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Evening star., 1947-09-21
MeW Doctor for OurHousing Industry
Steers. Through Politics
To Reach His Main:
,.: Objective =. +

Gll1ilS any OOuy CdlI Say dtdAlSt COACy
is that he has balanced viewpoint" "
How Mr.. Foley reached his present
post can be. quickly told. Born in
Wayne County, Mich, 81 years ago,
ne spent his boyhood mostly on his
parents farm, later attending school
in Detroit and Mount Clemens,
Mich. After graduating from high
school he got . newspaper job in
Detroit and later became city editor
Of the Daily Press in Pontiac, Mich
In 1888 he was named to set up
a public relations division for the
State Of Michigan and to serve IS
chairman Of the State Employment
Recovery Commission. A year later
he was chosen State director Of the
newly established Federal Housing
Observation-Disclosures agency
created to revive the moribund home
building industry through insured
mortgages on new construction.
Called to Washington
After II years as Michigan FLA
director Mr.. Foley was called to.
Washington to take over the entire
agency. Six months after>he arrived
the President brought MIR. Wyatt up
from Louisville as national housing
expediter. with a request to make
no little plans" .',.'
Taking Mr.. Truman at his word,
the energetic former Louisville May
or drew up the veterans emergency
housing program. Key features were
re-establishment Of price ceilings,
issuance Of housing priorities. crea-
tien of a huge fund to subsidize
building, materials production and
launch factory-built housing and
strict limitation Of nonresidential
construction. To Mr.. Foley's FHA
went the job of handling priorities,
including fixing Of maximum sales
prices and rentals on new construc-
ton.
Nearly year later, after his effort
to launch the Lustron Corp. and
other prefabricators on big in
dustrialized housing program was
directly baked by RFC Director
George Allen, Mr.. Wyatt resigned, his
two posts as housing expediter and
administrator Of the overall Na-
tional Housing Agency.
To I'LL the breach, the President
named Mr.. Foley national housing
administrator and Frank r. Creedon
housing expedfter. Then, 4 few
months ago. the Presidents reorgan-
ization plan for a permanent hous-
ing agency went into effect. Mr..
Truman once again chose Mr.. Foley
for the Nations highest housing
post. -. 4
Today, those who haunt the
arenas in which the housing fracas
is being fought out say that In his
new job Mr.. Foley can be counted
on to be much more than q com
placent umpire. They will tell you
he writes his own speeches, and
that, despite their FURNISHED prose,
(see DOCTOR" Page C-5D
Evening star., 1947-09-21
WAA's Surplus Stockpile
Is Beginning to Level Off
Two. Thirds of 20 Billion Dollars Worth Of
War Leftovers Have Been Bought Up,
With Few Marketables Left |
By John A. Giles

Uncle Sans big surplus beginning marketable
The War criticized by friend and
foe the target congressional Investigations
policies throughout its chekered
Of the $4,000 900 worth Of property
Evening star., 1947-09-21
Specter of a Third Party
Keeps Democrats Alert
Politicians Aware That Big Switch by Labor
and Independent Liberals Would Bolster
the Republicans at the Polls
By Edward A. Horris

Once again there persistent talk Of political party
United States To the stateg Republican Party
nar are not overly fond OF efwng Democrats the
positively delightful To the regulars Party who
look their liberal bedfeovs suspicion not outright dsase
the of losing disconceng for reasons
Of practical >------
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
Along The Cape Fear

ing the total of Wilmington high
school graduates to 315.
In 1910 nine rooms had been
added to the high school building
and IA teachers and a principal
composed the faculty.
M. c. S. Noble was succeeded
by John J. Blair as Wilmington
school superintendent on January
5, 1899. In 1901 the city was deed
ed the Tileston building and halt
of the city block it occupied as
a gift.
In 1904 four rooms were added
to the Union school and Hemen-
way had already been enlarged
by the addition of eight rooms.
A local tax of Is cents on $l0O
valuation was voted by the coun-
ty in 1909, and New Hanover be-
came the first county in the state
to establish a special tax district.
By an act of congress in 1910
eleven city blocks of land behind
the Marine hospital were secured
by the board of education Tor
school and park, purposes. The
public school system was the
beneficiary in 1911 of gift of a
brick school building from Sam
Bear, affording valuable ano
needed addition to the equipment
of the city's facilities for public
education.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
CHLORINE BLAST
KILLS SIXTEEN
Finnish Port Town Stroud.
ed With Noxious Fumes;
Forty-Nine Burned

HELSINI, Finland, Nov. 6 -
Wp)-Smoke and deadly chlorine
gas today still shrouded the
West Finnish port of Raumo,
where at least 16 workers died
yesterday when a tank of liquid
chlorine exploded in pulp mill,
setting fire to the factory and
clouding the town with noxious
fumes.
Forty-nine burned, blasted or
gas-stricken victims were still
in hospitals today. Seventy 9th
ers were released after receiv-
ing first aid.
Medical squads wearing gas
masks were still combing the
smouldering ruins of the pulp
mill seeking additional bodies.
Raumo, evacuated by half of
it's 10000 inhabitants at the
height of the terror, was one
quarter vacant late today.
Heavy clouds of chlorine en-
veloped the town late yester-
day, causing panic among the
people and seriously hampering
rescue efforts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
UNr&P Political Committee Votes
~~s;;proval Of little Assembly,;
Battle Looms Over Aid Program
|Molotov Tells Russian Nation
Atomic Bomb No Longer Secret
Foreign Minister Says US.
Britain Preparing For
Aggression

MOSCOW, Nov. 6. -(P)- For
eign Minister V. M. Molotov told
the Soviet Union tonight on the
eve of Russia's most sacred holi-
day that the "secret of the atomic
bomb ceased to exist a long time
ago" and that the United States
and Great Britain clearly were
making "a preparation for ag-
gression."
Prime Minister Stain was alb
sent from the Bolshoi theater,
evidently still on his annual va
cation at Black Sea port, when
Molotov keynoted the celebration
of the 30th anniversary of the
Bolshevik revolutionary victory
over Czardom by attacking the
United States for hiding its
atomic knowledge.
Although Molotov gave no de-
tails to back up his statement
that the bomb was no longer
secret, the Russian notables who
attended the theater celebration
took his declaration at face value
and, after breathless hush
greeted it with tumultuous ap
plause, leaping to their feet ane
cheering wildly.
To Calm Fears
(U. S. officials in Washington
however, expressed the convic
ton the speech was intended tt
calm fears among Russians abou
their ability to produce an atomic
bomb. A Polish official at tn.
United Nations Assembly said th'
secret had been known for some
time, but not the technique Of tn
bombs assembly,
Another notable absentee in ad
dition to Stain was Col. Gen
Andrei A. Zhdanov of the Polit
buro who told the worlds Com
munists last month Russia woul,
take the lead in attempts t
wreck the Marshall plan. "a
that time, Zhdanov was quoted il
a Warsaw dispatch as saying tn
Soviet Union was not yet in pos
session of the atomic bomb.)
Delivering the main polio,
speech of the celebration from
the theater stage, which wa
adorned with the Soviet coat o
arms and a huge portrait o
See MOLOTOv On Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
FIRST WILMINGTON HIGH

FIRST WILMINGTON HIGH
SCHOOL, Planning soundly for
the future, the Wilmington
school committee devoted their
attention to closing the gap be-
tween the grammar school educa.
ton and the state university.
They purchased a lot at the
corner of Third and Market
streets, and moved the advanced
classes from the grammar schools
into the little one story school
house just south of the court
house on Third street.
The little schoolhouse was the
Wilmington high sch Dol until
1897 when the graduating classes
from the Hemenway, Union, and
Third street schools, numbering
100 in all, moved into the Tileston
normal school building under the
tutelage of four teachers. This
building had been leased through
tn efforts of James H. Chad
bourn.
The first high school graduating
exercises were held the following
May with certificates awarded tc
three girl graduates. In the fol
lowing years the numbr of gradu-
ates increased until 1914 the grad.
uating class numbered 80, rails.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
BISHOP TO OPEN
MISSION SERIES
Rt. Rev. Karl Brock OF
California To Preach
First At St. James

Recognized as an eloquent
speaker and much in demand
all through the Episcopal
church, the Rt. Rev. Karl Nor
gan Block, bishop Of California,
will open a weeks mission ir
Wilmington Episcopal churches
Sunday morning at II o'clock
at St. James church.
Concluding service of the mis-
sion will be preached by the
Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sheriff.
presiding bishop Of the Episco
pal church in the United States
at St. Johns Episcopal church
at II am. on Sunday, Novem
ber 16.
Bishop Sheriff. was elected il
1916 to the highest office of the
church, after serving as the bish
op of Massachusetts, from 1880
1916.
In commencing the week!
mission, of Bishop Block, in the
Wilmington churches to tn
Episcopalians in his diocese
Bishop Thomas H. Wright, O
southeastern North Caroline
diocese, said, cit is my earnes
hope and sincere prayer that
not only will every Episcopaho1
in Wilmington attend this mis-
sion at every opportunity, bu
that you will bring others eacf
day and each night, that this
may be an uplifting experience
| for our entire community"
Schedule Released
Bishop Blocks schedule il
Wilmington has been released
as follow:
Sunday, November 9, IL am.
st. James Church, 8 pm:
Church of the Good Shepherd
See MISSION on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
Soviet Bloc Will
Boycott Session
Forty-Three Nations APP
prove Plan Advanced
By Sec. Marshall

LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 6-N
An overwhelming majority Of
the United Nations approved
Secretary of State Marshall's
Little Assembly, plan today
and the Soviet bloc promptly
announced it would boycott
such a year-around session.
Thus, 81 nations instead of the
full membership of 81 would at
tend the Little Assembly"
body which would sit between
regular fall sessions of the As
sembly.
This was the fourth an
nounced Soviet boycott of a ma
jority-approved body. 1t drew
an emphatic protest from sew
eral delegates. Britain chal-
lenged Russia to take the issue
to the International Court of
Justice.
The vote was 43 to 6 in the
regular Assembly's Political
committee, for a watered-down
''Little Assembly, plan written
by subcommittee on which
Russia and Czechoslovakia de-
clined to serve. The six-mem-
ber Russian bloc voted against
it. The plan now goes to the
Assembly for final action in
plenary session probably a te
next week.
This wider split in the cleav-
age between the Russians and
the Western powers came as
Foreign Minister V. M. Molo-
TOW, of Russia, announced in
Moscow that the secret of the
atomic bomb has "ceased to
exist" Molotov also declared
that the U. S. and Britain
hamper the United Nations
from adopting a final decision
on the prohibition of atomic
weapons.
U. N. delegates after ex-
\ See SOVIET On Pare Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 6. -WD
- A 4,50O-pound circus elephant
fatally trampled its aged keeper
in a baggage car today but as the
dying man was carried to hos
pital he said it was an accident
and asked that the animal be
spared punishment.
William Brown, 70, Of Trenton,
N. j., died at Grady hospital an
hour after two railway station
employees, J. G. Green and j..
w. Cheek, dragged him from the
car. His hip had been crushed
and he suffered internal injuries.
Green and Cheek were work.
ing nearby when Brown enter
| ed the baggage car to look at
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
Polio Drive
Given Boost
REPRESENTATIVES OF South.
eastern Carolina Chap
ters Meet Here

Representatives of seven South
eastern North Carolina chapters
If the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis made plans for
.be 1948 March of Dimes cam
naien and heard three James
Walker Memorial staff members
discuss the hospitals treatment
facilities in a dinner session at
the Friendly last night.
"A great deal of interest in
what is being done in the fight
against polio was shown by the
cbapters in Southeastern North
Carolina, and I'm sure it will re.
sult in the greatest March OF
Dimes we have ever had," de-
clared Mrs. Philip Russell, direct
or of organization of the North
Carolina foundation from Chapel
Hill.
Mrs. Russell was accompanied
to Wilmington by Philip S. Ran
dolph. eastern North Carolina
representative who is Eaison
agent between the national foun-
dation and hospitals and county
chapters.
All of the members at last
nights session are representa-
tiyes of counties which are par
ticipating in the James Walker
Memorial treatment center.
They heard DR.. Joseph c.
Knox, pediatrician at James
Walker, describe treatment in the
various stages of polio. Miss Jean
Bailey, physical therapist, talked
on therapy treatment of polio,
myelitis. John Rankin, superin-
tendent discussed the financial
end of the treatment and ex-
planned the services supplied by
James Walker.
Equipment Secured
"For the last year we (the
southeastern chapters) have been
trying to insure the best serv-
ice and treatment possible for
this area" Randolph declared.
This we have done by getting
equipment for James Walker, in
Guiding the first physiotherapy
unit in the history of Whining
ton"
The state representative also
pointed out that the southeastern
chapters had interested DR..
Joseph c. Knox, in taking a
special refresher course in polio
treatment and had made the
course available for him at Knick-
erbocker hospital in New York.
He said that they also had in
See POLIO On Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
Plaque Points To Place
Where President Parked

Mr.. Truman was Senator,
Vice President and - for a
couple of days - President.
Mrs. Ricketts, said the Tru-
mans, who lived in 209, were
model tenants.
Ever any complaints about
their tossing the furniture around
late at night or otherwise raising
old Ned?
"Oh, my, no." said Mrs. Rick
etts.
Mrs. Rube Sworzyn, who has
Lived in this apartment house ever
since it was built 20 years ago,
said this was true, all right.
lawfully nice people," she
See PLAQUE ON Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
WAITER MUSTPAY
OR GO TO ROADS
Judge Hamilton Orders Ted
Kypriss To Give Wife
$780, Jail Alternate

Judge Luther Hamilton yes
terday in New Hanover Supe-
rior Court ordered Ted Kypriss.
Greensboro waiter, to pay ST.
ESQ for the benefit of his wife
on or before November 20, or
serve two years on the roads.
Kypriss was reported by his
attorneys to have gone nome to
Greensboro to see if he ccald
raise $25 week to pay his wife
and child as ordered yesterday
by Judge Hamilton in the aban-
donment and non-support suit
brought against Kypriss by his
wife, Janice L. Kypriss.
In court Wednesday, Kypriss
expressed willingness to pay $40
a week to support his child but
refused to make any payment
for the support or expenses in
Cured by his wife. David Sim
clair, attorney for Kypriss, indi-
Gated today his client would be
glad to pay $40 a week.
"If he does, we will indict
him." retorted Aaron Goldgerg,
attorney for Mrs. Kypriss, who
maintained SIS week was not
sufficient to support child at
the present cost of living.
Judge Hamilton sentenced
Willie Farrow, Negro, to IL
months in the county Jail assign
ed to work for the sheriff about
the court house, after the de-
fendant was found guilty Of as
sault with a deadly weapon.
Albert Metts, Jr., who pleaded
nolo contendere to charge OF
reckless driving was ordered to
pay the costs and $100 restitu-
ton to repair damage to an au-
tomobile with which he collided
on curve near Wilmington.
Ralph McAlexander, Eddie
Johnson, and Maurice Edwin
Kerns, pleaded nolo contendere
to a charge of forcible trespass
arising out of an indictment for
the alleged attempted larceny
See WAITER on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
Republicans Ask
Full Disclosure
Secretary Marshall Urged
To Appear Before Groups
On Monday

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6-R)-
Congress squared away today for
a big battle over methods of aid
ing Europe, as Republican lead
ers called for full disclosure of
facts and scored the Truman ad-
ministration for ''incompetency'
in handling foreign relief bill
lions.
Secretary of State Marshall
was asked to appear before Sen
ate and House Foreign Affairs
committees next Monday and ex-
plain "in detail' the program for
emergency aid this winter. Con-
gress members specified the right
to question him Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Earlier, President Truman tag
ged the matter Of stop-gap help
the No. l priority when Congress
returns Nov. II, giving it pre-
cedence over initiation control.
But the whole question of bill
lions for Europe threatened to
boil over into a protracted
wrangle even before the lawmak-
ers' return as evidenced by House
Speaker Martins (R.- -Mass.) die
tum that his party will stand for
no rubber stamping" of the ad-
ministration's plans.
Demands Detail
Rep. Halleck (R. .-Ind.), House
Republican leader, issued state
ment accusing the administra-
ton of incompetence" in handl-
ing funds, and declaring Con-
gress must spell out in detail
exactly how the aid-to-Europe
program shall be carried out"
One report circulated on Capt.
tol Hill that a powerful move
ment will be launched to re-
strict emergency aid as much as
possible to goods - and hold
down on the overseas shipment
of American dollars.
One member of the Special
House Foreign Aid committee
See REPUBLICAN on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
BISHOPS APPROVE
PHILIPPINE PLEA
Committee Votes Unani-
mously In Favor OF Limit
ed Church Union

WINSTON-SALEM, Nov 6-(P)
The petition of the PHILIPPINE In
dependent church for limited
union with the Protestant Epic
copal church of America was
approved today by the Ameri.
can church's House of Bishops.
Only one vote was cast
against the approval. It was by
the Right Rev. Henry Wise Hob
son of Cincinnati, Ohio, bishop
of Southern Ohio.
He explained later that he
was not against the granting of
the petition but had voted mo"
only because he thought the
matter had been given insuffici
ent study and that the House
of Bishops was acting too
speedily.
The Philippine church had
asked that the American church
convey valid orders to their
bishops and clergy; train their
applicants for the ministry; and
allow them to use their prayer
book.
The petition was referred to
special committee Wednesday
for study. This committee-com-
posed of the Right Rev. F. P.
Ivins, bishop of Milwaukee
chairman; The Right Rev.;
Theodore Russell Ludlow of
Newark, Suffragah bishop of
Newark; The Right Rev. Ed
mund Pendleton cambridge of
Nashville, Tenn, bishop of Ten
nessee; and The Right Rev.
Lewis Bliss Whittemore of
Grand Rapids, Mich, bishop of
Western Michigan-was sche-
uled to report back to the
House of Bishops tomorrow, but
finished it's study early and re-
ported today.
Unanimous Report
It recommended unanimously
that the petition be granted, and
that the presiding bishop,
The Right Rev. Henry Knox
Sheriff. of New York City, be
requested to proceed to work
out details for conveying valid
orders to the Philippine church,
See BISHOPS on Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
CHERRY APPEALS
FOR NEW CROPS
Tobacco Growers Urged To
Diversity To Offset Ex-
port Market Losses

RALEIGH, Nov. 6-F-Gover-
nor Cherry today appealed to
tobacco growers in North Caro-
lina's 48 flue-cured tobacco coun-
ties on the necessity of diversi-
flying crops and livestock pro-
duction at once to compensate
for loss in income with reduced
1948 acreage.
He said that he had called
on Dean I. o. Schaub of N. c..
State college extension service
to arrange meetings in the lead
ing tobacco counties and to inn
press upon farmers their prob
lem.
Tobacco is a great money
CROP" the governor said, "but
our farmers will be able to
make up some of their income
by raising small grains, soy
beans, hogs and going in for
livestock production and dairy
ing"
Dean Schaub earlier told a
meeting here of agricultur al
leaders that reduced tobacco
and peanut acreages would pose
a serious problem on the econo-
my of North Carolina.
Reduction Figures
He said the tobacco acreages
would be reduced from 100000
to 100000 with the peanut acre
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
P0LITIC0S FIGHT
in CE0RCIAC0UR1
Contest For Party Control
Winds Up In Fisticuffs
AT Augusta

AUGUSTA, Ca, Nov. s. -W.n
T. A contest for control of thu
Democratic party in Georgia boil
ed over today in a courtroom fis
fight between two of the state!
top political leaders.
Veteran Politician Roy V. Har
ris of Augusta attacked State
Democratic Chairman William S
Morris when the latter cursed
him a few moments before the
hearing on suit for party pow
er began.
Morris asked Harris if he pub
lished the Augusta Courier,
weekly tabloid devoted mostly
to caustic criticism of Gov. M
E. Thompson, his administration
and supporters including Morris
eyes, Bill, I do," Harris re
piled as he talked with report
er.
"Anybody who published the
Courier is q ----, MOI
ris said.
Harris landed one blow, bowl
ing Morris over into the jury box
and then jumped on him. They
wrestled on the floor before
lawyers separated them. Back
on their feet with the attorneys
restraining them, Harris declar
e6 nobody could call him what
! Morris did.
Morris retorted he had just
Coo pOIITICOS On Page Five
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-07
White House
Gets Poultry
Crates OF Clucking Chick
ems Form Live Protest
From Producers

WASHINGTON, Nov. -R-
Crates of clucking chickens be-
gan arriving today at the White
House and the Luckman Food
committee headquarters as
irate fowl producers protested
poultryless Thursday.
The idea, variously described
by Washington wits as a Hens
for Harry or Leghorns for Luck
man movement, apparently orr
ginated in New York state and
was spreading.
The thesis the growers were
trying to get across was that
they couldn't sell the birds,
couldn't afford to keep feeding
them, and therefore the govern
ment ought to figure out the
answer
By coincidence, the Agricul-
ture Department issued report
that poultry is Cutting the ma
tons markets.
Three crates arrived at
the White House. A half dozen
arrived addressed to Charles
Luckman, chairman of the citi-
ems food committee which ia
thered the meatsess Tuesday
and poultryless Thursday grain
saving campaign.
Close to 100 chickens had
reashed here by mid-afternoon,
it was estimated. The food COM
mittee was forwarding its crates
to the Salvation Army, and
the White House sent it's dona-
tions to the Walter Reed hospi-
tai for veterans.
Luckman Speaks
In Los Angles, Luckman told
news conference:
Anytime the Poultrymen's S
Association or anyone can show
us a better way to save grain
than by having poultryless
Thursdays, we will be glad to
adopt it.
"You might ask why we dom t
encourage people to eat more
chickens. The answer is that
this would simply encourage
farmers to raise more of them"
Apparently Secretary of Agri-
culture Anderson was next on
the list to hear the cackling
protest. In Albany, NY, it was
learned that a group of Greene
county farmers dispatched four
crates to Mr.. Truman, three
each to Luckman and Anderson.
Thomas Albright Of Athens
and Henry J. Kreher of East
Amherst, both towns in upstate
New York, were identified as
two of the senders. They said
shipments are meant to show
that if the fowl are not disposed
of "they will continue to eat
precious grain needed in Eu-
rope"
Albright headed the Greene
county group which sent So chic
kens to Washington. It was re.
ported the New Workers hoped
to spread the campaign nation
ally.
The White House received
seven White Leghorns from
Dryden, NY, six Barred Rocks
from Altoona, Pa, and ten
White Leghorns from East Elm
hurst, N.Y..