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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
FIGHT
SOUTH ATLANTIC
PARITY RATE BID

MIAMI, Fla, July 30 - up =
The port of Jacksonville joinec
with southern railroads today ir
an effort to quash a bid by three
south Florida sea ports for equa.
freight rates as applied to impor'
and export traffic with the SOUTH
Atlantic and Gulf ports.
T. C. Maurer, traffic manager Of
the Jacksonville traffic bureau
testified before Interstate Com
merce Examiner S. R. Diamond.
son that the port of Jacksonville
opposes parity rates for the three
complainant south Florida ports
Miami, Port Everglades and For
Pierce - on the contention tina
a decrease in rates for those ports
would mean an increase for Jack
sonville.
Mau-er testified that Florida
ports are enjoying an increase III
business while south Atlantic
ports are having a decline in bus.
mess.
1t was expected that New Or
leans, New York, Wilmington
Del. and Savannah, Ca, would
appear as intervening ports.
The hearing, now in its eighth
day, was expected to end eithe-
FRIDAY or Saturday,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
Supply Plant Strike Hats
FordMotor Co. Production
$4,000 Employees Idle
When Clio United Auto
Workers Walkout

DETROIT, July 30 -W.H- The
! Ford Motor company suspended
most manufacturing operations to-
night because Of a key supplier
plant strike. This and other rapid.
fire developments in the auto in.
dustry idled more than Al, DOC
workers.
Ford sent home q, 600 employees
for the remainder of the week be-
cause of walkout of 1000 CLIO
United Auto Workers at two plants
of the Murray corporation, a big
Ford supplier.
A wildcat strike of JAW work
ers at the Hudson Motor Car COM
pany, apparently without reason,
closed the plant and idled 5000
employees.
Chrysler corporation said it
would cut Dodge light truck pro-
duction so per cent next Monday
and send home 1900 workers be-
cause of the Murray strike.
In addition, Ford faced a threat
ened strike Monday of all its 108,
900 production workers across the
country.
These developments, except for
the Hudson dispute, resulted from
the attempt of the JAW to ram
home provisions in new contracts
with Ford and Murray that would
dodge penalty provisions of the
Taft-Hartley law.
Negotiations in the week-old
"test' strike at Murray we're in
recess until Monday, but UAW
negotiators met with Ford Off
Gals in their drive for a John
L. Lewis" no-penalty clause in a
new contract.
JAW Vice-President Richard T.
Leonard said the company replied
with a flat no." and added that
"both sides have exhausted every
argument at their command.
Leonard will ask the JAW ex'
ecutive board in a special meeting
Saturday to sanction a general
strike of Ford plants to back the
demand.
John S. Bugas, Ford vice-presi'
dent and director of labor rela'
tons, said the company actually
had made an informal counter
proposal to the John L. Lewis
| clause. He did not describe the
offer but said the company believ'
ed it "feasible and workable"
UAW-Ford negotiations were adj
journed until tomorrow morning.
Then the. company announced
that the Murray strike lad Grip
! pied its inventories to the point
where it would have to shutdown
manufacture of parts and supplies
tomorrow and Friday. Ford does
See STRIKE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31

LOS ANGELES, July 30-WD-
Howard Hughes charged today that
a Senate investigation of his air
plane building activities was a
blackmail weapon to force the
merger of his Trans-World airplane
with Juan Trippe's Pan-Amerlcan
anyways.
Hughes accused Sen. Owen D.
Brewster, R., Me-, of offering to
call off the investigation if he would
agree to the merger on terms
which he deemed unfavorable to
TWA stockholders.
The alleged offer, Hughes said,
was made by Sen. Brewster at a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
To Represent
City AtAkron
William H. Land d, Jr.,
Finishes Three-Tenths
Of A Second Later
By TED THOMPSON
Star Staff Writer

With no more than a split
second to spare, 15-year-old
Ted m S yesterday
flashed across the finish line
in his trim, shark-nosed racer
to win Wilmington's second
annual All-American SOAP
Box Derby and the ardent &C
claim of 10000 eager fans.
Runner-up in the 1916 Derby
classic, young Williams will rep-
resent Wilmington this year In the
National Soap Box Derby at Ak
ron, O., on August II.
This years Wilmington Derby,
again sponsored by the Star-News
and the Raney Chevrolet company.
attracted a throng of spectators
estimated as 1000 greater than
last years crowd of fans.
Williams established a recorded
time of PAL seconds in his cham
plonship dash down the 65O-foot
Derby Downs course on South
Thirteenth street, between Kidder
and Greenfield streets.
In winning the countrywide Der
by championship, Williams barely
noSed out William H. Land, Jr.,
age IL, by three-tenths of a Sec
ond.
Williams reached the Derby
finals by racing his way to victory
over other Glass A contestants,
composed of boys 10, IA and Is
years of age.
In attaining his winning position
among the Class A racers, he de-
feated Albert King, Is, by a time
margin of only one-half second.
Land Wins Glass b
Land had emerged topmost
among the Class B racers, for
boys of II and IL years of age,
by defeating Thomas N. Simmons.
age IL.
The 1947 Wilmington Derby win
ner is a freckle-faced sophomore
at New Hanover high school.
In his victorious dash yesterday,
climaxing a two and one-half hour
thrill program which started short
ly after 2 p. M, young Williams
piloted the same sleek racer with
See TED WINS On Page Nine
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31

from Fulton county Police Chief G.
Neal Ellis and six detectives, and
a federal writ enjoining police from
illegal questioning. Judge Under
wood continued the case until 10
a. m. tomorrow, pending a ruling
on defense motion to dismiss the
suit:
The dark-complexioned art-in-
structor, who came from France to
live in America with his American
born wife and child, told the court
he lived in constant fear" of be-
ing taken again into custody by
county police.
He said he had been grilled by
police on three occasions for per-
iods ranging from "a to 80 hours,
during which he was mauled, beat
en-, slapped, punched and kicked,
and sometimes choked with a
length of clothes line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
MEETING SCHEDULED
TODAY ON PROPOSED
AIR ROUTE CHANGE

COLUMBIA, S. c., July 30-P)-
State Aeronautics Director Dexter
c. Martin said today he would
protest a proposal to reroute Army
and Navy plane flights from
Charleston to Wilmington, N. c.,
via Florence instead of by Myrtle
Beach.
Martin said he would appear at
a meeting of ~"officials concerned
with the proposal" at Myrtle
Beach tomorrow. He will argue,
he said, that rerouting the service
planes would deprive Myrtle Beach
of needed" air service,
The proposal to bypass Myrtle
Beach was made, Martin said, be-
cause of gunnery and bombing
ranges near the coastal resort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
East Coast Told
ToMakeInterestP aymen
Order Follows Petition OF
Minority Bondholders
For Back Interest

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 30
R-Federal Judge Louie w. Strum
today ordered payment of one in
terest coupon, amounting to 81, 1z5,
900, on defaulted first and refund
ing 5 II cent mortgage bonds Of
the Florida East Coast Railway
company.
It was the fourth interest pay
ment ordered since the bonds went
in default in 1881. The payment
ordered today was on bonds that
matured March !, 1888.
The court order followed petit.
tons of three groups of minority
bondholders for payment of back
interest. A hearing on the petit
tons was held earlier this month.
Judge Strum set forth in his
order that the FEC trustees, form.
er U. S. Senator Scott M. Loftin
and Former Gov. John w. Martin,
had advised the court that there
were not sufficient funds on hand
at this time 'to prudently justit>
payment of more than the $1,125,'
900.
The court reserved for future de-
termination claims of holders o.
the first and refunding bonds to
be paid additional overdue install.
ments of interest.
Judge Strum's order directed
that any bank receiving any Of the
money for distribution to the bond
holders hold such money in trust,
and instructed that after si2
months any money unpaid to hold,
ers of the $45, 900, 900 bond issue b,
Withdrawn.
In urging payment Of interest
counsel for bondholders' group!
stated that because of the conflict
in reorganization proceedings o.
the Florida East Coast railway, i
may be some years before the
bondholders could receive any re
turn on their investment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
TOURIST TRADE
NOBLE SUBJECT
Industry Described AS. IA
| Billion Dollar Business
| Before Kiwanis

Discussing tourists and their
visits to this areas resorts, Ken
Eoole, publicity director Of the
eouth Eastern North Carolina
Beach association, told the Kiwanis
CLUB yesterday the tourist industry
Is a fourteen billion dollar business
snd that fully twelve billions OF
n total amount is spent within
fAe borders of this country.
Tourists, he said, spend an av.
tTage Of SIG per person per day,
*hen they travel by car. By air
and ocean liner the daily expendi-
7ures are larger.
He said sENCBA had learned by
eareiM computations that beach
{eSoft visitors in New Hanover and
brunswick counties spend only Sl4
! oay, a trifle less than the ma
sIonaI average. At this level. and
~ view OF the fact that fully 5000
persons from other regions visit
u ese ,od peaches daily, < revenue OF
so'5oo'0 OO is created during the
peak nlnety-day vacation period.
uuf beaches, he said, outrank all
elhers in the South Atlantic coastal
#[eglon IN natural beauty, but are
aar behind other beach resorts in
'fne development of Accommodations,
sports, recreation and services.
he declared that Wrightsville
Abeach, in its resort phase. is op.
flsted by amateurs. There is but
Soae real hotel, he said, at Wrights'
Svlle, and it is far from the stan
Enard in other South Atlantic re-
Sorts.
What the future may bring he
Ecld not attempt to forecast. but
Esdded that new hotels with accom-
hodations for e thousand guests,
ESlth all modern conveniences, is a
Definite need.
Carolina Beach, he added, il
looked upon as the Coney Island
q the area, the fun beach, but
nevertheless supports at least two
See TOURIST On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
COUNTY DADS SET
Is CENT TAX RATE
Budget Open For Inspec-
ton For Next 20 Days
AT Courthouse

New Hanover county's 1947- 4S
fiscal year budget totaling 81, 342,-
491 with a 75-cents tax rate today
lies open for inspection in the
courthouse awaiting the elapse of
20 Gays.
On August Is. county commits
sioners, under the law, will for
maliy adopt the budget and the
tax rate. The adoption is a mere
formally, unless some drastic and
dramatic development should &C.
cur between now and that time.
The county commissioners yes
tercay at a two and a half hour
session, completed details on the
budget and boosted the tax rate
Is cents over a year ago.
But the adoption was not made
with smooth sailing. For a few
minutes before the adoption was
voted upon and passed, it appear
ed that the entire budget would
be gone Yer again item by item.
Commissioners Loyis Coleman
and George Trask were the OBJ
jectors. Upon the final adoption
they voted opposition to passing it.
Their suggestion was that the bud
get tie gone int IN detail in an
effort to slash ST., 900 from it.
That was after County Auditor
Charles F. Smith said that the
75-cent rate with other estimated
revenue, may fall shcrt by ST., 900
of the amount appropriated.
But Chairman Addison Hewlett,
DR.. j.. M. Hall and Harry Gard
ners' arguments that any addition
al needed evenu can be procur-
ed from the reserve fund, if such
See COUNTY on Page
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
ny JOHN RALSTON
star Staff Writer

Asserting that the Limited in
.oms" appropriated for the Com
s.',nitv hospital by the city and
UNIV for the 1947-4S fiscal year
. .u,ill not BE- sufficient for costs
maintenance, the board IF
n ~ of the institution late
Yesterday called upon the munici'
~ council and county commits
sioners to rescind their action and
sroyide necessary expenditures"
strengthening that action, the
.oenitsl officials named a COM
n;tfee to call upon the city and
nnnntv officers to press the re-
ouest for more funds.
Amounted on the committee
x,ere Emmett Bellamy, Wilbur
nosber and either the Rev. G. D..
csrnes or DR.. M. N. Leary, which
aver may be able to serve. The
latter two are Negro members of
the board Of managers.
W. D. McCaig, chairman of the
hospital. made the appointments
~ the conclusion OF the board
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
Brahama Bull Bellows.
Blows In BeWilderment

last week taken from his regular
duties and assignaa to ride one of
the ponies on a rou7 9-up of the
more than half-wild Brahamas
roaming the woods.
Apparently the horse entertain
ed doubts of the abili y of his
rider, and desired to ascertain if
the doubts were correct. Time aft
er time during the morning John
ME hit the ground. and not al
ways on his feet. He was thrown
20 many times that he finally got
used to landing without receiving
a scratch.
Just before the umpty seventh
See BRAHAMA On Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
Artist Asks Protection
Against Atlanta Police

ATLANTA, July 30-(P-Slender,
tight-lipped Paul me Refoule,
!. who withstood beatings in a Ger
man concentration camp, appealed
10 a U. S. District Court today for
protection against Fulton County
(Atlanta) police.
The grim story Of alleged police
/ brutality was read to Federal
4 Judge E. Marvin Underwood in the
form of affidavits by Refoule, his
brother-in-law and mother-in-law.
They related determined vain at
tempts by police to extract a con-
\ fession that Refoule murdered his
Syoung socialite wife. Peggy Aston
sRefoule. She was found garrotted
in shallow Peachtree creek last
4 May IL, not far from the Re-
sfouIe home, and the crime remains
unsolved.
RefouIe asks $50. 900 damages
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
BY BILL KELIAH
Star Correspondent

SOUTHPORT. July 30-Johnnie
Vereen, employee of the Reigel
Paper company ranch at Mako
toka, is said by fellow workmen
to have recently become alergic
to western COW horses and Bra
hama tulls.
At various times Johnnie is said
to have %pridefully announce that
he was in the cavalry some years
back His fellow workmen are be,
ginning TO think it must have been
quite some years. Knowing of his
accomplishments in the way of
handling norses, or At least having
heard tell Of them, Johnnie was
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
Blackmail Is Charged
In Senate Investigation

private luncheon at the Mayflower
hotel in Washington.
The Texas-born Hughes accused
Trippe of being behind the Senate
investigation and of having ordered
Brewster to delay start of the probe
into Hughes war contracts be-
cause he thought there vas a
chance the merger might go
through.
The bluntly : made charges
brought a quick reply from both
Sen. Brewster and Sen. Homer
Ferguson, R., Mich, chairman OF
See HUGHES CHARGES on Page z
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
FREIGHT

WILSON, July 30-WD-A fast
Norfolk Southern freight trail was
derailed Is miles from here today
as the locomotive, tender and II
cars ploughed up 100 yards Of
trackage and plunged off the road.
bed. Miraculously, nc casualties
were reported. Railroad officials
said the derailment was caused
by a frozen foods truck which
rammed the Norfolk and South.
ern underpass and knocked the
trestle and rails out of alignment
five minutes before the Norfolk
to Charlotte freight train passed
the SPOT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
|Aussies Aver
Peace Broken
India Also Appeals Ia
Security Council For
Aid To Stop Battles
BY HARRY WILLIAMS
United Press Staff Correspondent

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y,
July 30 -(UP)- India and
Australia appealed urgently
today for United Nations to
halt the fighting in Indonesia.
India charged fatty in a formal
complaint to the UN security
council that Dutch troops had at
tackled the Indonesian people
without warning" Australia said
the situation constituted a "breach
of the peace" but did not attempt
to place the blame or either side.
Col. w. r. Hodgson, Australia's
fiery spokesman in the United Ma
tons, called for an immediate
meeting of the security council to
consider the matter. He said the
council should ask both Holland
and Indonesia to quit fighting
without prejudicing the rights and
claims of either government.
Official sources said the council
might take up the Indonesian al
tomorrow, possibly at an evening
meeting.
A continuation Of the Balkans de-
bate is scheduled for tomorrow af-
ternoon, but it was possible that it
would be shelved to. permit prompt
debate in the Indonesian case.
India's appeal came from Java
harlal Nehru, external affairs
member of the Indian government.
Nehru left no doubt that India
would fight for UN condemnation
of Dutch tactics in Indonesia.
During the last few days." his
letter said, Clutch forces have en-
barked without warning on large
scale military action against the
Indonesian people. These attacks
began without warning at a time
when a delegation Of the Indo-
nesian Republican government was
actually at Batavia for negotia-
tons with the Dutch authorities on
g.. r1r,rrrn N,arYaNc nv Do~a .
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
TRAITOR

BOSTON,, July 30-W.D-Convic'
ted Traitor Douglas Chandler, So
year-old former Baltimore news
man, today was sentenced to life
Imprisonment and a $40, 900 fine for
betraying his country by broad
casting Nazi propaganda owe ra-
dio Berlin during World War II.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31
The Weather

FORECAST:
North -srolina: Fair an continued hot
.~a!sday' Friday partly cloudy WIZ
ssNefed afternoon thundershoWers.
sou'h Carolina: Continued hot ano
fr ,ty cloudy with thundershowers
'usy afternoon on coastal sections.
Eastern Standard Time)
A. fhy U. S. Weather Bureau)
,ns genealogical data for the "a hour
"4is $50 P. m. yesterday.
80. TEMPERATURES
~ a m. "a, 7:30 a. m. IA; 1880 p. m.
''oo p m. 80; Maximum 81; Mini
II ~ Mean 70; Normal 70.
I'm. HUMIDITY
- d m. 81; 7:3G a. m. IS; 1880 p. m.
IT, $50 p, M. 81.
r.. PRECIPITATION
\ ,r No Tor "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
lo's 81 since the first of the month
H.. TIDES FOR TODAY
b. : ,Nr The Tide Tables published by
ooaSt and Geodetic Survey.
|EIn;s HIGH Low
s'on ------ 1874 am. $3.50 am.
|kasonbos. 9:06 pm. 1888 pm.
0 inlet - 6:22 am. u :36 am.
Sunri,o $3.50 pm. 1890 pm
!! Nh tse 5;22; Sunset 7:14; Moonrise
R RI Moonset 3:44a.
Ia. NJ cage At Fayetteville, N. C. al
a Wednesday 81 feet.
e WEATHER On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-31

See UNITED NATIONS On Page z
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See TED WINS On Page Nine
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-08-20
20. augusta 1947

je ma poti en- taksen transport,
il Kanade, s 500 izseljenci. L.
Francije in cd drugod Sc jih je
prav veliko vrnilo, nekateri, XII
jih ze preko 80 let nj bilo. Zato
bi tudi "a Tebe ne bilo prav mic
slabo, ko bi mas zopet malo po-
gledal.
"Kmalu kaj pisi. I'll in Tvoji
domaci sprejmite prisrcne po-
zdrave il domovine cd meme in
druzine.
"Jakob Media"
"Prav posebno Vas pa po-
zdravljam JAZZ in Vas vabim, da
me pridete obiskat v planino.
''Ivanka."
Ia zadnja vaba planino me
nekam najbolj dirne, pa "a en-
krat hoces noces, moras odlo-
ziti. P. X.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-08-20

tancno poroeal mas predsednik
Novak.
Preteklo nedeljo smo imele
"Progresivne Slovenke" uspe'
sen piknik in balincarsko tex
mo ma nasi farmi. Maj Sc ONE
MIN, da bo mas krozek imel
skupno z nasim drustvom "Svo.
boda" st. 748 SNPJ piknik Il
septembra v korist kuhinjskih
potrebscin "a farmo.
'Torej, da Sc vidimo v sobotc
pri delu, v nedeljo pa ma veil.
KEN pikniku.
Proseni ste vsi tisti, XII ste
obljubili, da boste pomagali '
nedeljo, da ste tam zgodaj, ke1
ia proslava Sc DO pricela pre-:
kot pa ~se navadno vrsijo pix.
niki.
Theresa Gorjanc, zapis
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-08-20

tcne stranke, sndikate madnske organizacie it'd To-
d. kot re poudari e do ega priso samo vsled vse
vece voge XII o organizirano delavsvo vrsi pri zobko
vanu novega sociastcnega reda, kaerem nj mesta
izkoriscanje cloveka po cloveku.
Maj tu navedemo kot primer te bojazni pismo, XII ga
papeska kongregaca eta 1929 nasova skofu Lienar
du Nle Francia) in XII e posebno znacilno danasnje
Med ostalim pismo prav "Presenetljiv uspeh
socializma in komunizma, kakor tud odmik delavskih
mnozc cd nesporna dejstva, mad katermi je
treba resno zams. Sveta kongregaca poziva skofe
industrskih pokraev maj menujeo duhovne misionarje
dea katerh delovanje DO posveceno zacit prebvasva
samo pred zom brezbrznost temvec tud pred socia
lstlcno in komunisticno nevarnostjo" Konec jutr)
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-08-20
ST. Clair Rifle and
Hunting Club
LOVSKA ZAHVALA

V dolznost 81 stejem, da Sc
danes vsem posetnikom nasega
lovskega kluba iskreno zahva-
ljujem "a njih poset zadnjo ne
deljo ma streliscu. Vzrok, da 81
stejem V dolznost izreci zahva-
10, je ia, ker sem zadnji teden
z dopisom povabil vse prijate-
lie, in ker je bila udelezba res
tako stevilna, da res nj mic vec
kot prav, da Sc prav vsem in
vsakemu posebej izreka prisrc
ma zahvala in seveda sc YAM
priporocamo tudi "a v bodoce.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-08-20
Nj res. da vraeujoeim
vzamejo denar v Jugoslaviji

Prepis pisma, XII ga je pisal
Ivan Turk, XII je odpotoval il
New Yorka dne IS. julia 1947
ma parniku 'Newberry Victory
ma Trst, cd tam v Mali log st.
20, posta Loski potok.
Mali log, dine 4. augusta 1947.
"Dragi mi gospod Kollander:
"Naznanjam Vam, da sem
srecno prisel domov do svoje
druzine. Kar Sc tice potovanja,
| je bilo prav udobno, tako da
skoraj boljse ne more biti. Ma
parniku je bila izvrstna hrana
in dobra pdstrezba. IL New
Yorka do Trsta smo sc vozili IL
dni in emo uro. Ali ko smo prisli
v Trst, so nam Anglezi potne
liste pobrali in mas 80 ur drzali
ma parniku.
"Kar Sc tice potovanja cd
Trsta proti domu, je slo vse
gladko. V Trstu sem odprl rocni
kovcek, pa tudi MISC pogledali,
kaj je notri. V Postojni so prisli
ma vlak in vprasali, koliko imam
denarja, in ko so videli, da sem
Sc malo ustrasil, je pa rekel
uradnik, da sc nj treba mic bait.
Rekel je: wi innate lahko mill
jone. Cim vec denarja pride v
drzavo, tenn boljse je.'
"kar Sc pa tice velikega kov-
ceka, sem istega v Clevelandu
povezal in donna hisi odvezal,
tako da Sc ne morem prav mic
pritoziti. Tam Sc slisi pa vsake
vrste govorice, kako da ma me-
jah potnikom denar vzameio.
Ako bi bila to resnica, hi ga bill
tudi meni well. JAZZ sem vse do
NOV prinesel brez najmanjse
sitnosti.
"Doma sem nasel vse zdrave
in veseli SO bill mojega prihoda.
Kar Sc pa drugih razmer tice, pa
enkrat pozneje opisem, ko Sc
malo razgledam. Do sedaj ma
potovanju nisem mic slabega vi
del, povsod vesele obraze.
INA parniku mas je bilo IL
potnikov, stirje Slovenci in osem
Dalmatincev. Jedli smo pri isti
mizi kot kapitan parnika.
"Prosim "a odgovor. Pozdrav-
liam tudi Karla. S pozdravom
ostajam Vas prijatelj
John Turk"