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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
DAMAGE SUITS SET
FOR HEARING HERE
Three Cases With Total
Claims OF More Than
$4,000 Seen

Three suits asking for awards
totaling more than $50, 1000 from
two defendants are slated for
hearing at the February civil
term of New Hanover county
Superior court which opens in
the courthouse next Monday with
Judge Henry A. Grady Of New
Bern presiding.
Two of the three actions have
been filed against John Nuckton as
the result of an automobile acct
dent which occurred in April,
1914. The plaintiffs are Richard
Braxton, who is asking for $40, 600
damages for injuries allegedly to
have been inflicted on his person
and automobile due to the care
l~essness of the defendant, and
Jessie Braxton, who has filed suit
asking for. a $40, 900 personal dam
age award for injuries allegedly
suffered in the same crash.
The third major civil action
asks for an award of $40, 1851,
with the plaintiff, o. V. Padecky,
trading as Alberta Textile Mills,
claim ng that certain knitting ma
chinery, purportedly transported
by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
way company from Montgomery,
Alabama, to Wilmington, was
damaged due to the careiessness
# the railroad firm.
Also scheduled for action during
The one-week session are. 80 I'M
contested dive &c suits as well as
I22 other civil actions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
SO To Bed

In yesterdays account of the
Air Show at Bluethenthal field,
The Star reported: 1.-THE man
apparently under the influence
of intoxicants, jumped into the
plane and took off," 1t was
explained in the next para
graph that the pilot was Carl
Dunn.
Some of our readers got the
impression that perhaps Mr..
Dunn was under the influ-
ence." That is absolutely in
correct.
To handle a plane in the
skillful manner in which the
owner of the Wilmington Air
park did, should have been
enough to convince even a
Doubling Thomas that a man
could not have possibly sent
the small plane through such
maneuvers if he had been
drinking.
And So To Bed would like to
make this point clear.
Mr.. Dunn was cold sober
when he left the ground and we
would like to add that many a
person who might have tipped
the bottle a bit was also sober
when he landed. For those
thrilling stunts should have
had a SOLDERING effect evs0 on
the most tipsy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
z epublicans Voice Deter
mination To Trim Presi-
dent Truman's Budget

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-(P-A
policy of mo retreat on promises
to cut federal spending and slash
taxes was pledged by the house
republican, leadership today.
Clearing the way for the first
formal legislative attack on Presi-
dent Truman's $37, 500, 900, 900 bud
get, COP managers acted swiftly
to prevent the portal-to-portal pay
controversy from thwarting their
tax reduction plans.
This was the fast-moving fiscal
picture on Capitol Hill:
1. House republican leader Hal
leck of Indiana told reporters:
There is no backing down what
ever. There is no retreat in our
determination to reduce spending
and to cut taxes. That goes on
labor legislation, too. Reports to
the contrary are untrue"
2. Senate republicans aimed at a
minimum So. $50, 600, 900 cut in the
Presidents budget for federal
spending in the fiscal year begin
ming July 1.
3. Chairman Taber (R-NY) of
the house appropriations commit
tee, head of the senate-house bud
get committee, said be would not
be Limited by any specific figure
on slasbing expenditures. I'VE are
going to cut as low as we can,
he said.
4. Viewing portal-to-portal suits
as a threat to plans for income
tax reductions, Chairman Knutson
(R-Minn) of the house ways and
means committee introduced a bill
to prohibit recovery under the
suits. Knutson is author of house
bill No. l proposing a 20 PEI cent
cut of Individual income taxes.
These developments came on the
V Of the first business session
tomorrow of the house-senate
committee which will determine
congress own ceiling on federal
spending.
Knutson issued a statement say
ing treasury estimates indicate
that the federal government may
have to pay as much as 81, 900, 000,-
900 if the portal suits are judged in
favor of the complaining unions.
Such an enormous loss in reve
nue." he said, would, of course
put to an end any hope for indivi,
dual tax relief this year.
I'VE should act now to prevent
such u~ndeserved windfalls and thus
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
FISHERMEN FIND
BODY IN RIVER
Deputies Identify Man AS
Paul Bostic, Missing
Since Jan. 3

The body of a Negro man found
in the Cape Fear river yesterday
by two fishermen has been identi-
fled as that of Paul Bostic, miss
ing since January 5, according to
attaches of the New Hanover coun-
ty sheriff's office last night.
A coroner's inquest to investigate
the death of the Negro is schedul-
ed for Wednesday night.
Bostic is reported to have been
knocked overheard from the deck
of a boat being used as a ferry
on the afternoon of January 3 by
]. B. Brown, 23-year-old resident
of 900 South Sixth street. Brown
told investigating officers that he
and Bostic were arguing when the
latter attempted to strike him.
Brown said that he ducked the
blow and struck Bostic, knocking
him overheard.
Witnesses to the affray said that
the Negro never came to the sur
face and Brown was jailed pend
ing an investigation. He was lated
freed under $2500 bond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28

SCHOOL AGAIN-We wonder
pwhy the general topic school
fascinates us now when not so
many, many years ago we use to
dread the very name.
But yesterday we received a visit
from M. Henry Sternberger, of
100 North Fifth Avenue, who drop
ped by the office to pick up his
photograph of the last class taught
by Professor Washington Catlett.
Mr.. Sternberger had been kind
enough to make a loan Of the
picture of the Cape Fear Acade-
my class of 1917 to us and we ran
a reproduction of the photograph
in the January 20 issue of The Star.
a At that time we said that those
appearing in the picture would be
forced to pick themselves out as
Mr.. Sternberger did not venture
to identify the Glass of IT.
UNKNOWN FRIEND-A day or
Sc ago we found in our drawer a
complete list of those appearing in
the photograph. At first we thought
sure that Mr.. 'Sternberger had
changed his mind and had left us
the list of the students.
But yesterday he looked over the
list. admired its accuracy, but re
NAMED persistent that the listing
of the Cape Fear Academy class
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
S0L0NS DEBATING
STATE PAY HIKE
Sentiment Grows For In.
crease OF 80 Per Cent;
Hearings Called

RALEIGH, Jan. 27-P-Rep R.
T.. Harris of Person tonight. took
the floor of tn, house and declared,
IF the revenues indicated will per-
NIT, it is my purpose to support
in committee and on the floor,
salary increases in the aggregate
of 80 percent"
Rep. Harris then went on the say
that the school teachers came near
the top of the list, as far as he
was concerned, in the matter OF
salary increases.
He took the floor to state that In
a recent fight over the salary
question that e had been misquot-
ed on the salary increase. pro-
posals.
He said that during the course of
the salary debate, many "seers
and prophets of the press had me
saying things that I did not utter.
1 submit that-language of that
sort was untrue, unfair, unbecom-
ing and unjust"
Bills designed to aid poorer
counties of the state in the con-
struction of school buildings and
in the purchase of school buses
by the ALLEGATION of grants in aid
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
COMMISSION STUDIES
CRACK-UP

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 27.-PGA
Danish-D utch-Swedish investigating
commission considered the posi-
bility tonight that an airport en-
ploye may inadvertently have
caused yesterdays crash in which
the American soprano G C e
Moore, Swedish Prince Gustaf
Adolf and 20 others persisted.
The commission announced that
a steel wedge, of the type usually
used to lock elevator flaps when a
plane is on the ground, had been
found some distance from the
wrecked Royal Dutch airline DC-3.
The plane crashed in flames a few
moments after a takeoff from
Kastrup airfield.
The commission added that the
wedge was of Dutch origin and
may originate from the crashed
plane"
The announcement, contained in
a statement by M. P. Eskildsen,
Danish government air control
advisor, said that if the wedge had
not been removed before takeoff,
the pilot would not have been able
to control the plane.
Eskildsen, head of the commits
sion, stressed that the investigation
was still in it's preliminary stage,
but said the commission would
''pay special attention to this
point" Other informants said per-
sons responsible for the removal
of the wedge were being question
ed.
Danish authorities, meanwhile,
ruled that the maximum weight OF
DEB planes leaving Danish fields
must not in the future exceed 49,
243 pounds. Eskildsen said that
the ill fated plane bearing Miss
Moore and the others had been
loaded to a weight of 6 1912 pounds
629 more than the new limit.
In London, where II persons
were killed Saturday in the take
off of another DEB, Civil Aviation
CONTINUED on Page 2; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
PASSENGER TRAIN
WRECK KILLS 4
Roll OF Fencing Wire Be-
lieved Cause OF Derail-
ment In Indiana

WALTON, Ind, Jan. 81. -(PE
Four persons were killed and al.
most a score injured when a Penn.
sylvania railroad passenger train
from Cincinnati to Chicago was de-
rallied here tonight.
A state police officer and A. F.
Mcintyre, general superintendent
of the railroads Indianapolis divi-
sion, attributed the derailment to
an obstruction on the track.
State police detective Art KEEL
Ter said a roll of fencing wire was
found beneath the pilot of the
wrecked locomotive, and this was
confirmed by Mcintyre.
This information was given Gov.
Ralph F. Gates at Indianapolis,
who directed the state police to
make an intensive investigation.
Three of those killed were pas
sengers and the fourth was the
locomotive fireman, C.. A. Wisler Of
Richmond, Ind.
Two of the dead passengers were
identified as Mrs. Kathryn Marie
Kingery, Is, and Walter Pischke.
both of Kokomo, Ind.
The body of the third dead pas
senger was buried in the wreck
age of a day coach and remained
unidentified for several hours.
Detective Keller said there were
several rolls of fencing wire piled
up near the track. He said one Of
these rolls either had faller or the
track or had been placed there de-
~liberately.
Mcintyre said examination Of
the wreckage indicated the bale
of wire had caught under the front
Of the engine, causing it to jump
the track.
The locomotive tore loose from
the train, reversed it's direction and
then overturned on it's side. A bag
gage car four day coaches and a
parlor car we're derailed. Only a
diner and a parlor a on the rear
of the eight-car train remained
on the track.
The three passengers killed were
in a day coach Immediately. be-
hind the baggage ar.
Fred A. Franklin, reporter Tor
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
New Mexico Plane Crash
Claims Lives OF II Men
GEORGIA RULING
SET FOR FEB. 6
New Court Case In Atlanta
May Speed Decision
On Governor

ATLANTA, Jan. 81. -(Pe A suit
asking Georgia State Treasurer
George B. Hamilton to show cause
why he should not accept revenue
collections from Charles D. Red
wine, Talmadge-appointed revenue
commissioner, was filed in Fulton
superior court today. A hearing
was set for February 6.
The petition for a writ of manda-
mus was entered before Judge Bond
Armand by three attorneys for
Herman Talmadge, one of two
claimants to the governorship.
Hamilton has refused to accept
funds from Redwine, pending court
Qualification of the gubernatorial
situation, and Redwine says he
has collected 81, 749, 1856 in taxes
which Hamilton will not accept.
With the mandamus hearing set
for February 6, the issue of the
governorship will be brought to
court one day earlier than the suit
by Attorney General Eugene Cook
asking for a ~declaratory judgment
in the matter. Cooks. suit is set
for February 7.
Hamilton himself yesterday re-
quested such action by either the
Talmadge forces or the supporters
of 1t. Gov. NJ. E. Thompson, who
claims to be acting governor of the
state.
Earlier, the Talmadge-dominated
legislature gave cold shoulders to
suggestions that it go home until
the disputed governorship is de-
clded in courts.
The house of representatives e.
a resolution to recess until
April Z, and embarked immediate
ly on Talmadge-sponsored legisla-
ton to restore white supremacy"
in Georgia. The roll-call was lis
to 80.
An equally-decisive victory was
scored by Talmadge forces in the
senate, where confirmation was
given to 10 appointments of Her
man Talmadge. Approval came
quickly, despite warnings by Geo
rgia's state treasurer, George B.
Hamilton, that he would refuse dis
bursements to appointees of either
Continued on Page 2; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
VIEW WILL HONOR
STARR HERET0DAY
National Commander To Be
Guest OF Local Group At
Luncheon

Louis E. Starr, of Portland,
oregon, national commander, Vet
sfans OF Foreign Wars, will arrive
IN Wilmington this morning as the
guest OF the James A. Manley
roSf' VFW, E. C. Snead, command
eL, SAID yesterday.
e'arr will inspect the Lake Forest
housing project of the VeteJtns
MONIES Incorporated this morning
anu at noon will be honored with
~ iuAcheon in the Cape Fear club.
!ne National commander will
speak eak over WGNI at 1 p. m. today.
following the broadcast, Starr
'uu four delegates from the local
sus, Will travel to Raleigh to at
te,lo a banquet being held there
'Or Il, In Starts honor.
n delegates are Snead, A. j.
pp,unles' Ken Noble, and Hugh
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28

0ASN oAAo1 o1tCl lCdS1llllS llG
base hospital.
Two of the dead were:
Col. William A. Hatcher, Jr., SO,
whose wife and two small daugh-
tiers live at Kirkland field.
Capt. Robert F. Bledsoe, q,
whose wife, Mrs. Wanda 10 Bled-
soc and small son live at Ell Paso,
Tex.
Names of the other dead were
still withheld pending notification of
relatives.
First reports said IA men we're
aboard but Hoisington lowered
the number to II after rechecking
the flight list.
He declined to say whether the
plane was attached to Sandia air
base, which is connected with the
atomic bomb project.
Hoisington said there were few
witnesses to the crash and that he
was having trouble piecing details
together. One witness, he stated,
said one of the engines caught fire
before the huge craft cleared the
field. Then shortly after the plane
became airborne it smashed into
an arroyo about one-fourth mile
south of the runway end, and
flames quickly swept through the
fuselage.
Most of the crew lived in Albu-
querque. Hoisington went himself
to notify relatives of some of the
victims.
The plane was still afire when
Hoisington arrived at the scene
about Is minutes after the crash.
It burned an estimated 80 minutes
and witnesses said there was little
left except "a lot of heavy equip
ment."
Bits of metal were scattered
about the crest of the knoll where
the ship first struck. It apparently
bounced about so feet, then hit the
earth again, shedding a portion of
one wing. Some 200 feet away a
section of the fuselage, and three OF
the big engines lay smouldering.
Nearly 200 feet further, was the
second crumpled wing and the
fourth engine, partly buried in the
ground.
Bodies of some of the men, and
the two who we're still alive when
picked up, were thrown clear of
the wreckage but the heat from
the blazing gasoline scared their
bodies.
Secret devices, the nature of
which the Army refused to reveal,
were removed before photogra-
piers we're permitted near the
scene,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
CORONER TENDERS
RESIGNATION HERE
Commissioners Post pone
Action On Junior College
And Stadium Lease

No action will be taken on the
resignation of Asa w. Allen as New
Hanover county coroner until a
replacement has been secured for
the veteran official, it was decid-
ed at a meeting of the board of
county commissioners yesterday.
Giving i'll health as his reason
for resign1ng the office he has held
since 1928, Allen submitted his
resignation in the form of a letter
to the county board, pointing out
that his decision to retire came
On the advice of his doctor.
E. L. Strickland has been assist
ing Allen in the functions of the
coroner's office for the past sew
eral years and speculation over
whether or not he will succeed to
the post was rife yesterday after
noon.
Action by the commissioners on
the junior college and tuberculosis
projects was postponed following
County Attorney Marsden Bel
lamy's promise that he would
have necessary papers for the hold
ing of the referendum drawn by
the next meeting of the board.
Also postponed was a decision
on the renting of Legion stadium
by l.. M. Pollock, president of the
local baseball club. Pollock had
asked that rent on the park. be
set at $2560 per season and That
concessions at the stadium be
leased to the baseball club on the
that 10 per cent Of the
revenue to turned owes to the
county.
A report by Thomas K. Woody,
clerk of the board, showed that
the leasing of the park to the club
last season resulted in an income
to the county of So, 461.11 with re-
figured on the basis of a
10 per cent assessment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28

attack on a Palestine police sta
'lon. Officials said the stay was
granted to permit an appeal to the
prlvy council, Britain's supreme
court.
Police had attributed the kid.
napplngs to Gruner's scheduled
hanging. Authorities expressed the
opinion that. Irgun Zvai Leumi. I'm.
foreground organization. was hold.
Ing the two Britons as hostages. to
head off the executions.
troops and police, meanwhile.
combed the troubled Holy Land for
two groups of kidnappers. who
snatched a bewigged Judge from
MS courtroom in Tel Aviv today
and abducted a banker from his
nome in Jerusalem last night.
No trace was found of the vic.
TINS, Judge Ralph Windham. AZ
and H. A. I. Collins, As.
British authorities imposed a
dawn to dusk curfew on the Jewish
quarters of Jerusalem and Haifa.
and on all 200, 900 residents of Tel
Aviv. Some 80, 900 Jews in Jeru-
salem were placed under house ar
rest. Traffic after dark was ban
ned on all Holy Land highways.
Loud speakers, mounted on
armored cars, announced the cur
Jews to Jewish residents. Hundreds
OF bren carriers clattered through
Tel Aviv.
Judge Windham was hearing a
routine inheritance case when the
Weil-dressed gunman slipped quiet
iy into his courtroom and ordered
the small group of persons present
to face the wall.
DO not be alarmed. We want
to take only the judge with u.s.
eyeWitnesses quoted q gunman as
saying in Hebrew.
The judge. wearing his wig and
judicial robes. was whisked away
IN an automobile, the kidnap car
later was found abandoned in Ram
at Gan. suburb Of Tel Aviv.
Within 10 minutes of the kidnap-
ing, sirens sounded throughout the
all-Jewish city and police Gordon
ed off the court area. Five minutes
later, Tel Aviv's Mediterranean
Beach, which had been crowded
with thousands of bathers, was de-
serted and the city's streets were
empty.
Windham, president of the Tel
Aviv court. is heir to the ancient
Bowyer-Smyth baronetcy. He has
been in the colonial service for Is
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
ATOMIC ENERGY
TAKES TOP NEWS
AS CHARGES FLY
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atomic energy exploded into the
news yesterday:
Republican Senators quizzir :
David E. Lilinenthal on his qualifi-
cations to head the new domestic
atomic energy commission urged
that the military be kept fully ad-
vised. 'Lilienthal agreed to consult
military officials but demurred at
admitting them to commission ses-
lions.
Senator Mcmahon D-Conn),
ur0ing sped or international con-
troll, told the senate "it seems
obvious" that Russia now is build
ing an atomic plant in the Urals
md eve may be in mortal
1"nger.'
Warren r. Austin. chief delegate
to the United Nations, held his
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-28
RUSSIA SUBMITS
PLAN FOR REICH
Foreign Ministers Council
Hears Plea For Big 4
To Write Treaty

LONDON. Jan. 27.-(P-Russia
submitted a memorandum to the
den1tv foreign ministers council to-
dav proposing that the United
states. Britain, Russia and France
write a formal peace treaty for
GERMANY which would be present
~ IN = future German state" for
ratification.
The proposal ignored an Ameri-
can suggestion of last week that a
"neace statute" be adopted instead
Of a formal treaty. American
sources said a Qualification of the
Russian plan would be sought.
The Russians proposed that the
four powers write the German
peace treaty after hearing sug-
gestions at an international con-
ference open only to those allied
powers who were active belliger-
ents. The treaty would be sub
mitted in final form to allied ma
lions who declared war but did not
put forces in the field.
The final step would be the sub
hitting of the treaty to the Ger
man state for ratification.
U. S. Delegate Robert Murphy
advanced the idea of a peace
statute" to save a newborn demo
cratic government in Germany
from criticism among the people
for signing a peace with the vic
tors.
The Soviet note said that a peace
conference should be called only
when "a central government is es-
tablished which is recognized as
suitable to accept a peace treaty.
Meanwhile Poland and Greece
made their requests TO the council
today for repagations and peace
guarantees against Germany and
Austria.
Stefan Wierblowski, the Polish
spokesman, placed at $11, 700, 000,-
900 or 38 percent of "our material
wealth." the property losses suf-
fered by Poland in the war. He
said the loss in lives was about g.
0O0, 600 men, women and children,
or 1873 percent of the population.
He reiterated Poland's claims to
4O,OO0 square miles of German
territory along the Oder and
Nelsse rivers, which Poland re-
CARDS as her permanent western
borders.