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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
]. J. FARRAR CASE
ENDS IN MlSTRIAL
Jury After Lengthy Debate
Informs Judge No
Agreement Possible

Judge Clawson L. Williams OF
Sanford, presiding jurist at the
April special criminal term OF
Superior court here, declared a
mistrial last night in the case OF
j. j. Farrar who was charged
Operating an automobile under
the influence Of intoxicants.""
The jury, which had retired at
3 As pm. yesterday returned at
8 o'clock to announce that it could
not agree l,oon a verdict.
When court reconvenes al 9:3o
am. today the state will resume
it's case against Lavenia Nelson
and George Porter, local Negroes,
charged with the murder OF their
child.
According to the states wit
nesses Lavenia and Porter were
the parents Of the month-and-a-
half-o old boy who died OF MANU-
triton in the Community hospital
on March 80 of this year.
Lesser Charge
Clifton l.. Moore of BurgaW, so
licitor, told the court that ne
Continued on Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Along The Cape Fear

What puzzled Mrs. Shrier is the
inscription to be found on the cor
ner stone of the Odd Fellows
building here.
According to Mrs. Shrier you
will find College of Physicians
and Surgeons, 1871" if you look
at the corner stone, which is To-
Gated at the rear part of the build
ing on the alley near the White
Front Grill.
A hasty review of the Rev. An
drew J. Howell's book of Whining
ton fails to throw any light or
the subject. AS time will not per
NIT us to check with the Rev.
Mr.. Howell, we must pass this
enigma on to our kind readers.
FIRST COLLEGE Mrs. Chri-
er's note has raised ali kinds Of
doubts in our minds. Here we
were feeling sure that the New
Hanover Board Of Education were
lust or the verge of establishing
Wilmington's first permanent col
lege.
We feel sure that some kind
reader will come to the rescue
and graciously supply us with the
answer as to why the inscription
J on the corner stone.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
JURY TO TRY MAY
CHOSEN QUICKLY
Seven Men, Five Women
To Hear Evidence In
War Fraud Trial

WASHINGTON, April 22-P)-
The war fraud trial of Andrew
Jackson May, former chairman
of the House Military committee.
got off to a fast start today with
selection of a jury in two hours.
Seven men and five women were
chosen to decide whether May and
three others conspired to (defraud
the government on war contracts.
-Four of the jury members are
Negroes.
On trial with May are Henry
and Murray Carson, officials OF
a group of firms which held near
ly SIS, 600, 900 in war contracts,
and Josef F. Freeman, their
Washington agent.
May, former Kentucky Con
gresham defeated in the last
election, reiterated his declara-
ton of innocence and expressed
confidence he will win acquittal.
He was calm in the courtroom
and frequently consulted attor-
neys in selecting jurors.
The 71-year-old May headed the
House Military committee all dur.
ing the war. He is charged with
taking money from the Garssons
to get them war contracts.
Two Excused
In the selection of the jury, the
CONTINUED on Page Two, Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Father, Children Die
When Fire Destroys
Home Near Charleston

CHARLESTO S. c., April 29
- Up - Murrett Joseph Brown,
three of his daughters and a two
year-old son lost their lives in a
pre-dawn fire which destroyed their
home near Summerville this morn
ing.
The fire was discovered by
Brown who aroused the family
and with some of the children es-
capped by jumping from the roof
of a porch. However, the father
dashed back into the burning house
in an attempt to rescue the others
and the five we're trapped when
the roof caved in.
Mrs. Brown carried the young
est child, an infant, to safety.
The dead are:
|. Brown, so, crane operator at the
Charleston Navy yard.
Ernestine, 81, employed in North
Charleston.
Jeaennette, IT, and Vernelle, 10,
students at Berkeley High school,
Moncks Corner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
ALL Will FIGHT
LAWS WITH ADS
President Green Announc-
es 81, 100000 Campaign
In Newspapers

WASHINGTON, April u -(P)-
The ALL tonight launched a 81
500, 900 advertising campaign to
combat what it called "represslve
and restrictive" labor legislation.
A five-man committee was ap-
pointed to assess the $500, 600 mem
bers of the ALL at least 10 cents
each to finance the campaign.
Full page advertisements will be
run in newspapers generally
throughout the nation, ALL Presl-
dent William Green told a news
conference.
Green said the campaign would
he intensified as the Congress
works out a compromise between
the House-approved Hartley bill
and the measure written by the
Senate Labor committee, Senate
debate begins tomorrow.
The ALL executive council, meet
ing here this week, issued d
lengthy statement attacking the
proposed legislation aimed al
curbing labor union activities.
Invasion Of Liberty
1.-THE provisions in the pending
legislation which would restore
government by injunction cons'I-
tute a direct invasion OF funoa-
mental American liberty the
Executive council said.
"The black history Of the abuses
Of the labor injunction by the
courts in the past should serve a.
a bar against its future employ
ment. To make kings Of judges, as
a recent decree more royallstic
than judicial - permitted, IS re-
pugnant To a free America"
Green told his news conference
this reference was to the recent
Injunction issued at the govern
ment's request by Judge I. Aah
lGoldsborough against John L.
Lewis United Mine workers wnen
they walked out last Nov. Il.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
REP. CLARK URGES
CHANNEL REVIEW
Sterilization OF Banks
Waterway To Ocean Via
Masonboro Inlet Asked

Sterilization of Banks channel
to the ocean by way of Mason
boro inlet a requested yester-
day in a resolution introduced in
Congress by Rep. ]. Bayard Clark.
Clark's resolution, presented to
the Houses public works commit
tee, asked the committee to re-
quest a review of the channel by
the board of engineers for rivers
and harbors.
The review would be made, it
was pointed out, to determine if it
is advisable at this time to stabl-
lie the waterway.
Clark said that Banks channel
and also Masonboro inlet, were
filling up to such an extent that
fishing ships we're hampered in
plying back and forth through the
channel.
Clark's resolution requested that
an outlet be provided from the
inland waterway by the way OF
Masonboro inlet.
He said that he was very hope
full" that the committee would
act favorably on the resolution
and authorize the board Of en-
g%ineers to 60 ahead with the re.
view"
The resolution also called for
deepening Of the inland waterway
from Beaufort to the Cape Fear
river including the water to Jack
Sonville. N. C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Extremists Blow Up Train,
Taking Toll OF 10 Lives
HISTORIC TREATIES
MISSING FROM
STATE DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON, April 22 -
up - The mysterious disap-
pearance of historic treaties
from the State Department
files was reported today by
Assistant Secretary of State
William Benton.
He told a House Expends-
ture subcommittee that a
Every high percentage -
some of them never duplicat-
ed for posterity-were miss
ing. He offered no explana-
ton on the cause Of the losses.
His disclosure came as the
subcommittee opened its long
planned inquiry into the depart
ment's peration, concentrating
at the outset upon the division
of information and cultural
relations which Benton heads.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
HOUSE, SENATE PASS
BILL EXTENDING FARM
SUPPLY BILL

WASHINGTON, April 22-P-
Compromise legislation extending
the farm labor supply program for
six more months, until December
81, was passed today by the House
and Senate and sent to the Pres
ident.
The program was started dur
ing the wartime labor shortage.
It brought in foreign workers.
largely from Mexico and Jamaica,
to work on United States farms.
The house originally had voted
to require liquidation Of the pro-
gram by the end Of this year.
The compromise grants an add.
tional 80 days after the end OF
1947 to close out the books.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Nearly Two-Score Injured
In Wreckage Of Fast
Express Coaches

JERUSALEM, Palestine, April
% W.H-At least 10 persons, includ-
ing six British soldiers were killed
and 80 injured early today when
Jewish extremists blew up 10 cars
OF the Egypt : Palestine express
southeast OF Tel Aviv.
Rescuers cutting through the
twisted steel of the coaches. car.
rying both military and civilian
passengers to Palestine, identified
tie bodies of six soldiers, two CT
villains and a three-year-old child.
Parts of other bodies were hurled
for yards On all sides of the right
Of way.
The soldiers and eve civilians
were seriously injured. Another &c
soldiers and 10 civilians were less
critically hurt. More victims still
were trapped in the wreckage up
to mid afternoon and the casualty
list was expected to lengthen.
Hid In Grove
Extremists hiding in an orange
grove near the citrus center Of
Rehovot set off the blast with an
electric cable after a squad O.
gunner stopped the train with
small arms fire. The explosives,
laid in the track bed, ripped
through the bottom of the cars
Three coaches burned after the
blast.
Troops Immediately began an
intensive hunt. Dogs following the
attackers scent led them from
the4erange grove to the Yemenite
community of Rehovot. The com
munity was surrounded and all in
habitants screened and question
ed.
The attack was believed carried
out by a mixed group of Irgu.
Zvai Leumi and Stern gang ex
tremists who have sworn tt
avenge the execution of four o.
their members by a 10 to one
toll. Previous attacks on highways
and army camps have Killed three
Britons and wounded more thar
a dozen others.
Ship Halted
Meanwhile British sailors board
ed a Jewish illegal Immigrant
ship carrying some 800 refugees
which was intercepted off Haifa
A British warship towed the refu-
get ship toward Haifa.
Bodies of two condemned ex
tremists who cheated the galloWs
last night by blowing themselves
up with smuggled explosives IL
thei1 death cell were buried at 8
am today in a single grave ir
an old cemetery on the Mount Of
Olives near Absalom's tomb.
Only II persons, including theil
tCOntinued on Pare Two, Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23

OLD BADGE-A priced posses
sion of Fire Chief j. Ludie Groom
is a 70-year-old badge which goes
back to the days of the Hook and
Ladder Company No. l of the
Port City.
A. David was captain Of the
company in those days, according
to Wilmington's No. / firefighter.
And now you may ask, how did
the badge come into the posses
sion of the present chief of the
fire department?
Y. Ill, the. badge, which is really
a sight to see, was presented to
Chief Groom by Lew Stein. 1890
According to Chief Groom the
badge was originally an award for
David's record in attending fire
drills and other activities required
of the members of the old hook
and ladder company.
The badge is embossed with a
bucket, ladder, wrecking tool or
hook, and an AK.
SEARCH NEE0ED-Mrs. Louis
Shrier of 1909 Grace Street was
thoughtful enough to drop by the
office to leave us a cue to what
may prove to be . mystery In our
midst.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
SENATE BY 81 TO % VOTE STAMPS
APPROVAL ON GREEK TURKISH LOAN:
LITTLE CHANGE IN FOOD PRICES HERE
Military Aid
Is Approved
Vandenberg Leads COP
Controlled Chamber In
Defeating Opposition

WASHINGTON, April 22-(R-
The Senate stamped approval, 81
to %, today on a momentous new
departure in U. S. foreign policy
by voting a $500, 900, 900 fund to
stiffen Greece and Turkey against
Communism.
The bill, which provides financial
and limited military assistance
to these two strategic nations, now
goes to the House, where the
Foreign affairs committee has ap,
proved a similar measure.
Before the Senate vote, Senator
Edwin c. johnson D-Colo.)
sought in vain to strike out a
provision that President Truman
may send military missions to
Greece, and Turkey to instruct
their armies in the use of military
equipment to be furnished. The
vote against him was 68 to q.
Led by Senator Vandenberg Or
Mich.), the GOP-controlled Sen
ate boWled over vocal but numeri-
caIy weak opposition to the new
policy laid down by President Tru-
man in a March II address to
Congress.
Through five hours of torrid
debate before voting began on
amendments late in the after
noon, opponents assailed the Tru-
man plan as one which would
destroy the United Nations, in
vite retaliation by Russia and roll
up tremendous expenditures which
might bankrupt this nation.
"Green Light"
Replying, V%andenperg told his
colleagues that if Congress rails
to act aggression gets the green
light and the rest Of the world,
including America, gets the RED
light"
Van b erg called IN
flammable" statements by Sen
ator johnson that the program
can lead only to war with Rus
!, STA.
"That statement, which has beer
made repeatedly by the Senator
from Colorado, is an invitation lc
the precise disaster that this Dill
Continued on Page Two, Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Jews At Odds Over
Palestine Session
GETS NEW HOME

JAMESTOWN, N. D., April
% - R - Teddy, hungry-strik-
ing Collie, today was on a new
start in life on a farm "some-
where in North Dakota" after
completing his rabies parole
period successfully.
The dog, under torment, BIT
an eleven year old boy April
70. Police jailed Teddy for .
10 day period, but he refused
to eat, until paroled to his orig
inal owners.
Having passed the rabies test.
Teddy, who received a stack OF
mail offering him a home, today
was turned over to a farmer.
whose address remained a sec
ret in order to give the dog a
fresh start in life
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Jewish Agency, Hebrew
Group Both Seek To
Represent Race

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, April
22-(P)-The official Jewish agen-
cy for Palestine and the Hebrew
Committee of National liberation
made rival claims tonight for the
right to represent the Jews in the
special Palestine session OF the
United Nations assembly.
This new issue developed as the
Arab states lined up solidly be-
hind a proposal for immediate
consideration of Palestine's indie
pendence at the extraordinary SEES
sion opening next Monday.
Iraq. Syria and Lebanon sub,
mitted requests identical with yes
terday's Egyptian demand that
the assembly, agenda be broad
ened to include immediate action
to terminate Britain's League Of
nations mandate over the Holy
Land. The conflict in the JEWS
camp came when the Hebrew
committeeman recognized by the
official agency - disclosed it had
sent a note to Secretary-Genera
Trygve Lie asking that an addi-
tional item be placed on the agen-
da providing:
THAT a Hebrew national dele
CATION be granted a seat in the
assembly with full power to par
ticipate in the deliberations on a
%non-voting basis.
2-That the Hebrew Committee
of National liberation be authoriz-
ed to constitute the delegation,
The agency, official voice OF
Palestine Jews, Immediately chal
lenged the right Of the Hebrew
committee to speak for the Jews
and countered with a formal re-
quest that the agency be deslg'
mated as the authorized represen'
tative.
Receipt of the requests from the
Jewish agency and the Hebrew
committee posed several questions
for the assembly, since that body
has no rules covering action or
communications from non-govern
mental agencies. The first ster
will be to decide what status
should be given to the communica
tons. If the assembly decides tt
recognize them, then it will have
to determine first of all whether
the Jews should be given a voice
in the assembly and next who
should represent the Jews.
AS for the Arab move for i'm
mediate action to declare Pales'
tine independent, a preliminary
survey indicated the United States
and Britain could muster enough
support to prevent the Arabs from
getting the necessary two thirds
majority. They insist, along with
several other countries, that the
agenda should be confined to the
original British proposal for the
establishment of a fact finding
committee to prepare for final &C
| ton at the September meeting o.
the assembly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
FBI FINDS CACHE
OF STOLEN GUNS
Army Weapons Found On
Maryland Estate When
G-Men Raid Place

SAVANNAH, Ga, April 22-W.H
The FBI announced tonight the
recovery Of 81 stolen army ma
ehine-guns in a raid on an estate
near Ellicott City, Md, and named
three men as the thieves.
The m%achine-guns were the bulk
Of Is such we:s ons stolen from
the Bush Field 7urplus supply de-
pot near August, Ca, April IA,
Agent D. K. Brown Of the Savan-
nah FBI office announced.
G-Men swooped down on the 400.
acre Maryland estate last night,
Brown said, and found 20 .5O-call-
bre machine-guns and n OF 80
calibre identified as those stolen
from the Augusta depot. Four 50
ealibre guns still were missing.
Three Men Named
The estate was owned by Carl
John Eisenhardt, Brown said, and
Eisenhardt was charged with the
theft of the guns along with j:
Meridith Russell and Edward
Browder. The three men were
identified by name only and no
further information about them
was released, except that they
have not been arrested.
In addition to the q stolen guns
the FBI found in the arsenal on
Eisenhardt's estate a case OF am
rnunition for the ~.30-calibre gun,
case of small arms ammunition
and extra barrels and parts for
the larger weapons, Brown SAID.
The FB1 agent said the guns
Undoubtedly yer flown to Ell
licott City, near Baltimore, IN a
former Army airplane which mao
been bought at a surplus sale al
Bush Field. The guns had oeen
stripped from war planes for sep
.rate sale.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Big Four May
End Session
Ministers See Little Hope
For Treaties Unless
Soviets Concede

MOSCOW, April o. up The
United States, British and French
Foreign ministers waited tonight
for Soviet Russia either to make
concessions on the Austrian treaty
and German question Or shut the
door on the Moscow conference.
Following another inconclusive
secret session devoted. to the Aus
TRAN treaty today, the four for
sign ministers decided to turn to-
morrow to final consideration of
4talemated German questions.
Several sources said three Sc
cret meetings of Austria had not
definitely ended hope that. ACRE
ment on q treaty might be reach
ed. but at the same time had fail
ed to break the deadlock or vital
issues.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov has not met Western
views on these questions, it was
reported, but at the same time
has not completely rejected them,
leaving thu deliberations hanging
in the air.
Up To Molotov
II II settlement is to be reach
ed on Austria Moiotov will have
TO take the initiative with concrete
proposals, the informants added.
About the best that was hoped
from the German discussions was
that there would be sufficient ,ba-
sis of agreement to keep the for
eign ministers deputies working
between this council meeting and
the next. Even this modest hope
was not too robust, since the dep
uties on German questions have
made virtually no progress since
their session last winter in Lon
don.
The foreign ministers have not
even agreed on the procedure for
writing the German treaty, and
the deputies cannot do much con-
structive until they know what ma
tons are entitled to be represent
ed on advisory committees and
what powers these committees
are to exercise.
The Russians still insist on a
limited participation in the treaty
making, but on the inclusion OF
Albania. The United States and
Britain have remained firm on
full participation by 10 nations,
plus the big four, and the exclu-
sion of Albania. U. S. Secretary
of State George c.. Marshall even
has proposed that the treaty max
ing be opened to so nations.
The whole session vas summed
up by one delegate without diplo-
matte trimmings. He said, this
conference is a mess"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
HEALTH, WELFARE
TO Be P-TA TOPIC
State Congress Will Dis.
cuss School Children
AT Opening Session

AsHEvILLE, April % H -
The health and welfare of North
Cardinals school children will be
the topic of discussion during the
opening session of the 9th an
nual convention of the State Con-
!gress of Parents and Teachers to-
morrow morning, as delegates
from most of the state assocla-
tons meet in the city auditorium;
Leader for the discussion Will
be Harry B. Caldwell, executive
secretary of the North Carolina
Good Health association.
Committees on credent l a s.
rules, nominations and resolutions
will report during the opening ses-
sion, and Miss Agnes Samuelson,
chairman, committee on school
Continued on Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23

Among other things, here's what
sort of cases higalighted the sec
ond and final day of criminal
proceedings in Judge Don Gill
liam's Federal district court yes
terday:
Sam Ballard, a Negro about to
he called before the bar OF justice
had his case dropped when 1t was
found he had been dead for foul
years. In the same case, however
Albert w. Formey, ALSO a Negro,
was given a 12-month sentN"ce al
petersburg and a $500 fine.
Allotment checks illegally re-,
ceived by Alma l.. Hughes' loo
~ Princess street, from her o
der part-time husband, co1nn'neo
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
AveyS Shows
Fair Market
Comparisons ndicate
Small Increase On Some
Items, Drop On Others
BY EARL HOWARD
Star Staff Writer

Test of an Associated Press dis
patch from New York received
in Wilmington last night:
prices came down today on
such diverse things as butter and
steel scrap, hogs and brass ingots,
flour and women's blouses."
Price quotations on onions in a
Wilmington retail food store last
weeks - cents per pound; price
quotations on the same type of
onions in the same Wilmington re-
tail food store in December 1916
3 IL cents per pound.
Associated Press from Washing
ton last night-"Hogs flooded the
Chicago market and prices drop
ped rs cents to $1.50 per hundred
weight. Cattle, however, we're up
rs cents and sheep so cents"
Statement of President Truman
on October IA, 1916, upon an
nouncing that price controls on
meat were being lifted:
"For many months representa-
tives of the livestock and meat
industries have i~nsistently de-
manded the lifting of controls
from their products. They have
made the definite promise that
the lifting of controls on livestock
and meat would bring to market
the meat which our people want at
reasonable prices"
Meat Quotations
Quotations on sirloin steak in a
Wilmington retail food store last
week-69 cents per pound; price
quotations on sirloin steak, same
grade, in the same Wilmington
retail food store in December,
1906 cents per pound.
Statement of President Truman
Monday, April 81, 1947:
"Prices increases have been felt
by every American family. No
one needs to tell them how much
the cost of living has gone up.
Food-up "a per cent above the
1915 average"
Quotation from Wilmington food
store in July, 1945-Fresh carrots,
two punches, II cents; December,
1946-fresh carrots, two punches,
CONTINUED on Page Two, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Grand Jury Report
Hits School Plants
Numerous Physical Deficiencies Listed
Including Unprotected Furnaces,
Open Ditch, Leaking Roof

Numerous deficiencies in the
physical plants of the county
school system were revealed in
a report of the New Hanover
county grand jury yesterday.
The report, which was signed
by j.. c. Roe, foreman, recon-
mended that the deficiencies be
corrected. Judge Clawson L. vii.
liams ordered a copy of the re-
port be delivered to the board OF
education.
Deficiencies found were:
Tilleston school: The wiring has
not been inspected for some time,
and lin our opinion this should
be done immediately" The fur
nace in the old building should
be enclosed with fire-proof ma.
terial. The Fairgrounds should
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
And So To Bed

Yesterday afternoon a couple
Of newspapermen, visiting IN =
nearby community, wandered
into a cafe for lunch.
After taking a table the men
talked for nearly an hour, but
the waitress seemed to ignore
the customers. She was too
tbusy playing the piccoS.
' Finally the members of the
fourth estate gave up and as
they passed the cash register
each took a toothpick.
"Thank you gentlemen the
waitress said, Come back again
sOOn."
The men still are puzzled as
to why they were not served.
and both were clean
shaven too.