises research, he
stated.
The East coast testing range
was placed at Camp Davis
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
The Weather
FORECAST:

FORECAST:
South and North Carolina-Falr ana
mid Thursday and Friday, not so cool
thursday night, Friday increasing
c,loudiness and scattered light showers
west portion followed by cooler Wes'
portion Friday night.
Meteorological data for the "A hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday
TEMPERATURES
1870 a. m. S. 7:3O a. m. 54; 1870 p: m
u; 730 p. m. 66; Maximum 69; MINI
mum 50. Mean 81; Normal 59
HUMIDITY
>. 30 a. m. e5; 1880 a. m. 88; l 80 p. m.
~ Z 80 p. m. 90.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a 4ours ending 1880 p
m, inches
Total since the first of the month
10 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
:, IRON the Tide Tables published py
o s. Coast and Geodetic Survey;
HIGH LOW
Wilmington 3:3s am. 1857 am.
4:21 pm. 11:40 pm.
9a'onboro Inlet 1:44 am. 7:5l am.
sunrise 6:36; Sunset 5:15: Moonrlse
~ Moonset Poop.
NlVef stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at
III Wednesday. Report Missing.
More WEATHER On Page TIVE
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
And So To Bed

A Lake Forest housewife
last night was listening to one
of those "Guess the name of
this song" programs on los
cal radio station. She COM
mented to her husband, "One
of these days I'm going to get
a telephone call to guess the
name of the song and I'll bet
l miss it."
She hardly had finished
the sentence when the phone
rang and it was the announce
er. He asked the usual: care
you listening to the radio,
and what's the name Of the
song we are playing?"
You guessed it. She couldn't
name the song, and thereby
lost Fifteen Bucks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06

MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 5 -(P-
Wealthy 82-year-old Frank Maxa,
Sr., testified today that he took
"about six vacation trips" and
a '1ong taxi ride" with a pretty
|22-year-old girl but did not re-
call marrying her.
"I think that I was also in an
airplane," the retired Miamian
said.
His testimony was before
Judge W. F. Blanton in a suit
seeking to have himself declared
incompetent preliminary &c
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Farmer Will
Remain Busy
Secretary Anderson Sees
Four Full Years OF
Activity Ahead

WASHINGTON, Nov. S. Up
- The Marshall plan to help Eu-
rope means full steam ahead fc~
the American farmer for four
years.
That's the way it looks to Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson.
He boils it down this way:
/. At least four more years of
full use of the nations agricul-
tural plant"
2. Continued strain on our
grain producing areas and furth-
er delay in needed shifts from
grain to grassland and livestock
type of agriculture.
3. At the end of the period, a
self-supporting European market
for American food products con-
siderably larger than could other
wise be expected.
These results Anderson pre-
dicated on funds being supplied
to finance foreign aid at the re-
ouested level under the Marshall
plan for economic recovery in
Western Europe. His views were
given in a speech prepared for
a dinner of agricultural officials
attending a department confer
ence.
Other Headlines
Food and grain also made these
headlines:
/. Heads of the three big grain
exchanges, at Chicago, Kansas
City, and Minneapolis, asked
Congress leaders in a letter to
investigate grain trading and the
grain situation in general. They
criticized the government grain
buying program.
At Tulsa, Okla, Senator Taft
(R.-Ohio) said that everything
the exchanges letter covered had
been under investigation but that
he will promise further hear
ings" by the joint committee
which he heads.
Chairman Wolcott (R.-Mich.) J
of the House Banking committee
told reporters he does not IAN
ticipate at this time" any such
inquiry by the House group.
"Any investigation of the grain
exchanges" he said, would be
incidental to consideration of any
program the President outlines
to Congress having to do with
prices or credits.
Wolcott is vice chairman of
the joint committee on the eco
nomic report but he made it
clear he was discussing only the
program of his house committee.
Mass Campaign
2. The Citizens Food commit
tee, created to persuade Ameri-
cans to save 100,000,000 bushels
of grain to help Europe, announc
ed mass promotion" campaign
to show people why they must
help feed the hungry and how to
do so. It's program is planned to
See FARMER On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Mans Memory Muddled
About Marriage Matters

pursuing a marriage annulment
action.
Through his attorney, Jack
Moore, he told how he met the
girl, Hazel Rutherford, three
years ago in Aberdeen, Md, her
home. He said she was Railways
asking me to marry her" But,
he added:
II thought she was too young"
He asserted. his memory was
hazy about marriage at
|Lawrenceville, Ca, on Septem-
See MEMORY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Byrnes Says Russia
Violating Pledges
Former Secretary OF State Tells Bishops
Japanese Still Prisoners Despite Solemn
Covenant Of Potsdam Declaration

WINSTON-SALEM, Nov. 5. -
~ Charging that Russia h..
violated "a solemn pledge" JatS
+. Byrnes said tonight it ~.
duty to demand that ~ 81
Stain Immediately 4
estimated $4,000 Ja- ~ g
ers. 30
Our good fa4 ~ yed "
declared the form. s .tary of
state, because we TOT che initia-
tive in the Potsdam Declaration
that promised Japanese troops a
safe return home to encourage
them to surrender.
Russia adhered to this and is
bound by the pledge, but instead
of letting these prisoners of war
go home, they took hundreds of
thousands of them to Russia x
x. Every day the Soviets hold
them as prisoners, it is an in
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-06
Treasure Troving Try
Takes Time, Tedium Too

than finding buried treasure, a
fine, old American custom, to
augment the family income?
At the indirect request of my
milkman, who has been drop
ping certain threats along with
his bill, I have just completed
a study of the buried treasure
situation.
Lovers of buried treasure, the
facts are discouraging.
You see, the best place to look
for buried treasure is on govern
See TREASURE On Page Two