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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
DUKE FIREBUC
IS CAPT URED
Nurses Surprise Man After
Two Fires Had B e e
Started Last Night

DURHAM, April Is. - R~-
Duke University hospitals firebug
broke loose again about II O'Clock
tonight, starting at least two
blazes. according to unofficial In
formation.
Reports also said that a nurse,
who surprised a stranger in Of
the hospital rooms, was hit on the
head.
The assailant was cornered and
turned over to police. His identity
was not Immediately learned.
Telephone information from the
hospital said that ''there is con-
siderable smoke out here" How
ever. it was not believed the IRE
had done much damage. having
been extinguished before it could
spread.
Firemen were called to the hos.
pital shortly before II o'clock, and
half an hour later were still on the
job.
Earlier in the night they investl-
gated a call to the hospital but
found nothing more than a big
blaze in the incinerator," officials
reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
Witness Says
May Got Cash
Washington B e T
Testifies Ex-C Congressman
Casbed Carson Check

WASHINGTON, April 25 - P-
onsrled. weather-beathe Ken :
.,o5ian today related that ne pull
ont of a wartime lumber deal
..tb andrew j. May, then. House
Tlitary committee chairman, be-
sanse y decided there was some.
thing wrong
LEROY W. Fields, 70. told a fed
.ral district court jury trying
Farmer Congressman Man and
th,ee others on wal fraud charges
t..t May failed to deliver so per-
.snt of the stock in the enterprise
as promised.
"1t was about II months later
That l finally decided there was
something wrong" Fields said. 81
cscided to get out because l never
had received any of my stock"
The witness said he wrote and
tsIpnhoned from his Whitesburg ,
xy home to May in the latter's
Alice here in the national capitol.
1--WE forgotten just how many
snes l asked him about it,"
Fields said.
Did you ever get any satisfac-
ton?" the witness was asked.
Never did, never did," Fields
replied ruefully.
Sensational Day
Fields story came near the end
If a development packed day in
the trial of May and Henry and
Murray Carson, war manufac-
turers, and Joseph F. Freeman ,
Washington agent for the Cars =
sons. on charges of conspiring to
buy Mays influence to get War
department favors. There were
these other highlights:
/. Two Washington bankers said
May, Or IAN authorized agent" OF
his, cashed a $1,000 Carson firm
check, keeping $1,000 cash and
putting the S4.UUO palance IN
Mays personal bank account
here.
2. The comptroller of the Bata-
via, H.. Metal Products company,
headed by Henry Carson, said
the latter personally approved
wifi the initials 'Okay H. M. G."
The payment of a ST, 500 draft
May drew FOR that company for
cash.
3. Fields said that he thought
all along. in dealing about the
lumber firm with May, thai May
owned it. Fields said he never
saw nor heard about the Garssons
nor Freeman.
Mays counsel has argued that
Mays only interest in the Cum
berland Lumber company was to
provide lumber for the war effort
without profit to himself.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
IGNORE
THREAT OF VETO
Taft, Ball Open Drive To
Tough en- Up Senate
Bill CURLING Unions

WASHINGTON, April Is. -(P)-
Senators Taft (R-Ohio) and Ball
(R-Minn). ignoring talk OF a Presi-
Dental veto, today opened a drive
to tougher the Senate'S labor bill
in its curbs on. unions.
The move promptly collided
with opposition from Senators Ives
(R-NY), Pepper D-Fla) and Muir
ray D-Mont.).
All five Senators are members
of the Labor committee, and the
fight on the floor brought into the
open a wrangle that developed
while tie committee was writing
the bill.
The measure is generally milder
than the n the house passed last
week by a top heavy vote. But
both would ban the closed shop,
authorize court injunctions to
block strikes affecting the general
welfare, create a new federal
mediation service and make
unions subject to federal court
suits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
Union Urges
$6PayRaise
Little Progress. Reported
Following Meeting OF
Negotiating Group

WASHINGTON, April a5-W.H-
The American Telephone & Tele-
graph company tonight rejected
a compromise offer by its striking
telephone workers to return to
work for a wage increase of S. a
week-half of the strikers original
demand.
The company's rejection of the
revised demand of the National
Federation of Telephone workers
was announced by George S. Dring,
assistant vice president of the A.
T. & T. long-lines division after
an extraordinary two-hour night
bargaining session at the Labor
department.
Dring told newsmen the Bell
system just could not meet the
unions new demand.
John J. Moran, chief of the long
lines union, said the company re-
fused to make any counter-offer.
He said that negotiators obviously
had made little progress at the
night meeting.
Meet Again Today
Government c~onciliators, who
said that the wage issue was the
major item of business at the gov
ernment-sponsored meeting, said
that negotiations would be resum-
ed at 10 a. m. tomorrow.
The NFTW, meanwhile, an
nounced that it had received a
strike contribution Of $40, 900 from
President Daniel ]. Tobin Of the
AFL Transfers union.
Tobin advised NFTW Joseph
Beirne that his union would match
the contribution every two weeks
If the strike continues.
Beirne had announced that the
NFTW would call off the strike
against any company willing to
settle the wage controversy with
a S. a week increase. Although
NFTW hopes were high, govern.
ment co%nciliators were frankly pes
simistic that the wage cut would
make any progress toward settling
the 19-day-oid walkout.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
HAL LOVE BEATEN
FOR PRESIDENCY
State Jaycees Elect Edward
7. Ellis Of Charlotte
On First Ballot
BY ALCOCK BROWN

ATLANTIC BEACH, April Is -
Edward Taylor Ellis, Of Charlotte,
today was elected president of the
North Carolina Junior Chamber OF
Commerce at its 18th annual con-
vention here.
Tomorrow night, during an in
augural banquet to be followed by
a ball in the Surf club here, Ellis
will be formally ushered into Of
flee. During the past year. Odell
Lambeth, of Greensboro, has held
the post.
The Charlotte business man,
who is regional director of No =
Cormick and company, Won on
the first ballot.
Twenty-three clubs out of 48 in
North Carolina represented at the
convention gave him a total vote
of SO. Runnerup in the brisk
voting was Hal Love. of Whining
ton. who received a total of 80
votes from II clubs. Bob Will
liams, of Asheville, candidates for
the office, got 81 votes from Is
clubs.
Twelve of the states so Jaycee
organizations we're not represent
ed at the convention, which was
presided over by Lambeth, the
retiring president.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
MUST READ BOOKS

CLEVELAND, April 25.-(P
-Four boys accused of burn
ing a dog to death were order
ed by a juvenile court judge to-
day to read animal books and
to join the YMCA and Boy
Scouts.
Judge Harry l.. Eastman
mentined "Bat, the Story of a
Bull Terrier" "Call of the
Wild" "Heroes ALL" "More
Tales OF Dogs" and "How To
Raise Your Puppy" as ex-
amples of the literature he had
in mind. e..,.
Juvenile officers said the
boys, ranging from seven to IA
tied a terrier dog to a banana
stalk and tossed him into a
bonfire last month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
AFTER COURTING so
YEARS, LOVELY LADY
WEBS BALTIMORE LAD

BALTIMORE, April 25-Pe
Miss Frances Lurman, known
as one of Baltimore's "ten
loveliest ladies'" and Dorsey
Williams, retired master of
hounds of the famed Pataps-
CO hunt, were married in her
hospital room after a court
snip of go years.
Miss Lurman sat in a wheel
chair for the nuptials. She has
been hospitalized since Jan
uary.
The bride was one of those
chosen when a wealthy cit
izen left funds for a Johns
Hopkins university mural to
depict ''the ten loveliest wom-
en- in Baltimore"
The socially prominent
couple smilingly shrugged off
inquiries about their long
courtship.
Their ages? about 49,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26

MORE HISTORY - The history
Of the Hook and Ladder company
is continued today from facts sent
along the Cape Fear" by c. c.
Chadbourn.
His r~ecollections are that the
fire truck was pulled y hand and
steered by a long lever in the
rear. He says that the imam
w.-o got the red ball lad the priv
ilege of steering the truck which
was allowed to use the sidewalk"
"On one OCCASION" he said, "the
truck was passing my home with
S. H. Fishblate at the wheel. The
turn at Third and Orange was
made too short with the result
that the helmsman was thrown Out
into the street. Later a large horse
was provided to pull the truck
THE ALARM - A bell on the
market house then occupying
the center of Market street be
tween Front and Water - was
sounded to give an ala1-l. An
other means Of calling out the de
|partment was by ringing the bel
in the steeple of the First Pres
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26

INDEPENDENCE Mo-, April
25 - up Merchants in President
Truman's home town today al
most unanimously rejected his
proposal that retailers make a ~
Der cent price cut to fight infla-
ton.
Even his old friend. Mayor
Roger T.. Sermon, couldn't see
how the Presidents plan could
succeed in his town.
Sermon mayor here for more
than 20 years and a veteran gro
Gerry store operator, said:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
SAM SEEKS
FREIGHT REBATES
Justice Department To
Take Action Against
Railroads On "Charges"

WASHINGTON. April 25.-P)-
An action to recover possibly
millions OF dollars" from the
railroads in the wartime handling
Of Army-Navy freight was an
nounced today by the Justice de-
partment.
Attorney General Clark said the
proceeding will be brought Mon
day before the Interstate Com
merce commission in a complaint
alleging the government was over
charged on shipments from June
3, .1941 to Oct. 1, 1916. The COM
plant, he said, names 1854 rail
roads as defendants.
Department officials declined to
estimate definitely the refunds ex-
pected, but Assistant Attorney
General Wendell Berge said in a
statement that they "could run in
to millions of dollars"
The government will go before
the ICC in it's capacity as a ship
per, using commission proceed
ings which are open to all users
of TRANSPORTATION who desire to
complain against a. common car
rier.
Storage Privileges
The department announcement
said the railroads had long main
tanned special rates which permit
shippers to store freight designed
for export at ports at low charges
when ship space is not immediate
ly available.
During the wartime traffic con-
gestion, when port facilities were
TANNED, vast quantities of mill
tary and naval freight for over
seas shipment were stored at IN
terror points. Clark said the gov
eminent seeks to have the low ex-
port rates applied to such interior
storage. He alleged the railroads
made this concession to private
| shippers but refused. it on the
Army-Navy traffic. The explana'
ton, Clark said, was that the plar
would entail other rate revisions
under the old government lane
| grant tariffs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
SALE OF LIQUOR
DROPS IN COUNTY
Report For Period Shows
ABC Business Off
III Per Cent

New Hanover county's liquo:
sales last month amounted t,
$245, 698. 80, according to a repor
yesterday from Raleigh by til
state ABC board.
Meanwhile, the New Hanover
county ABC board yesterday re
leased the auditors report cover
ing the nine months period end
ing March 81.
According to the local repor
sales in New Hanover county have
decreased TIT percent with tn
cash profit during the period drop
ping $40 percent.
The net profits during the nine
month period in 1916 were 1891,
500. 81. During the same period il
1947 the profits were 1888, 1858
City Gets $50, 900
The report, compiled by J. New
land Brand, Jr., local CPA, re
veals that the state of North Caro-
lima received $206, 043.01 of the ne
profits New Hanover county re
ceived $50, 600 and the city of vii
mington $3.50, 900. Carolina Beacl
received $12, 900 and Wrightsvill'
Beach S 5000. The Wilmington Por
Development commission received
$7,317.38. A total of $13, 592.3 wa!
allocated to the ABC law enforce
ment board.
Officials of the ABC board sale
yesterday afternoon that 500, 00'
has been turned over to the fou1
local governments since the audi
was made. OF this amount ths
city received $50, 900, county $40,
900, Wrightsville Beach and Caro-
lima Beach S. 5000 each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
|SEABREEZE NEGRO
|. HELD in SHOOTING
Willis Freeman, rs, Die d
On Way To Hospital
OF Pistol Wound

Willis Freeman, rs year-old Ne
gro of Seabreeze died enroute to
a local hospital last night about
seven o'clock, Sheriff F. Porter
Davis said last night, and his
brother, Jessie Freeman, IS, is
being held in New Hanover county
jail pending a coroner's inquest.
Sheriff Davis said that upon ar
rival of deputies T. Butler and p.
Priest, accompanied by Coroner
Gordon Dorau, they found Willis
Freeman had been shot between the
eyes with a pistol. He was rushed
to the hospital but died enroute.
According to the investigating
officers the two brothers had been
engaged in a heated argument
shortly before the shooting took
place.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
Grissett Trial jury
TO Get Case TODAY
Judge ClaWsCn L. Williams Will CHARGE
Panel When Court Reconvenes This Morn
ing; Long Arguments Presented
BY EARL
Star Staff Writer

Inc trial OF Roy Grissett on a charge of storebreaking
larceny nit 6 and receiving, drew near the finish line yesterday
Mltn inc competitor OF arguments by prosecution and de
tense attorneys, and the jury is scheduled to receive the
case sometime this morning.
Judge Clawson L. Williams is slated to deliver hs
charge TO the jury as soop IS this mornings session begins
and is expected to finishY Tx sometime before noon.
The hearing of evif' completed yesterday morn
ing ana the afternoe $50 taken up with oral ar
EehunsS a my g Jam $N% ro Moore and ID E% nnet
staff. FS0
The de-. IS ! nTnrise nv announc;no At +bf
end of the sta.~ s. ! SO move 70 offer evidence woull
De MADE on behaa defendant, thereby gaining the
right to open and CT ,ral arguments.
At the end of the states case motions for a plea Of
former jeopardy, to dismiss the charge of breaking and
Continued o. Page Two: Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
WMFD TO INCREASE
STATION VANTAGE
Local Radio Station
d Permission To
Increase To 1000 Watts

The Federal Communication
Commission yesterday granted r.
A Dunlea, owner-manager, radio
station WMFD, a permit to in
crease the power of the station
from $50 watts to 1000 watts. This
increase in power, Dunleas said,
will give WMFD a complete COW
erage OF southeastern and eastern
North Carolina.
Notification of the increased
power was sent to Dunlea in a
telegram from Washington, D. c.,
lat yesterday afternoon. The tele-
gram, in part. stated:
"The federal Communications
Commission announced this morn
ing that radio station WMFD, Will
mington, had been granted an ap-
plication for a regional frequency
of 1000 watts on $50 kc cor I'M
limited time"
In a statement to The Star,
Dunles said, eve are overjoyed
that III Commission saw fit to
grant our application. During the
II years we have served the peo-
pie in this area we have attempt
ed in every way possible to bring
the listening audience the best in
entertainment radio had to offer.
80. Reach Wide Audience ..--
with our increased power we
vii. be able to reach a wider au-
d;ence, and in so doing bring to
the listeners a greater variety OF
local talent.
"It has always been the policy
OF WMFD to present, whenever
possible, local shows. This we will
continue to do in addition to air
ing the ABC network. In our years
of operation we have used the OPP
Grating force behind the station
and the staff"
With the increase in power,
WMFD will cover an rea north
Of New Bern and Moorehead city
and west almost into Fayetteville.
To the south. the increased power,
according to estimates, will carry
the voice of WMFD will go on the
air with increased power he did
indicate that it probably would be
this fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
REPORT SC0RCHES
CUSTOMS BUREAU
Senate ditures
Committee Charges Unit
Guilty OF incompetence

WASHINGTON, April rs. --lR-
A charge that the U. S. Customs
bureau if guilty Of "gross 1ncom-
petence" and that it made a bald
attempt" to defeat Congressional
economy by pressure tactics was
made today by the Senate Ex-
penditures committee.
The committee recommended
that the bureau be reorganized
and forced to live within its
House : approved appropriation OF
$32, 500, 900 for the year beginning
July /.
That figure is 49, 500, 900 less
than the bureau told Congress it
needs. When the House made the
cut, the bureau gave Dismissal
notices to some 1,50O Canadian
border and port patrol officers.
Congress got a barrage OF pro-
tests from port and border cities.
The Expenditures committee,
headed by Senator Bridges R-Vt,
and the Appropriations COM.
mittee, headed by Senator Brldg-
es GRIND, each made investiga-
tons.
"UnWarranted"
Aiken read to the Senate a re-
port from his committee which
says the discharges we're "com-
pletely unwarranted" and con-
stituted ga bald attempt to arouse
the public into demanding a S
toration of the reduction in expen-
ditures."
To help cure the bureaus trou-
bles, Aiken said the committee
will offer legislation under which
employees may rotate their 40
hour work week. He said this
would S a v $3.50, 900 in overtime
payments. In addition, he said the
hill would seek to wipe out a $780,
600 fund for paying overtime in
advance, with importers later re-
imbursing the bureau.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
PHONE COMPANIES REJECT LATEST
WAGE OFFER AS SETTLEMENT BASIS:
TRUMAN TO REVIEW FOREIGN POLICY
Marshall Now
On Way Home
Secretary OF State To
Report To President,
Leaders Sunday Night

WASHINGTON, April 6-(PH
President Truman today invited
Congressional leaders of both par
ties to a White House conference
Sunday night with Secretary OF
State Marshall to review foreign
policy developments.
Marshall, returning from the
Moscow Foreign Ministers confer
ence tomorrow, is expected to give
the Congressional leaders a de-
tailed report on American rela-
tons with Russia in advance OF
a radio address to the nation from
$3.50 to 9 p. M, Eastern Standard
Time, Monday night over major
networks.
Marshall will be met at the air
port here tomorrow by the Presi-
dent. MI. Truman left the White
House this evening to spend the
night on the Presidential yacht
Williamsburg on the Potomac but
will interrupt his cruise to greet
Ills VI Stdte.
Plans Uncertain
Whether the President himself
will hear what Marshall has tc
report before the session with the
congressional leaders remained I'M
certain. No plans were announced
for Marshall to join the President
on his cruise, which is to con-
tinue until Sunday evening, and
Mr.. Truman may thus receive
Marshall Briefing simultaneously
with the Congressman.
Among those invited to the Sun
day night meeting was Senator
Taft (R-Ohio), chairman of the
COP Policy committee who voted
for the Greek-Turkish aid measure
reluctantly" when it passed the
Senate this week.
Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich)
of the State Foreign Relations COM
mittee and Senator Barley Of
Kentucky, the Democratic leader,
are expected to head the Senate
delegation. if Barley returns
from abroad in time.
The conference will be the first
Mr.. Truman has held with the
lie gislators since he discussed the
$500, 900, 900 Greece-Turkey meas
ure with them in advance of his
address to a joint session Of Con-
gress March II.
That legislation is now well on
the way to final passage but two
other administration proposals
have met some questioning in Con-
gress since Marshall left for MOS
cow-the Italian peace treaty and
the $3.50, 600, 900 relief program Tor
liberated lands.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
Presidents Home Town
Lets Him Down On Plan

Independence grocery stores
operate on a II to 20 per cent
markup. The average operating
cost is IA to Is per cent. There
is no way for them to start a
overall 10 per cent reduction"
C. c. B%undschu, president OF
Independence largest depart
ment store, said, 1--WE could not
cut 10 per cent unless the whole
salers went along with us. Our net
profit will not justify or absorb a
10 per cent reduction"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
Third Of Nation To Get
Less leepFromN ow On

NEW YORK, April Is -R-At
least a third of the nations 140,-
900, 900 residents must remember
to turn their clocks ahead an hour
tomorrow night in preparation for
the annual advent of daylight saw
ing time at 2 am. Sunday.
The lost hour of sleep can be
made up % weeks and many sun
burns and mosquito bites later. on
Sunday, Sept. %.
AS usual, summer time" will
meet with wide favor ia the
Northeastern sector q the nation,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26

whose crowded cities are happy to
have the extra hour of sunlight
for recreation each evening.
But in the South, Far West and
most of the Midwest, where rural
voices and votes have a strong in
fluence, the change will be made
only sparingly.
The double-time system poses
the usual problems for railroads,
broadcasting networks and air
lines although they are expecting
little. confusion because Of long
daylight saving experience.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
The w leather

FORECAST:
South and North Carolina-SomeWha'
.ooIer Saturday, occasional light ram NJ
FORENOON, Gle; ring in afternoon tol,oW.
~ by teir and cooler Saturday night
sunday fair with rising emperatures
II" stern Standard Time)
tBy L.. S. Weather Bureau)
chronological data for the "A houls
'Noi!lg $50 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
.oi'.O a, m. s.; 1880 a. m. e.; 1850 p. m.
Il. $50 p m II; Maximum rs; Mini
mum 50; Mean II: Normal 65.
HUMIDITY
I'go a. m. 81 1870 a. m. "a; 80 p. m.
%' ~ p, II, 10.
PRECIPITATION
lotaI Tor "a hours ending 1870 p. M.
"W inches.
Total since the first of the month 80
Inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
,utonl the Tide Tables published BY
y" . Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Nv, High Low
wilmington $780, 1:47 am. 9:16 am
2:11 pm. 9:23 pm
~"dsonboro --- 1903 am. SOB am
sunrise 5:2S; Sunset o:52; Moo"riss
d Moonset 12:12a.
N-Fes stage at Fayetteville, N. c. ut
IntFriday 1913 feet.
More Weather On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
HOUSE PASSES BILL

WASHINGTON, April 25-CP
- The Republican economy
drive scored a major victory
tonight when the house passed,
307 to 30, an interior depart
ment appropriation bill total
ling $161, 413, 513 - about As
per cent less than President
Truman asked.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26

BOVE are crew members including a Wnnmtonm man of the Army All Forces C2
which will take off late this oh from arhedSmsn (CM) Army Air Be on a 6Oday
newest. developments in equipment and tchnues used in arbmne operations Shown left to right
standing, ares It. 70. William F Nand of Charleston, w Va; APT Albert T. Ward of San Fran
else. Caf; Capt James A Rbards Henderson, KY; Capt william ComonhsE aau, Pa; and
calvin Evans of Scranton, Pa, Fahchnd Aircraft technical representatives. 'front.' row: Tgt Harry
H. Coleman, Henderson, !. O.; TSt lanes w. Thompson Wilmington n C and Sgt Everett CaL
|gd St. Pals N C. COL Nmdt Capt Ward and Capt Robarsw we're members Of the rev hat
flew troop carrier Cs2t AAF bases in 2 European countries last summer
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-26
FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity Somewhat
| cooler today with occasional rain in
forenoon, clearing in afternoon followed
bv fair and cooler weather tonight.
sunday fair with rising temperatures.